by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Sep 16, 2020
The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole – A Bipolar Musical Documentary With Elephants In Nepal, just as in Iceland, there is great prejudice towards mental illness, and the shame to carry such illness has resulted in a way to many deaths. Mentally ill people avoid...
by Halldora Þorlaksdottir | Mar 5, 2018
The Magbenteh Community Boarding School, which is located between the villages of Mathinka and Magbenteh in Bombali District was opened in October 2016 by the Swiss-Sierra Leone Development Foundation (SSLDF). With a current capacity of 200 students, the children were...
by Halldora Þorlaksdottir | Sep 22, 2017
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is a chronic neurodegenerative disease causing the majority of dementia cases. The most common symptoms include memory loss, problems with language and communication, disorientation, mood swings, loss of motivation, and behavioral...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | May 25, 2017
Tau frá Tógó is an Icelandic organization that sells clothes and other goods sewed and produced in a Sewing Workshop, which is a part of an orphanage, run by Syster Victorine in Aného, Togo. The Sewing Workshop is the main income generating facility for the orphanage...
by Regína Bjarnadóttir | Feb 1, 2017
The Ebola epidemic hit Sierra Leone in May 2014, leaving 14,124 people infected of which 3,956 lost their lives. In the autumn of 2014, Aurora received a request from the First Lady of Sierra Leone asking for assistance in battling the epidemic. While the Aurora...
