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Please help Patricia Orti & Kentrello Austin raise funds to provide aid for the people in Kanyaruchinya refugee camp in Goma located in Congo! Please donate if you can and share!
You saw the national football team cover their mouth, and point their fingers to their head in the CAN match against Ivory Coast last Wednesday?
It was to raise awareness for the surge in violence committed by M23 rebels in eastern Congo - with support from a neighbouring government, to destabilize a region that "happens to hold a lot of the world's very valued minerals".
People are being murdered, houses are being burnt. One again, thousands are fleeing their home, and join the refugee camps around Goma that already in October last year housed around 600.000 people.
Also Goma itself is surrounded, the supply lines for food from the country side to the city interrupted.
Why can't the international community do nothing more than empty declarations of solidarity and wishing for peace. The UN mission - which hardly had a mandate to intervene in case of violence against Congolese citizens - has had no positive impact.
Maybe we could finally consider putting pressure one the Rwandan goverment and its allies to actually put an end to these 30 years of violence and ruined lives in this region.
The same region that provides the world with materials for our phones, electrical and solar panels btw.
remembered i have some sort of a following here so for anyone interested in helping to lay the groundwork for structural change in the drc, check out the idjwi island education fund!!
Years of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Rwanda has resulted in a substantial influx of refugees, including many orphans, to Idjwi Island in Lake Kivu between the two countries. The island lacks basic infrastructure and the existing schools on Idjwi Island are inadequate and lack resources. Although many international organizations are active in Eastern Congo, there is virtually no support for the Idjwi community.
the island gets sidelined a lot in talks of humanitarian aid but systematic change is needed throughout the whole country and the island is one place to build that foundation
Grodie finds Goma and Hilbil in the afterlife and is begrudgingly roped into playing cards or something with them since at least it’s something to keep his mind off the goddamn voices.
Grodie is the only one who’s playing fair, Hilbil is trying (and failing) to use her powers to learn what’s in the others’ hands and Goma is swapping their cards when someone isn’t paying attention.
A chunk of pages from the 5th chapter of Fairmeadow - If you love intense and uncomfortable character dynamics be prepared for uhhh A LOT OF THAT later on in this chapter.
If you're new to the story, now's a great time to jump in!! Less than 200 pages in (perfectly bingable length? u decide) and lots of idiot characters I will make you love so help me god
Fairmeadow is a post-epic fantasy webcomic inspired by radical communes and the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Living In the shadow of a century-long war, a remote pacifist commune takes in a wounded Orcish soldier and falls into turmoil as their utopian vision is tested in the face of massive change.
Just got back from the Fairy Tales Exhibition at GOMA. Where I got to view art works from feature artists Abdul Abdullah, Del Kathryn Barton, Destiny Deacon, Gustave Doré, Rachel Feinstein, Trulee Hall, Carsten Höller, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Ron Mueck, Tracey Moffatt, Henrique Oliveira, Polixeni Papapetrou, Patricia Piccinini, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak and many others.
They also feature film costumes and props from Mirror Mirror (2012), The Labyrinth (1986), Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), etc.