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Gli scugnizzi dei Quartieri si fanno l'autoscatto
l lavoro del workshop è diventato una mostra intitolata, a scanso di equivoci, “Ncoppa ‘e Quartieri”, che inaugura mercoledì 18 giugno alle 19.30 nel centro culturale di Largo Baracche (alle spalle di Nennella) con proiezione, alle 22.30, di un documentario en plein air su piazza Largo Baracche (uno dei tanti film prodotti durante il workshop già visibili su youtube e GoogleVideo digitando “Fotoasia” o “Ncoppa e quartieri”) girato da Gianni Iannitto e Pascarel per l’associazione Sabu presieduta da Giuseppe Ruffo con gli educatori Massimiliano Esposito e Francesco Baldi. l lavoro del workshop è diventato una mostra intitolata, a scanso di equivoci, “Ncoppa ‘e Quartieri”, che inaugura mercoledì 18 giugno... more
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Mith Samlanh - a program for street children in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
A short film about a program for street kids in Phnom Penh, Cambodia called Mith Samlanh.
Mith Samlanh is Khmer for Friends.
Anyone who has traveled to Phnom Penh has seen the staggering number of street children in Phnom Penh. Someone once told me that handing money to a child on the street is equivalent to telling them that you agree to their lot in life. That's why I love what Mith Samlanh does for street children and their families
Mith Samlanh’s mission is to get children off the streets. The parents of street children are given an income generating project, Mith Samlanh agrees to buy the product and sell it in there shop with the agreement that the children stay in school, instead of being sent to beg on the street. The shop where the products are sold in Phnom Penh is called Friends n’ Stuff. The charming products are made from local, recycled and easily sources low-cost materials such as recycled newspapers and magazines. So much better than buying a souvenir that is probably made in China
I love Mith Samlanh’s mission, so I am including it below.
Mith Samlanh’s mission is:
1. Meeting the street children's immediate essential needs in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child:
- the right to life: providing nutritional meals, shelter, a safe environment and medical care;
- the right to development: providing education and reintegrating them into public school and by developing their curiosity;
- the right to protection: fighting all forms of abuse against children including physical, sexual, family, and emotional abuse;
- the right to participation: making children aware of their responsibilities and promoting action within the center and in the community;
2. Reintegrating the children into their families, into society, into the public school system, into their culture;
3. and building the capacity of the staff so that the Cambodian nationals are able to run the program independent of foreign intervention in the near future.
How great is that!! A short film about a program for street kids in Phnom Penh, Cambodia called Mith Samlanh. Mith Samlanh is Khmer for Friends. ... more -
First public court session for Khmer Rouge figure
Photographs of some of the children executed by the Khmer Rouge.
The head of the Khmer Rouge's largest and most notorious torture center appeared in court Tuesday in the first public session of the long-delayed U.N.-backed tribunal probing the regime's reign of terror in Cambodia the 1970s. The trial is taking place in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh.
Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch was charged in July with crimes against humanity for his role as the head of the regime's infamous Tuol Sleng prison, also called S-21, in Phnom Penh. Up to 16,000 men, women and children were tortured there from 1975-79 and later taken away to be executed at a site outside the capital known as ''the killing fields.'' Only 14 people are thought to have survived.
The 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime was blamed for the deaths of some 1.7 million people from starvation, disease, overwork and execution. Many have said they feared the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders might die before being brought to justice. The movement's notorious leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998.
The trial continues. Photographs of some of the children executed by the Khmer Rouge. ... more -
12 Yr. Old Breadwinner
This is a look into the lives of children who sell books on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia to survive.
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