Anyone who is interested in photography and serving as a mentor, take note. The Girls Club at the YWCA in Cambridge is looking for volunteers to help out with its program, mainly those with photography skills. Girls who are involved with the program will go on to be counselors for the YWCA summer camp. The girls each pick a woman, talk about why she is important and what she has accomplished. The purpose of the photography program is to be able to give the participants something tangible to take with them when they leave the Girls Club.
Empowerment is a vague expression.
It s a form of empowerment for them to know how to develop and print pictures, and it s a technical skill for them to take with them in life. They re looking for volunteers with photo skills because they re interested in forming smaller groups to teach the girls, Chang said. And this way, they might connect with different people and see that there are women out there doing things like this. Even if you are not adept at photography, you still can share your time. The program is thinking of adding tutoring sessions to aid the girls with math and other school subjects.