As you can see we’ve not had time for the blog recently. John is out on the West Coast finishing up graduate school, and I’m traveling for work, leaving little free time.
The blog was started when we were pretty young, and it doesn’t serve our purposes any longer.
The blog will close, though I’m not quite sure what to do with the url as yet.
Peace and thanks for caring.
A film based on Taxi Sister Project PDF, a collaborative project (between the Senegal’s Ministry for Family and Female Entrepreneurship and a private enterprise), that began in May of 2007 as an anti-poverty initiative.
“With the help of a progressive government initiative supporting female taxi drivers, there are 15 female taxi drivers in Dakar … that’s out of 15,000 taxi drivers. Who’s talking about women’s equity besides Senegal’s government? Promising Swedish/Burkinabe director and producer Theresa Traore Dahlberg is, in her documentary Taxi Sister which follows a woman behind the wheel who grapples with society’s view and expectations on women. Watch the trailer below “…
Via the Committee to Protect Journalists‘ blog, Pastor Marrion, a Congolese fixer, needs your help
A group of international journalists is seeking donations to pay the costs of a kidney transplant for Marrion P’udongo, a Congolese fixer who has worked tirelessly with reporters from around the world to make sure his country’s story is told.
This CPJ post is referenced in Aid Watch’s Don’t forget the Congolese who helped tell the Congo story in which Nick Kristof was interviewed on this story by professor William Easterly.
Via UN Dispatch.
The New York Times Mistranslates the Testimony of a Sudanese Woman, by Penelope Chester
The New York Times, where
the prices of sugar have gone up, and it’s making it hard … you’re asking me about making a living, right? everything is so expensive, customers don’t even come anymore. Besides you guys, nobody’s been sitting in those chairs…’
becomes
The clashes (between Dinka and Misseriya) have made it very dangerous here. They killed my son and burned our home. I am very angry over the death of my son.’”
An Unforgivable Hell on Earth 