Aden to Sanaa · 2020
The project that started everything — and the one that most needs people behind it.
2020
Mini-Olympics, Aden → Sanaa
44
paintings of the journey
1
exhibition, and the film
Yemen has soil that no longer feeds its people. It has young people with nowhere to put their strength. It has a sport that nobody is allowed to practise in peace. Those three facts are why this project exists.
In 2020 we ran a Mini-Olympiad from Aden to Sanaa, with the Yemeni judoka Ali Khousrof and my brother Mohammed behind the camera. It ended in the first medals ever handed out in that country — a small thing, and a real one.
A filmmaker turned the journey into a film. An artist painted it into 44 canvases. Neither of those things replaces work on the ground — but visibility is what makes the ground work possible. A larger exhibition means a wider reach, and a wider reach means more people standing behind the next one.
In 2020 I had the vision that I would create a peace centre in Yemen. And then I realised — the peace centre is you.
One thing you can do today
Fund the next Yemen chapter
Every contribution goes back into the ground programme — the work that has to happen for Yemen, not only for us.
No account, no commitment. Just a first step — and you can change it later.
Yemeni soil is exhausted. Supporting the farmers there is what makes them independent — not charity, but the means to stand on their own.
The Yemen journey became 44 paintings and a film. Visibility is the mechanism — a bigger exhibition means more reach, and more reach means more support for the ground work.
Nine people are living out of a self-built trailer on the road. Solar, provisions and equipment are what turn a plan into a journey.
Figures are placeholders until the programme is costed. We will publish the real numbers before we ask for money again.
The projects
A peace movement on wheels, broadcasting one hour a day from wherever we stop.
Read more →You can eat food for a day. You cannot eat soil. Once it is gone, it is gone.
Read more →Blind Paralympic judoka. Athlete of the Year in Germany. Founder of PEACE ATHLETE.
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