Educational and cultural projects (Brazil)
Projects to support basic education in the slum areas of Fortaleza, state of Ceará in Northeastern Brazil.
Photography assignment for GACC - Grupo de Apoio às Comunidades Carentes.
Casa da tia - 3’ (preview only), VO. Eng. sub. (Brazil)
Trough a series of portraits, «Casa da tia» is an attempt to better understand the crack addiction reality in Pelourinho, the historic centre of Salvador de Bahia - UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Awareness Campaign on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Mozambique)
Production of an Information, Education and Communication kit (posters, postcards and DVD) that highlights discrimination issues, promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities in the society with special focus on Gender issues, and advocates for the ratification and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Project supported by Handicap International & the Austrian Development Cooperation.
Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care (Mozambique)
Various types of HIV related projects in Xai Xai and Maputo, including testing and counselling, health services, pediatric treatment, home-based care services, food assistance, support to orphans and vulnerable children, prevention with children and young people through life-skills education and income generation.
Photography assignment for UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS.
HIV/AIDS program (Burma)
For the last 15 years, MSF/AZG has been working in Myanmar, providing basic healthcare with a focus on malaria, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. In 2003, MSF started a program for people living with HIV/AIDS, including counselling, nutritional support, treatment of opportunistic infections and essentially anti-retroviral treatment (ART). These activities are implemented in twenty clinics in rural and urban settings including Yangon and three other states.
Photography & video assignment for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.
Elections in Mozambique
On the 28th October 2009 the 4th general elections took place in Mozambique. Multiparty democracy was introduced in 1992 after the signing of a peace deal that put an end at 16 years of civil war. FRELIMO (Frente de Liberação de Moçambique) party is in power since independence from Portugal in 1975. In 2009 Daviz Simango, funder of the recently created third opposition party MDM (Movimento Democrático de Moçambique), represented a challenge to Frelimo’s supremacy.
Fair on Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care (Mozambique)
HIV/AIDS Awareness and Educational activities held in a peripheric neighbood of Maputo.
Photography assignment for UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS.
Portraits
Series of portraits of ordinary but marginalized people I met in Brazil, Burma and Mozambique in the context of different projects. They face daily discrimination because of their gender identity, disability, drug addicton, prostitution and/or HIV/AIDS.
Mother and child healthcare (Burma)
MSF teams also provide primary and secondary health care, including antenatal and postnatal cares, mother and child consultations and nutritional support predominantly to children under five years. Each clinic has a therapeutic feeding center where malnourished children and their mother receive supplementary food.
Photography assignment for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.
