The Geneva Learning Foundation’s first Fellow of Photography, Chris de Bode, will lead a visual storytelling workshop with health care workers from 44 countries on 18 March 2024.

80% of participants are sub-national staff working in fragile contexts.

Chris deBode spent decades on assignments, traveling around the globe for various NGOs, magazines, and newspapers.

Now, he has partnered with the Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) to share his experience with practitioners who are there every day.

Read Chris’s commentary about 1,000 photos shared by health workers to show that people make #vaccineswork https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflections-chris-de-bode-takes-people-make

The workshop is reserved for Contributors to the 2022 and 2023 Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) Movement’s International Photo Exhibitions.In 2022 and 2023, over 2,000 photos were shared by immunization staff from all over the world.

Learn more about World Immunization Week https://www.learning.foundation/world-immunization-week

Download Book I (2022) It takes people to make #VaccinesWorkhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7010196

Watch the inauguration of the First International Photography Exhibition for Immunization Agenda 2030https://youtube.com/live/MM36F0A-kfw

Watch the Special Event: World Immunization Week 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBveZXzMm3c

Watch the Special Event: World Immunization Week 2022https://youtube.com/live/3UTHUhJhE_Q

“Technical knowledge is not decisive in making your picture”, says Chris. “The person behind the camera makes the difference. You are the source of your image.”

Read Chris deBode’s commentary about what it means for immunization staff to be visually documenting their daily work https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflections-chris-de-bode-takes-people-make/

Health professions from the following countries will be participating: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United States, Zambia.

Photo by Chris deBode: Eleven-year-old Wilberforce runs along an unpaved road near his home in Gulu, Northen Uganda where he lives with his parents and 6 siblings. He says: “I want to be the fastest. I want my parents, my school and country to be proud of me. Every day I run. I dream of coming home with the biggest trophy.”