About camera_rwanda / Kresta King Cutcher Venning  

Support Gismba Memorial Center. Buy the book!: www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/559906

www.krestakingphotography.com/


My little friend Leon lives at Gisimba Memorial Center on the outskirts of Kigali. Leon is 8, and I've never met a more exuberant child. Although Leon is deaf, he has no trouble understanding his world, a world he looks at with imeasurable fascination. Of all the children at Gisimba, Leon stands out. His smile, warmth, and eagerness is endless, and his delight in the small things is a gift to witness. Whenever I visited the orphanage, Leon would spot me from afar, run towards me until we crashed into each other, the greeting hug only a sign of what was to come. Thereafter, Leon and I were inseparable. And even though I know he appreciated seeing me, it was the camera he was most excited about. Leon couldn't get enough of the camera,
and seeing him with it made me realize just how important an opportunity it was. Leon is a natural artist, his inventive ways of seeing the world perhaps sharpened by his hearing loss. I look forward to returning to Rwanda and bringing Leon his own camera.

Gisimba Memorial Center
Kigali, Rwanda. Central Africa.
August 2006.
Taken by a young photographer.

If you are interested in sponsoring an orphan at Gisimba Memorial Center, direct contact information is listed below. (Thanks to Chrissie Lam of Create for a Cause.)
Ildephonse Niyongana - Director
Damas Gisimba - Founder
gisimbacmg@yahoo.com
Gisimba Orphanage
B.P. 1433 Kigali Rwanda

Ave de la Nyarugenge
Nyamirambo
District of Nyarugenge
tel +250 08524515 or +250 08532596

Bank of Kigali 040-0013914-76
swift BK IG RWRW

Additional information can also be found on www.orphansofrwanda.org


Please contact me if you are interested in using my photographs. All rights reserved.
Copyright 2005, 2006 Kresta K.C. Venning.

Please find my Gisimba Memorial Group on Facebook if you are interested in supporting the orphanage. Thank you so much!

Mother with Child Portraits from Rwanda By Kresta K.C. Venning
Twelve years after the 1994 genocide, a fellowship of mothers are at the crossroads of their lives. Black and white portraits. 66 pages. In support of KEZA and The Burunga Women's Cooperative: www.keza.com/index.php?id=16

I also support:
www.snapfoundation.org/
umuziphotoclub.blogspot.com/
www.keza.com/index.php?id=16
africamissionalliance.org/
pearlchildren.org/
www.orphansofrwanda.org
www.dobbynfoundation.org/
www.artfullyunforgotten.com/

Publications

ActNow
addmagazine
Africa News
Afrikas Kvinder
Alberta Distance Learning Centre
Andrea Corr
Artists for Amputees
Artists: Lopi LaRoe, Carla Stey
Arup
Bikini Films
Building Unity Through Diversity
CARE (Netherlands)
Centrepiece (The Magazine of The Centre for Economic
Performance, London)
Chapman University
Columbia University’s Earth Institute
Comisio Catalana d’Ajuda al Refugiat (CEAR)
Ecolonews
Equilife
FASCO
Fern Universitaet
Flickr for Good Blog
Fundacion Carolina
Gisimba Memorial Center
Global Action--Women of Global Action (WOGA)
Hayim Aherim ("Alternative Life")
Hofplein Theatre Rotterdam
Imperial College of London
International Children's Aid Network (ICAN)
International Diabetes Fund
Latvian Refugee Council
Les Humains Associes
Living Faith Ministries
Mexican Wave
National Public Radio ("On the Media")
New America Media
Opportunity International
Orphans of Rwanda
Pearl Children Care Center
Philter, Inc.
Pohdiskeleva Liftari
Queen's Quarterly
Rotary International
Suas Educational Services
Teaching Ideas and Resources (TES)
The Book of Hope
The Daily Shooter
The Dobbyn Foundation
The Harvard International Review
The International Rescue Committee
The Isis (Oxford)
The Lonely Planet
The United Nations
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The University of Amsterdam
The University of London
UNICEF
United Children of the World
Verity: The International Magazine
Williams College
Writings on the Wall
Youth for Poverty

I'm Female and Taken.