The Daily Foto: Touching HEARTS
NEW Phodographer Marissa Neuman in the Dominican Republic, Jan. 2010
Marissa Newman lead a group of students from the University of MD Hillel organization on a service alternate winter break trip and brought along the Dog Meets World project. She recounts that:
“ They were invited into a family’s house. There were five or six children whose father had died. They photographed all of the family and the mom (seen on the right) began opening up to one of the UMD students (in the red t-shirt). When the mom got the picture, she touched her hand to the student’s heart and touched the picture to her own heart.” Says it all. Happy Valentine’s Day to all.
The Daily Foto: Spectacular experience to share photos
Phodographer “Paullydog” in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Oct 2009
Philanthropist Paul Sifton said practicing Dog Meets World was “spectacular“.
The Daily Foto: Youngest Subject
Phodographer “Paullydog” in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Sept. 2009
In the United States just how many pictures do we take the first week a child is born….10?, 50?, 100? or perhaps more like 1000! What a thrill for philanthropist Paul and team to take and immediately give out first photos to many children, including infants like this one.
The Daily Foto: DMW in the DR!
NEW Phodographer Paul Sifton aka “Paullydog” in the Santiago, Dominican Republic, Sept. 2009
“Paullydog” has worked in anonymity for years as he selflessly serves indigent hospital, AIDS clinics and orphanages on goodwill trips from his home in Jacksonville, FL. He along with helpers “Big Mac” (shown on the right) and her husband “Bulldog”, added the Dog Meets World project while in the Dominican Republic.
He noted “We gathered alot of the children (in the orphanage) up and took a picture of each of them. We put the camera card in the small picture printer and printed them all a picture of them selves to keep. None of them had ever had a picture taken of them and handed to them to keep.”