Did someone mention progress…? by carf on Flickr.Here’s another great, but sad picture from Brazil…Via Flickr:Then I must be missing out on something… But then again, I’m just one of the 15.000 street kids still roaming the streets of this mega city called São Paulo, waiting to progress…………………………………… On Sunday, Brazil’s Presidential election comes to an end. Maybe we can expect some changes to our lives…?PS! Treat yourself to Dressed in Black but remember to press F11 for full screen viewing!It is in deepest regret and sadness that I inform you of Roney’s cold-blooded murder on the early morning hours of January 15th. May he find peace wherever his journey has taken him…….IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney.
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Did someone mention progress…? by carf on Flickr.

Here’s another great, but sad picture from Brazil…



Via Flickr:
Then I must be missing out on something…

But then again, I’m just one of the 15.000 street kids still roaming the streets of this mega city called São Paulo, waiting to progress……………………………………

On Sunday, Brazil’s Presidential election comes to an end.
Maybe we can expect some changes to our lives…?

PS! Treat yourself to Dressed in Black but remember to press F11 for full screen viewing!

It is in deepest regret and sadness that I inform you of Roney’s cold-blooded murder on the early morning hours of January 15th. May he find peace wherever his journey has taken him…….

IMPORTANT NOTE:
On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney.

Brazilians!!! Think about us… by carf on Flickr.The eyes of this shot are so haunting. Children should never have to lead such lives. Children at Risk Foundation sounds like a very worthwhile organization.Via Flickr:…when you go to the voting urns tomorrow, because it’s our future too, you know! On Sunday, Brazil’s Presidential election comes to an end and everyone makes their final decision on who’s to run this country for the next four years. I wonder, I really wonder…………………………..???PS! Treat yourself to Dressed in Black but remember to press F11 for full screen viewing!
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Brazilians!!! Think about us… by carf on Flickr.

The eyes of this shot are so haunting. Children should never have to lead such lives. Children at Risk Foundation sounds like a very worthwhile organization.



Via Flickr:
…when you go to the voting urns tomorrow, because it’s our future too, you know!

On Sunday, Brazil’s Presidential election comes to an end and everyone makes their final decision on who’s to run this country for the next four years.

I wonder, I really wonder…………………………..???

PS! Treat yourself to Dressed in Black but remember to press F11 for full screen viewing!

I could shoot you too… by carf on Flickr.This is a fantastic picture, a tragic story and a very worthwhile cause.Via Flickr:…but I don’t have a camera……….. The Children At Risk Foundation - CARF is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization, which through the generosity of its many supporters assists street children in Brazil to overcome the burdens of street life, to become healthy, educated, self-sustaining and contributing members of society. To accomplish our mission CARF depends on donations from private individuals, groups, school children, youth organizations, companies, institutions, foundations, NGO’s, governments and many other sources. If you would also like to become one of our cherished supporters and assist us further in our mission, please don’t hesitate, www.carfweb.net/changemakers.htmlIt is in deepest regret and sadness that I inform you of Roney’s cold-blooded murder on the early morning hours of January 15th. May he find peace wherever his journey has taken him…….IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney.
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I could shoot you too… by carf on Flickr.

This is a fantastic picture, a tragic story and a very worthwhile cause.



Via Flickr:

…but I don’t have a camera………..

The Children At Risk Foundation - CARF is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization, which through the generosity of its many supporters assists street children in Brazil to overcome the burdens of street life, to become healthy, educated, self-sustaining and contributing members of society. To accomplish our mission CARF depends on donations from private individuals, groups, school children, youth organizations, companies, institutions, foundations, NGO’s, governments and many other sources.

If you would also like to become one of our cherished supporters and assist us further in our mission, please don’t hesitate, www.carfweb.net/changemakers.html


It is in deepest regret and sadness that I inform you of Roney’s cold-blooded murder on the early morning hours of January 15th. May he find peace wherever his journey has taken him…….

IMPORTANT NOTE:
On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney.

