Esther Havens Photography

This year Charity Water is doing a very unique Fundraiser. If you have a September Birthday they are asking that you ask for money for Water Wells instead of gifts. I am doing just that. My goal is to raise $1,000 which pays for 1/4 of a well. If you have seen the Jean Bosco Story on the main page of my website that is from a village where Charity Water funded a water well. These people in Marunja now have clean water for years and years to come.

Did you know that more than 1.1 billion people in the world today don’t have the most basic thing: clean water to drink. And 4,500 kids die each day from water-related disease. I’ve been supporting an organization called charity: water that has been working to make a real difference.

So I’ve decided to give up birthday gifts this year and ask people for donations instead to help people in need. 100% of the money raised will go directly to building freshwater wells, which will be proved with GPS coordinates and photos on Google Earth.

I am asking for my age in dollars. Please make a donation on my page:

http://www.charitywater.org/birthdays/fundraiser/sept/view/48

:Click here for Water Well Stories:

I want to escape to this world.

The world where technology doesn’t exist.

Where you wake up each day to survive.

I am missing Africa today.

Paul and Kristine Kim

07.05.08

Watch these:

http://www.platonphoto.com/interview/#

and these:

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/images/stories/videos/Interviews/index.php?

Life is meant to be LIVED.

What does it mean to truly LIVE ?

that’s all I have for today folks.

I visited with my family in Dallas earlier this week and snapped a hilarious moment. She seems to love her nose as a resting place for her finger.

Couldn’t have been more perfect.

This is Amelie Celeste … 11 months

Seriously.. The coolest invention since the iphone.

ok. So you text a question to the numbers chacha ( 242-242) and ask it any questions you could think of. A live person will text you back with the answer.

I texted to them: who is esther havens ?

and I got back : “Esther Havens is a freelance photographer based in Austin, Texas & New York City. She’s traveled worldwide to photograph the poor. ”

crazy crazy crazy…

Back in Texas…An old friend of mine, Jennifer Long is getting married to Casey Bedell in Dallas and they’ve asked me to photograph their wedding. It’s going to be a super fun day and I can’t wait to see them.
It feels sooo good to be back in a place of Space. waited around the airport most of the day today to catch a flight to Texas. So.. They were offering passengers a free ticket if they would volunteer to be bumped to the next flight and NOBODY was going up there. I’m like are you kidding ? to be 1.5 hours late to your destination you.. you won’t do that for a free ticket ? I ran as fast as I could to give up my seat. Hm. Where should I go ? hm.

time to get some sleep I think.
-Esther

met this girl at a school in Rwanda. Most beautiful eyes ever.