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How Our Students Build Photography Skills With A Robust Video Library

amina mohamedComment on How Our Students Build Photography Skills With A Robust Video Library

Since its inception in August 2017, Cameras For Girls has diligently taught photography and business skills to marginalized females endeavouring to become journalists in Africa. However, we realized we needed to pivot over the last 20 months under COVID. Thus, we built a robust video library, so our students could continue developing their photography and business skills instead of having the in-person training we could not deliver.

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Cameras For Girls announcment of charity status
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Cameras For Girls Achieves Charity Status

amina mohamedComment on Cameras For Girls Achieves Charity Status

When I set out to change the lives of females in my home country, Uganda, using the power of photography, I never envisioned that we would be here three years later, after many setbacks. Being a solo founder and running this day-in and day-out gets lonely and sometimes overwhelming. But knowing the lives, I can impact in the developing world makes me work harder each day. What does it mean for a small organization to hit official status? Mainly that we can now issue tax receipts for donations.

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