Healafrica 

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  Heal Africa
  by Melinda Kerr

  And there’s a trucker cap. / Hey, doin’ good needn’t mean you can’t be cool at the same time. CLICK HERE FOR THE HAT!

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  Heal Africa black T-SHIRT
  by Melinda Kerr

  This is for the wonderful charity heal africa. healafrica.org ALL PROFITS TO THEM! My profile /       /            

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  An Invitation
  by Melinda Kerr

  For the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo… These are the words: AN INVITATION. / It is human nature to be / overwhelmed by the inequality / so apparent in todays world. / Few people have never / wondered why it is they have so / much and others so little. / This confusion and concern / provides hope for the people / of D.R. Congo. Because it is / this troubling realisation / which encourages us to act; / to make a donation, to say a / prayer, or to purchase a gift. / HEAL Africa lives on the front / line for us, so we may contribute / what we can, when we can, / confident we’ve made a / difference. You can never give / too little. Love has a happy / way of multiplying. Calendars also available :)

• This is a seriously hot competition.
  by Melinda Kerr

  Ok guys so it’s Christmas. It’s my turn to say thanks to everyone on RB who’s supported me with great comments this year and especially t…

  Ok guys so it’s Christmas. It’s my turn to say thanks to everyone on RB who’s supported me with great comments this year and especially those who’ve bought stuff from my folio. I can now officially say between RB and a US based site I am more than half way towards paying for a nurse to be trained for one year with HEAL Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Which is awesome. Keep buying though, we’re on the downhill run!! / Some of you might know I was profiled in a brilliant photographic magazine called / Photo Review Australia Well Don Norris the Editor has asked me to nominate another bubbler who deserves an article to be written about them and their craft. We are talking at least two pages of a national magazine! / The pressure’s too much there’s too many good artists here…so…. / here’s the deal… / It’s a competition. / I want you to post your one best photo here and a one or two paragraph story about it. Where it is, what it’s of. Why it means so much to you. That sorta stuff. Then I’m going to get Don to choose who he wants to interview. He will conduct the interview via Skype next week. / Guys Photo Review Australia is a great magazine. It takes photography and photographers seriously. It’s the best there is in this country (IMHO). They have a website if you’d like to check ‘em out. / So go for it. / National coverage! There will be runners up prizes too, once we work out what they are :) / All I ask in return is you look at my folio and if you like anything buy it!! All African shots proceeds to the mighty HEAL Africa!!!!!!!! You could be like the brilliant Giselle who very kindly and generously bought a calendar this morning. ON YA GISELLE!!!! And chuck in a prayer for HEAL Africa this Christmas. I got an email yesterday. It’s getting more and more dangerous. The staff have been told they are allowed to leave if they want. ALL of them continue to work with the public and militia in an attempt to introduce peace. / Thanks to RB too for letting me run this on the site.

• Ok Ladies, here's your chance to hear the head of HEAL Africa speak.
  by Melinda Kerr

  Hi everyone, Most of you will know I sell my work to help HEAL Africa. A place I and fellow RB photographer Rebecca Zachariah...

