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Hello from Cabramatta High School June 2015

In May 2015 Australian school students at Cabramatta High school were introduced to new friends in Hato-Builico, Timor-Leste and are creating their own foto stories to send back. Josephine writes about what Foto Friendship means to her:

“Foto Friendship? What is it? To me, Foto Friendship means making friends with kids in East Timor and telling them about our lives through photos.”

My name is Josephine and I’m currently a year 10 student. Foto Friendship is a program that was introduced to me when I was still in year 9 and I’m fortunate that until now, I’m still a part of it. Through Foto Friendship, I was able to see how the kids in East Timor lived, what they did in their free time as well as their religion and what’s important to them.

It taught me things that I wasn’t able to learn at school, through friends or even my family, and that’s to not take things for granted. Here in Australia, everyone lives the way they want, often not thinking about others that are in need, but through Foto Friendship, we see that the children need to do chores, look after siblings starting from a young age and doing things that we usually don’t do, just to live.

I feel that by being part of the Foto Friendship program, I get a lot more insight to the lives of children in East Timor and honestly, I really enjoyed the sharing of photos and finding out more about them.”

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Picured above: "Self-Portrait", "Book of Life" and "Secret Amongst the Rocks and Trees" by Josephine Lang. Pictured below: Foto Friends from Cabramatta High School.

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You can view some of work from Cabramatta High School, in Gallery | solo 2 and Gallery | group 2 on our galleries page.