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by the
International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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A&S Print Services Ltd
A&S Print Services Ltd, in
Hutton, Essex, has now generously agreed to provide our Truck Stickers.
These stickers give us an identity, but more than that, they contribute
to our safety whilst we are in-the-field by making us recognisable as
deliverers of international humanitarian aid. We are exceptionally
grateful to them.
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A Good
Read
Two
books
which
could be
of
interest
to
supporters
of Hope
and Aid
Direct
are
detailed
below.
No Place Like
Home
Echoes from Kosovo
By British Photojournalist Melanie Friend
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To purchase, please supply your
address with a cheque for £18.00 made payable to:
B
Storer and send
to:
Beverley
Storer
Hope and Aid Direct
18 High Street
Ingatestone
Essex CM4 9EE' |
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No Place Like Home' will benefit Hope and Aid Direct, as each copy sold will bring a £3.00 income to
the charity and therefore go back into helping the causalities of conflict
regardless of race, age or gender
Through a catalogue of colour photographs and personal testimonies, “No Place Like Home” offers an
extraordinary insight into how history is lived by ordinary citizens. How
do people persist with the chores of daily life, knowing that at any time
their villages, or even their homes, may be targeted? How do they survive
the murder of entire families? Or the hope of ever finding loved ones who
have disappeared? How do they continue to live in the landscapes where
massacres took place – and reconcile the thirst for revenge with the need
for peace of mind? These questions, which can be asked in the aftermath of
any act of violence, are the subject of ‘No Place Like Home: Echoes from
Kosovo’. This book is a portrait of ordinary people living ordinary lives
prior to the Kosovo Crisis. As a local explained during a Hope and Aid
Direct convoy to Kosovo “there are 2 million people now in Kosovo, that
means there are 2 million histories”.
This publication is an
insight into the emotions of Albanians, Serbs, Roma, Turks and Kosovo’s
other ethnic communities, cleverly laid out in a calm but gripping manner.
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About Melanie Friend
Well before Kosovo began to make
headlines, Melanie Friend, a British photojournalist, began visiting the
region, whose autonomy was revoked by the government of Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic. She became familiar with the tactics of the Serbian
police, who spread fear through the predominantly Albanian Muslim
population. Her visits were brief, but always subject to film confiscation
and surveillance. Anyone who helped her was at risk. In 1999, as NATO bombs
fell on Serbia and ethnic Albanians fled Kosovo, the author was shooting
portraits in the refugee camps of Macedonia--the very type of photographs
she had longed to make but could not so long as her subjects lived under
Serbian authority. Now that the Kosovars have returned home, it is the Serbs
who fear retribution from the
neighbours they thought had been driven out for
good. As the centuries-old cycle of abuse enters a new phase, Melanie
Friend's photographs and extraordinary interviews present to date the most
profound, complex and human document of the recent history in the Balkans.
MELANIE FRIEND's
prize-winning work has appeared in Granta, The Guardian, Time Magazine,
The Independent, and Marie Claire among other publications. Her
photographs of Kosovar Albanian refugees have been exhibited in the National
Portrait Gallery in London as well as in galleries internationally,
including the United States. She currently lives in London.
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Ladies
Night
Edited
by
Jessica
Adams |
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Chas
Storer
(our
Treasurer)
is
also
Treasurer
of
No
Strings
and
along
with
his
wife
Bev,
were
active
in
starting
the
No
Strings
charity,
and
indeed,
are
still
very
active
participants
in
its
work.
They
are
delighted
to
announce
that
Ladies
Night
-
the
latest
in a
series
of
books
edited
by
Jessica
Adams
(Chair
of
Trustee
of
No
Strings)
and
published
by
Harper
Collins
was
published
in
November
2005.
At
least
£1.00
from
each
sale
of
Ladies'
Night
will
be
contributed
to
No
Strings
and
War
Child.
Ladies
Night
is
on
sale
in
major
branches
of W
H
Smith
and
via
their
website
and
Tesco.net
-
just
do a
search
on
Jessica
Adams.
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/WHS/Go.asp?isbn=0007211368&DB=220&Menu=Books
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Other
books
in
the
series
include:
Girls'
Night
In,
Girls'
Night
Out,
Boys'
Night
Out
and
Big
Night
Out
-
all
with
donations
being
made
to
children's
charity
War
Child.
To
date
the
series
has
raised
£1
million
and
by
buying
one
of
the
books
you'll
help
to
make
a
difference
to
children's'
lives,
and
get
a
darn
good
read
into
the
bargain.
No
Strings
teaches
children
the
dangers
of
land
mines
through
puppetry.
Its
first
major
project
is a
landmine
awareness
video
for
children
in
Afghanistan,
created
in
partnership
with
the
Organisation
of
Mine
Clearance
and
Afghan
Rehabilitation
(OMAR),
and
No
String's
share
of
the
royalties
from
Ladies'
Night
will
fund
the
completion
and
distribution
of
the
first
40
minute
video.
As
No
Strings
is
still
a
new
charity
and
exists
on a
tiny
budget
your
contribution
from
buying
Ladies'
Night
will
help
get
the
charity
off
the
ground.
More
information
can
be
found
at
http://www.girlsnightin.info/
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Wish List
See what's on our wish list, and remember, all the goods you
donate are delivered directly into the hands of those who need
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How
you can help
No one involved in Hope and
Aid Direct takes a salary, or charges for their time and many of our
team do not claim back any expenses that they incur. Our volunteers give
up their spare time to raise the funds needed to hire, fill and take
trucks on the convoys and use up some of their precious annual leave to
travel to the Balkans to distribute the aid. |
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Online donations
What makes it all
worthwhile? Just take a look in the picture galleries, at the faces of
some of the people who have been helped over the years.
Do you think you have what
it takes? If so, please click on
"how
you can help"
to see what you can do.
Cards for Convoys
Hope and Aid Direct are
pleased to announce its very own range of charity cards is now available
for sale.
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Inland Revenue Repayments
If you are entitled to a
repayment from the Inland Revenue, you can now donate it to charity by
entering your chosen charities reference number in box 19A.3. on your
Tax Return. Our number is:
EAH18JG
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Rotary Box
Scheme
Our
efforts are helped by the Rotary Clubs Emergency Box Scheme
When a disaster strikes,
people need necessities
like food, clothes, and a dry place to sleep. They need essential
supplies, basic tools and some of the many things it takes to start the
rebuilding of their lives.
Rotary International offers
this immediate aid requirement by providing their Emergency Boxes. These
Emergency Boxes are available for both hot and cold climates with the
contents lists specifically tailored by the Red Cross, each box
providing vital aid for adults and
children. Held in
Rotary warehouses, boxes filled with essential provisions are stored
ready for instant dispatch whenever required and provide immediate
relief for the victims. |
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