A realization of Dominic Morissette (Quay No 7) 2004

Duration: 10 min 10 S

These young Afghans lived odd jobs in the streets of Kabul – to wash cars, to recover wood and paper, to beg. Collected by the Aschiana organization, these boys and girls attend from now on the school and rub with the maths, learn to write, learn repairing of bicycles. While speaking with sincerity about their happiness to learn, they tame the glance of the camera.

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Afghan Peace and Democracy Act http://www.afghanact.org/ By speech, educational campaigns and its formations, the Afghan Peace and Democracy Act (APDA) aims promoting and at consolidating the democratic order and peace in Afghanistan and in the area, by reinforcing the various actors of the civil society in their role of social catalyst and by opening a dialogue between ONG and the government. The APDA also became a place of meeting for men and women who work for the democratization of their country and the re-establishment of peace in Afghanistan and in the area.

Since September 11, in our newspapers as on the screen of our television sets, the images of women in burgas and bearded men were shown. From there the interest and the importance to support local media and to promote an image which reflects real identity of the Afghan culture. In order to diversify the forms of expression and communication, the Afghan Peace and Democracy Act (APDA) is also a multi-media center: including computers, photo and video cameras and a unit of video assembly, a space of creation as well as trainings in video, photography and data processing. Thanks to the work of the Canadian and Afghan Webmasters, the APDA also developed a gate of the Afghan civil society: http://www.afghanact.org.

Alternatives : http://www.alternatives.ca/

Alternatives is an organization dedicated to the development of solidarity, justice and equity in north as in the south. Active in more than 35 countries, Alternatives supports the initiatives of the Community movements in favour of the respect of the economic, social rights and policies of the people and the communities touched by poverty, discrimination, the exploitation and violence.

Thanks to the financial support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) that supported the establishment of a communication network and of coordination for the rebuilding, reconciliation and rehabilitation of the Afghan society, that is to say the Afghan Peace and Democracy Act (APDA).

Between mid-December 2003 and mid-March 2004, within the framework of the activities of communication of the APDA, Dominic Morissette offered a series of workshops photographs and videos where it transmitted experiment and practical professional to more than 70 men and women. During this time, twelve documentary courts and means-measurings were started, including seven supplemented. Dominic also framed the assembly of an exposure of photographs of Kabul, carried out by Afghans and the Afghan ones, and who was presented last January, in Mumbai, in India, within the framework of the World Social Forum.

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