Able Voices - Cameroon (2004 - 2005)
Location: Africa and the Middle East, Cameroon
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Project Background
Project Manager: Venetia Dearden
Cameroon, November 2004 - January 2005
Cameroon PV - group photoFinanced and commissioned by Healthlink Worldwide, this project is part of a wider initiative, funded by DFID, which aims to increase the influence of grassroots disabled people over social policies, practices and public attitudes in Africa and Asia.
Between November 2004 and January 2005 PhotoVoice and Healthlink Worldwide embarked upon the second phase of its Able Voices project, running workshops with disabled people in Cameroon along similar lines to those already run in Bangladesh.
PhotoVoice facilitator Venetia Dearden trained the participants to document their lives and experiences by taking photographs with point and shoot cameras, showing the daily challenges they face and siezing the opportunity to express their views on improvements that could and should be made to improve the lives of disabled people in their society.
In December 2006 photographs by the participants from Able Voices Cameroon were exhibited in London as part of an exhibition of photographs by disabled people from three countries: Cameroon, Bangladesh and the UK. The exhibition ran from 4th - 15th December at Hoopers Gallery in Farringdon. Click here for full details.