Monday, May 17, 2010

Christie Pits To House... Refugee Camp?!?

Now this is an interesting idea... Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is setting up a refugee camp at Christie Pits May 27 to 30.
The "free, interactive, awareness-raising event" has a goal to "raise awareness about the plight of the world’s 42 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) uprooted by war and conflict...

"The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City exhibit is an outdoor reconstruction of an actual refugee camp, where experienced MSF staff (doctors, nurses, logisticians) guide visitors through a 40 to 60 minute interactive tour explaining the crucial elements for survival in a refugee or IDP (internally displaced person) crisis."
It will be pretty hard to ignore, no, when it's on our doorstep and not thousands of miles away? And I suppose that is exactly the point.
Vanessa

3 comments:

Susan Stewart said...

Great idea. Thanks for letting me know.

S

Radiating LOVE said...

COOLness!!!
Will Spread the Word most definitely :)
Thanks so much for the Heads Up Sweetie!

Positive Energy for yOUR HIGHest HAPPYness in our Eternal NOW.

Blessedly BE
Radiating LOVE
Rhonda Sheryl Lipstein
roni
http://www.fulfilleddestiny-s3.com/blog

Wisteria said...

I have so much respect for the work MSF does. This should be interesting.