The cupboard is bare
A piece about my own struggle with poverty.
Model: me
Photo by Lorraine Daley, Philadelphia - USA.
posted by CARF Brazil at 3:22 AM
Saturday, November 19, 2005
About Me
- Name: CARF Brazil
- Location: Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil
CARF Brazil, was established by Gregory J. Smith in São Paulo in 1993. Gregory had already established The Children At Risk Foundation – CARF Norway in 1992, to benefit the street children of Brazil by defending their rights and offering them a dignified solution so that they could live and grow within a family-oriented context and healthy social environment. The knowledge gained during the last decade guided Gregory to create a Street Migration Prevention Programme. Due to its success, CARF had to seek new solutions to cope with growing demands and in 2001 The Hummingbird Arts & Cultural Activity Centre became a reality, allowing CARF to expand its capacity from 80 children and young people to more than 2000 today. An important development in 2007 was the establishing of a new Brazilian NGO, The Hummingbird Cultural Network (RCBF - Rede Cultural Beija-Flor), to cater for a network of community prevention centres implemented during the next few years and led by youth entrepreneurs trained at Hummingbird. By the end of 2012 we will have four community prevention centres up and running...
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- Pulo Island
- Cova
- A crack house and little girl
- Holy blessings
- Shade
- Caroreño
- No Forró
- Laughing
- Ahmed Al-Khatib
- Boy - Dominican Republic
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- “Migrations” by Sebastião Salgado
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- “Mental Picture” by Tim Hetherington
- Ami Vitale – Photographer Par Excellence
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- The Invisibles
- The Electronic Intifada
- Brazilian Photos by Pedro Martinelli
- Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs
- Ashoka Brasil
- Changemakers.Net
- Millennium Development Goals
- State of the World’s Children - 2004:
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- Human Rights Watch
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- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- European Convention on Human Rights
- African Charter on Human and People’s Rights
- American Convention on Human Rights
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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1 Comments:
Well - the empty cupboard seems to be keeping you in splendid shape! ;)
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