Operation Crossroads Africa

Those who know me in my personal life know that I spent a summer in Nkubu, Kenya in 2006. I pretty much talk about it all the time and as if I was there for 5 years. I really did have an amazing time and I learned so much about myself and about a land and a community 7,500 miles away from my own. I worked at an orphanage called the Huruma Centre, through a program based in New York City called OPERATION CROSSROADS AFRICA.

Yesterday, I was looking up the OCA website to include in an email to an interested friend. When the OCA main webpage loaded, I was incredibly surprised to see one of my images from my trip! In fact, the entire website, which was recently redesigned, is loaded with my images! I am really honored that my photography is being used to represent this incredible program, which was the progenitor of the Peace Corps. It definitely was a challenge to lug around my camera; there was a time when I slipped into a river bank and my camera was inches away from being soaked in muddy water. Everyone else was worried about my well-being while I was only concerned about my camera!

The OCA website also has a link to my KENYA SLIDESHOW. Here are a few of my favorite images from my time in Nkubu: