{"id":29,"date":"2008-07-15T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulawattsphoto.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/15\/africa-oh-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T19:26:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:26:33","slug":"africa-oh-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/africa-oh-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Oh Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending 6 months on a trip<br \/>\naround the world, the last three in Africa, my eyes have been open to the opportunities to help others less fortunate. My husband and I spent those 3 months working in a township called Red Hill, living amongst the Xhosa people. Yes, we lived in a &#8220;squatter camp&#8221; in a shack, and loved every moment of it&#8230; well, almost. We were able to help the people living there rebuild their homes after a huge fire that destroyed all of what meager possessions they had. Our team built 79 homes in 2 short months and witnessed changes in people that last a lifetime. Here are a couple images of the faces I saw on a daily basis. Unforgettable!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Gift-Zimbabwean-refugee_web.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Gift-Zimbabwean-refugee_web.jpeg\" alt=\"Our Neighbor Zimbabwean refugee S.A. Professional Photographer\" title=\"Our Neighbor Zimbabwean refugee\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Gift-Zimbabwean-refugee_web.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Gift-Zimbabwean-refugee_web-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Boy-n-Sock_web.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Boy-n-Sock_web.jpeg\" alt=\"Red Hill Post 2008 Fire South Africa Photo Journalism Photographer\" title=\"Boy n Sock\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Boy-n-Sock_web.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Boy-n-Sock_web-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending 6 months on a trip around the world, the last three in Africa, my eyes have been open to the opportunities to help others less fortunate. My husband and I spent those 3 months working in a township called Red Hill, living amongst the Xhosa people. Yes, we lived in a &#8220;squatter camp&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[84,111,216,290,294,300,301,356,359,381,471],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulawattsphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}