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Her first charity was Beauty without Irony (2001), founded to fight sarcasm with true beauty, mostly found in nature. One of its most important projects was Designers against AIDS. Then in 2021, during the isolation brought about by Covid, she started Beauty for a Better World (dot org), for which Ninette asked photographers to send her the most beautiful image they ever made to lift people up and explain why this photo represents pure beauty to them. Again, most of these photos were about nature. So when curator Edith Doove contacted Ninette earlier this year for a collaboration to bring beauty and art to hospitals worldwide, she said yes straight away.<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><p>Beauty For A Better World and *hadithi partnered for this project in March 2026 to bring beautiful, soothing art and photography into healthcare.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><\/p><p>Edith Doove of *hadithi &amp; Ninette Murk of Beauty For A Better World first worked together for the Super! 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Ms Poggi has been doing this since 2002, meanwhile bringing over 12.000 photos by around 600 photographers to more than 700 hospitals worldwide. She has asked Ninette as a volunteer coordinator for Europe and Ninette said yes, as this is exactly what she wants to do. <\/p><p>Edith continues with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hadithi.net\/art-for-care\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/hadithi.net\/art-for-care\/<\/a> The aim of Art for Care is to work worldwide, wherever there\u2019s the occasion to do so, to brighten up hospitals and other health care institutions with artworks by international or local artists, well-known and new talent. 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