Happy World Food Day- today is a day when people around the world declare the commitment to end hunger in our lifetime! 1 in 9 people in our world live with chronic hunger – that is unacceptable! While we were in Kenya this summer we spent time at AIC Zion School in Mathare, a collection of slums with a population of approximately 500,000 people where the ground is often covered …
When we left the states in June we didn’t have a concrete plan for where we would be traveling – with the exception of Uganda and Kenya. Why those two countries? Our whole idea of traveling for the summer began with the proposition of working on media assets for two incredible organizations and the rest of the trip evolved from there. One of those organizations was Sole Hope. Sole Hope …
It’s been a wild week, friends. If you are a frequent traveler you probably picked up on my cryptic blog post title. Each of those letter groups is an airport code that we visited on our route to Jinja Uganda. Yea. We took the scenic route. Prior to beginning our journey to the heart of Africa, we had a lot of business to take care of in DC. We moved …
2014. Sometime during the course of this year we were looking through random footage we’d taken on our iphones and decided to make a ‘year-in-review’ video. It was a fun little project that we worked on sporadically during the year and I think it turned out well. They’re my memories though, so perhaps I’m biased. ha. We spend a lot of time documenting other people’s memories and experiences for work, …
I have been watching a lot of BBC’s Call the Midwife over the past few months. Have you seen it? If not, you should really check it out. The show is about midwives in post-WWII London – I know that doesn’t sound exciting, but it’s kind of amazing. I promise. The reason I am bringing this up, is that while we were in Guyana I had the chance to spend some …
Guyana was one of the most unique places I have ever visited. For example, it’s part of South America but self identifies as a Caribbean Island. The population is mostly made up of Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese whose ancestors immigrated in the 18th and 19th centuries to work on sugar cane population under Dutch and then British control. The merging of so many cultures, including the native Ameri-Indian population as well, has …
Haiti’s Got Talent – and they are using it to free their child slaves. Songs for Freedom, or as NPR put it, the Haitian “American Idol” will probably forever be one of my most memorable nights yet to date. While I was with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute in Port au Prince, Haiti a few weeks back we had the pleasure of meeting the inspiring people of the organization, …
When I started working as a photographer full time and when Dave’s freelance video work began to pick up, we knew we needed a designated workspace so we don’t kill each other so we could have a space to be productive and also give a bit of separation between our living and working spaces However, we live in an apartment in Washington, DC and don’t exactly have a ton of space …
A few months ago we had the privilege of traveling to Colombia with a team from Redeeming Grounds. I have already talked a bit about the towns we visited and our afternoon at the National Coffee Park, but I thought was time to talk about the real reason why we were in Colombia: some incredible coffee farmers. Meet Richard, Pablo, and Christian. These three men prayerfully and bravely cut down their …
Remember when we went to West Virginia to help out a friend and shoot a quick promotional video for Appalachian Impact? Well, we finished the video recently and are excited to share it with you all. Appalachian Impact provides mentors for at-risk students in West Viriginia and has already accomplished so much in their first months of existence. After spending time with a few of their mentors and volunteers, we …