Doing The Help Portrait In Diepsloot

{New Blog Post} Doing The Help Portrait In Diepsloot: We give photos to 1,600 people in Diepsloot..

All thanks to the bunch of generous donors who responded to my plea for funds to carry out the Help Portrait movement in South Africa, we have raised approximately SGD2,500 to date. The actual Help Portrait movement – which is find a person in need, take their photo, print it and go back to give the shot back to them – happens once a year in December. In South Africa, we start as early as September and shoot all the way through to December, because there are so many opportunities to give portraits here. There’s a small group of us that are so eager to give portraits that we want to shoot even when Help Portrait South Africa hasn’t officially begun. =) With the help of the donors mentioned above, we can now do it. Our first stop was to shoot for up to 1,600 students, teachers and staff of the Diepsloot Combined School. Diepsloot is one of the largest townships (squatter tow...

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