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My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Tuesday, October 5, 2010 | 5 photos

Last year i moved to Tanzania to volunteer, teaching english as a foreign language. I was living in a tiny little village in the south, we had no running water or electricity, we were the only white people for miles and miles. My village (Ikwiriri) was known all over Tanzania for its poverty, i found this very confronting with the things i saw and i tried to tell this through my photographs. most of the kids i taught were homeless, parent less, and sick, 90% of my students had AIDS. while living there i made the most of any spare time and travelled around Tanzania, as i study Conservation and Land Management at university and have grown up with very keen environmentalist as parents it has also became my passion for wildlife conservation, so i caught the migration and saw all the amazing wildlife of Africa with many photographs of wildlife too. From that i am about to go and volunteer with elephants in Cambodia on a conservation program.
Each of these photographs all tell a different story.
1- This photograph was taken in stone town. This lady was homeless and i found it amazing that she was sitting under this graffiti saying freedom and maskani (free in swahili), and mostly after all the war in Tanzania, Zanzibar.
2-This was one of my students who had lost his parents that week in a bus crash but he still came to school because all he wanted was to learn.
3- These children is the group that we cooked for a lot, they were very shy and usually sick, this photograph says 'help' i find.
4-My students were forced to clean the school grounds every day and this is Tanzanian style-fire.
5-This was a girl who was part of the group we fed a lot, but she was always a little different, Tanzania has a lot of witch doctors and i believe something may have happened to her.

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