United Nations Exhibit

Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

November 12, 2009

Mr. Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva made the opening remarks, followed by Mr. Douglas Griffiths, Charge of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and by Professor Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Finally, there was an appearance by a very special visitor, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has been a stalwart supporter of the Global Fund.  To read the opening remarks, visit the “Geneva Opening Remarks” under “About the Exhibit” on the left side of the main page.

Visitors that evening from the diplomatic community in Geneva, from international organizations including many partners of the Global Fund, and several of the quilters viewed the quilts in the impressive setting of the Salle des Pas Perdus in the Palais des Nations, the European Headquarters of the United Nations.  The exhibit remained open through World AIDS Day on December first, and was viewed by thousands of visitors during that time.

Photos by Eric Bridiers

Salles des Pas Perdus
Professor Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund, giving opening remarks
Congresswoman Barbara Lee giving opening remarks
Ready for the Opening on November 12, 2009

View from the gallery above
Quilters Allison Wilbur and Dawn Piasta, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Porfessor Michel Kazatchkine and Charge Douglas Griffiths
300 plus visitors at the opening on Nov 12
Dr. Christoph Benn, Afton Beutler and other guests

Quilts paired with Global Fund Photos
Dick and Allison Wilbur, organizers of the exhibit
Congresswoman Barbara Lee chats with Alicia and Douglas Griffiths
A visitor looking at one of the four panels explaining American Quilting Traditions made for the exhibit

Quilter Dorothy Stockwell with her Quilt Modus Operendi
Quilter Corinne Beque and her daughter
Quilters Laurel Adamsen and Valorie Fanger of the American International Women's Club of Geneva
Quilter Dawn Piasta and Halla: An Unexpected Gift

Quilt by Paulette Peters, One World, Hand in Hand
Gifts a Mother Passes on to her Child by Allison Wilbur
Health Care is not a Game of Chance by the Sarajevo Quilters
All God's Children Deserve to Blossom by Jean Taylor

Guests admiring the quilts
Visitors touring the United Nations viewing the exhibit