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Why Ethiopia? Why Now?
SalaamGarage is currently building a team of media makers and storytellers to travel to Ethiopia in November 2010. On this trip we will explore the horrible and preventable birthing injury known as obstetric fistula. The causes, cures, and solutions to eradicating obstetric fistula entirely in the developing world lie in raising the status of girls [...]
Also posted in Ethiopia, Resources, Women's Rights, citizen journalism, voluntourism, educational trips Tagged Fistula Foundation, The Girl Effect Leave a comment
Have a Cow!
We bought a new water buffalo (not a cow really) for Udayan home for children! The SalaamGarage India team that visited Vatsalya.org this past September are in high gear working on their stories, building a book, building multimedia. To inspire us further, we found out today that Vatsalya bought a new, much needed water buffalo [...]
Also posted in India September 2009, fundraising, voluntourism, educational trips Leave a comment
El Paraiso Guatemala- Agros International SalaamGarage Trip July 2010
photo by Agros International Join us in Guatemala this summer. Our partner NGO is the amazing Agros International- putting land ownership into the hands of rural indigenous peoples. Check out their photo stream on Flickr. Contact us for more info and sign-up now before the trip fills. Deadline this february! Join Us in Guatemala Summer [...]
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Village Batzchocola- Agros and SalaamGarge Summer 2010
photo from Agros International For more beauty from Agros International and the villages, like Batzchocola, they work to help throughout rural Guatemala. www.agros.org/ag/our-villages/guatemala/batzchocola/ Join Us in Guatemala Summer 2010 Here are the stories we will be working on in Guatemala with Agros International. Choose yours!
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Eduardo in India with SalaamGarage- Identity for the women of Shampura Village
Eduardo Sciammarella, CEO of Los Angeles based Protohaus, joined the SalaamGarage India 2009 team to help make a difference for disadvantaged women and children. We asked Eduardo what stood out as he worked on his humanitarian stories in a rural village called Shampura outside Jaipur where NGO Vatsalya works. Eduardo interviewing Santosh with the help [...]
Also posted in India September 2009, citizen journalism, media, photography Tagged citizen journalism, India, Rajasthan, SalaamGarage, voluntourism 3 Comments
Making peace with Dad's war
By Guest Blogger, Journalist Daysha Eaton The very first interview that I ever conducted was with my father. It was a high school English assignment to interview a veteran of a war. My dad was a Vietnam Vet so, naturally, I went home on May 20, 1993, sat down in the living room of our [...]
Also posted in Vietnam January 2010, media 5 Comments
Vietnam Humanitarian Media trip
Only 5 months till SalaamGarage takes on another great cause. On January 11, 2010 SalaamGarage’s Vietnam team and Peacetrees Vietnam NGO will be eating pho and bun in cafe in Hanoi. We’ll be sharing photography experiences with Jennifer Le, a talented Hanoi based social documentary photographer, and other media creators. After a day of sightseeing [...]
Also posted in Vietnam January 2010, media, photography Tagged Dong Ha, Ha Noi, landmines, NGO, Peacetrees Vietnam, Quang Tri, unexploded ordnance, Vietnam Leave a comment
Eat Out: Getting Ready for Ethiopia