to make sure we keep the images flowing, i'll continue to post from past travels for a bit.

adam and i spent six weeks in india last year over the holidays. while there, we worked on a story about city montessori school in lucknow. they have over 30,000 students on more than 20 different campuses around the city. it's quite an amazing educational adventure there. every morning students gathered to sing their school anthem.





while in lucknow, i also worked on a project at the jail there. getting access was an incredible feat. i learned a lot about working as a freelance journalist in a foreign country. occasionally the jail brought in outsiders to hold different programs. while i was there, they brought in a group of students to perform for the inmates.





on my first trip to india early in 2006 in my corporate past life, i tacked on a few days of personal time at the end of my trip to mumbai to travel to jodhpur. i hired a driver one day and traveled to a beautiful temple town called osiyan.



in october of 2005 i spent three weeks in uganda working with an organization called kids in need. KIN helps uganda's 25,000+ street children find stability in their lives.





back home. i have spent several years photographing in a north city neighborhood called college hill.



before we moved to benton park, we rented in the shaw neighborhood for a year. dee dee was one of our neighbors.



while still in grad school, i did a story about a six year old boy with autism. roan thrived despite his disability.

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yesterday i wrote briefly about my trip to uganda in 2005 to work with a non-government organization called kids in need (KIN). estimates say there are more than 25,000 street children in uganda, many of whom have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. KIN provides food and shelter and so much more to some of those kids. they have two separate centers in kampala, one for boys and one for girls, as well as an outreach center in mbale, which is near the kenyan border. i was able to spend time at all three locations and what they do is phenomenal. i decided to put together a slideshow with my images and the sound i recorded of the girls singing. it's sad it took me almost two years to do this, but better late than never, right?

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