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Beautiful Faces of Balata
Image by Beautiful Faces of Palestine
Dear friends, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen!
I would like to express my appreciation for your interest and participation in the "Beautiful Faces of Balata" » exhibition. It was a great pleasure to share this moment with you.
It is not to be taken for granted that people who have suffered injustice manage to retain a great level of confidence and hope.
However, it is precisely this what I have been able to witness at the camp. People retain hope and are trying courageously to cope with their dire situation.
If people become politically conscious in a constructive way, it seems to me this is to a large part due to the persistent presence of international organisations and their services.
I would like to contribute to this increasing awareness.
Through the touring exhibition project as an partially realised activity of the Balata info Portal (BIP) we are aiming at creating awareness about living conditions inside the Balata Refugee Camp as well as about ongoing activities, programs, achievements and future projects.
In order to accomplish this, Mahmud Subuh (Yafa Cultural Center Balata) and I have great hopes for the Balata Info Portal-Project.
The BIP seeks to improve project and PR work of NGOs through a centralised access point of information and imagery. The project fulfils a dual purpose:
it is a forum in which information about ongoing activities, programs, aims, achievements and future projects will be exchanged and it is a platform in which organisations will be able to present their own profile, projects and activities.
I would like to present the project draft to you and would like to kindly ask you to consider support the project in the following fields:
1. The exhibition needs to be expanded with additional photography and relocated touring through the West Bank and Israel.
2. Implementing the Balata Info Portal-Project
The exhibition will go on tour through the West Bank and to some locations in Israel (Yafa, Tel Aviv). It is under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) and the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria-Foundation
If you would like to read more about BIP pleased feel free to download following documents.
Project Proposal » palpics.info/downloads/BIP_Proposal.doc
Matrix Visual Overview » palpics.info/downloads/BIP_objectives.doc
Info Flyer » palpics.info/downloads/Balata_InfoFlyer.pdf
Business Card "Beautiful Faces of Palestine" » palpics.info/downloads/PalPics_Card.pdf
Wireless Toronto portal
Image by Matthew Burpee
Monday, April 14, 2008, 7:30pm
Wireless Toronto Meeting, Breakout Portal Discussion
Brainstorming by Dory (mostly) and Matthew
1. Profile Neighborhood: flickr photos, map mashups, Torontoist, Blog.TO, craiglist miss connections, garage sales
2. Profile Local Person or thing: Open Guest Curator for page - business, food, kind of like a guest column for a magazine.
3. Profile Events: RSS, Postings, city councilor websites.
4. Social: Chat, wall, user agreement.
Design sketch: flickr.com/photos/citizenziggy/2450035746/in/photostream/
