Traditionally, water symbolizes life and renewal, but in Sierra Leone it is also a vehicle for epidemic and death — the focus of photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz’s project “Water Is Gold,” which documents the causes and effects of the country’s recent cholera outbreak.
Last year, Sierra Leone experienced the worst cholera outbreak in its history, Abdulaziz writes for the Pulitzer Center, which funded his trip. There were 20,736 cases of cholera with 280 deaths since the beginning of 2012, he adds.
Abdulaziz spent most of his time in and around Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, which, he writes, was “built to support less than half the current population of 2 million.” The slums are overcrowded, unsanitary and sprawling — the perfect breeding ground for the disease.
Sierra Leone’s Water Of Life — And Death
Photo Credit: Mustafah Abdulaziz
THE SAGAN SERIES (part 2) - Life Looks for Life
A must watch. Every time, I read a quote or watch of video of his , I feel like I am conversing with the man. He is an amazing human being, Carl Sagan.
The Blue Project
Get educated. Get involved.
http://www.surfaidinternational.org
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/impact.your.world
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/oa
http://www.oceanconservancy.org
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
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Bliss n Eso feat: John Butler Trio - “The Sea is Rising”
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.”
― Carl Sagan
PEACE between all Humans.
PEACE with Nature.
PEACE with the Earth.
PEACE with the Universe.
A blog about the oceans: 