Boy, doesn’t this photo just say it all? Anonymous people, in a busy refugee centre, sitting on a bare cot, with a young child, tetrapak milk sitting to the side. Perhaps safe, but far from at peace. doctorswithoutborders: A Nigerian family seeking asylum sits on a cot in the living quarters they share with other asylum seekers in the reception center in Mineo, Sicily. The war in Libya is not only having an impact on Libyan nationals, but also on the 2.5 million migrants who have come there to work or live or are passing through to reach another destination. Learn more: Trapped in Transit: The Neglected Victims of the War in Libya Photo: Italy 2011 © Mattia Insolera
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Boy, doesn’t this photo just say it all? Anonymous people, in a busy refugee centre, sitting on a bare cot, with a young child, tetrapak milk sitting to the side. Perhaps safe, but far from at peace.

doctorswithoutborders:

A Nigerian family seeking asylum sits on a cot in the living quarters they share with other asylum seekers in the reception center in Mineo, Sicily.

The war in Libya is not only having an impact on Libyan nationals, but also on the 2.5 million migrants who have come there to work or live or are passing through to reach another destination.

Learn more: Trapped in Transit: The Neglected Victims of the War in Libya

Photo: Italy 2011 © Mattia Insolera

Burmese flower girl by Sara Heinrichs (awfulsara) on Flickr.Here’s another great example of a Charity Print Auction. This one was for Katrina. Interestingly it’s a picture representative of another cause - that of the people of Burma.Via Flickr: I’m auctioning off a signed 16x20 print of this image for the Katrina Relief Auction. (I will send a smaller 8x10 if you request. Wall space is limited for some.) Starting bid is just $35, which includes shipping via FedEx to anywhere in the world. I encourage you to visit the above thread and make your donation. While there, browse the growing number of photographs and images up for bid in this second round of donations.
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Burmese flower girl by Sara Heinrichs (awfulsara) on Flickr.

Here’s another great example of a Charity Print Auction. This one was for Katrina. Interestingly it’s a picture representative of another cause - that of the people of Burma.



Via Flickr:
I’m auctioning off a signed 16x20 print of this image for the Katrina Relief Auction. (I will send a smaller 8x10 if you request. Wall space is limited for some.)

Starting bid is just $35, which includes shipping via FedEx to anywhere in the world. I encourage you to visit the above thread and make your donation. While there, browse the growing number of photographs and images up for bid in this second round of donations.

I’m gonna miss you, brother(s)………… by carf on Flickr.The story below of these two beautiful boys will make you sad, but this is plight of countless street children around the world.Via Flickr:I’m a little lost for words today……., but somehow I need to let off some steam. My expectations for this year were many and optimistic……, they also included Roney and Claudiney, two of the street kids I have followed up closely during these last few years and who at the beginning of this month had been sent to a drug recuperation centre by court order from the local children’s judge. I’m still trying to figure out why…………….??? After speaking to them both over the phone a few days after their involuntary internment, I realized that my trip to the coast to catch a short week of holiday together with some of our neediest kids was not going to be a comfortable one considering that both boys probably needed a lot of extra attention following this rather unexpected decision (my trip was planned to include Roney and Claudiney, but due to the court order of internment they were unable to come along). Last week on my arrival back home, the local Department of Homicides called me and asked if we had registered any missing children the last couple of days. They needed to identify two young boys who had been found beaten and strangled not far from the small holding where I lived for the first decade of my work recuperating street children. My most uncomfortable memories from that decade were all the dead bodies I had experienced (32 in all) along the dirt track leading up to our home, which seemed to be a historically popular dumping ground since the days of the military dictatorship and obviously continued to be so for whoever felt they had the right to take the law into their own hands. As I had an extremely busy agenda for the next few days (including a visit to the shelter where Roney and Claudiney were being detained) I suggested to the police that they visit a few strategic places with some photos of the victims to see if someone would recognize them. Offering little thought at all that the victims could possibly be Roney or Claudiney due to them having been interned, on Sunday I went to pay them the visit I had promised before having left for the coast, only to discover that the boys had already done a runaway. I hadn’t really expected them to stay there for long, which seemed pretty clear from the phone conversation I had with them a week earlier, all the more reason for me to visit them as soon as I arrived back home. Today, the police called again to tell me they had finally identified the two dead kids, but were now trying to find a third missing child who seemed to have escaped the killer’s cold-blooded actions. Roney unfortunately had not; he and another street kid, Júlio César, were the two victims! There are many things I find so very hard to accept in my work with underprivileged kids in this country. In the first place, I find it hard to accept that street children exist at all in the 21st.Century, especially in a society that is among the world’s top 10 economies. Then I find it hard to digest everything that follows as a consequence of this negligence, this indifference, which sometimes makes me feel so sad and today, so sick! I really can’t find the right words to express my anger and my frustrations………. I once quoted Albert Einstein under one of Roney’s many special portraits in my Flickr photo stream. I think I’ll do so again:“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” # IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney. I’m still trying to figure this one out……………….… … … … … . … . . and I’m gonna miss the both of you.
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I’m gonna miss you, brother(s)………… by carf on Flickr.

