Photography Monographs On Social Issues By Stephen Shames

Humanitarian work in Africa
In 2006, Shames founded L.E.A.D Uganda, an NGO in Africa that locates forgotten children (AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, child laborers, and children living in Internally Displaced Person camps) and molds them into leaders by sending them to the best schools and colleges. Today, Shames devotes most of his time to fundraising for the Stephen Shames Foundation which does business as L.E.A.D Uganda and photographing the program’s 100-plus student members. One of the students was highlighted in a People Magazine feature in 2007.