Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project, founded in 2000, is a non-profit under the sponsorship of Perception Inc., a 501c3 organization, and has been an on-going photographic workshop for the children living at the Imbabazi Orphanage. A dedicated group of Americans have been traveling to Rwanda to teach the children photography skills; and the children’s work has been shown in a world-wide exhibit that showcases the children’s lives today, as seen through their own eyes. The exhibit, which premiered at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, back in 2000, has traveled the world and been shown at the U.S. Senate Building in Washington, D.C., and in exhibits in France, Sweden and Canada, and was showcased at the United Nations in April 2004 to mark the ten year remembrance of the genocide, illustrating the country today, full of hope and beauty. The photography exhibit was also displayed at the New York and Los Angeles premieres of the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” and at such premiere locations such as New York University, the Houston and Southwest Florida Holocaust Museums, and The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, as well as back in Kigali, Rwanda in January 2011.
To learn more about Through The Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project, view the exhibition schedule, see examples of the children's work, or to make a donation, visit http://www.rwandaproject.org.
To see the children's most recent photographic work, or to make a donation visit http://www.facebook.com/rwandaproject
Specialties
Non-Profit, Photography, Rwanda, Orphans, Education
