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“Village Life in Jinja”. Jennifer Orient Mugisha. Jinja, Uganda. 2017

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“Village Life in Jinja”. Jennifer Orient Mugisha. Jinja, Uganda. 2017

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Excited to introduce Deme, Picture Change class of 2017 in Uganda, who will be taking over our Instagram from where he now lives in Kenya! .

Take it away, @jackeuxinus! .
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“My name is Jacob Maina {Deme}. I am 24 years old. I love traveling, making new friends, listening to music, and photography. I came to love photography while i was still very young. My dream is to be a professional photographer telling people's stories through photography. i also aspire to hold photography classes soon and inspire other youngsters like me. I love photography because it gives me a chance to know people more.”

“We have small buisness and bigger fish buisness in Padre Ramos. My mom runs a small one where she buys fish from the local fishermen and take it to Chinandega (the city). .
This has become a family buisness, and whenever my mom is not at home either me, my brother or my dad bring the fish to the big market where you sell it to a lady and she will sell it to somebody else. .
.Today I had to bring the fish to Chinandega but Gloria and Hazel did the hardest job ( buy the fish fromthe fishermen, Ice it so it will make it good to town and bring it to the bus stop) . Very proud of them.”
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- @rosyumanzord

Thrilled that @rosyumanzord was able to partner with @PreemptiveLove as a translator for the work they are doing on the US/Mexico border.

They reached out and asked if any of our Nicaraguan @picturechange students could assist their life-saving mission by translating interviews. Rosa was hired and did an incredible job, for the pressing issue of families fleeing violence and poverty is very close to her heart and has affected her on a personal level.

Check out the work of Preemptive Love and read about Rosa’s involvement in her own words below: “There was a story from a man traveling with his 15 year old daughter, trying to protect her from the gangs and getting kidnapped because at her school, many kids were kidnapped and killed. He just wanted a safe place for his daugther to live.

The other story was about a woman that was traveling alone with her son. She was a single mom and she wanted to protect him. He was 11 years old. She fled to protect him from the violence that there is in Honduras. She was trying to provide a better life for her child.

As I was reading these stories, I thought about many people I know that are in the same situation. Some people I know are not here to tell their stories because they were killed.
And it made me sad, but at the same time made me happy that there are people that want to help them like the organizations that provide food for them, that someone is there to show them love and care about them.”

Magdiel and I had a cup of coffee in Chinandega and talk about how we are doing, the projects we are working on with photography. I'm planning to have a photography class in Padre Ramos and I want him to come one day to my class and share his experience as photographer. After all the protest in Nicaragua the economic is worse than it was before and for me right now my only job is taking pictures, ID photos for the fishermen, birthday parties, Quinceañeras parties, weddings and more. .
.Just so greatful for picture change and hoping it can impact other people's lives as it did to both of us. .
.Thank you to all the ones that made this possible for us., God bless you.
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By @rosyumanzord

I have been documenting my little sister over the years, now She is eleven years old and She is such a smart and hard worker little girl. She spend part of her sundays washing her clothes by hands.
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.Picture and caption by @rosyumanzord

So excited to share some photos taken by @jenniferorient! She was part of our 2017 class in Jinja, Uganda and has gone on to do incredible things in her community, both as a teacher and a photographer.

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