The story below of these two beautiful boys will make you sad, but this is plight of countless street children around the world.



Via Flickr:
I’m a little lost for words today……., but somehow I need to let off some steam.

My expectations for this year were many and optimistic……, they also included Roney and Claudiney, two of the street kids I have followed up closely during these last few years and who at the beginning of this month had been sent to a drug recuperation centre by court order from the local children’s judge.

I’m still trying to figure out why…………….???

After speaking to them both over the phone a few days after their involuntary internment, I realized that my trip to the coast to catch a short week of holiday together with some of our neediest kids was not going to be a comfortable one considering that both boys probably needed a lot of extra attention following this rather unexpected decision (my trip was planned to include Roney and Claudiney, but due to the court order of internment they were unable to come along).

Last week on my arrival back home, the local Department of Homicides called me and asked if we had registered any missing children the last couple of days. They needed to identify two young boys who had been found beaten and strangled not far from the small holding where I lived for the first decade of my work recuperating street children. My most uncomfortable memories from that decade were all the dead bodies I had experienced (32 in all) along the dirt track leading up to our home, which seemed to be a historically popular dumping ground since the days of the military dictatorship and obviously continued to be so for whoever felt they had the right to take the law into their own hands.
As I had an extremely busy agenda for the next few days (including a visit to the shelter where Roney and Claudiney were being detained) I suggested to the police that they visit a few strategic places with some photos of the victims to see if someone would recognize them.

Offering little thought at all that the victims could possibly be Roney or Claudiney due to them having been interned, on Sunday I went to pay them the visit I had promised before having left for the coast, only to discover that the boys had already done a runaway. I hadn’t really expected them to stay there for long, which seemed pretty clear from the phone conversation I had with them a week earlier, all the more reason for me to visit them as soon as I arrived back home.

Today, the police called again to tell me they had finally identified the two dead kids, but were now trying to find a third missing child who seemed to have escaped the killer’s cold-blooded actions. Roney unfortunately had not; he and another street kid, Júlio César, were the two victims!

There are many things I find so very hard to accept in my work with underprivileged kids in this country. In the first place, I find it hard to accept that street children exist at all in the 21st.Century, especially in a society that is among the world’s top 10 economies. Then I find it hard to digest everything that follows as a consequence of this negligence, this indifference, which sometimes makes me feel so sad and today, so sick! I really can’t find the right words to express my anger and my frustrations……….

I once quoted Albert Einstein under one of Roney’s many special portraits in my Flickr photo stream. I think I’ll do so again:
“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”



# IMPORTANT NOTE:
On June 27th. we also lost our beloved Claudiney.
I’m still trying to figure this one out……………….… … … … … .

… . . and I’m gonna miss the both of you.

… while age crumbles! by Sumit Samant on Flickr.Here’s an amazing picture from the Haiti Charity Print Auction. I feel this crumbling face is a great metaphor for the crumbling buildings of Haiti.Via Flickr:I met this old man in a tiny cafe in Khardung village on the way from Nubra to Leh. He seemed unmindful of complexities of modern life as he peacefully prayed with his rosary. He did agree to pose for me but only for a couple of minutes before returning to his reverie. This photo contains layers of a texture beautifully created by GhostbonesView On Black I will be entering these images into the Flickr group Charity Print Auctions:www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/ for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. The prints that are for auction are 18x12 inches and will be printed on professional paper. To bid, you need to comment below the image with the amount that you would like to bid. When the auction closes, the person that has bid the most, wins the print. The auction will close on the date set in the thread, in the case of the Haiti Earthquake Appeal, it will finish on Tuesday 26th January 2010 at midnight. The winning bidder has to pay that amount to the Red Cross:www.redcross.org.uk/emergencysite/default.aspx?id=88916 When they do this, they MUST make a screen grab of the donation confirmation page to send to me. This is the only way I will know that you have paid and can arrange for the print to be sent to you.
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… while age crumbles! by Sumit Samant on Flickr.

