In November 2013 volunteer surgeons at the university of Alexandria operated on more than 70 patients affected by cleft palate and cleft lip in Alexandria and Aswan. The for the patient free-of-cost surgeries were made possible by the organization Smile Train.

Six-year old Osawa from Tanzania is affected by cleft lip. He happens to be the one-millionth patient operated by the NGO Smile Train. He was operated at the CCBRT Hospital in Dar es Salaam in February 2014 by Dr. Edward Wayi. Eight months later, Osawa has gone from being very shy and unhappy, to a confident, happy and very social child. Documentary assignment for the Charity Smile Train Inc. (USA).

The water cycle of the Okavango Delta in Botswana is one of the most interesting natural phenomena still not completely understood. During the flood peaks between June and August, the delta swells to three times its permanent size and attracts animals from hundreds of kilometers around, creating one of Africa’s greatest concentrations of wildlife.

In June 2014 the non-profit organization Smile Train completed its first surgeries in the state of Kachin, Burma (Myanmar). A small medical team from India led by surgeons Dr. Jaideep Signh Chauhan and Dr. Pritham Shetty and helped by local doctors and nurses, completed 97 surgeries in under a week at the Myitkyina General Hospital.

Working as a Photography Trainer on Safari in Africa, I had the opportunity of witnessing the most magnificent sceneries and wildlife sights in Namibia and Botswana. This is just a tiny collection of impressions.

Not far away from the holiest site in Nepal, the Pashupatinath temple, where Hindus cremate the bodies of their deceased relatives, a small group of ophthalmologists, surgeons and nurses try to make a difference. They dedicate their lives to alleviating blindness in Nepal and the Himalayan region.