Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:35 AM 11/9/02 -0800, you wrote: >Tina, as a result of your work do you expect a change >in the culture that you photograph so beautifully? > >What will the difference be? Dale Hi, Dale - I've already seen a difference in most of the communities that I revisit after 15 years. In El Temblor, for example, on my first visit, all of the people lived in houses made of sticks with thatched roofs and mud floors. Now each of the 47 families lives in adobe houses with tile roofs and concrete floors. Every family has a Heifer Project goat and milk for their children. There is a water project in the center of the village with water piped up from a river. Those are physical changes but they affect the health of the children and the sense of security for the family. The grass-roots development projects have begun to have workshops on gender equality, something that would have been unheard of a few years ago. Hurricane Mitch set some communities back severely, but they are beginning to recover now. There is still no infrastructure provided by the government. Everything has to be done by the communities for themselves. The changes are slow, but significant. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com images available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html