starvation in third world countries
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Aug 4, 2010
The picture of starvation in Africa is one we think we know.
“We tend to think of it as a lonely child in the middle of nowhere with a vulture hanging over her,” Marcus Bleasdale said. “It’s not like that at all. There is a very concerned family. Hundreds of doctors go into making these children well again.”
Mr. Bleasdale’s latest work, “Frustration,” is an intimate look at efforts by family members and medical professionals to cope with childhood starvation in Djibouti, at the mouth of the Red Sea.
Mr. Bleasdale, who lives in Oslo, is known for his striking documentary photography in Africa. His work in Djibouti is part of a collaboration between Doctors Without Borders and VII Photo Agency on “Starved for Attention,” a multimedia campaign that documents childhood malnutrition around the world. It also features the work of Jessica Dimmock, Ron Haviv, Antonin Kratochvil, Franco Pagetti, Stephanie Sinclair and John Stanmeyer.
The goal of the project is “to try to visually find a new representation that got away from the more stereotypical sort of clichéd look,” said Jason Cone, the communication director of Doctors Without Borders.
According to Unicef, 195 million children under the age of five are affected by malnutrition worldwide. But there are solutions, Mr. Cone said, and with a change in approach, “there is hope.” Doctors Without Borders operates 120 nutrition programs in 36 countries.
In an attempt to document the success and frustration of current efforts, Mr. Bleasdale spent two weeks in Djibouti City, following staff members and outreach workers of a 35-bed nutrition hospital run by Doctors Without Borders.
Mr. Bleasdale’s images focus on the workers and the children in the hospital, and on the children and their mothers. “It is these relationships we tend to overlook when we look in a crisis,” he said.
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July 29th, 2010 at 9:12 am
According to the Independent the mall and beach resort are funded by Hamas.
Also, having actually been to Gaza I can confirm that it is really, really fucking poor and that it is basically a massive prison camp.
[DPF: How much of Gaza did you see? It is quite a large area of land. And Hamas is the Government of Gaza, so no surprise that they fund things]
July 29th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Gaza.
Of course they are poor – they have been sucking on the UN tit for 6 decades and whining about how unfair life is instead of working hard and creating a better life for themselves.
July 29th, 2010 at 9:22 am
Danyl, Are the barriers and locked gates real, or imaginary, or poverty driven, or ideological, or imposed by military/terrorist effort.??
Please offer verification and proportunality.
July 29th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Can’t be Gaza. That’s a prison camp according to David Cameron.
July 29th, 2010 at 9:28 am
That’s actually the Beijing National Aquatics Centre
July 29th, 2010 at 9:42 am
How much of Gaza did you see? It is quite a large area of land
Roughly 1000X more of it than you’ve shown in these pictures.
July 29th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Err David,
I would check on that pool you have posted, the image you have is the “water cube” from the Beijing Olympics,
[DPF: Ta, have removed.]
July 29th, 2010 at 10:03 am
the mall and beach resort are funded by Hamas.
consumerism might kill the planet but it’ll destroy God first.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Danyll says “really fucking”……..dead right there.So many western interviews etc with Pally types go……”unemployed Abdool.father of 14……..”or “Fatima,grandmother of 40…….”
I’m not making that up, that’s why they’re poor,too much rooting.
And that’s why coming to an urban centre in Europe is a tidal wave of Mohamedans,to live off the borrowed wealth of the dying,diversified,multicultural loving former civilisation known as Europe.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:28 am
At a border crossing between Vietnam and Laos I bought a bottle of water from a brand-new 4000 sq ft air conditioned supermarket, while the people living all around it were subsistence farmers. Actually pretty much every third world country has flash new buildings and brand new Range Rovers in the midst of poverty. It’s not much of an indicator of the standard of living.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Danyl, maybe they’re poor because they spent their time making rockets?
Let them do something productive instead.
And I’m sure that when you want to North Korea you would claim it really, really was heaven.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
The PA gets more aid money than ANYONE else.
If they’re poor maybe they should stop using the aid money to make fucking rockets to fire at civilians in violation of international humanitarian law Danly.
Of course they wont and people like Danyl wont bitch because any money spent on killing Jews is money well spent isn’t it Danyl.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
And that simpering goon David Cameron wouldn’t know if you were up him either.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Why hasnt this been bombed yet ?
They are making bombs with those oranges you know, stolen from Jaffa too
July 29th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Papatoetoe
July 29th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Get real Simon, no one takes out a camera in Papatoetoe.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
And so the Israeli “Poor us! We are SO maligned” continues.
Airstrikes into urban areas and all the collateral damage that goes with that is perfectly reasonable, because HEY- they have a nice shopping mall.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
And so the appologists for terrorists keep talking crap to enable the continued murder of Jews.
Just busniess as usual for the jackbooted left.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Show me one comment of mine where I’ve supported or endorsed anything a terrorist said or did dumbarse. Just one would do.
I don’t apologise for the terrorists Murray, they deserve what’s coming to them.
My problem is when their neighbours get what’s coming to the terrorists, seems to happen all too often.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Fuck off Danyl,
You wouldn’t know poor if it hit you in the face. Having also been to Gaza and many many truly poor places, Gaza is far from poor.
But then, from behind your state funded university desk, you academics are an authority on these things aren’t you?
July 29th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
RRM, that’s why civil society and democracy is so important.
Then you don’t have terrorists acting as agents of the state (hamas, hezbollah,and any number of this that or the other jihad brigades) setting up rocket and mortar positions in built up areas to attack civilian targets in Israel.
Sadly Palestinians and their allies don’t seem to be interested in civil society,so until they are this situation will continue.
July 29th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Fuck off Danyl,
You wouldn’t know poor if it hit you in the face. Having also been to Gaza and many many truly poor places, Gaza is far from poor.
Far be it from me to gainsay an anonymous jackass on the internet, but I’ve also been to poor rural regions in India and North Africa and the poverty in Gaza was easily comparable. According to the CIA factbook it’s the 8th poorest place in the world. (Number 1 on the list is Zambia, but I’m sure they have a mall and a cafe somewhere in country so I guess they’re not really poor.)
July 29th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I posted the following back on the 20th of July 2010 in General Debate – Tom Gross is also quoted in the article – it’s worth restating again:
Almost makes one want to become a refugee!
Does anyone get the feeling we’re being lied to? And why do the MSM, UN, EU et al continue to propagate these lies about life in Gaza and the West Bank? – especially when there are numerous places in the world which have genuine need and of which we hear almost nothing by comparison. One might almost come to the conclusion that there is an agenda against the nation of Israel; that it must be demonised at the expense of truth and honesty. But since when have the above organisations/governments been concerned with truth and honesty where Israel is concerned?
Read on, dear reader, and for those interested in emigrating to Gaza I have the appropriate paperwork available …
July 29th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Afghanistan is also a happy land, they have Kabul City Centre
July 29th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Three hours have passed Catapult, have you dug up any instances of me supporting terrorists and endorsing their actions yet?
No???
Were you perhaps talking smack (again) Catapult?
July 29th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
How about a hi-res of the beach? I wanna see the bikini hijabs.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Why should the good people of Gaza repudiate Hamas when they build them flash new malls and restaurants and make them more powerful on the world stage than they deserve to be?
Sanctions don’t work unless they are total. Sad truth.