Meet the World - Ícaro Doria

Icaro Doria is Brazilian and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal. He is part of the team (with Luis Silva Dias, João Roque, Andrea Vallenti and João Roque) that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail. Ícaro says:

"We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags, using real data taken from UN and Amnesty International.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola."

Some people received this email as being written by a Norwegian diplomat called Charung Gollar, that in fact does not exist. But Ícaro and his team do exist and also this dream of ending poverty and hunger in the world by raising the consciousness of people to what their flags came to represent.