There is a cultural tourist office, Les Arts Turcs, in Istanbul that does private tours of the synagogues in the city. Until the 1920’s, there was a huge Jewish community living in Turkey, the majority in Istanbul and Izmir where there are still many synagogues. Unfortunately it is a process to get permission to visit […]
Week 9 Tourists, Asylum seekers and the Homogenization of the World
by lois pierris on May 30, 2015 in Uncategorized
WHICH OF THESE WOMEN IS THE MOTHER OF THIS BABY?
by david_r on March 21, 2014 in cameroon, Uncategorized
WHICH OF THESE WOMEN IS THE MOTHER OF THIS BABY? THE 16 YR OLD…SEDUCED BY HER TEACHER AT 14….I THINK HE IS STILL TEACHING NO NEED FOR IN VITRO HERE So many women in the western world spend thousands of dollars on in vitro treatments or pay other women to carry their unborn child. Here […]
Nobody knows
by lois pierris on March 24, 2012 in Uncategorized
Story #1 There is a public school here which is barely inhabitable with dust coming up from the dirt floors and mud brick walls, Two garbage cans serve over 300 students and the only access to electric is a generator powered by gasoline which is too expensive to turn on. There are computer classes but no […]
the money train is off the track
by lois pierris on March 6, 2012 in Uncategorized
The stories repeat themselves in this country. The government gives generously to public works and construction projects for public schools and villages. They pick the contractor and give him the money. The recipients of the work have no say whatsoever in how the job is done. They have no access to the cost of the […]