After 3 months worth of assignments and photo tours in Southeast Asia, I arrived to a rather large pile of snail mail which had accumulated in my absence. It’s always kind of fun to flip through things because often times, clients will send me copies of correspondence in which my photos were used. One piece that caught my attention was this brochure about Friends Without a Border’s 10th Annual Gala. I’ve been shooting for Angkor Hospital for Children and Friends Without a Border for more than a decade and I’m always delighted to see a familiar image on one of their promotional pieces. I wish I would have had the opportunity to attend the event, which took place in New York on April 12 , but I was still in Southeast Asia at the time.
Here’s a bit of information about Friends Without a Border…
Based in New York, with chapters in Canada, Japan, and France, Friends is a 501(c)(3) organization which raises awareness and funds to support Angkor Hospital for Children, a leading pediatric hospital in post-genocide Cambodia. Founded in 1996 by photographer Kenro Izu, Friends raised the funds to construct AHC in February 1999 and continues to raise millions each year for pediatric healthcare in Cambodia. AHC is internationally respected for quality, compassionate care provided to more than 125,000 sick, malnourished, and impoverished children annually. Since 1999, AHC has treated more than 1,000,000 children.
As 1 of only 5 teaching hospitals in Cambodia, AHC has trained thousands of Khmer nurses and doctors as part of its mission to help rebuild the nation’s healthcare infrastructure. Outreach programs instill preventive health, nutrition, and hygiene practices among rural residents and upgrade health centers. Its Homecare program is the largest hospital-based pediatric HIV antiretroviral therapy program outside the nation’s capital, Phnom Penh.
For a close-up look at Angkor Hospital for Children, you might enjoy a video entitled “Come Along For The Ride”, which chronicles my most recent photo shoot for them. See below.
ComeAlongFullVersion from Karl Grobl on Vimeo.
