Posts Tagged "Africa"
Life, Love, God & The Nuclear Mess Between
* * * In The Democratic Republic of the Congo, a 3-year-old girl is crying. She’s sad beyond words and hurting beyond pain because earlier that same day a man broke into her house, killed her parents, kidnapped her brother and brutally raped her. She was left for dead on the dirt floor of her own home. Three-year-old rape victims exist. Do you? * * * It feels something like a leg. Like a...
Read MorePublished!
I was recently published in the October issue of LiveBetter Magazine! Check out my column on the water crisis in Mozambique here! A big thanks to Africa Water is Life for taking me along as photographer and story collector to Mozambique last January and to Jessica Kiefer at Bohlsen PR for working to get us in and to LiveBetter for taking a chance on the...
Read MoreHow Far Would You Walk For Water? — Photo Ed
Young women in countries like Mozambique spend hours, each day, retrieving water. Their walk for water is absolutely necessary for survival. The issue, however, is not only that the water retrieved is miles from home but that it’s highly contaminated with disease causing bacteria which subsequently kills thousands of children, their younger brothers and sisters, each year. The aim is to...
Read MoreJordan Gets A Wheelchair
Mozambicans walk everywhere. Starting out before sunrise to avoid as much of the mid-day, plus 100 degree heat, as possible, they walk to retrieve water, gather food, go to school if there is a school to go to, and attempt to find work if there is any work to be found. Mozambicans walk for miles, and I literally mean, without exaggeration, miles. We spoke with a group of young girls who walked...
Read MorePortrait of an African Woman–Mozambique Photo Ed.
This past January I traveled to Mozambique with Africa Water Is Life and Art4Africa to document the water situation and learn more about Mozambican people and their beautiful culture. In order to maintain the integrity of our upcoming art show, please understand that most of the photos shown here will probably not be included in the gallery. Simply consider this a glimpse of a glimpse of...
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