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Start Packing: Travel Medicine Kit
Once you have made sure you have all desired and required vaccinations for your upcoming trip, it is time to start packing your travel medicine kit. Below are three handy lists that I hope will help you complete your next packing endeavor. Whether for SG Guatemala July 2010 or SG Ethiopia November 2010, this list [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Guatemala, Don’t you want to make a difference?
Yesterday the Pacaya Volcano in Guatemala erupted. Popular TV journalist Anibal Achila was killed by volcanic rocks, about 1,700 people have been displaced, and 3 children are missing. In less than two months, a SalaamGarage team made up of a select group of citizen journalists (professional and amateur photographers, videographers, bloggers, etc) embark on an [...]
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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 [...]
Also posted in Self Publishing, Vietnam January 2010, media, photography Tagged Cluster Bombs, international campaign to ban landmines, unexploded ordinance, UXO, Vietnam War 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 [...]
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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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