Hello friends and followers,
I hope you've had a wonderful start to your new year! If you are in the San Diego area during the day this Friday, January 7th, I will be providing the most indepth talk about the girls' work since I returned stateside. Here is the release by Foundation For Women-
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Kicking off the Foundation For Women’s initial First Friday of 2011, we are honored to have Debi Spindelman as our guest speaker. A photographer and anthropologist, Debi currently serves as Project Director for Outside The Lens, spearheading their participatory photography partnership with Kenya’s Daraja Academy. The first free all-girls secondary school in east Africa, Daraja Academy’s students are young women of promise from Nairobi slums, nomadic Northern tribes, and the turbulent Rift Valley Province. This fall, Debi worked closely with each of Daraja’s 52 students to create a participatory photography project titled Hapa Mimi: Here I Am.
Driven by the desire to share with the world the visions and viewpoints of a population more likely to be the subjects of photographs than the force wielding the lens, Debi utilized Outside The Lens’ innovative curriculum to teach media literacy, visual training strategies, digital camera skills, creative writing, and self-reflection tools. Through this work Daraja students identified the smells, sounds, and objects that shaped who they are, how these experiences brought them to where they are today, and how this has emboldened their dreams for the future.
As a Luo, there is little value placed on educating girls like myself. But I am a
girl who is focused, determined, and dreams of being a cornerstone to many.
I believe girls can, when given the chance. –Teddy, Form 1
Join the Foundation For Women on Friday, January 7th at 11:30am as Debi shares the images and words created by these exceptional young women as they reflect on the value of girls education in their lives, the lives of their families, tribes, nation, and continent.
Location: Foundation For Women Conference Room
4747 Morena Blvd. Ste. 375
San Diego, CA 92117
Luncheon Cost: $20, includes handmade tamales by microcredit entrepreneurs supported by FFW
To reserve your spot, please email cory@foundationforwomen.org or call (858) 483-0400
See you there!
