"What can a simple man do in front of a huge fire?
He could run away, leaving to their fate the others who cannot flee or have nowhere to go. He could also stand and whine, sit and level accusations. Or he could fill the teaspoon in his hand with water, time and time again, and pour it on the flames...
The teaspoon in the simple man's hands is very small and the fire is very big. Nonetheless".
-- from The Order of the Teaspoon by Amos Oz; Yedioth Ahronoth, 18 April 2002.
Photos: Cevdet Kiliçlar, aid worker with the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), participating in the IHH's program to supply clean drinking water through the drilling of new wells in villages across the Sahara belt of northern Africa; Niger, 2007. (hat tip)
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Cevdet Kiliçlar (second left) gestures to onlookers at the quay side as the Turkish merchant vessel Mavi Marmara departs Turkey for the Gaza Strip, May 2010. (via)2.
Cevdet Kiliçlar (camera in hand) aboard the MV Mavi Marmara as it is boarded in international waters by Israeli troops, 31 May 2010. (via)3.
The body of Cevdet Kiliçlar, below decks on the MV Mavi Marmara, shortly after Kiliçlar was shot through the forehead by an Israeli soldier who boarded the vessel on 31 May 2010. (IHH, via)4.
Surgeons begin work at the IHH's newest clinic, the Cevdet Kiliçlar Operating Theater, which opened in Khartoum on 21 July 2010. The facility will provide free cataract surgery to restore sight to about 5,000 Sudanese patients per year. (via)
