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		<title>The Kids of Wadi KhaledThe Kids of Wadi Khaled</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from Bahaa Souki/S4C Lebanon) I have been to  Wadi Khaled &#8211; north Lebanon &#8211; lately and I shot the photos..]]></description>
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<p>I have been to  Wadi Khaled &#8211; north Lebanon &#8211; lately and I shot the photos of  these kids while they were being moved from one school to another abandoned school due to the beginning of the school year here in Lebanon.</p>
<p>They couldn&#8217;t enroll in the school year due to the difference in the curriculum and they looked as refugees among the local students. Some of them have lost at least a member of their family and some of them were taken into custody and tortured (not all are photographed of course).</p>
<p>What struck me was kids expressions&#8230;that show war effects&#8230;  Those kids seems to understand a lot about what&#8217;s going on in their country and yet starting to form an understanding of the word freedom in an early age, that&#8217;s from what they hear and say.</p>
<p>Bahaa Souki/S4C Lebanon</p>
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		<title>Beirut, il giorno della Collera</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(S4C Beirut NEWS) (english below) Martedì 25 gennaio 2011 Tanto tuonò che piovve. Il &#8216;giorno della collera&#8217; , annunciato, decretato ed..]]></description>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Martedì 25 gennaio 2011</span></p>
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<p>Tanto tuonò che piovve. Il &#8216;giorno della collera&#8217; , annunciato, decretato ed organizzato ieri, in Libano,  dalla coalizione di maggioranza in Parlamento in sostegno del premier uscente Saad Haririsi, è svolto tra   manifestazioni di protesta in varie zone del Paese, scontri, assalti a troupe televisive.</p>
<p>L&#8217;obiettivo della manifestazione e&#8217; denunciare la possibilita&#8217; che il deputato Najib Miqati, indicato dall&#8217;opposizione guidata dal movimento Hezbollah, ottenga l&#8217;incarico di formare il nuovo governo.</p>
<p>Manifestanti sono scesi in strada a Tripoli, Qalamoun, Beirut e Sidone.</p>
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<p>Baha&#8217; Souki (S4C Beirut) ha avuto modo di scattare qualche foto durante il suo lavoro di cameraman tv. Lo abbiamo sentito poco fa e ci ha riferito che la situazione pare essere più calma oggi ma, come al solito a Beirut, gli sviluppi sono sempre imprevedibili.</p>
<p>Terremo d&#8217;occhio la situazione.</p>
<p>AA</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;">The Day of the Anger (news from S4C Beirut) &#8211; Tuesday 25th January 2011</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;">The &#8216;day of anger&#8217;, announced, decreed and organized yesterday in Lebanon by the coalition&#8217;s majority in Parliament in support of outgoing Prime Minister Saad Haririi, was held in various parts of the country with protests, rallies, fights, assaults on tv crews.</p>
<p>The aim of the event was to  denounce the possibility&#8217; that the MP  Najib Miqati, indicated by the opposition movement led by Hezbollah, gets the task of forming the new Government.</p>
<p>Protesters took to the streets in Tripoli, Qalamoun, Beirut and Sidon.</p>
<p>Baha &#8216;Souki (S4C Beirut) has managed to take some pictures during his work as a TV cameraman. We have just heard him and he told us that the situation seems to be calmer today, but as usual in Beirut, the developments are always unpredictable.</p>
<p>We will keep an eye on things.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;">AA</span></p>
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		<title>With MSF in Bourj el-Barajneh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ENGLISH BELOW] (click here to see the photo gallery or go to S4C video channel) Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) è la..]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>[ENGLISH BELOW] (<a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/bourjelbarajneh/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">click here to see the photo gallery</span></a> or go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/Shoot4Change" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">S4C video channel</span></a>)</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.medicisenzafrontiere.it/" target="_blank">Medici Senza Frontiere</a></strong> (MSF) è la più grande organizzazione medico-umanitaria indipendente al mondo creata da medici e giornalisti in Francia nel 1971. Nel 1999  ha ricevuto il premio Nobel per la Pace.</p>
<p>Oggi MSF fornisce soccorso umanitario in più di 60 paesi a popolazioni la cui sopravvivenza è minacciata da violenze o catastrofi dovute principalmente a guerre, epidemie, malnutrizione, esclusione dall’assistenza sanitaria o catastrofi naturali. MSF fornisce assistenza indipendente e imparziale a coloro che si trovano in condizioni di maggiore bisogno.</p>
