clasp – The Way I See It

joelwitwer — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:10:26 +0000

Day 6 (Saturday) found the team on a outreach put on by a local partner church where they performed a play educating the community about disabilities in an attempted the fight the cursed and abandoned by God stereotype they carry here in Zambia.

joelwitwer — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:15:59 +0000

Day 4 brought return trips to Kabulonga Cheshire Homes (day 3) as well as Chiwama (day 2).

joelwitwer — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:05:48 +0000

Today was a little slower on the photo side of things, but I did manage to get some sweet video although you’ll have to wait to see those.

joelwitwer — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:04:53 +0000

Day 2 of the CLASP International trip consisted of speech screenings at the Bauleni Special Needs Project and a church partnership in Chawama.

joelwitwer — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:08:34 +0000

So I am back in Zambia for just under two weeks thanks to the folks over at CLASP International. We worked out a deal where I take some photos and videos for them and they get me back to this country I love. I’m here with a team of speech pathologists, as well as physical and occupational therapists as they see patients and supervise students in the University of Zambia’s speech pathology program, giving them the hours they need in order to complete their program, become speech pathologists themselves, and then be able to supervise other up and coming speech pathology students.

It’s good to be back in Zambia, back with kids, and back behind the camera. I’ll try and post a few of my favourite photos each day, but depending on exhaustion levels and internet connectivity, we’ll see how that works out.