By Wen Hung | Project Leader
Bermet is 15 years old teenager in the 8th grade and has both parents and three siblings. They don’t have their own house, and live in a rental house without good living conditions. She joined our project in February 2017.
“Hello! My name is Bermet, I have started photography class in TFCF since this February. As a beginner, I really like it. My parents can’t afford to buy a camera for me, however, I am still dreaming about having my own camera. We moved house many times because we don't have our own house. So, I am familiar with different places in the Bishkek city. I hope I could take photos of interesting subjects anytime, anywhere. I joined TFCF volunteer team recently and I want to help people. I want to say thank you to people who support children like me! One day I will give my own helping hand to children! It is one of my dreams.”
- Message from Bermet
Sharing is caring!
In our team-building activity, we have a sharing moment and help participants get to know each other better and build a good fellowship. Through the activity, children often involve sharing personal information and experience, and learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect. In the beginning, children were too shy to interact with others, however, shy children can learn to be more confident and comfortable interacting with other people afterwards.
Photography challenge ideas
Currently, we have 9 on-going classes and there are 91 participants participating in our project. It’s time to demonstrate their skills and creative ideas. We’ve listed 10 different photography ideas, and every child could choose one of them to complete the task. For example, we may ask them find one spot and create 24 different and unique shots or take a photo of one object in different places with different angels. We are glad that most of children have done excellently and we have collected their feedback as below:
Regina said, “At the beginning, it was difficult to choose from the list, so I spent time reading through all 10 tasks and found my favorite finally. It was not easy for me, but I know it was good for me because I sit and think before I shoot.”
Bermet said, “My task was about the limit meaning to limit myself in any way. So, I decided to limit myself by shooting flowers only which I really like!”
Sanzhar said, “I misunderstood the task, so I did it in the wrong way firstly. However, I captured up and found my photos were good. My teacher told me that the photopraphy is an act of creativity.”
Summer camp soon!
We are preparing and getting ready for summer camp activity very soon. We would like to thank to all of our sponsors who have donated to this project and help children’s dreams come true. We believe that children will enjoy this summer camp to enhance their photographic skills which give children opportunities to broaden their minds.
With gratitude,
Wen Hung
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