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Refugees Passage To The Olympics: Riverboom

 via instituteartists:

For the first time in the Olympic history, the International Olympic Committee has decided to create a team of refugee athletes that will compete in Rio under the Olympic flag.

Two years and a half ago they arrived in Rio de Janeiro from the Democratic Republic of Congo, to compete in the Judo World Championship and they never left.

Today Yolande Mabika and Popole Misenga, refugee athletes, thanks to a former Olympic trainer and a Brazilian judo superstar, they’re hoping to realize their Olympic dream, walking on August 5th in the Maracana stadium behind the Olympic flag.

The two Congolese athletes are training in one of Rio’s most dangerous favela, Cidade de Deus, with Gerardo Bernardes, a four-time Olympic trainer, and coach of two of the most famous Brazilian judoka, Bronze medal Flavio Canto and world Champion Rafaela Silva.

Born in a small village in Congo, in 1997, when they were 9 and 7 years old Yolande and Popole were taken away from their families and ended up living in a refugee camp in Kinshasa.

Here they started to train in judo and in few years they enter the national team, where they were taught that winning is everything and that you should win at any cost. And if you didn’t win you ended up in prison.

In 2013 they came to Rio de Janeiro for the Judo World Championship and here their coach abandoned them without documents and money. For about eight months they survived thanks to the Congolese community in a very remote and dangerous favela in the north part of the city. Then judo came to rescue them. Caritas, the volunteers’ organization, put them in contact with Gerardo Bernardes who in 2000 had opened in Cidade de Deus, with judo superstar’s Flavio Canto, Instituto Reaçao, a NGO who’s aim is to help kids of the favelas, through judo practice.

Today Instituto Reaçao has five centers of training in five different favelas where they train 1250 kids.

We met the two judokas and Gerardo Bernardes in Cidade de Deus.

“Do they have a chance to win a medal?” I asked Mr. Bernardes. “They wouldn’t be here training if if I didn’t believe so” he replied.

Yolande Mabika and Popole Misenga ride a bus for two hours and a half every day to go to practice. The Instituo Reaçao pay for their rent, their food, their bus tickets and recently it also managed to send them back to school.

About a month ago the Brasilian Olympic committee has decided to sponsor their training with the judo Brazilian team and to pay for their travel expenses to competitions in preparation for the Olympic Games.

This, according to Mr. Bernardes, means that in June, when the International Olympic Committee will announce the refugees team, Popole Misenga and Yolande Mabika’s names will be on that list.

text by Manuela Parrino - via instituteartists

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Riverboom: The Love Commandos; is a voluntary organization in India dedicated to helping India’s lovebirds who want to marry for love. They provide assistance in protecting couples, helping them fight harassment and giving them shelter so they can marry freely.

via Riverboom “A reward of Rs 50000 to kill us is still valid. Our crime is: we fell in love. We have been on the run since 2010 as our families are not ready to accept us as a couple. Had it not been for the Love Commandos we would not have been alive today”, explains Mehvish, 23. In a land, where even Cupid would tread carefully, the Love Commandos, a volunteer organization, have taken the onus to protect couples from the animosity of their families. Operating from their HQ in the crowded area of Paharganj in North Delhi, the Love Commandos are a small team but have saved many couples. They fight against killers, resists police and battle against century long traditions that enrage entire villages. Lead by Sanjoy Sachdev and Harsh Malhotra this open group of activists helps these couples by organizing their break outs, filing their cases in court and protecting them from dangers, all in the name of Love. Just last year, only in northern India, more than 900 young people were declared missing or dead. And it is to help such couples, who choose their life partner on their own that Love Commandos was born. Infact, falling in love in India today can be a dangerous business. Most families do not accept the marriages, which are out of religion, caste or class. Families choose the bride or the groom and you don’t get married to a man or a woman but to their families. But with more opportunities of education and the information age, things are rapidly changing and the young people refuse imposed marriages. Such couples end up living a life on the run, rather than spending their lives with someone they don’t love. Even though marriages between people belonging to different classes, casts, or religions are permitted according to the Indian law, young couples who take this path often find themselves running away from those people who should love and protect them: their families. Ending up chased by their relatives and often hunted down by assassins recruited by the Khap Panchayats, the Indian village councils that substitute the local government throughout the country, these young lovers have no choice other than to run away or find protection from the Love Commandos.

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Borderline - Riverboom, Turkey (2013)

At the border crossing of Akcakale, between Syria and Turkey, two opposite currents briefly meet in the midst of the cacophony of taxi drivers, immigration police and moneychangers.