The Touch A Life Foundation

When I started photographing the Touch A Life program 12 years ago, I was a fresh young photojournalist with little experience, and a dream of using my camera to raise awareness and create change in the world. Touch A Life founder Pam Cope learned about the horrors of child trafficking on Lake Volta in Ghana in 2006 and immediately expanded her organizations work to focus on rescuing and rehabilitating these children, as young as five, and helping them heal and grow and live.

The moment I met the TAL children and heard their harrowing stories, I knew I had to give them all that I could to support them and see them succeed. I look back now on my decade observing and photographing this community and it is amazing to have seen these children grow up into these inspiring, intelligent, and passionate young adults.

To date the organization, with collaboration and support of the Ghanaian Department of Social Welfare, have rescued over 100 children and it’s been an honor to feel like my work has helped this cause, and these children, in some small way.

To learn more about the work they do, please visit their website.