While I’m taking an afternoon to ‘rest’ here in Jerusalem, I’m still editing photographs taken in Kenya last week. Here is a selection of images I am enjoying: Each day, a few members of our team worked with children in the slums, playing games, singing songs, coloring, and having generally a rather good time. The kids loved it almost as…
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I was given a walking tour of the Langas slums by Pastor Esther, a dear woman working there with poor children. She takes in children, teaches them, feeds them, helps them get into schools, and much more. Below you’ll find a few images from Langas, as we walked and talked through the area. See if you can find my self-portrait….…
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It’s difficult to find time (and a decent internet connection) for posting images from Kenya, but here are a few for today: One of our buses that carts us around…. People waiting patiently at the free medical clinic…. A new friend, Barnabas, who works in housekeeping at the hotel…. All photographs and content is Copyright Fritz Liedtke. Please do not…
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Well, having made it to Kenya, through 4 airplanes and a lengthy bus ride, we are in Eldoret. A beautiful, beautiful country, sunny, with friendly people. It’s good to be here. Yesterday I photographed the dedication of the Open Arms Village property, a groundbreaking ceremony for the grounds that will become a medical clinic for the villagers, an AIDS orphanage,…
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Goatherder, Nellore, India In the spring of 2005, I had the opportunity to travel to southeast India to photograph medical teams working in coastal villages hit by the tsunami. I documented teams giving free medical clinics; helping rebuild (from the ground up) a destroyed, relocated village; dedicating new wells; and working in an orphanage in Nellore, India. I was with…