Projects tagged "Health"

Clean and Reliable Water
Practitioner:
Art and Activism Caravan
Date:
Jul 13 2006
Today over 40 people gathered at the Ministry for Internal Affairs in the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania. The issue is Tirana's drinking water, which is not clean, unreliable as it comes out of the tap only a few hours a day and that sewage systems continue to pollute the water sources.
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Trump Death Clock seeks to bring ‘accountability for reckless leadership’
Practitioner:
Eugene Jarecki
Date:
May 6 2020
Donald Trump has been accused of personally causing the deaths of 40,000 Americans through his “reckless” handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a new website launched on Wednesday under the provocative title Trump Death Clock.
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Smoking Kid
Practitioner:
Thai Health Promotion Foundation
Date:
Aug 21 2012
The Thai Health Promotion Foundation (THPF) is a non-profit organization that has been continuously holding above-the-line campaigns encouraging people to quit smoking. However, the number of people quitting smoking has not diminished as much as they want.
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Women In the Making (WIM)
Practitioner:
Desi K. Robinson
Date:
Jan 1 2009
Desi is giving all she has to the project Women In the Making (WIM). From rooftop farming and summer education, to her radio show and online presence. She is an advocate for better health, food, and policy in Brooklyn, and nurturing young activists.
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Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque
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Written and performed by Gigi Naglak (left) and Meghann Williams (right)
Date:
May 10 2012
Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed BurlesqueYou’ve never taken a sex-ed class like this one!
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Optimistic Realism
Practitioner:
Storms Design
Date:
Apr 20 2018
You get a flat tire. You fail a test. You lose a job. You lose a relationship. It’s so easy to let the struggles of life consume and affect the way we think and react. Broadly, negativity is something that everyone is faced with on a day to day basis. It comes in many forms, and everyone deals with it differently. It seems as though negativity can make it difficult to acknowledge any positive aspect of any situation.
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Exposing Disordered Eating
Practitioner:
Elle Azul Duncombe-Mills
Date:
Oct 15 2014
Exposing Disordered Eating is a photographic exhibition intended to show us the images we rarely see. In American media, representations of disordered eating are conditioned and controlled; all we are shown is the crumpled, emaciated anorexic figure with sunken eyes and cheekbones. This image is both unrelatable and othered, and it fails to capture the reality of modern eating disorders: they are omnipresent, multifaceted, and sneaky.
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Waffles + Mochi
Practitioner:
Michelle Obama/ Netflix
Date:
Feb 9 2021
"Michelle Obama’s mission of encouraging kids to eat healthier is getting a global spin — and a few puppet allies. The former first lady is launching a kids’ cooking show on Netflix as part of the production deal between Netflix and the production company she founded with her husband, former president Barack Obama.
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呼吸之痛 The Pain of Breath
Practitioner:
腾讯公益 Tencent Charity；我是创益人CREATE FOR GOOD；大爱清尘
Date:
Sep 11 2018
Pneumoconiosis has become the most serious occupational disease in China, and the vast majority of sufferers, nearly 6 million, are migrant workers. Because of the long-term inhalation of dust caused by pulmonary fibrosis, they usually breathing if not oxygen machine help, easy to suffocate.
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Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”
Practitioner:
Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater
Date:
Feb 20 2015
Contra-Tiempo’s first Miami dance performance will bring Ana Maria Alvarez back to her roots. Her father’s family settled in Miami after leaving Cuba in the early ’60s. Most of them, including his four siblings and their spouses and children, still live here, and Alvarez expects much of the clan to attend her show.
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