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Question: What happens when you give kids in IDP camps in Northern Uganda digital cameras?
Answer: Visual magic.
Question: What else happens?
Answer: the photos can be used to spark discussion and critical thinking exercises among the participants and can be used as tools to advocate for funding for school fees and other expenses.
Learn more about the project at the Displaced Communities site, run by Eric Green.
Putting digital cameras in the hands of poor African youth, while a modest initiative, highlights the way that information technologies alter the self-image of those who use them, especially in the developing world. “I felt special with a camera,” Achan says. When other children, and even adults, followed her around while she snapped photos, “I felt important,” she recalls.
--G. Paschal Zachary
1 comment:
This is great... particularly because it addresses the fact that human empowerment is not simply based on economic development (which is addressed by teaching an employable skill, like photography) but human dignity. And the power that putting a camera in a kids hands, in terms of articulating a worldview and shaping that dignity, is pretty amazing.
Check this out:
http://fotokids.org/
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