India Through Girls Eyes: Empowering Village Girls with Cameras

Please join us at the University of Hawaii Manoa

7pm Krauss Hall

November 11, 2010

Ramdas Lamb and Paula Stockman Allerstorfer of Sahayog Foundation and photographer Dana Forsberg discuss the  on-going project teaching photography to rural girls in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The unique role of girls and woman in the elimination of poverty and community change is addressed through this photography project targeted at high school age girls. The girls are not only learning technical skills, but also using photography as a method of self-expression. The work of the students is shown and the practical application of the project explored.

India Through Girls Eyes is a unique project jointly conceived and undertaken by Dana Forsberg and Sahayog Foundation.  The Foundation’s efforts are geared toward giving village youth in Central India opportunities to further their education, gain a greater sense of self-confidence, imagine their world and themselves in new ways, and realize some of their dreams.   The present project uses the medium of photography to allow village girls to express their interests, talents, and aspirations. All donations received for the project will go to help the students further these ends.

www.sahayogfoundation.org

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