Feeling festive..?

I hope you've all had a great weekend..? This is just a quick post to ask you all to please vote for this photo I took in Uganda for Link Community Development. The charity stand to win $2000 AUSD, so please get in the festive spirit and get voting here.

I'm back!

I got back from Uganda last Wednesday, and now I'm slowly adjusting coming back to reality. I had the most incredible time. It was a busy 3 weeks of work which consisted of visiting 3 to 4 schools and filming about 8 interviews a day!

Uganda has experienced a lot of violence and it's still very much apparent in places and on the locals faces. However I never felt unsafe and we were so lucky to be surrounded with great people who looked after us so well. I will never forget all the harrowing stories we heard whilst there, and it's hard not to come home a changed person. I really appreciate my life, and realise just how lucky i am to have a beautiful family and friends.

I will write more about my trip soon. I think I still need to do a bit more settling in first!

I'll post more photos soon too, I promise

Africa!

I can't believe i leave for Uganda in less than two weeks,

argghhh I'm so excited but so anxious too!

I can wait to go back to Africa

{last trip was to Malawi in 2008, you can see here}

and have another adventure with my chica Natalia.

We are both working for the charity Link Community Development for two weeks and then have the third week off to travel around.

This will be such an emotional, yet rewarding experience and i can't really believe how lucky I am to have the opportunity to go.

has anyone been to Uganda before? any tips?

all photos are from my trip to Malawi 2008

Inspiration

"Celebrated photographer Rankin briefly turned his back on the glitz and glamour and took his camera to the refugee camps of the war-torn DR Congo."

Aren't these photos great!

I love the white background and I love seeing the children just having a cheeky laugh in front of the camera.

I'm off to Uganda next month, to take photos and film for a charity called LCD.

So I'm getting all the inspiration I can!

Charity Work

 So last weekend my friend Natalia and I went to a friends tea party to raise money for the charity where Nat works called Link Community Development. Annie who held the Tea Party is running a 10 k marathon for the charity next month - well done lovely! 

     "Education is a basic human right. At this very minute, this right is being violated for over 24 million children in Africa.

Working in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa and Uganda, 

Link Community Development is improving education for children, giving them a chance to escape the poverty into which they have been born." 

It's a brilliant charity and in September Natalia and I will be heading over to there office in Uganda, 

to help in the schools.  

I will also be filming a short documentary following the charity and filming a few other things to put on their website - i can’t wait to go!

check out their website here, they have lots of fun ways of fundraising......