The Wholesome Photo of the Month Thu May 09, 2024 11:01 | Anti-Empire
In 3 War Years Russia Will Have Spent $3... Thu May 09, 2024 02:17 | Anti-Empire
UK Sending Missiles to Be Fired Into Rus... Tue May 07, 2024 14:17 | Marko Marjanović
US Gives Weapons to Taiwan for Free, The... Fri May 03, 2024 03:55 | Anti-Empire
Russia Has 17 Percent More Defense Jobs ... Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:56 | Marko Marjanović Anti-Empire >>
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Julian Assange is finally free ! Tue Jun 25, 2024 21:11 | indy
Stand With Palestine: Workplace Day of Action on Naksa Day Thu May 30, 2024 21:55 | indy
It is Chemtrails Month and Time to Visit this Topic Thu May 30, 2024 00:01 | indy
Hamburg 14.05. "Rote" Flora Reoccupied By Internationalists Wed May 15, 2024 15:49 | Internationalist left
Eddie Hobbs Breaks the Silence Exposing the Hidden Agenda Behind the WHO Treaty Sat May 11, 2024 22:41 | indy Human Rights in Ireland >>
The Girling of the Boy Scouts Erases Men Mon Jul 29, 2024 13:00 | Will Jones Boy Scouts of America has completed its girlification by finally dropping the last mention of "boy". It's the latest move by 'progressives' determined to pathologise masculinity and erase men, says Heather Mac Donald.
The post The Girling of the Boy Scouts Erases Men appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
With Her Brutal Slaying of the Freedom of Speech Act, Bridget Phillipson Has Shown the Tories How to... Mon Jul 29, 2024 11:12 | Toby Young With her merciless slaying of the Freedom of Speech Act, Bridget Phillipson has shown herself to be a far more brutal political combatant than the enfeebled Tories. If you want to win the culture war, this is how to do it.
The post With Her Brutal Slaying of the Freedom of Speech Act, Bridget Phillipson Has Shown the Tories How to Win the Culture War appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Experts? Spouting Junk Science Based on Models Tell Ordinary Citizens to Lockdown With Disastrous R... Mon Jul 29, 2024 09:00 | James Leary Former airline pilot James Leary reviews Twisters for the Daily Sceptic. A pleasant enough way to spend the afternoon, but, oh my, the pseudo-science about the weather! It makes Al Gore look like Einstein.
The post ?Experts? Spouting Junk Science Based on Models Tell Ordinary Citizens to Lockdown With Disastrous Results. Does Twisters Remind You of Anything? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Are the Leaked Minutes From the Robert Koch Institute?s Covid Crisis Group Meeting in 2020 Forgeries... Mon Jul 29, 2024 07:00 | Robert Kogon German social media is aflame with speculation about the authenticity of what purport to be leaked minutes from a Covid vaccine meeting at the Robert Koch Institute in 2020. Robert Kogon thinks they're forgeries.
The post Are the Leaked Minutes From the Robert Koch Institute?s Covid Crisis Group Meeting in 2020 Forgeries? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Mon Jul 29, 2024 00:40 | Richard Eldred A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Netanyahu soon to appear before the US Congress? It will be decisive for the suc... Thu Jul 04, 2024 04:44 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N°93 Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:49 | en
Will Israel succeed in attacking Lebanon and pushing the United States to nuke I... Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:40 | en
Will Netanyahu launch tactical nuclear bombs (sic) against Hezbollah, with US su... Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:09 | en
Will Israel provoke a cataclysm?, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jun 25, 2024 06:59 | en Voltaire Network >>
|
A Nuacht RTÉ documentary for TG4
national |
miscellaneous |
press release
Friday December 19, 2008 21:06 by newsmedia - newsmedianews newsmedia@eircom.net 086 8682717
![Report this post to the editors Report this post to the editors](../graphics/report.gif)
Photographer Brian MacCormaic has spent the last five years in Nairobi, living and working among the slum communities of Mukuru. The Dubliner has been the driving force behind numerous projects aimed at improving the economic and social conditions of the local community. In this half hour documentary, Seán Mac an tSíthigh visits Brian, and sees at first hand his role as an educator and facilitator working with a slum population of over 100,000. A Nuacht RTÉ documentary for TG4
Saturday, 27th December, 2008 @ 19.15 and repeated: Sunday, 4th January, 2009 @ 20.30
Title: Fear Bán na Slumanna (The White Man of the Slums)
Video Journalist: Seán Mac an tSíthigh Director: Matt Kelly
Producer: Michael Lally Irish with English Subtitles
Photographer Brian MacCormaic has spent the last five years in Nairobi, living and working among the slum communities of Mukuru. The Dubliner has been the driving force behind numerous projects aimed at improving the economic and social conditions of the local community. In this half hour documentary, Seán Mac an tSíthigh visits Brian, and sees at first hand his role as an educator and facilitator working with a slum population of over 100,000.
