Spreading the good will.
Hi everyone,
It has been a while sing I wrote anything here. I have been thinking about it for awhile about this. I have really been encourage by the kind words I received here at RB about my photos and have been even more surprised to have people who like my photos enough to purchase them. I have been very honoured. Although, it was a very modest number of sales.
Photography is certainly my hobby and I thought if my hobby can earn me a little money perhaps I can share it with the people who are more in need. For all those who purchase my photos, I have put the proceed towards a purchase of a sewing machine (through an organisation called CNEC PI) to help an african woman in Congo or Rwanda to earn a living and to sustain her family. May be we can change the world one sewing machine at a time. So thank you everyone, you have made an important contribution to someone that we may never know and may never met.
Thank you also for all your comments about my work. Those comments certianly encouraged me to be more creative and to use it perhaps to help others.
PS: If I make more sales, I am considering a pair of Goat to provide milk, cheese and meat for a community. Apparently they breed easily, therefore can be a good source of income as well as nutrition to a community. This will be a project in bangladesh through an organisation called TEAR australia.
Thanks to you all
Melinda Kerr
Cool stuff Bec. I know how important those sewing machines are. I approached a well known sewing machine company to sponsor a collection of your’s and my photos (exhibition) for the African charities but no luck :( Be so cool if you can raise enough. Now that you’ve got your new, snazzy camera it’s only a matter of time!
rebecca zachariah
thanks mel. May be I should add for people to know that those sewing machine can be used to start a little microenterprise for somebody. These women, often left by their husband, many with fistula, could finally financed themselves, their children and often their extended family by providing sewing services for the local people. so it means food on the table, it means survival, it means schooling for their children, it means better life now and in the future for their children. So thanks again.