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fyeahafrica:Portrait of a Samburu woman.
Representations and Misrepresentations in Western Culture: [source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls012s7mGV1r2gueho1_500.jpg)
fyeahafrica:Portrait of a Samburu woman.
Representations and Misrepresentations in Western Culture: [source]
Serafin Nyanzaba, 17, who has been displaced by war, wears a newly done traditional Congolese hair style at the Don Bosco center in Goma, November 20, 2008.
Photo by REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly
Afia wins for Ghana! The Ethical Fashion Forum NY Innovation Award
We recently posted about sustainable apparel line Afia which values craft and the production process owned by Meghan Sebold. They make their patterns in Chicago, New York’s garment district, as well as Ghana, West Africa; their textiles are sourced from small vendors in Ghana. Their bulk purchase of fabric directly and immediately impacts them. They have just now been awarded the Ethical Fashion Forum New York 2011 Innovation Award.
The business of Afia could be what attracted the judges. Meghan had visited and studied in Ghana in 2006 and caught up with the vibrancy and beauty of the textiles, the talent and ambitions of the local tailors and textiles vendors. It was this idea and complexities of working in developing economies which inspired this trip and her further research study of the local textile industry, and her desire to develop a business model that would go on to create a larger consumer market for Ghanaian textile vendors and seamstresses.
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[Pictured: A Somali father sits with his daughter at the head of the line at a refugee camp registration center in Dabaab in northeastern Kenya, Aug. 2, 2011. International aid agencies are struggling to bring in more supplies to drought-stricken Somalia and neighboring Kenya.]
In Somalia’s Famine, Aid Groups Race Against Time
As aid groups battle the famine in the Horn of Africa, the news is mixed. More food is getting through and security has improved for now, but tens of thousands of children have already died and many more are at risk.
Aid group were pleased last week when al-Shabaab, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization, pulled out of the capital, Mogadishu. That made a dangerous country a little bit less so for aid workers.
“It’s too early to tell whether it is a good and lasting sign, but it does offer the possibility of getting more assistance in through Mogadishu,” said Gayle Smith, a top White House official.
The move comes at a time when Somalis are rushing into the city from outlying areas. United Nations officials say that 100,000 Somalis have flooded Mogadishu in search of food and shelter. Valerie Amos, who runs the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, says U.N. agencies are providing help, but are moving in cautiously.
“The refugee agency managed to get three plane loads of supplies into Mogadishu in the last few days because we urgently needed supplies of tents,” said Amos. “We’ve had food deliveries in Mogadishu, so all of this has been happening. But I do think it is important that we all remember that there are still 2.2 million people in the south and center who require aid and support.”
Al-Shabaab controls south and central Somalia and those are the areas worst hit by the famine. The U.S. government recently agreed to ease its restrictions on private American relief groups that want to deliver supplies to parts of Somalia run by the Islamist militant group.
Donald Steinberg of the U.S. Agency for International Development says the U.S. government won’t prosecute aid groups if some aid inadvertently falls into the hands of al-Shabaab. “When you move food in, there are going to be, we understand, the possibilities for diversion.”
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[Pictured: A Somali father sits with his daughter at the head of the line at a refugee camp registration center in Dabaab in northeastern Kenya, Aug. 2, 2011. International aid agencies are struggling to bring in more supplies to drought-stricken Somalia and neighboring Kenya.]
In Somalia’s Famine, Aid Groups Race Against Time
As aid groups battle the famine in the Horn of Africa, the news is mixed. More food is getting through and security has improved for now, but tens of thousands of children have already died and many more are at risk.
Aid group were pleased last week when al-Shabaab, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization, pulled out of the capital, Mogadishu. That made a dangerous country a little bit less so for aid workers.
“It’s too early to tell whether it is a good and lasting sign, but it does offer the possibility of getting more assistance in through Mogadishu,” said Gayle Smith, a top White House official.
The move comes at a time when Somalis are rushing into the city from outlying areas. United Nations officials say that 100,000 Somalis have flooded Mogadishu in search of food and shelter. Valerie Amos, who runs the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, says U.N. agencies are providing help, but are moving in cautiously.
“The refugee agency managed to get three plane loads of supplies into Mogadishu in the last few days because we urgently needed supplies of tents,” said Amos. “We’ve had food deliveries in Mogadishu, so all of this has been happening. But I do think it is important that we all remember that there are still 2.2 million people in the south and center who require aid and support.”
Al-Shabaab controls south and central Somalia and those are the areas worst hit by the famine. The U.S. government recently agreed to ease its restrictions on private American relief groups that want to deliver supplies to parts of Somalia run by the Islamist militant group.
Donald Steinberg of the U.S. Agency for International Development says the U.S. government won’t prosecute aid groups if some aid inadvertently falls into the hands of al-Shabaab. “When you move food in, there are going to be, we understand, the possibilities for diversion.”
