David Johnson has just completed a photography assignment in South Africa and Tanzania where he was able to serve 3 ministries. Lily of the Valley provides education and health care to hundreds of orphans who are HIV positive in a rural area outside of Durban, South Africa. They help supplement their income by producing and [...]
Here’s some images from team photographer Elizabeth Marx, who just returned from several weeks in Kenya and Uganda. In Kenya, she served Kumveka, and she also worked with our interns in Uganda, helping them with their work with MANA Nutrition. Hope you enjoy these great pictures!
Ten years old, Damion is thoughtful and reserved.
He is also the oldest of 50-plus orphans at the Arise Africa orphanage in Bukaleba –
an orphanage primarily geared for younger children.
With so many children in the orphanage, one-on-one time is nearly impossible –
especially when the younger children require the most attention.
And usually, giving attention to the youngest [...]
An overdue dinner date with an acquaintance from our London to Entebbe flight caused us to cross paths with Marvin. She called it fate. Others, luck. I consider it nothing short of serendipity.
Hannah and I have spent the better part of the past month searching for a good candidate for MANA. It sounds a little [...]
By: Elizabeth Marx, Team Photographer
Malnourishment takes on a whole new meaning when you find yourself holding a tiny little bundle of flesh and bones in your arms who meets every requirement for the definition.
Sweet little baby Jonathan stares up at me with his gorgeous, big dark eyes as I hold him in my arms, barely [...]
Silent Images recently served 3 organizations in Rwanda and Kenya. Take a look at this VIDEO to better understand severe acute malnutrition.
I spent the day with the children, and their smiles and perseverance stole my heart. I learned my first few words in sign language while I visited their classes and played with them on the playground.
The good news is that Ephatha Children’s School for the deaf provides education to 118 children in Burundi…the bad news [...]
Silent Images is currently serving Forest Hill Church, Judea Harvest, ALARM, and the Discovery School in Burundi.
VIEW IMAGES of our work with the deaf school in Burundi.
Within an hour of arriving at the compound in Yetebon, where poverty is the norm and need is exponential, two precious little Ethiopian girls approached. Sweet little Lydia and Sarah were coming to say hello and within seconds my heart melted. Both little girls were so adorable I was sure they could melt the heart [...]
In September, Silent Images’ Team Photographer, Elizabeth Marx, traveled to Ethiopia and served Project Mercy. /p>
Silent Images serving Sports Outreach Institute
Silent Images photography/videography team spent this week with Phiona documenting her week as she [...]
Seth Snider, Silent Images Team Photographer, has been in Honduras serving the Orphan Helpers by providing them photography.
“While I was in Honduras shooting for Silent Images, I was serving
Orphan Helpers. www.orphanhelpers.com
Orphan Helpers cares for the children in government orphanages and
juvenile detention centers, meeting them where they are. Orphan
Helpers is on the ground caring for [...]
For the past 12 days, Keith Furr and I have been working 8-10 hour days gathering stories and documenting the current conditions in northern Uganda. When people hear of northern Uganda, they quickly think of the Invisible Children and the horrific atrocities of the past 20 years. And I am glad that people at least [...]
On Monday September 13, a team of Silent Images photographers/videographers are teaming up with ESPN to complete a documentary film on Fiona. ESPN will be focusing on a written article while the Silent Images team will be focusing on the still photos and the film. All of the work by Silent Images is to [...]
Santo volunteered to fight for the LRA, in hopes of defending northern Uganda. However, the intentions of the LRA turned against its own people, and Santo quickly made his escape. The LRA captured him and imprisoned him for one month. After his release, he put on his uniform and loaded his gun…this time for [...]
In most cultures, the elderly are cherished and protected. In Uganda, they are honored and rare. Northern Uganda has one of the lowest age mediums in the world. The Rebel armies killed most of the men, and infected many of the women with AIDS and abducted the teenage boys…leaving behind only small children. Every once [...]
At the age of 18, Richard was abducted by the LRA to be a child soldier. After 3 years of having to fight alongside his enemy, Richard escaped in 1999. He went back to his home village only to be rejected and told that they could never forgive him for his involvement with the [...]
At the age of 12 Jimmy was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army and was turned into a child soldier. Jimmy was forced to fight as part of the rebel group that ended up killing his very own parents. For 3 years, Jimmy was brainwashed into killing his own tribe, the Acholie tribe. At the [...]
Today’s assignment was to interview the Ugandan people who’s lives were destroyed by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) for the past 20 years. The assignment was a difficult one, but their story ends with a joy and restoration. After political and governmental pressure the LRA has left northern Uganda, leaving behind a hopeful return [...]
Day three was a busy one for Silent Images. Keith and I were busy working today with the SOI documentary on the restoration of northern Uganda. Today was consisted of 8 hours of shooting and interviewing those who lived through the war. We are now busy uploading photos and video and panning [...]
When Ugandan youth commit crimes of murder of theft they are sent to the Naguru Prison in Kampala. The warden grants me approval to photograph inside the prison, and I meet Alex, a 16 year old boy who is months away from completing his 2- year sentence.
“What are you going to do when [...]
These guys were in the prison section of a detention center. They have
been charged with many crimes, murders, and also involved with a
certain gang in Honduras which was the source. As I shook their hands,
I looked in there eyes and immediately saw a hope and a future, even
amidst of a horrifying upbringing and childhood. Restoration [...]
Lory and his older brother, James, begin their long walk home after sharing their story with me about how they survived the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. James was fortunately in the street, but Lory was still in school. Lory attended a school of 300 in which 295 of the students died. Lory was one of the [...]
Today I spent the day at an amputee clinic that has been treating the survivors of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. They were air lifted to Cap Hatien for emergency amputations. The hospital is completely funded by private donors and is doing amazing work with volunteer doctors from America. They are also employing dozens of Haitian [...]
I have not really gotten too worked up over the controversial health care debate in America. I do have some opinions, but after seeing much of the developing world’s health care, I am just grateful for what we have. So whether you think we already over subsidize the system or we pay too much to [...]
The schools behave much like the adult world in Haiti. There is a pressing forward and a sense of “business as usual,” but there are broken buildings and classrooms that, like ghosts, haunt the Haitians. One should not pause to gaze too long, or these ghosts will, once again, strike fear. Therefore, the buildings are [...]
“I hand the Coke to Isaac, and he drinks it as fast as he can, but he stops half way, wipes his mouth and hands the remainder of the Coke to Ranaldo. Usually, when someone gives me a gift, I selfishly take it home and play with it until it breaks. I don’t think I would have [...]
Webster defines destitute as “lacking the basic necessities for life.” What are the basic necessities to live though? Are they food and water or joy and companionship? In either case I have encountered it here in Ethiopia. Although the streets are speckled with smiles, destitution blankets the country.
The weight of it has grown heavy on [...]
“Sluts,” Jackson would mumble under his breath as he and his two brothers walk past Mary and her friends. The women do not bother looking up; they keep their focus on their hands as they bead their colorful bracelets and necklaces. Mary and Josephine did not bother explaining that they had gotten AIDS from their husbands who [...]
The movie Hotel Rwanda educated millions of people about the genocide in Rwanda, but Rwanda’s story shadows a simultaneous genocide in the neighboring country of Burundi. However, Burundi’s story is less about genocide and more about the power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
We sometimes go through life using a word hundreds of times without ever considering [...]
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