December 12, 2008
ACDI/VOCA 2008 Photo Contest Winners
ACDI/VOCA-Bolivia is the grand prize winner in our 2008 Annual Photo Contest. The winning photo is of a beneficiary drying cocoa using modern techniques as part of our Integrated Community Development Fund program. The photo contest received 623 submissions—the most ever in its history. The Bolivian office claims the grand prize, a digital camera. There were five runners-up, named below, who each receive a choice of a flash key, a photo printer or a multi-card flash reader. There were also seven honorable mentions.
Submissions had "to show ACDI/VOCA at work," which participants did with shots of volunteer and consultant assignments, headquarter functions and project activities involving community development, economic production, information dissemination, large-scale events, etc. Submissions were received from Bolivia, Colombia, Kenya, the Philippines, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Rwanda, Uganda, Central Asia, Iraq, Armenia, West Bank/Gaza, Haiti, Vietnam and the U.S.
We thank all participants for making the 2008 Photo Contest a tremendous success. These photos, including some wonderful ones that we didn’t have room to recognize, will powerfully enhance our materials and website for years to come.
Grand Prize Winner
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Otilia Churqu rakes beans drying on her cocoa dryer, which was provided through ACDI/VOCA's Integrated Community Development Fund to improve the quality of cocoa to sell for higher prices. Under this initiative, 83 families benefited from dryers like this.
Photographer: ACDI/VOCA-Bolivia
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Runners-up
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The daughter of SUCCESS Alliance nursery operator George Opiana poses in front of seedlings grown by her father. SUCCESS Alliance helps develop the growing cocoa industry in the Philippines.
Photographer: Orlen Ocleasa, ACDI/VOCA-Philippines monitoring and evaluation coordinator |
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Jane Akot, an extension worker for Uganda Rural Development initiative (URADI), attends a nutrition and hygiene training in Amuru district.
Photographer: Ashleigh Mullinax, ACDI/VOCA-HQ senior project coordinator |
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This small business owner came to a local Iraqi MFI supported under ACDI/VOCA's Access to Credit Program, and he requested a small loan to add an addition to his store. Today he is selling twice as much fish thanks to the credit he received.
Photographer: Ali Kanabi Jamil |
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Two boys wash their hands at their school's new restroom, which was a product of ACDI/VOCA's Integrated Community Development Fund in San Antonio, Alto Beni, La Paz, Bolivia.
Photographer: ACDI/VOCA-Bolivia |
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A lead farmer and another attendee study a training poster at a nutrition and hygiene training that was facilitated by ACDI/VOCA grantee Uganda Rural Development initiative (URADI).
Photographer: Ashleigh Mullinax, ACDI/VOCA-HQ senior project coordinator |
Honorable Mention
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A beneficiary fills out an application as a part of our Food Security Program in West Bank/Gaza.
Photographer: Adnan Younis, ACDI/VOCA-West Bank/Gaza Chief of Party |
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A professor of the American University of Cairo's Desert Development Center describes irrigation systems used for large-scale vegetable production with support from ACDI/VOCA-Heinz’s Global Development Alliance Four Thousand Tons per Day Program.
Photographer: John Leary, ACDI/VOCA-HQ training manager |
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A project beneficiary signs a receipt at a sheep milk collection point in Bizzarya/Nablus organized under ACDI/VOCA's Food Security Program in West Bank/Gaza.
Photographer: Adnan Younis, ACDI/VOCA-West Bank/Gaza Chief of Party |
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ACDI/VOCA and its partner, the Bureau de Nutrition et Développement, distributed provisions from USAID, the International Organization of Migration and UNICEF to 1,124 households affected by hurricanes in Jacmel, Côtes de Fer, La Vallée, Belle Anse and Bainet, Haiti.
Photographer: Fenold Clerval, ACDI/VOCA-Haiti commodity manager |
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A mother and child attend a nutrition and hygiene training in Amuru district facilitated by an ACDI/VOCA grantee, Uganda Rural Development initiative (URADI).
Photographer: Ashleigh Mullinax, ACDI/VOCA-HQ senior project coordinator |
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Cherry tomatoes grow in a greenhouse in Baqa-Alsharqeya. The greenhouse is supported under our Food Security Program's effort to develop horticulture production and marketing for greenhouse vegetable farmers and cooperatives.
Photographer: Adnan Younis, ACDI/VOCA-West Bank/Gaza Chief of Party |
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Smallholder farmer shows a variety of maize developed by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, with support from ACDI/VOCA's Kenya Maize Development Program. Use of the new variety has resulted in increased production and improved quality of her harvest.
Photographer: Paul Seward, Farm Input promotions Africa–Kenya Maize Development Program |
