ARDC and PHR on TV

I was on the news last night representing ARDC (African Refugee Development Center). 

Poster in Palestinian Primary school classroom

Palestinian Spice chart

Originally uploaded by carrieteicher

The first spice on the chart on the top right says mint and the second one on the top left says zater (hyssop).

This homemade poster was in a classroom in the Western part of the West Bank where there was a PHR mobile clinic over the weekend.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrieteicher/2303138938/

Tel Aviv Refugees

More media about the African refugees in Tel Aviv… http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/959452.html 

Title VII

President Bush has zeroed-out all funding for Title VII Programs.  NOW is the time to let our representatives know that we care about this funding and we are going to fight to get it back.  The first step is to get as many Representatives as possible to sign onto a letter to Appropriations Committee Chairman Obey telling him to put funding for Title VII back in the budget. 

Take action by clicking this link: http://capwiz.com/ams/issues/alert/?alertid=11063006

Warning Sign

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Originally uploaded by carrieteicher

This sign is near a huge baobab tree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baobab_tree) outside Kilifi, which is on the coast in Kenya near the Indian Ocean.

The sign is telling you, without actually saying it, that this is a special voodoo baobab tree and thus you shouldn’t mess around with this tree because well, then that’s messing around with voodoo.

One of the Kenyan staff members at work wouldn’t come with us to this site because of this tree. In some of the cracks in the tree people stick notes (and rumor has it money and voodoo incantations) –kind of like the notes people stick in the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Interesting.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrieteicher/2254552948/

are they doing what I think they’re doing?

are they doing what I think they’re doing?

Originally uploaded by carrieteicher

I somehow missed what I think the monkeys are doing when I actually took this photo!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrieteicher/2256710465/

Depressing

This is really depressing. http://whatsmylifeline.org/Teicher/Carrie/09121979  

Hitotoki published online!

http://hitotoki.org/newyork/013

Kenyans

It took Andrew several hours to walk from the hospital where he works to get to the Kisumu airport. He was literally fleeing Nyanza province. He heard that things were going to be bad later that day and that as a half-American and half kikuyo the last place he should remain should be on the edge of Lake Victoria. He meandered swiftly but cautiously on foot through the edges of what use to be the third largest city in Kenya. He made it to the airport that really was more of an airstrip than airport, and was able to negotiate a seat out of the mess that was Kisumu.

 

Juliet doesn’t know what to do. She’s finishing medical school this year and needs to spend next year doing an internship in order to complete her training so as to be able to practice as a physician. But she’s half Luo and half kikoyo. So she can’t go west and she can’t go south. No one goes north and east just isn’t an option. So what is she suppose to do?

 

Patrick is neither of the major ethnic groups currently trying to see who can cause the most damage with a machete and ethnic stereotypes. He isn’t even Christian. His mother is from Uganda, his father is a Muslim from the coast and he works as a general office assistant for a medical program. Patrick lived in a family member’s shack in Kibera that was burnt down last week. They weren’t targeting him, he just so happened to be residing in a block of home close to where people who were being targeted were living. 

 

Beryl, because she’s a pretty savvy 27 year old, got out of Kisumu too. She went by road just before the roads closed. 

Giraffe and self

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Originally uploaded by carrieteicher

The giraffes name is Laura and she lives in Langata, Kenya.

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