Student draws hope, inspiration from resilient Kenyans
Jane Harbottle returned from an African studies excursion with images of Kibera, Kenya, that paint a grim portrait of life in the continent's second-biggest slum. But Ms. Harbottle's documentation of Kibera's misery could help to alleviate some of it. She has raised almost $27,000 for the Vision Sisters - a community women's and youth group in Kibera - by selling her framed photographs and soliciting private donations in Vancouver. Ms. Harbottle, 23, who stumbled onto the Vision Sisters project in Kenya in 2006 as part of º«¹úÂãÎè's Canadian Field Studies in Africa program, says her photographs and her fundraising efforts were inspired by much more than misery. "What gives me hope for the place," the soft-spoken aspiring medical student said of the Nairobi slum, "is the incredible joy and resilience of the people there - in the midst of such difficult circumstances."