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Savelugu, Ghana – The Founder and Executive Director of Foto4Change, Geoffrey Buta, has urged pupils of the Savelugu School for the Deaf Photography Club (SSDPC) not to allow their inability to hear limit them from developing their skills in the art of photography.
According to him, “your ability to see, read and write alone is more than enough to make you a global professional deaf photographer if you take the training we’ll be giving you seriously”.
He therefore encouraged the junior high school pupils of the Savelugu School for the Deaf in the Northern Region to be more interested in learning photography so that they could use the skills to document school activities.
“You can capture moments such as school quiz and sports competitions as well as a visit to the school by a high profile person like a minister or any government official and share that on the school’s social media pages. Some of you can turn those skills into a profession after school.
I am a photojournalist but I also teach in the university. You can pursue photography up to the highest level of your education and we’ll be glad to support you to achieve that dream”, Mr. Buta emphasized.
Mr. Buta said these when he led a team from Foto4Change on a follow-up working visit to the Savelugu School for the Deaf as part of the implementation of the ongoing “Photography For The Deaf” project in the school.
Foto4Change is a visual communication non-profit based in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana. The Photography For The Deaf project started in November 2023 at the Savelugu School for the Deaf. The project aims at training school children in basic photography so that they can express themselves through visual storytelling and its power to address social issues.
As part of the implementation of the project, Foto4Change donated photography equipment including a digital camera, speed light, tripod and other accessories to the school.
Members of the SSDPC and its patron would receive training for a period and they would then be required to also train other pupils who would join the club later on.
Mr. Buta explained that, the project would be extended to the Gbeogo School for the Deaf at Tongo in the Upper East Region and the Wa School for the Deaf at Wa in the Upper West Region.
“In the coming weeks, we intend to visit these two schools to meet with the authorities and other stakeholders and discuss with them what we’re doing as an organisation. The two schools will also be given photography equipment like their counterpart at Savelugu in the Northern Region. The project is being piloted in the three schools in the Northern sector of the country for now. In the future we hope to expand it to cover all deaf schools across the country and yearly organize photography contest amongst the various schools to compete by exhibiting their works”, he indicated.
Headteacher of the Savelugu School for the Deaf, Nora Naaso expressed gratitude to Foto4Change and its management for the novel support it was bringing to the school, adding “our doors are always open to you and any organisation out there for collaboration”.
The Savelugu School for the Deaf was established in March 1978 and currently has a population of about 400 pupils and over 40 teaching and non-teaching staff.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Kusiele Ziem
