EXEKO Team - Back From Nepal

July 20, 2008

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EXEKO Team - Back From Nepal

Wayne Shoenfeld has traveled to Africa, Asia, India and other parts of the globe helping those in need

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Photographer and philanthropist Wayne Schoenfeld has travelled all over the globe providing medical help, entertainment, joy, and other humanitarian support to those in need. Here is an update that Wayne just sent us about his time in Nepal.

Hi,

Back from Nepal. It was a demanding mission - difficult in many ways - but we accomplished a great deal and, again proved that while medicine helps to heal the ills of the body, clowns can help to ameliorate the ills of the soul.

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The EXEKO team, Nadia and FX, arranged for the performers, Mary Kristin, Anne and Manu, an extraordinary troupe of dedicated, courageous and talented entertainers, to perform in hospitals and orphanages but spontaneous performances erupted in villages, the streets and even on the top of our truck in the middle of a Maoist uprising.

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The Rotaplast surgeons not only operated on clefts and other disfiguring birth defects but the pandemic of severe burns caused when children, attracted by the warmth and glimmer of fire pits crawl and can't get back out. The horror of burns, particularly on young chldren, is something you can never forget.

Only six weeks from twice canceled constitutional elections, Nepal is a powder keg of ethnic, caste, economic and political dissension. In Terai region of the South, daily terrorist blasts kill and maim and scar the political process. In Kathmandu, daily riots and curfews paralyze the city. Electricity is available for only brief hours of the day. Strikes and boycotts have frozen the supply of petrol. Vehicles wait hours, sometimes days in line. There are equally long lines for kerosene and potable water. People burn garbage in the streets to keep warm in the bitter winds that sweep down from the Himalayas. Ten year old girls are kidnapped for the prostitution rings and bountifully enhanced with hormone injections. The stench that pervades everything is an unforgettable infusion of the perfumes of rivers overflowing their banks with sewage, death, diesel fuel, burning rubber and burning garbage. This country is in trouble.

Our Ethiopian film project, THROUGH THIS WORLD BUT ONCE, will be ready to debut with the National Film Board of Canada first week of April in Montreal. This country is in trouble.

We filmed in-depth interviews with cultural leaders, the leader of the Youth Party and a possible next Premier, the Foreign Affairs Advisor to the current Premier and one of the country's most noted spiritual leaders -- a people with open hearts frustrated by increasing paucity of life's necessities and heroic efforts at humanitarian aid painted against a backdrop of a failing government spiraling toward collapse.

We have incredible Nepal footage, about 60 hours of HD shot with two cameras, and over 5,000 frames of still images and will begin the tape to digital transfer next week.

Warmest,

W

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