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Dames de Coeur           France                                                   Art Medium: Description: This game of tarot, the 'Ladies of the Heart', was produced by an organisation in France called Nord Solidarité. This was set up in 1992 to help the victims of disasters, but it seems to have quickly focused on a single issue, assisting the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. One of their activities was to give children from the Chernobyl area a summer holiday in France, to bring them out of their contaminated world and to return to them a little of the life that has been stolen from them. A similar Chernobyl Children's Project exists in the UK. The women members on the committee agreed to pose for the creation of these tarot cards in order to raise funds. The Alternative Womans' Institute Calendar of 2000 was one in which members of the rather staid UK Womans's organisation posed naked for a calendar to raise money for Leukaemia research (the well known Calendar Girls film was loosely based on this).