Lensational Offers Workshops to Struggling Women in Developing States
Cadhla Gray — October 7, 2015 — Social Good
References: lensational.org & mashable
Lensational is a women-empowering social enterprise that is three fold: it provides marginalized women with a chance to develop a skill, connects them locally and across the world and gives them a way to tell their stories through photography. All that and the program is impressively eco-friendly, using recycled and reused old point-and-shoot cameras that are often replaced with smartphones and DSLRs.
The program was started by Bonnie Chiu on International Women's Day in 2013 using a simple Facebook page. Shortly after, an NGO in Hong Kong sponsored its first project which provided a photography workshop for foreign domestic workers. The program was extended to China, Bangladesh and Pakistan -- locations all selected based on large gender inequality gaps.
The women-empowering program uses therapeutic photography to help these people gain personal skills, confidence and break through social isolation.
The program was started by Bonnie Chiu on International Women's Day in 2013 using a simple Facebook page. Shortly after, an NGO in Hong Kong sponsored its first project which provided a photography workshop for foreign domestic workers. The program was extended to China, Bangladesh and Pakistan -- locations all selected based on large gender inequality gaps.
The women-empowering program uses therapeutic photography to help these people gain personal skills, confidence and break through social isolation.
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3. Women Empowerment Programs - Creating more programs that support marginalized women in developing countries to gain skills and tell their stories through various mediums
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