Didillon makes pilgrimage against female genital mutilation - Collection of $ 1 Million contributions for amnesty international

Christophe Didillon (35), artist and painter, plans for this summer to make a 500-miles pilgrimage on the “Camino de Santiago” from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. After his Walk of Flame, a 300-miles pilgrimage from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the last year, when Didillon wanted to win the heart of a young lady, he picked out a very serious theme as motive for his pilgrimage for this time; a theme, which concerns everybody in society. The main object of his pilgrimage is the collection of altogether 1 Million US-Dollar in charities for amnesty international (ai) and its fight for the rights of cultural und religious suppressed women in the Third World and elsewhere. This “donation pilgrimage” is the way for the idealistic artist to protest against all forms of suppressing, torturing, mutilating and murdering of courageous women and girls, which fight for their human right of equality and freedom, because all these cruelties against women still happen in our today-world, frequently in Third World countries, but more and more in our countries, too, where men and society in the names of religion, tradition and wrong senses of honour discriminate against women. Didillon wants to set an unmistakable sign against this, and in clear words explains he the motives for his idealism, puts it bluntly: “I am deeply worried! When I bear in my mind all the brutality against women and realize the hypocritical “justification” of their violators, is my sense of justice so deeply pained and hurt that I am on the verge of tears. I can’t really stand out it, and there is no other way for me than to say it in very plain-spoken words: ALL men which suppress by force women in the exercise of their human right of equality are a shame for the human race. Moreover, these men offend and disgrace with their “philosophy of life” and their way of acting their own mothers, which once bore them and gifted them life. Whatever may be the backgrounds of their degrading behaviour, not even social, religious or cultural reasons can be able to deliver an ethical justification for this. To free the suppressed women and to oppose and defeat their violators is one of the duties of our civilisation, and so it’s the duty of all of us freethinking and enlightened people, to do our contributions, because we hardly can live in a world which is worthy of being called “civilized”, as long as there aren’t equal rights for women in the whole world. ” Doubtless it will have a long way full of stones, before there will be equal rights for the women in the whole world in reality. There are needs on elementary educational work within the societies, now as before and more than ever. Fortunately there is amnesty international since many years making a good and brave job in the global fight for the rights of women. To do this occasionally dangerous job needs lots of money, of course. So asks Didillon all people, which receive information about his pilgrimage, to spend a contribution directly to amnesty international, at least a small one. What do you think now? Maybe “That’s not the stuff!”, or “These efforts are to no purpose, because there will be changed nothing!”, or “The world can’t be changed, anyway!”? If you think so, please don’t forget. These “excuses” don’t count. We have to do our duty. Everybody can do something, even if there is not much he or she can do. No matter how small it is, every contribution counts and will enlarge the power of amnesty international to do its job in the world. You will find more information about amnesty international in the internet. Please have a look at the official site of ai. In the near future you will find some more information referring to my pilgrimage at amnesty-in-bewegung.de (this site is an official amnesty international site, too). Last but not least I ask you to tell your friends about my “donation pilgrimage”. Thank you…

Christophe Didillon, born 1971 in the city of Aurich (Germany) found his vocation to become an artist (painter) when he studied for one year in China. From 1997 to 2004, after high school examination and professional training, Didillon studied Sinology, Law and History at Philipps University Marburg and Tongji University Shanghai. He did a photo journey with Trans-Siberian Railway from Beijing to Moscow. In the year of 2004, after being admitted into the Paradox artist group (www.paradox-online.de) had Didillon exhibitions at the Parliament of Hessen / Germany and museums in China, beyond that at the internet gallery of German Foreign Ministry. He created paintings for Crown Princess Viktoria of Sweden and Michael Gorbachev.
In May 2006 Didillon made his WALK OF FLAME, a pilgrimage from San Francisco to Hollywood, dedicating his pilgrimage to the actress Kirsten Dunst and to his grandfather Johannes Schumacher, who had been Prisoner of War in World War II in Russia, and escaped walking hundreds of miles home to his family in Germany.
In the last half year he used an art scholarship and lived in the Flath Villa in the city of Bad Segeberg / Germany. Referring to the motto of his scholarship, “Search Of A Mermaid”, Christophe dresses girls’ and ladies’ long and sleek hair with water and wetgel for giving it a “mermaid look”, and he uses the dresses to create photos and paintings.
“Welchen Wert hat die Wuerde eines Menschen?” – How much is the human dignity? This was the motto of his demonstration under the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in February 2007. The artist asked and tried to appeal to the people for more respectfulness of others.
After his Walk of Flame in the last year plans Christophe for this summer to make a pilgrimage on the “Camino de Santiago” from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain for collecting charities for amnesty international (ai) and its fight for the rights of cultural und religious suppressed women in the Third World.
Didillon gave his extensive collection of several hundred of historical fire extinguishers, begun in his youth, to the Museum of Fire Safety (Feuerwehrmuseum) in Zeven / Germany, beyond that he gave his voluminous collection of several thousand international vehicle registration plates, begun in his early age of seven, to a Vehicle Museum (Oldtimer und Spielzeugmuseum) in Ostermarsch / Germany.
You will receive more information referring to Christophe Didillon, his life and his artistic producing at www.didillon.eu and through the internet search engines.

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