Our last week in Malawi. So strange to be going home. This week was very different from our first three weeks as we jumped around on a lot of different projects. We visited PSI to see where many of the P&G packets are shipped through and then partnered with some of the UNC projects going [...]
Read MoreHeading Home
For the last four weeks our team has been around the world on an amazing journey to document the stigmas associated with cancer and the struggles and triumphs of some of those who have fought and survived it. Our professional and personal lives have been changed and hopefully we have, and will continue to, touch [...]
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Tags Goodbye Reflection
Heelin’ Good
We spent our final two days of filming back where we began — at the Bwaila Maternity Unit and Kamuzu Central Hospital. Before leaving for our trip, we agreed to do an extra project about the fistula clinic and burn unit for UNC. It was fun to be back at the hospital and learn more [...]
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Tags Malawi UNC Hospital
Everything you ought to know about a fistula
A fistula, what’s that? When our team agreed to do an extra project for UNC about obstetric fistulas, none of us knew what a fistula was. We did some background research, but it wasn’t until we talked with Margaret Moyo from the Freedom from Fistula Foundation and Jeff Wilkinson, the surgeon who repairs fistulas at [...]
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Tags Health Malawi UNC Hospital
周鸿和舞蹈
We are (veryverysadly) in the final stretch of production in China! We headed out to Hong Zhou, a smaller city on a beautiful lake, today to see a different part of the country and get some different perspectives with man-on-the-street interviews. We got some really interesting answers, including someone who said that cancer was transferable [...]
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This Week in Photos: June 18-22
We wrapped up most of our work with P&G this week and then headed to the beautiful Lake Malawi for a few days off. I can’t believe we are almost done with our water project. Next week begins the final days of production as we wrap up loose ends and work with the UNC Project [...]
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Blind Dates in the Park
We had a much needed day off from shooting today, so Ricardo, Lisa and I went out to see some of the touristy attractions in Shanghai and stumbled upon what is now my favorite part of this city.
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Nihao!
“Your today is our yesterday. My today is your tomorrow. Your tomorrow is going to be much better.”
Read MoreThe Universal Language of Cancer
Like most Americans I have not learned a language other than English. Twelve hours of credit and a B- average in Espanol just doesn’t cut it. Yet with every interview I understand more of what each subject has said. Is this because my Spanish is improving? Perhaps, but more likely I’m deciphering the emotions conveyed [...]
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It made a difference to that one.
For the past four summers, I was a counselor at Camp Cheerio, a traditional YMCA summer camp in the mountains of North Carolina that I truly adore (as people who meet me quickly learn). One of my favorite stories that we often told at camp and first made an impression on me years ago as [...]
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