{My 6 Min Presentation The Truth About Leprosy for GPDLI, AtAmerica U.S. EMBASSY JAKARTA}

In commemoration of World Leprosy Day I got invited by Mr. Nuah Tarigan Sahing from GPDLI (Disability Care Movement & Leprosy Indonesia) to be a speaker at the Talk Show from AtAmerica, U.S. EMBASSY JAKARTA. Of course I felt honored but it was impossible to be present for the actual presentation in Indonesia on Friday, February 28... 

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We were coming home from The Netherlands to the U.S. on February 25. Knowing full well that it was the LAST time I would ever see my Mom — but I agreed for having a professional video made with the help of a dear friend and great donor for the Dublin, Georgia/U.S. Rotary Club's Leprosy project in Jakarta, Indonesia. Below this post you will find the two previous posts that I did write about our visits to the Leprosy hospital where also Princess Diana did visit.

Coming home by 22:15 on the 25th, I did dedicate the 26th for writing the transcript for my 6 minute video presentation. The video was made in friend Gil's studio Gillis Studio (click link) on the 27th. 

Not quite recovered from my jet-lag and seeing my Mom for the very last time, but it was not about me but about Ending the Stigma.

Real video is further below...

'Advocate for ending the STIGMA of Leprosy'
The above is just a screenshot; not the actual video for clicking on! That is further down...

The time of 2:00 - 4:00 PM or 14:00 - 16:00 would have been in the middle of the night for me in U.S. time. No way I could have done this in real time...

So uploading my 6 minute video onto YouTube made it possible for them to show it for the Presentation.
This you can click in the center for viewing!

If you like to watch this on YouTube you also find the link to my complete transcript as well as here below: The Truth About Leprosy - Experiences by a USA Citizen for GPDLI & US EMBASSY Indonesia.pdf Direct link to YouTube: The Truth About Leprosy - Experiences by a USA Citizen for GPDLI & US EMBASSY Indonesia

This is my contact person Nuah Tarigan Sahing, from the GPDLI, Jakarta, Indonesia. He is a warrior on behalf of those Leprosy victims and we need more people like him that are active on social media for raising awareness.

All participants in this Talk Show are seated and here the Host is introducing me as a friend of GPDLI... This is where the Live Stream (just click hyperlink) will be showing my YouTube uploaded video.

This is me in the Leprosy hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 1989 this lady received a prosthesis from Princess Diana and then in 1997 from the Dublin, Georgia, USA Rotary Club.

Ending my 6 minute presentation with the words:

The Stigma of Leprosy has to STOP! We need to raise more awareness in the media and with journalists.

Pleased that this @america video Presentation The Truth About Leprosy yielded 4,798,000 viewer minutes so far. It has been taken off the air later...   LEPROSY IS A CURABLE DISEASE LEPROSY IS NOT A HEREDITARY DISEASE  LEPROSY IS LIKE ANY OTHER DISEASE IT CAN BE CURED

Related links:

{World Leprosy Day} | previous post by me

{Like Princess Diana, I also Tried to Tackle the Leprosy Stigma} | previous post by me
{My 8th Blog Award - Sunshine from Japan} | previous post by me mentioning our fight for the underdog
{We saw FOUR Armadillos at Lunch Time!} | Humans can acquire a leprosy infection from armadillos by handling them or consuming armadillo meat, and are a presumed vector and natural reservoir for the disease in Texas and Louisiana - previous post by me

{Mom & Dad's 65th Wedding Anniversary} | coming home from The Netherlands—seeing Mom for the LAST time...‏

{Fleur de Lys Cushions}

Via German blogger friend Claudia from Nu-Nu's Garn-und Stofflabor I did obtain these lovely cotton Fleur de Lys print covers for the cushions in our Veranda.
Matching the cotton/viscose upholstery and also the Fleur de Lys wall hanging with Angels...

When I did see this lovely Fleur de Lys fabric on Celia M. High Heeled Life & Resilientista's blog: Precious Blessings in Our Family, I started searching for it...

Dolcedreams did no longer have any of it in stock... so I went across the ocean for locating any of this 'Vive La France Fleur De Lis' in navy by Monaluna.

Sure enough Claudia from Nunu's Garn-und Stofflabor Die Fleur de Lis found some fabric in Europe and she created the pillows and a table runner as well. You just click on the link to her blog.

Thank you very much Claudia, you made it work!

She posted about it on November 25, but I got way behind with my surgery and all our water control projects and right after that, the trip to The Netherlands.

Never got to posting about it and when the days are so dark, photos are very hard to capture...

And YES, in yesterday's post you already did get to see a glimpse of them with those Bunnies posing for you.
Frankly, I call them always Fleur de Lys; guess I'm a Francophile that LOVES French Country Style!

Related links:

{Our Veranda} | previous post showing you the Fleur de Lys influence in our Veranda
{Fleur de Lys in our Veranda} | previous post showing our Fleur de Lys in detail
{March 2, 1809 and My French Connection} | previous post about my heritage



{Daffodils Bunnies & Hearts}

Spring is such a lovely season with flowers blooming.

Don't you love having such a vase indoors with fragrant daffodils?

From our German 'son and daughter-in-law' we did receive some lovely Easter bunnies and hearts...

Erika always is giving her heart to us in a most caring way.

We were lucky that both of them with their two children did visit us in our Vacation Home Vakantiewoning Pardoes, while we stayed in The Netherlands for Mom's 90th Birthday and Mom & Dad's 65th Wedding Anniversary.

 Yes, they drove up to us, all the way from the beautiful Eifel in Germany and gifted Mom & Dad with a beautiful handled willow basket, filled with edible goodies from their region.

Now I have turned a different fragrant white daffodil facing the camera...

Don't you like these double ones better than the single one in the first photo?

Those are the cutest little bunnies with the lace scarf buttoned around their neck.

Daffodils are inside a French Baccarat Crystal vase.

Very glossy Mr. & Mrs Bunny...

So glad they traveled well inside our suitcases.

Don't you love them too?