Eléonore HENRY DE FRAHAN
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After photography studies at College of Art Le 75 in Brussels, Eléonore Henry de Frahan settled in Paris in 1998 and made reports for press magazines (Géo, VSD, Le Figaro Magazine...) on social subjects. Her reports are essentially based on human being, its life and its inspiration. Part of her work tries to increase public awareness on society problems through engaged reports, either in health field or education or environmental ( more ...)
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Amma
Amma, who is not only praising God, has already hughed 26 millions of people. Each year, this indian spiritual leader, considered as a « Mahatma » (great soul) in her country, travel around the world to bring her compassionate message and hugh each one who comes to receive her « (...)
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Arunchala
In Tiruvannamalai, each full moon, hundreds of thousands of barefooted pilgrims gather around Arunachala, the sacred mountain dedicated to Shiva. During all the night, the procession walk under the glowing moon veiled by the smokes of pujas. Pilgrims stop in front of each small temple, sanctuary (...)
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In Bhutan, Happiness is Organic
The kingdom of Bhutan announced in 2012 its desire to live 100% from eco-agriculture. Having been through dark times of fertilisers, weed killers and pesticides from the petrochemical industry, the farmers have once again found under their hoes, a soil that is soft to till. Hemmed in between two (...)
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Eva Lanxmeer - Green District
For the past 15 years, Eva-Lanxmeer has been a model of a city in full transition. This eco-district was built from the end of the 1990s on in the town of Culembourg in the Netherlands and houses 1000 inhabitants in a quiet and green setting. Eco-houses with solar panels, shared gardens, an urban (...)
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Ecovalley
Faces of a pioneering valley. In the Drôme valley, in the Vercors foothills, another world is taking shape. A world where mankind is a stakeholder in nature, where agriculture respects both the land and the farmers, where the economy is at mankind’s service, and not the other way around. (...)
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Transhumance, dans les pas de Georges Ramin
In France, there are only a few shepherds left to perpetuate the tradition of true transhumance on foot. Georges Ramin is one of these irreducible people. For 38 years, he has been bringing down his herd of 1,200 ewes each year before the first snowfall. A tradition that allows the sheep to eat (...)
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The Netherlands settle on the water
Particularly vulnerable at risks linked to the water, the Netherlands begin anticipating climatic changes. Rather than to fight her, so much to tame this water with which the Dutchmen maintain ancient links. A revolution of mentalities represented by the appearance of the first floating houses. Meeting (...)
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China : The wrath of the yellow dragon
China is one of the countries where desertification has had the greatest impact. One-quarter of its area is already affected, and the desert is expanding by over 2,500 square kilometres per year. Longbaoshan is located in Hebei Province, just 38 kilometres northwest of the Beijing suburbs. It’s (...)
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The Origins of Tai-Chi
This range of sacred Taoist mountains harbours the legend of an age-old art form: Tai Chi. Ever since the health nuts of western society adopted this martial art as a new, fashionable activity, this site has opened its doors to mass tourism. Making the most out of the western predilection for Tai (...)
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Ayurveda
"Veda" means "knowledge" and "Ayur", long life; Ayurveda is both an art, a philosophy and a traditional medicine which would possess the secret of longevity. In South India, beauty shops and luxurious hotels are springing up everywhere, which propose diagnosises and massages: (...)
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Emergency service for child victims of sex offences
In hospitals, an emergency service is being set up to listen to children who are victims of sex offences. In 1999, the association 'The Child's Voice' opened, in the pediatric unit of a hospital in Béziers, the first medico-legal unit for child victims of sex offences. The idea is to provide (...)
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Ashalayam, the House of Hope
To offer a future to the street children of Calcutta, the association Ashalayam has opened twenty boarding schools and four night shelters. 550 children have now gone back to school or are currently learning a profession. They play cricket and rugby. They are learning to get up early again. They can (...)
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Families rejected from state housing
French families who have been expelled from HLM (French state housing blocks) survive in humble dwellings on the edge of cities, without electricity or running water. To ensure a decent life for their children, the parents do as many odd jobs as they can. Their priority: to preserve the family unit (...)
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Therapy for pedophiles
At the Fresnes Detention Centre, the psychiatric hospitalisation unit (PHU) offers therapy for pedophiles in an effort to prevent recidivism. In a separate wing, the centre welcomes only those who are motivated to follow the treatment, based on group behavioural therapy. The program includes video (...)
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On the Road to the Green Gold
It’s a fact: Traditional Chinese medicine and its therapeutic arsenal, based on plants and insects, is attracting more and more avid interest from foreign pharmaceutical companies. following the trend, the Pierre Fabre group tracked down Tripterygium, a climbing plant whose roots may contain (...)
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Luxury, quietness and surgery
With its 600 physicians, its 19 twenty-four hours a day operating rooms, 17 spoken languages, Bangkok's five-stars hospital Bumrungrad Palace draws each year more than 200.000 patients. They come from United States, Western Europe, Gulf Emirates or South Asia for different types of surgery like short-sightedness (...)
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