My dad has felt the calling to be a humanitarian photographer and has a trip lined up in Guatemala two weeks from now and is going to the Phillipines in November with Badjao Bridge, an organization started by Dan Johansen who is also a photographer. So anyway he was free to meet and talk before the trip so we did. He told us stories about his time in the phillipines and how this all got started, the lives of the people in this tribe, the racism against them by other Phillipinos and the negative reactions he has received due to the work he is doing. My dad is sponsering a girl named Therese there and Dan was able to show us a picture—one of two pictures he had taken of kids on the trip, and one of them was of her, without his knowledge that she was my dad’s sponser child—for she was living in the worst conditions he’d seen there. It was a very transformative experience listening to him talk, and I was really excited for my dad to get to go—Dan invited me to come next time!

For more information about this organization: http://www.badjaobridge.org

to sponser a child for 20$ a month: http://www.badjaobridge.org/sponsor-a-child/