The moment I started paging through the One-Shot Project website I realized this was a project worth following.
Founded by Heber Vega, an internationally-renowned humanitarian and cultural photographer currently based out of northern Iraq, The One-Shot Project helps reach out to disadvantaged children (Iraq has over 3.5 million orphans at the moment) and teach them core values while also offering vocational training through photography and multimedia.
ONE-SHOT is a project created for economically, physically, and socially disadvantaged 10 to 17 year-old Iraqi adolescents that are living in unfavorable conditions. ONE-SHOT is all about giving opportunities through vocational training in photography and multimedia, while teaching peacemaking values. ONE-SHOT has two strategies. One is short-term, based on ONE-SHOT Campaigns, which will seek to support other organizations, groups, and schools that are already working with children in adverse situations. The second, a long-term goal, is for ONE-SHOT to use these campaigns to look for talented children and support them with care, education, and training so that they have an opportunity to become professional visual communicators.
This is a very unique project that constantly needs the aid of donors and volunteers. Have an old digital camera lying around? An old photo bag? A lens that is just moping around collecting dust? These kids in Iraq can put it to good use!
What could be better than helping out children in need while also aiding the next generation of visual communicators?
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