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In Ethiopia: Birthing Injuries, Infant Mortality, and what we are going to do about it.
In November 2010, SalaamGarage is bringing a team of humanitarian media makers to Ethiopia. The stories we will be creating will tell of the work being done to repair, prevent, and treat obstetric fistulas at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. Fistula is a terrible but preventable birthing injury that renders the woman incontinent, leaking feces [...]
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Daysha Eaton and Janat Horn published in Vietnam
http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=55297 Photographer Janat Horn and Journalist Daysha Eaton’s Vietnam landmines story published at Vietnamese English Language paper Thanh Nie News. Congrats you two! Exerpt: 50-year-old Cuc lives in Dong Ha, just west of Hue. She has called the dusty town of less than twenty thousand people home for most of her life. She survived the [...]
Four Men Severely Injured by Bomb near Khe Sahn, Vietnam
Last month, January 2010, Amanda Koster and the rest of the SalaamGarage team visited Khe Sanh to experience first hand the work of NGO Peacetrees Vietnam. While there, they learned about UXOs (unexploded ordnance) left from the Vietnam War and the dangers they cause to the local farmers and their families still today. Unfortunately the [...]
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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, cultural immersion, media Tagged citizen journalism, India, Rajasthan, SalaamGarage, voluntourism 3 Comments
How I Pay for my Projects
by Amanda Koster, SalaamGarage founder from the original post on her personal blog passion. commitment. focus. talent. intuition. faith. trust. many people ask me ‘how do you make your projects happen?’ what people really want to know how on earth i fund them. well, with money of course. but that’s not the real question. anyone can [...]
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Hey Citizen Journalist, Get Published
Citizen Journalism Sites Opportunities to get your stories and projects published online are exploding just as traditional media outlets implode. CNN and Reuters Submit your stories to the citizen journalist components at major news outlets like CNN.com/iReport and Reuters/YouWitness, are publishing photos, videos, and stories by ….anyone. CNN’s iReport “is a user-generated site. That means [...]
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J-School “Lite”
by guest blogger Emily True The social networking and citizen journalism media explosion has provided plenty of avenues for participating in the creation of news. How many times today have you updated you Twitter/blog/Facebook account? The fact that I was late this morning because the F train was slow might not appear worthy of “breaking [...]
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