November 2006

Interview with Daoud Nassar,Tent of Nations, Bethlehem, Palestine Daoud Nassar is the owner of 100 acres of land nine kilometers southwest of Bethlehem. This land has been in the Nassar family since 1916 – family members used to the live in caves there – and it has been cultivated for olives, grapes and wheat. Nevertheless, in 1991 the Israeli military declared the land to be Israeli state property. The Nassar family was able to challenge Israel in the courts as fortunately they were in possession of all the original land ownership papers dating back to the Ottoman period. In 2001, although the legal case remained unresolved, the local council of Israeli settlements decided to build a road on the eastern side of the Nassar land. Then in 2002 the same council took the decision to build another road on the Nassar property, this time along the western side. It took...

LONDON – Two hours drive due north from here lies the Artic Circle. But in this town of 120, 000 people one not only feels the bitter cold but also the white heat of the technological revolution. Here are the principal research and development offices of Nokia. There are 800 other high tech companies, some overflowing their expertise into neighboring Russia where they see the future “beckoning”, in the words of Pertti Huuskonen, the boss of Technopolis, which is just building a big facility close to St Petersburg airport. There are probably more PhDs per square metre in this compact old paper-milling town than anywhere else on earth. This astonishing intellectual creation can be laid at the feet of the Finnish educational system, considered by all who survey it, including the OECD, as possessing the best school system in the world. Finland is also reckoned to be in the top...

Bujumbura A young man’s portrait

Unity, Work and Progress

Rehabilitating street children – a Terre des Hommes project

Bujumbura Street art # 3 Go back to Street Art # 2 Go back to Street Art # 1

Bujumbura Street art # 2 Go on to Street Art # 3 Go back to Street Art # 1

Bujumbura Street art # 1 Go on to Street Art # 2

Bujumbura A woman sewing in the street

President Pierre Nkurunziza More about the President here              

Bujumbura Little girl in blue & street traders

Along the Tanganyika Lake