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Please help Follow Your Art attain its goal of raising money for its next initiative at Happy Home Orphanage in Pokhara, Nepal. We are setting up various fundraising campaigns. Here is a link to our most recent campaign endeavor. Thank you for taking the time to check it out!

Orlando Sentinel Article on Follow Your Art's Founder, Julayne Farmer, and her Time Spent at a Children's Hospital in Cambodia

Click here to:  Read an Article on how it all started: Follow Your Art's Founder, Julayne Farmer

Dickinson County News Article on Follow Your Art's initiative in Ladakh, India

Check out an article written about Follow Your Art and it's founder, Julayne Farmer:

http://www.dickinsoncountynews.com/story/1576376.html

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Happy Home Nepal Orphanage

Follow Your Art's next initiative is taking place in Nepal. A little bit about the place called, Happy Home Orphanage: Happy Home Nepal is a non-profit, locally run organization that was established in 2006. Their mission is to provide the homeless and abandoned children of Nepal with shelter, food, healthcare and education. Happy Home currently runs two orphanages in the Kathmandu valley and also provides financial support to children living at home but whose families are unable to meet the costs of sending them to school.  Take a look at Happy Home Nepal Orphanage and what they are doing for the Nepalese youth. Please continue to keep Follow Your Art's mission in mind and visit our campaign page at http://www.indiegogo.com/Follow-Your-Art-Photographic-Narratives-for-Change?a=444589

Go Go to Indiegogo!

Hey everyone! I have set up a fundraising effort for Follow Your Art's next initiative to take place in an orphanage in Nepal. You can read all about our efforts here:

If you can't see the link above, try this one:
Follow Your Art: Photographic Narratives for Change

The Sweetest Moments - My Time with the Students

This photo was taken by Stanzin Deasal. One of my most favorite photographs of myself ever taken.

Spending some time with the kids who didn't get cameras on that particular day.

I became especially attached to Wangzes.

Wangzes liked to cuddle and play with my hair. Being blonde was quite the novelty in Ladakh.

The first Shey village girl I handed my camera to for a lesson (just a few days after my arrival into Ladakh).

Photograph taken by Thinles Namgyal.

This was the crew who volunteered to keep me warm and cozy while waiting to give out newly recharged batteries to the photographers du jour.

Looking at photographs.

The sweetest kids in the world.

The first and only time in my entire life when I have felt tall - I am 5' 4".

"Miss Julayne! I need more batteries!"

I see these photographs and remember just how happy I was in Shey village.

Pretty sure I was fixing a broken camera.

There I am with the rechargeable batteries - it turned out to be my most important role.  :)

Urgan Tsering was one of the first students to befriend me. The others were quite shy in the beginning.

Wangzes holding my hand.

Urgan Tsering loved hugs - but those Ladakhi boys have to appear tough!

This one is hilarious to me - I feel like some kind of superhero with rays shooting out of my eyeballs.

A sweet moment.

"Can you please fix?" In the beginning, when the batteries would die, the students would panic, thinking they had broken the camera.

My right hand man, Sonam Angchuk - his English skills were impeccable (his father is a tour guide). He did a lot of translation for me during instruction when no other adult helpers were around - In fact, his English was better than most all of the adults' I had met in Ladakh.

Helping Chosdon read her workbook questions.

Taking a group photo of the kids up at Naropa Palace while they all took photos of me.

Wangzes playing with my hair after school.