The Humanity Campaign » Project Polaroid http://www.humanitycampaign.org Investing in social entrepreneurs working to reduce poverty and hunger in the U.S. and abroad Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Project Polaroid in Niger and Ghana http://www.humanitycampaign.org/blog/project-polaroid-in-niger-and-ghana/ http://www.humanitycampaign.org/blog/project-polaroid-in-niger-and-ghana/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:39:00 +0000 admin tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361337679034019638.post-3099738232971109411 Back in September I posted on Project Polaroid, an effort started by UNC student Carly Brantmeyer to provide children in developing countries like Colombia, Niger, and Ghana with the first pictures of themselves they've ever owned. You can read more on her blog. I wanted to post some of the recent Project Polaroid photos from Niger and Ghana.
Project Polaroid in Niger
Project Polaroid in Ghana

]]> http://www.humanitycampaign.org/blog/project-polaroid-in-niger-and-ghana/feed/ 0 Project Polaroid: Giving A Child Their First Picture http://www.humanitycampaign.org/blog/project-polaroid-giving-a-child-their-first-picture/ http://www.humanitycampaign.org/blog/project-polaroid-giving-a-child-their-first-picture/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:04:00 +0000 admin tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4361337679034019638.post-299850405982029911 How do you get the attention of an large global company (Polaroid) and convince them to reverse a key strategic decision? Hopefully, like this... The Birth of Project Polaroid Nine months ago, in early January, I was hanging out in Charlotte with a friend of mine named Carly. Carly is just 20 and a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur who runs a photography business, Carly Brantmeyer Photography. We were brainstorming. She wanted to be more than a student and photographer. She wanted to use her talents and abilities to give back. Carly had just returned from a Christmas family trip to Costa Rica. There, she took lots of beautiful digital photos. The children were eager to see the picture she just took of them on the back LCD display. She wanted to be able to give the children a copy of their photo, but couldn't. There was no easy way. She thought, "If I had a Polaroid camera with me I could give them a copy of the picture right now." She returned and while brainstorming at her house in January she came up with Project Polaroid. She would bring hundreds of Polaroid instant film with her to developing countries and give children a picture of themselves--something most of them would never seen before, yet alone owned. Project Polaroid in Colombia Carly had the opportunity to visit Colombia over the summer to try out Project Polaroid for the first time. She borrowed my Polaroid camera that was given to me as a gift in 2007 and bought some film. Here are some of the inspiring pictures she took. Take a look especially of the one of the mother, holding a picture of her beautiful young daughter for likely the first time: Project Polaroid in Uganda In July, I went to Uganda for a week. Carly had returned from Colombia so I got my camera back the night before. Here are some of the pictures I took. I was able to take about 60 pictures there while in Uganda while in 4 different locations. Each time I noticed an interesting phenomenon. In one of the locations, I found myself in a small village near the Mirembe Kawomera Peace Coffee Cooperative. This place was about 30 minutes down a dirt road from Mbale, Uganda. I took my first photo of a child and gave it to her. She was very confused as to what it was. I told her to shake the picture. She then ran away, nervous it seemed. Exactly, on the dot, 3 minutes later, a group of at least eight kids came running around the corner jumping up and down with excitement. The picture had developed! Each time I began ...

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