BHOPAL XXV: the project

Why this project ? Because nothing is solved: pesticides were left on the spot and contaminated the ground water, involving a 2nd generation of victims (congenital anormalities, cancers…). That made thus soon 25 years that people die almost every day: one estimates at 25.000 the number of died since the catastrophe…

For the 25 years of the disaster, photographers wanted that medias talk more about the tragedy.

Which are our objectives ?

• to inform public opinion on the current location of the victims of Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals
• to give the inhabitants living around of the plant an access to a drinking water, and in sufficient quantity,
• to push Dow to set up financial means to help the current victims, and to clean with its expenses the site of the plant
• to obtain the judgement of Warren Anderson (an arrest mandate in its opposition was emitted in 2009)
• to inform on the consequences of an exposure, even tiny (but regular) to pesticides.

Which are our means to inform ?

photographs, rightly one per day during the 30 previous days of 25 years anniversary: do not hesitate to diffuse it with all your contacts, Internet site and blogs, facebook (Bhopal XXV group)… each photograph of victim is accompanied a short text specifying its current location. the photographs have a particular working, answer to the advertising campaign "Human element" that Dow launched in 2006 to regild its image, tarnished by its repurchase of Union Carbide and by the catastrophe of Bhopal.

How to act ?

• to directly help the victims treated in the centers Sambhavna and Chingari, you can make donations to Sambhavna Clinic, or to the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (even small ones).
• you can sign petitions on Internet. There is no small acts: you announce by this way your support to the victims.
• to send requests as postcards and letters directly to the President of Dow. Sure that he can make take its responsabilities and make pressure on American justice for a judgement of Warren Anderson . Models of charts and letters are on study; they will be available soon.