Priest spreads understanding through disposable cameras

As aid projects go, Father John de la Salle Cha Poong’s  started giving out disposable cameras to poor children in Zambia, then a year later in Mongolia, followed by Burundi and Laos in 2011 and Sri Lanka this year.

Many pictures present a more nuanced and realistic snapshot of what life is like in some of the poorest countries in the world, they hardly represent the kinds of images commonly used by charities to drum up financial support.

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