"Unfamiliar, Familiar" is an independent short film by Swiss director Hae-Sup Sin. It deals with the existential question of what "home" means. The self-produced film will be shot entirely in South Korea, with a professional Korean cast & crew.
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Culture
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Witch women
Milena Pache
For many women, to age is a social death. Rebellious against a society that stigmatizes ageing and worships youth, I decided to act through my art. My project values women gaining age and gives her a central place in a world which tends to erase her through a series of portraits. Help me deconstruct to rebuild by supporting my exhibition.
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Art
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s*heART
Lisa Marti
Shadi Al-Aiek
Hamza Harirri
With s*heART we would like to realise a project that combines many aspects that are close to our heart. While using methods we are passionate about like art, arabic calligraphy, embroidery and sewing we would like to depict and discuss topics that we care for:
gender, LGBTIQ+, peace, social change, intercultural understanding and the care for animals and the environment.
Farming families in Tanzania can purchase through installments small metal containers that can store their maize and beans. Sales a few months later allow them to increase their incomes by up to 50%, and in emergencies (eg. droughts) the stored maize ensures their food security.
The technology with these containers has been introduced by a Swiss funded project in Tanzania.
The foundation FARIP (www.farip.ch) supports the Tanzanian start-up company Tanzania Biashara Mapema (TBM) with loans. TBM arranges for containers to be built in the villages, then leases them to farmers, ensures quality control of the maize going into the containers and makes advance payments to farmers when they have filled the containers. After several months TBM then assists the farmers to profitably sell their maize on the market. TBM is paid for this through a commission agreed upon with farmers, usually 10% of the net income. This ensures the sustainability of the process as the commercial success of TBM is directly linked to the increased earnings of the farmers.
For each 500 CHF one container holding 900kg of maize can be installed in a farm (200 CHF), filled with maize and the farmers paid an advance (200 CHF), along with trainings for the farmers and remuneration of FARIPs organisational costs (100 CHF). FARIP forwards the collected monies as loans to TBM for it to purchase the containers and provide the advances to farmers for the stored maize. All returns FARIP collects in a revolving fund with which further loans are made to TBM for purchasing and filling further containers in the next harvest. This commercially viable procedure ensures a sustained effect and the growth of TBM. Details see http://www.farip.ch/Active-ventures/Metal-Silos-hold-grains-for-advance-payments/
To begin with we intend to increase the 20 containers already existing in Msowero village (central Tanzania) for the upcoming maize harvest of June-July 2017. A successful pilot effort had introduced the first containers, resulting in a strong demand for more. The farming families clearly say that they intend to purchase the containers within 2 years from the additional income they can make, just in order to be sure of them. A well-maintained container lasts at least 15 years.
In this phase we aim to raise 25’000 CHF, in five stages of 5’000 CHF each. After reaching each stage we will order further 10 containers and install them in houses so they are ready for filling for the upcoming harvest of June-July 2017.
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