<div id="attachment_3254" style="width: 255px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bwBourjElBaranjneh_30nov10_076.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-3254   " title="Shoot for Change" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bwBourjElBaranjneh_30nov10_076-681x1024.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="368" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The camp ice-creams seller (photo: Antonio Amendola)</p></div>
<p>Sembrava quasi naturale che S4C incrociasse la strada di MSF. In fondo, i fotografi volontari di Shoot 4 Change sono impegnati quotidianamente a raccontare le situazioni di crisi e disagio sociale ed ambientale dimenticate, sottovalutate o, peggio, dimenticate.</p>
<p>Abbiamo quasi per caso scoperto che, nel dicembre 2008,  MSF ha aperto un centro di salute mentale a Bourj el-Barajneh, alla periferia meridionale di Beirut, nei pressi di un grosso campo rifugiati palestinesi.</p>
<p>Oltre a prestare assistenza psicologica e psichiatrica, MSF ha dato inizio ad attività volte a promuovere l&#8217;integrazione dei servizi di sanità mentale con quelli già esistenti rivolti alle comunità palestinese e libanese.</p>
<p> Ci siamo andati.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com " target="_blank">Io</a> e <a href="http://www.robertobianconi.com/" target="_blank">Roberto Bianconi </a>siamo stati introdotti al tema della salute mentale in una situazione critica quale un campo per rifugiati da Fabio Forgione, Capo Missione di MSF in Libano. Abbiamo scoperto che circa il 17% della popolazione libanese soffre di problemi di salute mentale. E pochi, pochissimi, hanno accesso a terapie adeguate. Il problema è ancora più grave fra gli ospiti dei campi per rifugiati palestinesi che vi risiedono da decenni.</p>
<p>Abbiamo visto quello in cui i medici di MSF sono impegnati quotidianamente, in una situazione urbana e sociale di assoluta emergenza. Certo, non è un contesto di guerra (dove peraltro MSF è impegnata da anni) ma è una situazione di enorme disagio e sofferenza psicologica.</p>
<p>(<a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/bourjelbarajneh/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>click here to see the photo gallery</strong></span></a> or go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/Shoot4Change" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;">S4C video channel</span></a>)</p>
<p>I più anziani ricordano. E soffrono del trauma del distacco dalla loro terra. I più giovani sono nati&#8230;in cattività&#8230;senza diritti civili. Confinati in un luogo che non è presente neanche nella carta geografica di Beirut. E soffrono per il confinamento in uno spazio, tutto sommato, ristretto.</p>
<div id="attachment_3256" style="width: 501px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/RB11828.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-3256  " title="_RB11828" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/RB11828-1024x845.jpg" alt="" width="491" height="406" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Born in captivity. Why can&#39;t she has a future? (photo: Roberto Bianconi)</p></div>
<p style="text-align: center;">(<a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/bourjelbarajneh/" target="_blank"><strong>click here to see the photo gallery</strong></a> or go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/Shoot4Change" target="_blank">S4C video channel</a>)</p>
<p>La sensazione è quella di trovarsi in un&#8217;enorma pentola a pressione che sta fischiando. Eppure questi straordinari medici di MSF (e tutti i collaboratori, assistenti sociali, volontari) sono lì, ogni giorno, che cercano di prestare terapie adeguate.</p>
<p>Abbiamo appena cominciato. Racconteremo ancora più in profondità le loro attività, cercando di conoscere le storie di chi vive laggiù e di capire, per quanto possibile, quanta sofferenza vi sia nel ricordo.</p>
<p>Il progetto rientra nell&#8217;ambito di un più ampio progetto, corale, sul tema della malattia mentale che S4C racconterà attraverso numerosi fotografi in giro per il mondo. Ci stanno arrivando tante, tantissime, segnalazioni di bei progetti sul tema in vari contesti (da teatri di guerra, a zone post conflitti fino ad arrivare a progetti  nelle moderne capitali).</p>
<p>Aiutateci.</p>
<p>Antonio Amendola</p>
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<h3><span style="color: #800000;">S4C with MSF in the Palestian Refugees Camp in Bourj el-Barajneh (Lebanon) </span></h3>
