Where is your first digital camera?
If you are like most, you rode the excitement wave of digital cameras right after you bought your new computer to avoid any Y2K issues TEN YEARS AGO. Can you believe it has been ten years? You remember your first digital camera, you know the 1.5 mega pixel camera that finally released the shutter 2.4 seconds after you pushed the button. The one that supplied more pictures of your subject half out of the frame than it did with them smiling for the photographer.
Well now that digital cameras are at rock bottom prices you are probably collecting your old cameras and chargers in a drawer for the day you are going to “need” them. Let’s be honest, that day will never come. It is estimated that the average household has 3-4 old digital cameras collecting dust in their home. Your top of the line Pentex Optio 3.2 that fits inside of an Altoids case can not hold a candle to what you can now buy for under a hundred bucks. So what are you going to do with all of these? Someone has to want them, right? …YES! you are correct.
Kids Path of Greensboro wants them, and there is no organization that will put them to better use. Kids Path is the children’s program of Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro and provides home care for children living with potentially life threatening conditions as well as grief support for any child in the community coping with the serious illness or death of a loved one. Kids Path Counselors provide individual grief counseling support as well as Support Groups, a special overnight Grief Camp and workshops.
Pathfinders, the 6 week grief group for teens coping with the death of a loved one, is currently underway at Kids Path and the focus is on Photography. 20 teens have been learning how to use photography not only to express their feelings and reactions related to the loss but also to use photographs as a way of establishing their own voice. Grieving teens often have a lot to say but no words to say it. Creating images with digital cameras and working with the Kids Path Counselors and local photographers gives the teens the freedom and creativity of expression that they may not have been exposed to before. The group culminates in a final Photography exhibit at Kids Path and the teens invite their friends and family to attend.
Most of the families in the program own a digital camera, and Mastercolor wants to help provide each individual with a camera to use and to take home during the program. Please ship or bring by any older working digital camera that you no longer use. If you ship a camera in, please include a disk with some of your favorite images and we will be happy to print them and ship them to you for free. If you want to stop in and drop off a camera, we will be happy to give you a $20.00 gift certificate for any printing needs you may have in the future.
Please help Kids Path of Greensboro, they certainly could use your support.
Our ship to address: Mastercolor Labs * 2006 N. Church Street * Greensboro NC 27405
Tags: Digital Cameras, Hospice, Hospoice of Grensboro, Kids Path of Greensboro, Pentex Optio, photographers, Y2K