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Contact: Ira Simmons, President of Oneworld Works @ 1-310-572-1090
Contact: Gabriel Lindén sommarvägen 1, 182 74 Stocksund Sweden, Tel + (00) 46 70 447 03 54
Oneworld Works, a Venice, CA based 501 © 3 non-profit organization in collaboration with Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo based Espoir Pour Tous is proud to announce that Gabriel Lindén, a Swedish citizen will leave from Stockholm for the DRC on September 11, 2009. He will spend two months in Kinshasa working with our Mobile School Program for street children and former child soldiers. Gabriel will instruct the children on how to operate Flip video camcorders and digital cameras. They will document their daily lives in the streets of Kinshasa. Our goal is to produce a raw video documentary for a DVD and to publish photographs taken from the perspective of the students. The proceeds from the sales of the documentary and the book will provide scholarships for the participants and any additional funds raised will go to the program to assist more students.
Upon completion of his assignment in Kinshasa, Gabriel will travel to Kibeti, in the jungles of the Bandundu Province. There he will assist Jatukik Providence Foundation and Earth Rights Institute (our partners in the Los Angeles based Coalition for a Sustainable Africa) with their development of the DRC’s first Eco Village.
Gabriel Lindén graduated from Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium, located in Stockholm Sweden, on May 28, 2009. Last year he lived in Kenya for ten months where he encountered an environment characterized by cultural wealth and overwhelming poverty. During his time in Kenya he combined his studies with travel, voluntary work in the slums and wrote freelance articles for several Swedish newspapers. The post-election violence after the 2007 elections presented him with the opportunity to write a newspaper article for which he received a scholarship of 10,000 Swedish kronor ($1000.00 US dollars). Gabriel has also traveled in other African states, including South Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Rwanda and Egypt.
Generally he is driven by a desire to interpret reality in sensitive ways. His ultimate vision is to take action to bring about change and influence the environment and human living conditions.
Gabriel will provide us with eyewitness news from Kinshasa.
You can support Gabriel and Oneworld Works’ programs by making a tax-deductible donation of any amount to the organization. Visit our website at www.oneworldworks.org and you will find the instructions regarding making a donation.
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