I wasn’t supposed to be on this trip. I had intended to fly into Sudan to scout out land for a medical clinic with a Sudanese lost boy. I was immensely disappointed when our “friend on the ground” suddenly needed an extra $3000 U.S. dollars once he found out I was an American citizen. Welcome […]
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#2 - Ethiopia - Don’t take my picture if you can’t fix my poverty
“Don’t take my picture if you can’t fix my poverty”.
Standing on the streets of Addis Ababa with my new Canon digital camera, a woman walked by and I snapped a shot. After the shutter was released, the woman shouted at me in Arabic. I didn’t understand what she said. My guide interpreted. “Don’t take my picture […]
#1 - Where it All Began
In Sep of 2004, I sat at the kitchen table of my father-in-law, (who was also the president of the company I worked for) and informed him that I was going to leave my job and start a non-profit organization named after a fruit. A Watermelon to be specific.
Before this radical move, I was the […]