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Jinja, Uganda.
June, 2006.
Pearl Children Care Center
Nikonge Bossa
Founder/Director
Jinja, Uganda
Canadian Friends of Pearl Children Care Center have been making a difference to Bossa's children since 2008. This month on the 16th they host their inaugural comedy show. The event's monetary goal is huge as is the impact it will have on the children pictured above: a two-story block school to be built on newly acquired land. There is also hope of digging a borehole on site that will be shared with the entire village. Education and clean water, two bare necessities. http://new.pearlchildren.ca/
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Amazi Bwe Bulamu
Water is Life
Approaching soon (June 16) is International Day of the African Child which actually makes me think about one adult in particular--Nikonge Bossa, pictured lower right in the last photograph you see here, as well as below. My friend Nikonge Bossa lives in Jinja, Uganda. I first visited and photographed his village a year before I met him. Remarkably, and thanks to Flickr and the internet, Henrik Jepsen from Germany contacted me in Arizona when he saw my first photographs taken at Jinja Primary School. At that time in 2005, Henrik was raising support for Bossa's Pearl Children Care Center. It is thanks to Henrik's zeal that I got my international start as a photographer--he encouraged me to go beyond Flickr and gave me concrete ways to do it. Namely, he said, "Kresta, let me create a platform in which to showcase your work." And he did, he used my black and white slide film as a starting point for his Germany-based Friends of Pearl Children Care Center website, which is now gone, as is Henrik.
It is in Henrik's memory and honor that I follow in his footsteps. As life sometimes happens, we've lost Henrik Jepsen to a terminal illness. Though this decade a German door closed, a Canadian one opened in 2008.
The images you see here are 5 years old. Since they were made, Bossa's Pearl Children Care Center continues to safe-guard hundreds of local, at-risk babies, children, and teenagers. Since 2008, Canadian Friends of Pearl Children Care Center, directed by Dvora Rotenberg, has accomplished the following:
--donated Mosquito nets
--donated a PAR-Med Poultry Farm
--erected a Solar Panel for the Poultry Farm
--donated soccer and basketball equipment
--donated 100 AFRIpad kits (reusable kits vital to girls' education)
--donated 2 cows
--donated school supplies such as exercise books, pens and paper
--donated dozens of stuffed toys
--built a water pump to shorten the 4 km walk for water
These Canadian friends have recently secured a 3-acre plot of land and are raising funds to build a home/school building, as well as a clinic. This land and the children soon to be living, learning, and laughing on it will need clean water. I would like to add Water Borehole to the above-mentioned list.
We all know the list of life's bare necessities:
water
shelter
food
clothing
love
Bossa, Henrik, and Dvora's work is about these bare necessities.
You can learn more from them about their work here:
Jinja, Uganda, Africa: http://new.pearlchildren.ca/donate/
Canadian Friends of Pearl Children
222 Somerset W. 2nd Floor
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G3
Phone:
+1 613 366 1770
+1 613 894 4151
Ottowa, Canada: http://new.pearlchildren.ca/
Note: Canadian Friends is hosting a fundraiser June 16. They aim to raise $22,000 to build a two-block school on land that they have recently acquired for PCCC. They always welcome donations here: http://new.pearlchildren.ca/donate/
Jinja, Uganda.
June, 2006.
Pearl Children Care Center
Nikonge Bossa
Founder/Director
Jinja, Uganda
Canadian Friends of Pearl Children Care Center have been making a difference to Bossa's children since 2008. This month on the 16th they host their inaugural comedy show. The event's monetary goal is huge as is the impact it will have on the children pictured above: a two-story block school to be built on newly acquired land. There is also hope of digging a borehole on site that will be shared with the entire village. Education and clean water, two bare necessities. http://new.pearlchildren.ca/
_________________________________________________________
Amazi Bwe Bulamu
Water is Life
Approaching soon (June 16) is International Day of the African Child which actually makes me think about one adult in particular--Nikonge Bossa, pictured lower right in the last photograph you see here, as well as below. My friend Nikonge Bossa lives in Jinja, Uganda. I first visited and photographed his village a year before I met him. Remarkably, and thanks to Flickr and the internet, Henrik Jepsen from Germany contacted me in Arizona when he saw my first photographs taken at Jinja Primary School. At that time in 2005, Henrik was raising support for Bossa's Pearl Children Care Center. It is thanks to Henrik's zeal that I got my international start as a photographer--he encouraged me to go beyond Flickr and gave me concrete ways to do it. Namely, he said, "Kresta, let me create a platform in which to showcase your work." And he did, he used my black and white slide film as a starting point for his Germany-based Friends of Pearl Children Care Center website, which is now gone, as is Henrik.
It is in Henrik's memory and honor that I follow in his footsteps. As life sometimes happens, we've lost Henrik Jepsen to a terminal illness. Though this decade a German door closed, a Canadian one opened in 2008.
The images you see here are 5 years old. Since they were made, Bossa's Pearl Children Care Center continues to safe-guard hundreds of local, at-risk babies, children, and teenagers. Since 2008, Canadian Friends of Pearl Children Care Center, directed by Dvora Rotenberg, has accomplished the following:
--donated Mosquito nets
--donated a PAR-Med Poultry Farm
--erected a Solar Panel for the Poultry Farm
--donated soccer and basketball equipment
--donated 100 AFRIpad kits (reusable kits vital to girls' education)
--donated 2 cows
--donated school supplies such as exercise books, pens and paper
--donated dozens of stuffed toys
--built a water pump to shorten the 4 km walk for water
These Canadian friends have recently secured a 3-acre plot of land and are raising funds to build a home/school building, as well as a clinic. This land and the children soon to be living, learning, and laughing on it will need clean water. I would like to add Water Borehole to the above-mentioned list.
We all know the list of life's bare necessities:
water
shelter
food
clothing
love
Bossa, Henrik, and Dvora's work is about these bare necessities.
You can learn more from them about their work here:
Jinja, Uganda, Africa: http://new.pearlchildren.ca/donate/
Canadian Friends of Pearl Children
222 Somerset W. 2nd Floor
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G3
Phone:
+1 613 366 1770
+1 613 894 4151
Ottowa, Canada: http://new.pearlchildren.ca/
Note: Canadian Friends is hosting a fundraiser June 16. They aim to raise $22,000 to build a two-block school on land that they have recently acquired for PCCC. They always welcome donations here: http://new.pearlchildren.ca/donate/
