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HP & CARE Empower Women One Image at a Time
A Cambodian woman, Chab Parath, recently purchased a small rice field. Printed on an HP Designjet Z3100 Photo Printer on HP Hahnemuhle Smooth Fine Art Paper, using HP 70 Vivera Pigment Inks.
2006 Phil Borges/CARE
A 75-year-old woman named Nue witnessed the burning of her village in Ankor, Cambodia.
Printed on an HP Designjet Z3100 Photo Printer on HP Hahnemuhle Smooth Fine Art Paper.
2006 Phil Borges/CARE
Women gather for a community forum on health and nutrition in Thuadabri, India.
2006 Ami Vitale/CARE
A Cambodian girl pauses from her work in Shay Don Koth Village. Printed on the HP Designjet Z3100 Photo Printer.
2006 Hoshito Omija/CARE
The oldest of 12 children, Hipolita Sotacuro Palomino was one of the first graduates of CARE’s leadership school. Printed on an HP Designjet Z3100 Photo Printer on HP Premium Instant-Dry Satin Paper.
2006 Maggie Steber/CARE
Therefore, realities like those of Chab Parath, are not uncommon. Fortunately, agencies like CARE make her story a global platform for change.
According to Borges, “The empowerment of women is such an important piece of addressing global poverty and global security. It is not only the quickest way to stop the spread of AIDS; it is the quickest way to put a cap on population pressures.”
“We are very pleased with this first step that we’ve taken together, and hope that it is the first of many steps,” explains Sledzieski.
Such steps seem to typify the social change and innovation necessary in the developing world, by creating a global platform shepherded by the rawest form of human consciousness: art.
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