Photographing ‘the Politics of Health’ in Rural South Africa
South Africa’s rural North West Province does not have a medical school, a serious impediment to improving primary health care in the region.
Making Irish University Campuses ‘Better Places’
One of The Atlantic Philanthropies’ biggest, and most well documented, success stories has been its partnership with the government of the Republic of Ireland on the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions. Atlantic’s investment helped leverage more than $1.3 billion in overall spending on basic research facilities at Irish universities, transforming the Irish higher education system, which in the late 1990s was spending only 11% of the European norm on basic research. In 2012, all the universities in Ireland, North and South, jointly conferred honorary degrees on Chuck Feeney, Atlantic’s founder, in recognition of his efforts.
A Young Vietnamese Photographer Captures ‘the Fragilities in Life’
For Laying Foundations for Change, photographer Chien-Chi Chang travelled the length of Vietnam, a country in which The Atlantic Philanthropies made more than $178 million in charitable investments in the health care and education systems.
Chang, who previously had worked in the country for his project “Double Happiness,” selected three young Vietnamese photographers to work collaboratively with him.
A Unique Collaboration with Student Photographers
University education has been a primary focus for Atlantic in Ireland, North and South. It was therefore fitting that photographers Paul Seawright, Head of School at Ulster University’s Belfast School of Art, and Donovan Wylie, a lecturer there, attended the launch of Laying Foundations for Change together with recent graduates of their program, Andrew Rankin and Richard Wade.