In the face of overwhelming poverty and educational under-achievement MacCormaic oversees a pioneering scholarship scheme for children from the slums, principally young girls. The Harambee Scholarship, which is administered by a team of local primary school teachers who volunteer their services to the project free of charge, provides over forty children from the slums with the invaluable opportunity of furthering their education beyond primary level. The children attend renowned secondary boarding schools outside the city, receiving excellent tuition in beautiful surroundings, while also overcoming the economic and social constraints of their position in a stratified society. For its recipients, the scholarships provide the only means of escaping the poverty of the slums and forging a better and brighter future for themselves.
The scheme is funded by staff and students at Institute of Technology Tallaght (ITT Dublin), among others. MacCormaic spent a number of years as resident photographer at the Institute, and through this connection, a strong bond has developed between Mukuru and the staff and students of ITT in recent years: In 2003, a team of students visited Mukuru where they created a Street Festival and Carnival to mark the opening of a primary school, which MacCormaic helped fund. Then, in 2004, a team of staff and students, including the then Director, Dr Columb Collins, and the South Dublin County Mayor, Cllr Máire Ardagh and her husband Seán Ardagh TD, climbed Kilimanjaro to raise funds for educational projects in Mukuru.
Poor sanitation, a lack of clean water and the absence of a sewage system in Mukuru has led to widespread disease and an unusually high death rate. The average life expectancy in Mukuru is below 40 years of age, with HIV/AIDS as one of the biggest, most feared and most stigmatised killers, along with other, treatable and curable diseases such as Polio, Typhoid, and TB.
In an attempt to combat the spread of the epidemic, MacCormaic is deeply committed to a number of related projects. Local home-based care (HBC) teams provide much needed care and assistance to AIDS sufferers, many of whom are confined to their beds, offering not only practical help but also emotional and spiritual support. A women’s group has also been formed providing those living with HIV&AIDS with a support network and a friendly forum whereby the women can share their concerns and hopes for the future. Numerous activities are organised for the women – many having an educational or income-generation thrust. One of the main aims of the group is to ease the isolation experienced by those infected and affected by HIV, while also creating a greater awareness of the virus within the wider community.
Interviews include staff and students of Our Lady of Nazareth Primary School, KwaNjenga; students sponsored by Harambee, and their parents at Ruchu Girls' Secondary School; Mwamko Mpya Women's Support Group and Home Based Care team, and staff at the Mukuru Central Dispensary, KwaNjenga. Seán also visits Ruben Primary School; Gatoto Community Primary School and St Elizabeth's Primary School, to hear their success stories and listen to their beautiful choral music.
Brian MacCormaic is originally from Tallaght in Dublin. He worked as a freelance photographer with local and national newspapers before moving to Nairobi.
In August 2009, a team of Irish Army personnel and volunteers will visit Mukuru to construct a Public Library and Adult Education Centre in Mukuru for the community. This project is organised by MacCormaic, and will be run by the local committee of volunteer teachers in Harambee.
For those wishing to volunteer, or to make a donation to his work, please contact Brian on 086 2437043 (Ireland) or +254 722 646354 (Kenya), or e-mail: harambeescholarship@gmail.com, or brian.maccormaic@gmail.com.
http://www.harambee-scholarship.com/
(this website is under construction at present and will be operational in the near future)
|
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2You can also view pictures and a newsletter sent by Brian here:
http://www.newsmedianews.com/headlines.php
Wonderful; it does yr heart good to see someone working to help people who are so desperately needy. Too much of looking at many politicians & companies makes ye forget how good folk can be.