Mission to El Salvador: The Children

Little girl in the central marketplace of Ataca,El Salvador

In 2014, Louise and I participated in a mission trip to El Salvador sponsored by the North Georgia Conference of United Methodists. Louise and I were not Methodists, but she was the Music Director at the Chickamauga church (one of her many abilities), so that's where we went to church. And of course, we were always up for a mission trip.

The community selected for our mission was Colonia Gloria, one of the poorest sections of Ahuachapan, a busy city of about one hundred thousand people in the mountains of western El Salvador. Louise's job was to hold daily medical clinics in a local pastor's house, while my role was to document the trip with my cameras. Several members of our team, including another nurse, assisted Louise with the clinic, while other team members held a daily Vacation Bible School in a small Methodist church in the community.

I'll write more about the trip in coming days, but for now, I just want you to see the innocence of these children of El Salvador. Innocence that they, sadly, will soon outgrow.

 

 

All photographs on the El Salvador trip were made with a pair of Olympus OMD-E-M5 micro 4/3s cameras. The most-used lens was a Panasonic Lumix 14-140mm f3.5-5.6 zoom. All photos were made with the natural light as I found it.

If you're interested in viewing the audio-visual program I created from our trip, click here.

Check out the pictures at my online gallery: https://davejenkins.pixels.com/  Looking is free, and you might find something you like.

Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.

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