Here’s an amazing picture from the Haiti Charity Print Auction. I feel this crumbling face is a great metaphor for the crumbling buildings of Haiti.



Via Flickr:
I met this old man in a tiny cafe in Khardung village on the way from Nubra to Leh. He seemed unmindful of complexities of modern life as he peacefully prayed with his rosary.

He did agree to pose for me but only for a couple of minutes before returning to his reverie.

This photo contains layers of a texture beautifully created by Ghostbones

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I will be entering these images into the Flickr group Charity Print Auctions:
www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/
for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

The prints that are for auction are 18x12 inches and will be printed on professional paper.

To bid, you need to comment below the image with the amount that you would like to bid.

When the auction closes, the person that has bid the most, wins the print.

The auction will close on the date set in the thread, in the case of the Haiti Earthquake Appeal, it will finish on Tuesday 26th January 2010 at midnight.

The winning bidder has to pay that amount to the Red Cross:
www.redcross.org.uk/emergencysite/default.aspx?id=88916
When they do this, they MUST make a screen grab of the donation confirmation page to send to me. This is the only way I will know that you have paid and can arrange for the print to be sent to you.

Charity Print Auction for Haiti: Fawn Closeup by s.kosoris on Flickr.One way that people contribute to disaster relief is by offering prints of their photographs for charity auctions. Someone pledges to donate to the Red Cause of similar organization and in return, the photographer sends a print. This young deer photograph was auctioned off to provide support for Haiti. Next time, disaster strikes, consider using this as a fundraiser, or consider giving by bidding on a print. Just search Flickr for ‘Charity Print Auction’ to find scores of prints that have been auctioned off.Via Flickr: After going to the conservatory, my dad and I took a drive to Mission Marsh looking for deer. An 8x10 inch print from Black’s Photography was auctioned to help the people of Haïti. The winner made a donation to the Australian Red Cross. :) For more information on this: CPA - CHARITY PRINT AUCTIONSwww.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/
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Charity Print Auction for Haiti: Fawn Closeup by s.kosoris on Flickr.

One way that people contribute to disaster relief is by offering prints of their photographs for charity auctions. Someone pledges to donate to the Red Cause of similar organization and in return, the photographer sends a print. This young deer photograph was auctioned off to provide support for Haiti.

Next time, disaster strikes, consider using this as a fundraiser, or consider giving by bidding on a print. Just search Flickr for ‘Charity Print Auction’ to find scores of prints that have been auctioned off.



Via Flickr:
After going to the conservatory, my dad and I took a drive to Mission Marsh looking for deer.

An 8x10 inch print from Black’s Photography was auctioned to help the people of Haïti. The winner made a donation to the Australian Red Cross. :)

For more information on this:
CPA - CHARITY PRINT AUCTIONS
www.flickr.com/groups/charityprintauctions/

charity: water - well construction in Liberia by twestival on Flickr.Imagine if this was the water you had to drink. So many people around the world drink water just like this. Fortunately, this is not a fetid drinking hole, but a well under construction bringing clean fresh water to a village without any. I love how the image alludes to the horror of dirty drinking water while presenting the promise of clean water.Via Flickr: copyright: scott harrison, charity: water
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charity: water - well construction in Liberia by twestival on Flickr.

Imagine if this was the water you had to drink. So many people around the world drink water just like this. Fortunately, this is not a fetid drinking hole, but a well under construction bringing clean fresh water to a village without any.

I love how the image alludes to the horror of dirty drinking water while presenting the promise of clean water.



Via Flickr:
copyright: scott harrison, charity: water