Starting tomorrow and running through Sunday, Doctors Without Borders is presenting an exhibit of a refugee camp in Central Park. Why? It's part of a public education project:
Guided by MSF aid workers, visitors to this outdoor educational exhibit are asked to imagine that they are among the millions of people fleeing violence and persecution in, for example, Afghanistan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Sudan.
An estimated 33 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes and live in temporary shelter, with nearly two-thirds of them displaced within their own countries. The exhibit is made up of materials used by MSF in its emergency medical work around the world, including emergency refugee housing, a food distribution tent, water pump, health clinic, vaccination tent, therapeutic feeding center, and a cholera treatment center. It addresses questions such as: Will I be safe? What will I eat? How do I find water? Can I get medical care? And where will I live?
Subsequent exhibits are scheduled for Prospect Park in Brooklyn as well as Atlanta and Nashville. Go if you get a chance.
On Sunday, September 17 at the East Meadow in Central Park, there is a rally sponsored by Save Darfur. Here's the list of confirmed speakers. Please try to make it. I'll be there.
Other rallies are happening throughout the country. Check them out and lend your support.
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