This is a photo of my host mother during Pre-Service Training from March 3, 2010 in Matshipe, South Africa. A Sotho mother of eight, she loved to spend the hot South African summers laying on her woven straw mats underneath the shade. One...
This photo is of my five-year-old neighbor Lindi in Mzinti, South Africa from November 8, 2010. Lindi is holding a recently donated Elmo doll from the United States. She supports it alongside her back with a tied cloth in the same manner that rural...
In June 2010, excitement surrounding the FIFA World Cup reverberated from the cities to the rural areas of South Africa. In this photo, kids in Mzinti, South Africa are playing soccer at the local grounds as the opening match team, the national...
A Mozambican migrant waits in line on September 3, 2010 at the organization that I work for in order to register for identity documents. In South Africa there are a large number of mobile and undocumented persons, which has implications on...
I took this photo on December 9, 2010 during the 16 Days of Activism, an annual campaign on gender-based violence. In one of our door-to-door outreach efforts in Block A, South Africa, a woman invited me and my coworkers into her house to...
I took this photo in Naas, South Africa on March 23, 2011. The woman pictured is the grandmother or Gogo in siSwati of a client that I work with. Gogos have frequently become the primary care givers in a country where many children are orphaned as...