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・・・『 If Streets Around the World Unite Hand in Hand, It Will Turn Into a Tremendous Power 』・・・ |
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『African JAG Project』 is a benefit project aiming at its main purpose to spread awareness and |
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realities of various problems that exist in Africa through creative art forms. |
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What’s especially distinctive about this project is that in order to spread awareness to the |
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horrible facts and realities currently existing in Africa, creators around the world make action |
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to be the “pipeline” between the suffering people in Africa & the global public, |
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delivering messages, creating works, and donating a part of their incomes from such actions |
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for local support activity fund. |
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・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・『 Don’t Ignore These Realities!! 』・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ |
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Currently, in a lot of African countries and communities, countless issues are piled on the desk |
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such as civil wars, AIDS, poverty, education, refugees, child soldiers and political corruption, |
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and the number of people in need is uncountable. And this time, out of countless problems?that |
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needs to be solved, African JAG Project intend to support AIDS patients & so-called AIDS |
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orphans in poor districts with urgent relief & help with their independency, as well as the |
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habilitations of ex-child soldiers to go back to their communities & to stand on their own. |
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Current State of AIDS (African Continent/below Sahara) & AIDS Orphans |
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Currently, 15%-30% of the adults in African countries located below Sahara such as Malawi, |
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South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, are said to be HIV positive, and that the |
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number is still increasing, possible settlement of the problem still unknown. With various |
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governments and international NGOs launching AIDS campaign, awareness amongst people |
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have increased, though it is also a fact that number of infections through not using condoms, |
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through rape, and prostitution hasn’t decreased. |
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Especially in districts with severe poverty, there has been a lot of cases where people are |
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being unable to go to hospitals and left to be deceased, simply because they don’t have the |
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money for transportations, which is currently becoming a huge problem. There are also a lot of |
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nfants being infected by AIDS while they’re inside their mothers’ wombs, and the number of |
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orphans who lost their parents from AIDS is rapidly increasing as well. A lot of the Infants |
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infected by AIDS through their mothers are reported to live short. Even if they live longer than |
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the others, in most cases, the children are being unable to get decent education, and within |
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hose who were sent to orphanage homes due to the fact that there isn’t anyrelatives to look |
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after them, a lot of them tend to become hopeless and despaired to societies, and in order to |
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ive on their own, they step into wrong directions, involved in street gangs, and into crimes |
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such as robberies, murders, and prostitutions. |
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…Please be aware of the fact that a reality exists where totally innocent children are losing |
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their lives by the disease called “AIDS” just because they couldn’t afford their 50¢. |
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Ex-Child Soldiers |
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Africa is a multi-tribal continent, where over 5,000 different tribes are said to coexist. And a |
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?lot of its countries have been repeatedly experiencing civil wars and disputes over |
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?authority and resources. 23 out of the 53 African countries are still under governmental |
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advice to evacuate and to avoid traveling,?the situation constantly remains tensed. |
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In such unstable state, young boys and girls are the biggest victims when civil wars begin. |
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?A lot of the child soldiers are those who have been kidnapped by guerillas upon raiding a |
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?village, forced to take the arms and pushed out to the battlefields. Even children under 10 |
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are said to be a part of such soldiers. In a lot of cases, girls are also forced to have sex |
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with adult soldiers as their “comfort women.” In fear of being killed, they have no choice but |
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to stand on the battlefields, hold guns, and kill others. Even after they get released from |
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such nightmare, a lot of them are left with traumatic wounds, being unable to go back |
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into society due to autism, being unable to trust others, and turning violent. |
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…..It’s either kill or get killed. Would you be able to kill your mother with your own hands? |
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We intend to start out from small things…things that we could do. |
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It starts out by knowing the facts, and spreads by telling others. |
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From a point into a line…and a line into a circle. |
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We believe that the circle will eventually become as huge as this planet we all live on. |
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And we feel that that is the true globalization, the true global partnership. |
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We cordially would like to ask you to be a part of this project, with what you could do. |
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―African JAG Project― |
