tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23076109526926696102012-03-17T06:49:50.056+02:00David Dinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04363156786190635055noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2307610952692669610.post-54299962679647017452012-03-13T00:11:00.001+02:002012-03-13T07:09:27.282+02:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gjFC9YG445M/T153Eeml3MI/AAAAAAAAFrU/5ZEku7uDuRQ/s1600/Letterhead.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gjFC9YG445M/T153Eeml3MI/AAAAAAAAFrU/5ZEku7uDuRQ/s640/Letterhead.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mission</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Umuzi Photo Club is a youth development organization that works with young people in under-resourced communities to create socially informative multimedia, which inspires engaged citizenry, youth activism, and change. "Umuzi" is a Zulu word meaning "village".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>I am an activist campaign</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Thursday 29 March Umuzi Photo Club is kicking off its largest event to date: a citywide campaign&nbsp;launch and exhibition to highlight the new era of creative youth activism in South Africa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Umuzi’s high school learners from Diepsloot, Hillbrow, and Alexandra will showcase the activism campaigns they launched in their own communities over the past 18 months. Their groundbreaking projects highlight some of the most pertinent issues South African youth face today: teenage pregnancy, poor service delivery, and school drop-outs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The month-long photography exhibition will include multi-media screenings featuring personal stories from the youth, distribution of Umuzi’s first magazine, and large-scale photography installations transforming Braamfontein into a youth activism hub.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Following the exhibition, the campaign will go on a road show to schools across greater Johannesburg, motivating creative youth activism, community engagement, and youth-led change. &nbsp;Please see <a href="http://umuziphotoclubnews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Umuzi News</a> for more details.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Umuzi Photo Agency</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Umuzi provides professional photography services to generate a sustainable income for the organization and provide practical opportunities for its youth photographers to earn an income and become independent professionals. Umuzi’s clients include Draft FCB, Ogilvy, The South African Parliament, South African Breweries,Volkswagen and Vodacom, among others. Please contact <a href="mailto:david.dini@umuzi.org" target="_blank">David Dini</a> for further information about hiring Umuzi’s professional services.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>How to contact us</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To find out more about Umuzi, hiring its professional photographers, or the I am an activist campaign, please send us an email or call +27 73 341 4576. You can also like Umuzi on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/umuziphotoclub" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or follow us on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/umuziphotoclub" target="_blank">Twitter</a> to stay current with the latest news.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2307610952692669610-5429996267964701745?l=umuziphotoclub.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>David Dinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04363156786190635055noreply@blogger.com