The Caregiver This mother gives her daughter a sip of clean water for the first time. I can only imagine the sheer joy and pride she must feel to be able to offer this present. Read more…
Author: Ariane Alzhara Kirtley
Working Mothers
Working Mothers This post is dedicated to working mothers around the world. This Wodaabe mother busies herself making rope, with one babe in arm and her other children watching. This photo reminds me how, Read more…
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to mothers around the world. May this day celebrate every moment of motherhood, from the most amazing, to the funniest, the most devastating and challenging. I could not ask the universe for Read more…
Wodaabe Braids
WODAABE BRAIDS: An aunt is redoing her nieces braids as the young lady, Yobande, prepares to join her husband at a Gerewol festival. She may decide once at the festival, a traditional meeting spot for Read more…
Happy World Water Day!
Girls from our Amman Imman Ebagueye community are playing in the pristine water gushing from their borehole, constructed in 2012. Like in our other borehole communities, they had never seen such abundant and clean water Read more…
Building Hope. Giving Education. Providing Opportunities.
Families walk up to 30 miles a day searching for water. Children have little to no time for education. Parents migrate to neighboring countries to look for a livelihood. The NGO Amman Imman is Read more…
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Happy International Women’s Day and a special dedication to the women I work within the context of Amman Imman. I never cease to be awed by their courage. They shower their Read more…
A MARSH DRINK
A MARSH DRINK In this photo, Perri fetches water in a marsh alongside cattle and sheep. The marsh was evaporating and smelled strongly of animal feces and rot. His community is actually lucky to live Read more…
HAPPY NEW YEAR
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope this new year bears blessings, joyous harmony, accomplished dreams, beautiful unexpected opportunities, and much more. May sadness and hardships turn into transformational life lessons and bearers of strength. May fear be Read more…