Silent Auction Featuring Photography by Bryan Meltz

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Award-winning photographer Bryan Meltz traveled to Uganda to document the work of the Engeye Health Clinic, a team of tireless medical staff dedicated to improving living conditions in rural Africa. Meltz is donating a selection of her photographs from Uganda to raise $13,000 to build a much-needed building for Engeye community educational activities.

Along with the silent auction, there will be a raffle, music by DJ Stevie B and complimentary wine.


ABOUT BRYAN MELTZ:
http://www.bryanmeltz.com
Bryan Meltz is a documentary photographer specializing in long-term projects on social issues. Her work has been published in Time, Rolling Stone, FADER, and Financial Times. Bryan traveled to Uganda in February 2009 with the Engeye team to document work in the clinic and to visit local boarding schools sponsored by Engeye Scholars. Bryan graduated from The Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California with a Visual Journalism degree, and was named Emerging Female Photographer of the Year by Yarka Vendrinska Memorial Scholarship Fund. Her current personal project on refugee resettlement in Clarkston, Georgia has been recognized by REVIEW Santa Fe, the International Photography Awards, American Photo Images of the Year, and the Center for Fine Art Photography.

ABOUT ENGEYE HEALTH CLINIC:
http://www.engeye.org
Engeye Health Clinic was set up in Dgegya Village, Uganda in April, 2007 by John Kalule and Stephanie Van Dyke to improve living conditions and reduce unnecessary suffering in rural Africa through education and compassionate health care. In Uganda, it is estimated that there are 4 physicians per 100,000 people (more than 60 times less than in the US), with only 100 surgeons for the entire population of 28.8 million, 80% of which live in rural areas. Engeye seeks to prevent medical “brain drain” from rural areas by providing superior accommodations and facilities for Ugandan medical staff. Through this work, it not only provides the infrastructure for quality medical services in the rural region, it also helps to retain, motivate and attract medical professionals to want to remain in rural areas.

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