http://vanessacurney.com Communication Consultant Tue, 24 May 2011 08:05:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://vanessacurney.com http://vanessacurney.com/2010/10/31/return-to-maradi-oct-2010/ http://vanessacurney.com/2010/10/31/return-to-maradi-oct-2010/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:06:22 +0000 vanessacurney http://vanessacurney.com/?p=476 ]]> http://vanessacurney.com/2010/10/31/return-to-maradi-oct-2010/feed/ 0 vanessacurney Arriving in Maradi on the UN plane Unicef Italian Committee colleague, Daniela Fiorentino The team with a young guest DSCF0829 DSCF0841 Bringing in the millet and arachide (groundnut) DSCF0859 DSCF0860 http://vanessacurney.com/2010/10/30/niger-fashion-show/ http://vanessacurney.com/2010/10/30/niger-fashion-show/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:40:05 +0000 vanessacurney http://vanessacurney.com/?p=457 ]]> http://vanessacurney.com/2010/10/30/niger-fashion-show/feed/ 0 vanessacurney DSCF0778 DSCF0779 DSCF0783 DSCF0787 DSCF0788 DSCF0789 DSCF0793 DSCF0796 DSCF0799 DSCF0815 http://vanessacurney.com/2010/07/04/first-unicef-mission-maradi-and-zinder-24-30th-june-2010/ http://vanessacurney.com/2010/07/04/first-unicef-mission-maradi-and-zinder-24-30th-june-2010/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:17:34 +0000 vanessacurney http://vanessacurney.com/?p=394 ]]> http://vanessacurney.com/2010/07/04/first-unicef-mission-maradi-and-zinder-24-30th-june-2010/feed/ 0 vanessacurney Garin Bouzei village in Maradi Garin Bouzei: healthcheck Garin Bouzei: pounding millet, a staple food grain in Niger Weighing a child for malnourishment, Niger The health record of this 10 month baby, Achirou Idid Chaibou, indicates that he is in the red (danger) zone in terms of malnourishment levels Tessaoua: Rakia Lawaly, 25, her husband Ousman, 35, and their six children (soon to be seven) get 20,000 CFA a month towards food under the cash transfer project, spearheaded by Save the Children. The project will run until around harvest-time in October. Zinder: blanket feeding Zinder: blanket feeding demo Gadabegi, Dakoro. Not a sight one wants to see at 7am...These pastoralists are having to sell off all their animals jsut to live. They have almost nothing. Rabiou Issa, 45, used to be able to sell his animals for 200,000 CFA, but can barely get 5,000 CFA for them now. "This is a famine" he says."The situation is very difficult." Pastoralist Boubacar Garba, 28, faces the same problems The UNICEF team are taken further into the Dakoro desert by some Tuareg men to see the situation Maradi and Zinder, Niger, June 2010 055 Zinder bore hole Zinder: bore hole http://vanessacurney.com/2010/03/03/the-european-convention-on-human-rights/ http://vanessacurney.com/2010/03/03/the-european-convention-on-human-rights/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:39:09 +0000 vanessacurney http://vanessacurney.com/?p=376 ]]> http://vanessacurney.com/2010/03/03/the-european-convention-on-human-rights/feed/ 0 vanessacurney http://vanessacurney.com/2008/10/17/sustainability/ http://vanessacurney.com/2008/10/17/sustainability/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:42:23 +0000 vanessacurney http://vanessacurney.wordpress.com/?p=152 ]]> http://vanessacurney.com/2008/10/17/sustainability/feed/ 6 vanessacurney Building and green patch