Posted in Updates on January 26th, 2012 by Jen – Comments Off
We do what we can, and with your help we are providing basic resources directly to children in need.
Food and supplies (rice, beans, oil, fruit, candles, etc.) will be purchased at the local markets in Haiti for kids in our programs and our partner organizations. We’re also in need of funds for airline luggage donation bag fees, batteries for our Photography Workshops, and immediate Outreach services for homeless kids.
Wish list for Care Bags: toothbrushes, large toothpaste, bars of soap, travel size shampoo/conditioners, new t-shirts, afro combs, Vitamin C candy, small notebooks/pens, decks of cards, mini dominos, beach balls, colored chalk. If you are local, we can arrange pick ups and deliveries.
We are visiting two orphanages new to us to assess what we can help with, and bringing donations to another in Port-au-Prince where Ralph and Kensley now live and would also like to provide them with a few meals and extra school supplies.
We are honored to share with everyone what Haiti looked like through the eyes of children.
Here is the first full published gallery of photos taken by Zanmi Lakay’s photojournalism students from our partner organizations Kole Zepol in Cité Soleil and Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC) in Jacmel during our Photography Workshops in January/February 2010 after the earthquake. These kids wanted to hold cameras in their hands, cover specific assignments, and worked through their own trauma from behind the lens. We are so proud of these amazing young photographers who challenged themselves to do good work and wanted the world to see Haiti through Haitian eyes.
We held off showing them here until now because there was a possibility that the photos would be published elsewhere. A few of these photos were published on the New York TImes Lens Blog in February 2010, and many were on the walls of galleries in exhibitions in Miami, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The Globe and Mail also hired eight of our students to help document the rebuilding of their community in Jacmel.
Posted in Updates on January 12th, 2012 by Jen – Comments Off
We wanted to share this great article published in The Flame from Claremont Graduate University about the fabulous Kerry Rodgers who volunteered with us in Jacmel last year for Jouk Li Jou Kan Foto. Her generosity and talent is endless and the kids loved her. We were so lucky to have Kerry and her husband, Mark Olsen, on our team!
Members of Lafanmi Selavi’s Serum Band play a concert fro the town of Les Cayes promoting Aristide’s message of “You can’t have peace in your head until you have peace in your stomach.”
Some of our very first School Sponsorship students. Two of the young boys are orphan brothers – Ralph and Kensley (2nd from L and far R) – and the other three are children from homeless families all living together in the abandoned building that was once Lafanmi Selavi, a home for street children in Port-au-Prince.
