Special Thanks to

All contributors as of November 9, 2008

  • Vaktang Sazan, Georgia
  • Gorka Askasibar, Basque/ Spain
  • Rick Catalan, Tagalog/ Phillipines
  • Chloe Mantzari, Greece
  • Kristin Iglum, Norway
  • Ganbat Chuluunkhuu, Mongolia
  • Yvonne Voigt, Germany
  • Ingrid Greenfield, Germany
  • Ueli Steiger, Switzerland
  • Thomas Nellen, Switzerland
  • Kerim Smires, France
  • Maryse Alberti, France
  • Natalie & Patrick Aubriot, France
  • Watari Nishida, Japan
  • Kevin Ren, China/Mandarin
  • Alina Parizianu, Romania
  • Ana Prvacki, Romania
  • Rob Houtenbos, Netherlands
  • Maria Elmvang, Danish
  • Alex Rastopchin, Russia
  • Molly Messai, Ethiopia / Amharic
  • Berekti Mengistu, Eritrea/ Tigrinya
  • Natalya Gonchar, Ukranian
  • Ashot Navasardyan, Armenia
  • Tsewang Phuntso, Tibet
  • Gregory Sandon, Haiti/ Haitian Creole
  • Hakan Nesser, Sweden
  • Octavio Molina Sr, Mexico
  • Robert Schaeffer, Brazil/ Portuguese
  • Joe San Nicholas, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Tinian / Chamorro
  • Bernadeta, Tinian / Chamorro
  • Marie Maciak, Poland
  • Padraig Ó Céaruill, Ireland / Gaelic
  • Cosma Atomica Siekierska, USA
  • Patsy Ray, USA
  • Tabitha Jackson, UK/ English
  • Zoran Zelic, Croatia
  • Rastam Hadi, Malaysia
  • Jackie Altaha, Apache/North America
  • Kunu Matima, South Africa- Zulu & Sesotho
  • Agi Clark, Hungary / Magyar
  • Ghiora Aharoni, Israel / Hebrew
  • Faris, Morrocco /Arabic
  • Irfan Akdag, Turkey
  • Luisella Meloni, Italy
  • Sang Gyu Lee, Korea
  • Priyanka Srivastava, India/ Hindi
  • Tanya Minhas, Pakistan/ Urdu
  • Magret Oskarsdottir, Iceland
  • Hamid Kermunshah, Iran/ Persian
    ANONYMOUS, Shona/ Zimbabwe
  • Phyllis-Marie Attipoe, Ghana / Ewe
  • Nayang Charwath, Botswana / Tswana
  • Vide Cofie-Robertson, Ghana / Ga
  • Ivana Davidovic, Serbia
  • Aissatou Jobe, Senegal / Wolof
  • James Kilonzo, Kenya / Swahili
  • Oseloka Obaze, Nigeria / Igbo
  • Paula Salako, Togo / Mina
  • Qais Sultan, Arabic
  • Satish Malla, Nepali
  • Tatjana Sile & Andris Silis / Latvian
  • Farida Dabas / Vietnamese
  • Palin Dogg Helgadottir / Icelandic
  • Pamella Ene Ujah, Nigeria / Hausa
  • Petronella Fernando, Sri Lanka / Sinhalese
  • Agus Gani / Indonesian
  • Harris Nasution / Indonesian
  • Krisanhty Supangkat / Indonesian
  • Supharidh Hy, Cambodia / Khmer
  • Sovanna Sun, Cambodia / Khmer
  • Genc Janaqi / Albanian
  • Emi Katayama / Japanese
  • May-Thi Kha / Burmese
  • Khin Sandi Tint / Burmese
  • Thiri Thiri / Burmese
  • Kaisamaija Valimaki-Erk / Finnish
  • Paivi Koskinen / Finnish
  • Ben Lowensohn / Yiddish
  • René Löffler / German

Additional contributors, gratefully acknowledged, are:

The Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

  • The Puffin Foundation
  • Consulate General of Norway
  • The Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia
  • The U.K. Mission to the U.N.
  • The Permanent Mission of Germany to the U.N.
  • Special Thanks to Private Donors:
  • Patsy Ray
  • Richard Marks
  • Margaret Lloyd
  • Mindy Schreier
  • Emma Brockes
  • Bill & Mary Griffin
  • Carol Calhoun
  • Marje & Dick Cartwright
  • Sandra Ray
  • Alexis Bloom
  • Diane Leuci
  • Agi Clark

The Third Floor Atrium Space at South Street Seaport was generously contributed by Seaport Market Place and General Growth Properties.
Generous In Kind Contributions from
Ron Yoshida of Hello World Communications
Danyell Ray of Georgia Ray’s Country Caterers
Noah Prince of Phosphoria.com

Special thanks to the die-hard friends and volunteers who helped make it happen:

  • Jay Dalton and crew.
  • Mike Urdaneta
  • Andrew Chugg
  • Kim Jackson
  • Kay Denmark
  • Maryse Alberti
  • Scott Breindel
  • Anne Seidlitz
  • Courtney Williams
  • Priscilla Hill

Thanks to the individual readers for the Arabic, Danish and Malay recordings, who volunteered for Librivox , the free audio download site.

Thanks for continued tech support and understanding from Impecca, USA and the staff at Z-Reiss/Impecca: Miriam Friedman, Alan Goldstone and Sammy.

Special thanks to NASA for all of the extraordinary images of the countries and our planet downloaded from their web site Visible Earth.

Thanks to my dear friend Serge Everdepoel for his design concepts and enthusiasm in helping to move the project toward exhibition in Europe.

Special thanks to Zoran Zelic for moral and technical support, humor, encouragement, design work, keeping me updated on grant deadlines and so much more…. He really is an amazingly generous man.