2002 Additional Photo Contest Entries

	Title: The Earth, To God Location: At a ‘Durga Puja’ organized by Bengali community in Kansas City Submitted by Ajay Ohja Category: Students/Residents Description: "A lot of people ask me about Hinduism and about all different gods and goddesses worshipped. Different Hindus worship different deities, but this is common to all. It is symbolic of offering all things available on Earth during our worship. This is a way of thanking God for providing us with this Earth and all things on it. The beauty lies in the way this is decorated."
Title: Untitled Location: Jamaica Submitted by Paul Paulman Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "This demonstrates the health teaching done by our students during the Jamaican experience."
	Title: All done up Location: Muku cham, Ecuador Submitted by Wendy Begg Category: Students/Residents Description: "Torrential rains kept us an extra day in this village, and we were treated to a deeper look into the Shhar culture. The man in the background picked berries, dug out the seeds, & mashed them into a pigment which the woman streaked across her cheeks to complete their show of traditional Shhar costume."
Title: Untitled Location: Jamaica Submitted by Paul Paulman Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "This captures the effort of our students to care for the whole family during the Jamaica experience. In this shot, the youngster was the primary patient; our students helped take care of Mom as well."
	Title: Riding the Desert Ship Location: At the pyramids, Cairo, Egypt Submitted by Amr Mohamed Category: Students/Residents Description: "In front of the pyramids, a girl and her dad riding camel behind the New Yorker driver in the desert of Egypt in front of the pyramids."
Title: Khata presentation for a safe journey home. Location: Lukla, Nepal Submitted by Ellen Davis-Hall Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "At the end of our 15-day trek to Everest Base Camp, we celebrated with our guides, sherpas and cooks. After music and dance, we were presented with khatas, silk scarves that had been blessed. This conveyed the wish of our Nepalese friends for a safe journey home."
	Title: Modaline Location: Kenscoff, Haiti Submitted by Jill Hasner Category: Students/Residents Description: "This picture was taken the Summer of 2002 in Kenscoff, Haiti. We were working at an orphanage called God’s Littlest Angels. At the time there was 40 children under the age of three being cared for. Many of the children had been brought to the orphanage by parents who were unable to care for them. Others had been brought in by hospitals who were unequipped to care for malnourished and premature babies. Sadly, the majority of these children had been found abandoned on the streets and brought to the orphanage because no one else would take them."
Title: Sharing a Good Read Location: Bhaktapur Nepal Submitted by Meredith Hammans Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "I love this shot! I was trekking with a literacy program in Nepal when I spied this group of boys taking a break to share a good read. I love the soft lighting and the typical “Nepali squat” the main boy is doing. I’ve tried it—impossible!"
	Title: Men of the Jungle Location: The Amazon, Ecuador Submitted by Wendy Begg Category: Students/Residents Description: "This picture is dark, but still speaks volumes. Our nimble jungle guides were letting us rest during a trek back to our base community when I snapped this picture. Surrounded by the trees, rocks and mud, I think this conveys their strength and ability to conquer even a portion of the world."
Title: Sunshine in New York Location: Manhattan, New York Submitted by Katalin Rabl Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "The sun is shining everywhere, every time (age) on everyone. It does not depend on your religion or nationality. Sunshine means peace."
	Title: All aboard, the camel says Location: Cairo, Egypt Submitted by Amr Mohamed Category: Students/Residents Description: "The passengers fastening their belts and getting ready for the camel to take off."
Title: Music and dance – universal languages Location: Lukla, Nepal Submitted by Ellen Davis-Hall Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "At the end of our 15-day trek to Everest Base Camp and back, we celebrated with our guides, sherpas and cooks. Our Nepalese was more limited than their English, but their celebration of life and camaraderie was contagious. We were pulled to our feet to join in music and dance."
	Title: Streets @ The City of the Incas Location: Macchu Picchu, Cuzco, Perú Submitted by Ronald Shikiya Category: Students/Residents Description: "This picture was taken in a tour, way back in 1994. I went with my undergrad prom to a conference at Universidad San Antonio de Abad del Cuzco. The picture is actually at Macchu Picchu, the lost city of the Inca Empire. Located 11,000 feet closer to the stars, south center of Perú. Built entirely of stone, I was flabbergasted to stand before such an incredible view. This place is one of the main touristic attraction in Perú, which hosts tourists from around the world."
Title: Sushmitas Location: Jomsom, Nepal Submitted by Meredith Hammans Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "I met with this group of eighth grade girls while trekking with a literacy non-profit. We spoke for a few hours over tea, chapattis and marmalade. Their education was evident in their wonderful self-confidence, which is quite unusual for female Nepalis. They nick-named me “Sushmita,” but they’re the true old beauties."
	Title: The Orient Meets Occident Location: Bangkok, Thailand Submitted by Sinjan De Category: Students/Residents Description: "The Oriental city of Bangkok harmonizes both traditional and modern cultures. This 5:00 AM picture shows a golden Buddha ornately decorated with descending sizes of elephants on the parapet and worshipping flowers and ambrosia on the pedestal; however, this has harmonized with the monorail transit commuting people kept me in awe."
Title: Squatter Boys Location: San Jose, Costa Rica Submitted by Elizabeth Buschkemper Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "I came across these three brothers in a clinic for Nicaraguan refugees. They lived in a squatters settlement on the outskirts of San Jose. The government had just given their parents notice that their neighborhood, such as it was, had been declared illegal and would be bulldozed over the following day."
	Title: Rue de Haiti Location: Cap-Haitien, Haiti Submitted by Jill Hasner Category: Students/Residents Description: "This picture was taken the Summer of 2002. It very accurately portrays many of the city streets in Haiti. They were quite narrow and filled with potholes, which always made for a head-jerking ride. People would dump their used cooking and bath water into the streets, so where ever you walked you could be sure it was next to a trail of water. We were always sure to wash our feet after we’d been out in sandals… we were pretty sure water wasn’t all we were walking through."
Title: Reflection Location: Two River Recreation Area, Omaha, NE Submitted by Jackson James Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "This lake next to the river looked almost like a mirror reflecting everything around it. I spent a long time looking at the stillness of the water and the reflection of all the trees around it."
	Title: The Morning Bazaar Location: Bangkok, Thailand Submitted by Sinjan De Category: Students/Residents Description: "A vendor selling market fresh vegetables, fruits and fish. Although 6:00 AM, the vendor greeted me with a smile from her sunshade canopy. This is very similar to India and reminds me of my hometown. I wish I was homeward bound."
Title: La ville en rose Location: Toulouse, France Submitted by Toni Biskup Category: Faculty/Staff Description: "Toulouse is known as la ville en rose (“the pink city”) for the color of these centuries-old buildings. Some are more than 500 years old. This photo I took from the roof of a parking structure downtown."