Build a bridge to the rest of the World
You can still do something good for the world and its people in 2008. Bridges to Understanding, a Seattle non-profit, has one more international workshop next month. The Bridges team including founder and world-renowned photographer Phil Borges will take a group of volunteers to Guatemala November 1-9th to work with Fotokids, a Guatemalan organization.
The volunteers and the children will work together on storytelling. While familiarity with digital cameras and photography is a help, you don’t have to be an expert. You are likely to find avid amateur photographers along. Go to the Bridges Web site (http://www.bridgesweb.org/) to see the amazing and touching results from earlier trips.
Cost is $2,535 for adults, which includes food, lodging and in-country travel. Jeff Speigner, who went on this trip to Santiago Antitlan last year, said he found himself surprised and delighted by, “The degree of camaraderie amongst the volunteers and the kids as they went from introduction to producing a community film festival in a week.”
To go, contact Bridges to Understanding at info@bridgesweb.org.