star for life – Christian Sperka Photography

For once this is not about wildlife 😊

As many of you know I support the Star For Life ( https://starforlife.org ) charity whenever I can.

For this project Star For Life Germany ( https://starforlife.org/de ) has donated 45! brand-new Laptops for a Secondary School in one of the poorest areas of South Africa.

Over the last few weeks I have spent quite a bit of time setting the laptops up with MS-Office, Google Chrome, etc at my home at Thanda House.

And this week I supported the donors’ representatives from Germany, the local SFL team, and a student-teacher-team from Sweden delivering them to the school and giving the first lessons to learners and teachers.

I enjoyed helping in this very worth-while project.

Today we had a great hand-over celebration with local officials, all the learners and teachers, and a lot of song and dance!

With this new ‘computer lab’ the students of all the grades from 8 to 12 can now learn some of the most important skills for the modern world. Up til today only very few of them had ever had access to a PC.

If you want to know more about Star For Life and/or how you can help then just refer to their website(s) or contact me directly.

An inspiring week!
An exhausting week!
An interesting week!
An unforgettable week!

Since I have arrived in South Africa four-and-a-half years ago I spent my time exploring and photographing the bush and its wild animals, I was guiding and teaching many Thanda guests about the environment and about photography, I have developed websites and worked on social media. None of that had prepared me for the last week.

Twenty well known artists from the Americas and Europe stayed at Thanda Safari to create art work to benefit the Star For Life organization (http://www.starforlife.org/). I was part of the team to host these creative guests. I spent my week responding to their needs and request, I set up a photo studio in the middle of the bush, I helped the photographers among them to get the right setups and I spent many hours photographing Colette Lumiere, a multimedia artist from New York, in her various installations. And I also took pictures during the event which will become part of a book about the project. What an experience! I will never forget it.

All the work created will be auctioned at the end of next year at Stockholms Auktionsverk (http://artprojectthanda.com/) to benefit Star For Life.

These are a few pictures from this very special week! Enjoy them!

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Tag: star for life

An excellent project!

Art Project Thanda – South Africa 2016

An inspiring week!
An exhausting week!
An interesting week!
An unforgettable week!

An inspiring week! An exhausting week! An interesting week! An unforgettable week!

An inspiring week!
An exhausting week!
An interesting week!
An unforgettable week!