> Tom C wrote: > >>So next year what about putting some cameras in the hands of the kids >>this book is designed to benefit? Have a special section that shows >>their images? Make them part of the endeavor? >> >>I'm not sure what the best way to do that is. It could be donations of >>some used Pentax point and shoots or ? > > Something like this might be possible. My S.O., the redoubtable Dr. > Lisa, has volunteered a month of her time to go to Malawi (Africa) and > work in a hospital there, doing (and teaching their doctors how to do) > FNA cytology. We're hoping I can join her for a week or two of this > time. This was planned for October until Lisa's parents had a few > health problems that complicated our summer and fall, but she's hoping > to reschedule for the spring of next year. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia
Nice if she can help out over there. Malawi has been impoverished and until, fairly recently at least, governed by tyrannical rulers (Banda) for several decades. There was intense religious and political persecution if one did not worship the state apparatus, complete with the youth paramilitary for spying, harassing and reporting on transgressors. You'll no doubt get some unique and unusual photographic opportunities. In regards to including the children in the next Annual, I have no idea what the logistics would be like, if it's only one hospital local to you, or a large network. In any case I was thinking if via donation, or by taking a very small % of the proceeds from the book, a half dozen or so low-end P&S cameras could be purchased and then round-robin them rough the patients hands for whatever period... Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
