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SSEFF & Ikiam: Video Featurette

juyu1“Thank you to Melanie Rietdorf who kindly put this video together about the recent Sydney Social and Environmental Film Festival…”

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Peace Villages Foundation (Fundacion Aldeas de Paz) – Santa Elena; Venezuela

Peace-Villages“Special needs children who are either at risk, have learning difficulties, behavioural problems, or who are handicapped, learn to ride horses…”

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Tania Pardo and her Helping Family – Bucaramanga, Colombia

tania1“His accomplices then get into the cab and hold knives or guns to you. They then take you around on a tour of the city’s cash machines, emptying your account…”

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Ikiam Expedition: Part 5 – Ecuadorian Amazon

juyu7“The same child that had been bitten by a deadly snake when I first arrived had once again been bitten by a different deadly snake… this time on the hand…”

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Ikiam Expedition: Part 4 – Ecuadorian Amazon

DSC_1137“Eight years ago, the whole the tribe used to always dance and sing, but now they don’t because they are Christians…”

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Ikiam Expedition: Part 3 – Ecuadorian Amazon

ikiam7“I feared for them as I watched her four year old son (Israel) wack their other blind, starving dog with a piece of wood, for no reason at all…”

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Ikiam Expedition: Part 2 – Ecuadorian Amazon

DSC_1080“I watched as the females picked out small bugs from each others hair, put them into their mouths to bite and kill them, and then spit them back out..”

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Ikiam Expedition: Part 1 – Ecuadorian Amazon

juyu3“I saw brilliant blue butterflies bigger than my hand, metallic-blue and green small insects that hover, small beige spiders that ran up my arm, and flies that look like bees but have no stings…”

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Canatura – Iquitos, Peru

DSC_0340“They have fresh and creative ways to teach, and show that volunteers can inspire and help kids often better than paid teachers who may have lost their love of teaching…”

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Canatura (Environmental Organisation) – Moyobamba, Peru

DSC_0005“I am stunned by the amount of work they have done with no support from the government whatsoever, and with such little time…”

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