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News Photography Exhibit to Open in Philadelphia in April The exhibit opens with a special, free opening event on Sunday, April 6, 2008 from 1-4 pm at theThe Gershman Y Galleries, 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. The opening will include the artist and invited scholars Elliot Fratkin and Joanne Corbin. The day will also include a performance by the African music ensemble Swaray and the African Safari, co-presented with ACANA (African Cultural Association of North America), and a free public reception. www.phillyjcc.com/gershman/galleries A generous grant from the Lynne Honickman Foundation made this exhibit possible. Please consider sponsoring a child's education. Donate on PayPal Child Soldier To Receive an Arm Through the generosity of Dr. Alberto Esquenazi and MossRehab, he will be fitted with a prosthetic arm this spring. PDF of exhibit
Help orphans by purchasing a limited edition print. Purchase limited edition prints by Stephen Shames All money from the sale of these prints goes to Concern for the Future, a Ugandan run program that enrolls bright, motivated AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, and children from refugee camps in the top primary and secondary schools in Uganda, then sends them to university. 100% of the money raised will be used to educate Donate on PayPal People Magazine's December 17, 2007 issue contains a four page article about 8-year-old Sarah Nantaayi. Steve first met Sarah, a double orphan, when she was 11-month-old in March, 2000, at the funeral of her mother. (Her dad died before she was born.) Her 12-year-old sister, Rose, was made head of household. When Rose had a chance to go to boarding school, 10-year-old Sanyu took over. Today, Sarah is in 2nd grade at Budo Junior School, the best primary school in Uganda. She is consistently in the top ten of her class at this elite school. Sarah was made "dorm mom". She leads the 60 kids in her dorm. Sarah and her three siblings attend top schools thanks to donors like you, who suport the efforts of the Stephen Shames Foundation. Please consider sponsoring a child's education. Transform a life by making it possible for a gifted child to attend the best school.
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Shames has photographed children whose lives have been affected by the long war in Northern Uganda, and by AIDS. In thirty large-format 30 x 40 inch prints, the exhibit pictures former child soldiers, night commuters, who walk miles from their homes each night to sleep in the center of town to avoid being abducted, AIDS orphans, children with HIV/AIDS, and working children . Shames has created a foundation, the Stephen Shames Foundation , to help the children he has come to know by paying the costs of putting them into the best schools and training them to be leaders who will help solve Africa's problems. The exhibit will also feature drawings and writings by the children pictured in the photographs. 
Ronald Okello, lost an arm in the fighting. Ronald was abducted at the age of nine . He was in the bush for four years. 
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