{"id":2004,"date":"2010-06-05T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/returned-from-the-philippines\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T10:22:03","slug":"returned-from-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/returned-from-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Return From the Philippines."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just arrived home from the Philippines scouting trip, it was a great success. There are so many fantastic photo opportunities there, I’m really excited to get down to the “nitty gritty” and pull it all together. Over the next few weeks I will be putting the final touches on an itinerary and contacting the folks I met with while there, to hammer out all the logistics and pricing for a 2011 tour!<\/p>\n

It’s sometimes funny how little coincidences seem to pop up. Like last night while going through some mail that had accumulated during my absence. Here I was, just returning from the Philippines, and on my desk I see Education Development Center’s 2009 Annual Report. On the cover was an image I shot for them in Mindanao and on other pages, shots I took in Afghanistan and Guinea.<\/p>\n

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Education Development Center (EDC)<\/a>, one of my NGO clients, is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world\u2019s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity. Working with public-sector and private partners, EDC harnesses the power of people and systems to improve education, health promotion and care, workforce preparation, communications technologies, and civic\u00a0engagement. They have <\/span>350 projects in 35 countries around the\u00a0world with programs and services which include research, training, educational materials and strategy, with activities ranging from seed projects to large-scale national and international initiatives.<\/p>\n

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So often in the news we only read about tragedy and conflict, so please, have a look at EDC’s Annual Report<\/a> and perhaps explore their website for a few moments. It’s refreshing to see the wonderful and amazing things being done around the world by a committed group of individuals like those at EDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Return from Philippines photo tour scouting trip. Education Development Center Annual Report 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}