<p>(<a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/bourjelbarajneh/" target="_blank"><strong>click here to see the photo gallery</strong></a> or go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/Shoot4Change" target="_blank">S4C video channel</a>)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.medicisenzafrontiere.it/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000080;">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span> </span></a><span style="color: #800000;">(MSF) is the largest independent medical humanitarian organization in the world created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. In 1999 it received the Nobel Prize for Peace.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Today, MSF has provides humanitarian assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, mainly caused by wars or disasters, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care or natural disasters. MSF provides independent and impartial help to those who are in conditions of greater need.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">It seemed almost natural that S4C and MSF crossed path. After all, Shoot 4 Change volunteer photographers  are committed, worldwide, to raising awarenss on  the daily crises and social unrest and environmental that are forgotten, overlooked, or worse, ignored.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">We discovered, almost by chance, that in December 2008, MSF opened a mental health center in Bourj el-Barajneh, on the southern outskirts of Beirut, near a large Palestinian refugee camp.</span></p>
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<div id="attachment_3259" style="width: 275px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bwBourjElBaranjneh_30nov10_059.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-3259  " title="Shoot for Change" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bwBourjElBaranjneh_30nov10_059-630x1024.jpg" alt="" width="265" height="430" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">photo: Antonio Amendola</p></div>
<p>In addition to psychological and psychiatric assistance, MSF has started activities to promote the integration of mental health services with existing ones aimed at Palestinian and Lebanese communities.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"> We went there.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com " target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;">Me</span></a><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000080;"> </span>and </span><a href="http://www.robertobianconi.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000080;">Roberto Bianconi</span> </span></a><span style="color: #800000;">we were introduced to the theme of mental health in a critical situation such as a refugee camp by Fabio Forgione, head of mission for MSF in Lebanon. We found out that approximately 17% of Lebanon&#8217;s population suffers from mental health problems. And few, very few of them have access to appropriate treatment. The problem is even worse among the guests of camps for Palestinian refugees living there for decades.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">We have seen with our cameras what MSF doctors are dealing with, daily, in an urban and social situation of absolute emergency. Of course, it&#8217;s not a war scenario (where, however, MSF use to work) but it is a situation of great distress and psychological sufference.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">The older ones remember. And suffer the trauma of separation from their land. The youngest were born in captivity&#8230;without civil rights. Confined in a place that is not even located on the map of Beirut. And they suffer for confinement in a space, after all, limited.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">The sensation is like being in a giant pressure cooker that is whistling. Yet these extraordinary MSF doctors (and all the staff and  volunteers) are there every day trying to provide appropriate treatment.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">We have just begun.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">We&#8217;ll go back there very soon and get deeper in the story. We&#8217;ll try to learn the stories of those who live there and understand, as far as possible, how much suffering there is in the memory of what is lost.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_3262" style="width: 501px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/RB11897.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-3262  " title="_RB11897" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/RB11897-1024x845.jpg" alt="" width="491" height="406" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">MSF reaches out in the Camp. Building thrust is not easy... (photo: Roberto Bianconi)</p></div>
<p style="text-align: center;">(<a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/bourjelbarajneh/" target="_blank"><strong>click here to see the photo gallery</strong></a> or go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/Shoot4Change" target="_blank">S4C video channel</a>)</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">The project is part of a larger undertaking, choral, on the theme of mental illness that S4C will cover with many photographers around the world. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">We are receiving many news and best practices  in a variety of contexts (from war scenarios, post conflict areas until what goes on in modern capitals).</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;">Antonio Amendola</span></p>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd">The old ones remember&#8230; (photo: Antonio Amendola)</dd>
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