Ambassadors for Children (AFC) has apparent addition anniversary in acknowledging accouchement through an initiative, alleged the AFC Picture Me Project, based in Ann Arbor.
Ann Arbor, MI (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 26, 2009 -- Ambassadors for Children (AFC) has apparent addition anniversary in acknowledging accouchement through an initiative, alleged the AFC Picture Me Project, based in Ann Arbor. AFC is a non-profit alignment committed to confined accouchement through concise altruistic trips, and the AFC Picture Me Project has become an important aspect of anniversary advance activity about the world.
I accomplished this was a cogent gesture. On above-mentioned trips, I would accompany out my camera and be amidst by kids who capital their account taken. Taking a photo connects you with a person, even if you are strangers. Often our photo would be the alone one they've anytime had taken. This simple emblem builds their self-esteem and gives them a admired anticipation for the blow of their lives These accouchement abide on and about trash. They accept to apple-pie themselves several times a day. They do appear school, and we abutment their apprenticeship through our altruistic trips. We were aswell blessed to accommodate them with photos that they'll accept the blow of their lives The AFC Picture Me Project is a affairs area cruise volunteers crop agenda portraits of the children, book them application carriageable printers, and present the photos to them as gifts.
The affairs was conceived by Melinda Bostwick, one of the volunteers who piloted the photography affairs during an AFC altruistic cruise to Kenya. After seeing the absolute appulse on the children, AFC launched the Picture Me Project in September 2008.
"I accomplished this was a cogent gesture. On above-mentioned trips, I would accompany out my camera and be amidst by kids who capital their account taken. Taking a photo connects you with a person, even if you are strangers. Often our photo would be the alone one they've anytime had taken. This simple emblem builds their self-esteem and gives them a admired anticipation for the blow of their lives," said Bostwick, who has photographed accouchement about the apple through her accommodating activities.
The latest AFC Picture Me Project took abode in affiliation with the group's a lot of contempo altruistic cruise to a apple in Cambodia, area accouchement and their families abide about one of the country's a lot of baneful landfills. In accession to acknowledging the village's association center, AFC provided new accouterment and academy photographs of 70 preschoolers in their new outfits.
"These accouchement abide on and about trash. They accept to apple-pie themselves several times a day. They do appear school, and we abutment their apprenticeship through our altruistic trips. We were aswell blessed to accommodate them with photos that they'll accept the blow of their lives," said Dr. Sally Brown, admiral of Ambassadors for Children.
AFC organizes 40 to 50 advance altruistic trips a year to plan and provides accessory activities for schools, orphanages and association centers. The AFC Picture Me Project has become an add-on to these trips. So far, the photography has taken abode in Afghanistan, India, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Costa Rica, Serbia, Jordan, Malawi, Jamaica, Colombia and Cambodia.
AFC invites volunteers and photographers to apprentice added about their mission and accede abutting one of AFC's altruistic trips. For added advice visit, www.ambassadorsforchildren.org and hotlink to the Ann Arbor Chapter.
About Ambassadors for Children
Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, Ambassadors for Children (AFC) is a not-for-profit alignment committed to confined accouchement about the apple through concise altruistic account trips and acceptable programs. Ambassadors for Children supports accouchement in about 20 locations about the apple by anecdotic and acknowledging acceptable programs, such as developing baby businesses, acknowledging orphanages, bartering medical supplies, accouterment books and banking abutment for libraries. AFC trips accommodate hands-on alternation with disadvantaged children, counterbalanced by opportunities for sightseeing and captivation in the built-in ability of the association served. For added information, appointment www.ambassadorsforchildren.org.
Media Contact:
Julie Metea
On account of Picture Me Project
313-320-3937
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