  Hi everyone, Most of you will know I sell my work to help HEAL Africa. A place I and fellow RB photographer Rebecca Zachariah visited last year. Well the (joint) head & founder of HEAL Africa is coming to Melbourne to give a talk and a charity lunch is being put on. Bookings are now open and it’d be unreal if we could get some RB chicks there. It’s a ladies lunch (before you blokes complain – it’s not my idea – just the way it is). $55 for lunch and the talk. $10 goes to HA (unfortunately the rest has to go to the restaurant.) This is a rare opportunity to hear from the founder of one of Africa’s and certainly DR Congo’s most respected charities. Who knows you might feel like visiting it one day! I have tried to include some info here but I’m not sure if it will be legible. You can find out more at healafrica.org Or just read my relevant journal posts (and Rebecca’s of course :) Would love you to come if you are able :) For more info about what’s happening in DR Congo you can check an earlier journal entry I wrote late last year here And here It says-HEAL Africa Ladies’ Lunch with co-founder Lyn Lusi / Date: Thurs 14th Feb / Time: 12-2.30pm / Cost: $55 per head (2 course meal). / Venue: Fenix Restaurant, 680 Victoria Street, Richmond. / RSVP: Feb 7th. HEAL Africa’s mission is to provide holistic care for / the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo: training health professionals, strengthening social activists and providing physical, spiritual and social / healing. CNEC/PI, through its Australian supporters, is providing sponsorships for doctors to specialise in obstetrics, ophthalmology, surgery, dentistry and / orthopedics, and for nurses to specialise in HIV care and community medicine. In Goma and the surrounding territories, although the war is over, conflict continues. / Hundreds of thousands of people have been driven away from their homes, / fields and livelihoods, causing them to depend on outside assistance where it is available. Orthopedic surgery as a result of injuries from conflict and / widespread birth defects such as club feet are also a great need. HEAL Africa medical and pastoral staff work tirelessly and often in great personal danger, to / serve these suffering people. Spiritual Ministry – Living Stones & Nehemiah Community outreach is very important to see that patients who are healed physically can also settle back into community life. / The Nehemiah program mobilises churches to rebuild community spirit by caring for the most vulnerable (disabled children, widows, orphans, victims of violence). A key component of the Nehemiah program is Mawe Hai (Living Stones), an agricultural development program with extension into the surrounding villages. Living Stones provides plants, seeds, tools, pairs of small / animals, and training. Three agronomists teach new techniques in the volcanic / rock. Of these agronomists, one is a woman who works specifically with the widows. What makes HEAL Africa different ? Equips emerging leaders: HEAL Africa’s primary focus is to train and enable healthcare providers and activists who are engaged in community-based / healing in the context of community. This strategic focus is a multiplier! Not / only are others equipped in new approaches, the impact is multiplied. / Leadership development is a key ingredient. / Inclusive: When one works through the faith-based community in DR Congo, one reaches 95% of the population. All faith communities in the areas where / HEAL Africa has programs, are actively involved (Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Kimbanguist) as are local and national governments and international organisations. The result is that HEAL Africa is highly respected. Orthopaedic Patients and Victims of War HEAL Africa Fistula Surgery for Women who have been gang raped. Rape as a weapon of war is the grim reality in Eastern DR Congo. HEAL Africa provides important surgical and pastoral care for women who have suffered this / terrible experience. / Heal My People began in 2003 in response to the high rate of sexual violence being committed against women and girls. The objective is to identify women / and girls who have been raped or who have fistulae, and offer treatment. A network of local counsellors refer them to appropriate care. The goal of the / program is to enable the women and girls to enter into a healing process, / and accompany them to re-enter society as productive and healed people. / HEAL Africa recognises that people not only require physical, but also spiritual and psychological healing. By activating the local churches beyond / denominational boundaries, whole communities come together to make development possible. / HEAL Africa’s spiritual ministry provides chaplains and Bible courses, working / in the community and in the hospitals, amongst AIDS patients, women who / have been raped, and other victims of trauma. / Australians support the costs of these valuable chaplains. Child Sponsorship – Choisir La Vie / Choisir La Vie (Choose Life) program operates under the umbrella of HEAL Africa. It is a support program for families affected by HIV/AIDS. / CLV has a focus on trauma counselling, income generation, medical support (provision on ARVs and nutritional education), and schooling, which is / supported by child sponsorship programs. There is much emphasis placed upon micro-loans and savings mobilisation, actively motivating these broken and burdened families to create savings groups to improve financial security. / The Sponsor a Child program is headed by Noella Katembo. The children can be living with a parent who is suffering from the disease, orphaned and / living with extended family, or perhaps HIV positive themselves. / You can help the work of CLV by sponsoring a child. Phone us on 02 9745 2840 or sponsor on-line at www.cnecpi.com.au. Could I go to Africa ? Yes! Explore further the possibility of visiting Goma, to volunteer your time and skills with HEAL Africa. Teams will be travelling from Australia in 2008. / Go to our website: www.cnecpi.com.au to register your interest through the Contact Us tab or email phila@cnecpi.com.au.

• FREE delivery on all African prints,cards etc until end of June.
  by Melinda Kerr

  Hehe I’m stoked… / Red Bubble has very very generously offered me the opportunity to sell my charity stuff with free delivery until the …

  Hehe I’m stoked… / Red Bubble has very very generously offered me the opportunity to sell my charity stuff with free delivery until the end of June. / My thanks to Peter who offered this and I am rapt to accept. For those of you who don’t know all my African work’s mark up goes to HEAL Africa…. Their website is here They are in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo – Central Africa. Two years ago I was privileged to go their as a photographer volunteer and capture the visual stories of their work. They live at the front line of the horrific war in Congo, the worst war since world war two. This war results in atrocities beyond belief, predominantly afflicted on women and girls who suffer the debilitating fistula from rape and early pregnancies gone wrong. This results in an internal tear which renders them incontinent and commits them to a life of constant leaking and solitary confinement from family and village life. Bluntly put, they die in their own urine and feces. Alone. Sometimes they are 5 years old. Sometimes they are 95. HEAL Africa (amongst a heap of other things) finds these women (there are 10’s of thousands of them) and brings them to the hospital to perform a fistula operation. They then help repatriate them back in to ‘normal’ living. Once you’ve stood as I have in their waste and met these women, you can’t turn your heart back. The work here (and a few other places) has raised enough money for 5 fistula operations…all monies passed on and receipts shown here. If you have any concerns about legitimacy you can also contact the charity direct. I will get around to marking what’s HEAL Africa in my folio and what isn’t (famous last words….!!!) But rest assured ANYTHING African is…including HEAL Africa t-shirts which you will find in there too. So there you have it. The code for the shipping is melinda. I ask you not to abuse the code and use it on other things…I trust you :) Again my thanks to RB. They’ve put up with my whining long enough :) And my credit to the courage of the people of Congo. I’ll sign off with my two favourite expressions… Don’t just be moved…..move. It’s not the third world, it’s our world. Peace. x