Young Phodographer wins Speech Contest
Young Phodographer Halle Hughes with the favorite picture she took in Santiago, Guatemala, March 2009
Then ten year old Halle Hughes accompanied her family to Guatemala over spring break. Halle herself took many of the pictures including this one shown. Halle recently won the 5th Grade speech contest at her school talking about DMW.
In her words ” Dog Meets World is when your family or friends go to a 3rd world country with a small portable printer that you can fit into your backpack. You take a picture of a child holding the dog meets world dog. Then you print the picture on the spot and give it to them. Lots of smiles appear on their faces. It was very heartwarming watching little kids stare at their first picture of themselves. While we were waiting for the pictures to be printed my sisters and I played soccer with the Guatemalan kids. We all had so much fun together. It was sad having to leave them, but felt good being able to give them something to cherish. This was one of the best trips I have ever been on.”
Dog Meets World is a great activity for families to do together to connect cultures. In fact the Hughes family is going to Mexico this week and will again Take & Give Photos for DMW!
Daily Foto: School Pictures in Haiti
Phodographers Denis Oswald, Brittany Lane and Carolyn Lane at Blanchard School just outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti April 2009.
This school in Haiti did not suffer major damage in the earthquake, but countless others did or were completely destroyed. These students are fortunate to attend school, but unlike their American counterparts do not get school photos. For almost all the students these were the first photo they had ever be given of themselves. Our hope is their photo affirms them and acknowledges their importance. They are Haiti’s future.
Daily Foto: It’s all about Green
Phodographer Anna Myers in Los Angeles de Nandayure, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, January 2010
Wearing green on St. Patrick’s day is all about connecting cultures. While these children are not celebrating today’s Irish holiday, they are celebrating owing their first photographs of themselves thanks to volunteer phodogrpaher Anna, a retired Peace Corps worker. She recently revisited her village in Costa Rica where she reconnected with friends and shared photos through Dog Meets World.
DMW and PhotoPhilanthropy
The nonprofit organization PhotoPhilanthropy is now partnering with Dog Meets World and has included DMW on their website under Creative Momentum-Volunteer Opportunities. The mission of PhotoPhilanthropy is to promote and connect photographers with non-profit organizations around the world to tell the stories that drive action for social change. We hope to encourage all photographers who travel to participate in our project of photo philanthropy at a most basic level, of sharing personal photography with the hope of truly trying to connect cultures, build self esteem and change lives, one photo at a time!
Daily Foto: Wonderment to All
Phodographer John Carr in Chivay, Peru, September 2009
John backpacked through South America with a Foto pup and printer. Concluding his 5 month travels he said “Participating in Dog Meets World has been a truly magical experience. Reaching across the world to share photos, memories and joyous moments is a wonderful thing and being able to spread happiness one smile at a time is priceless. I have met children and adults from across a continent with the project, and without exception have found the project to be one that brings joy and wonderment to all I meet.” Many tourists have taken this boy’s picture, but John stopped to print and share.