Photo Contest Winners 2020
Congratulations to the winners of the HVO 2020 photo contest! These photos embody many aspects of what it’s like to be a volunteer with HVO. Click on each photo to see the full image and to read the caption from the winning photographer.
Children and Families
1st Place: “Imagination” by Dr. Darren Smith
2nd Place: “Monk-eying Around” by Dr. Darren Smith
3rd Place: “Lighting Candles” by Dr. Michael Ackland
"Imagination" | 1st Place | Dr. Darren Smith | Small buckets which would be overflowing with water on a rainy day are, on this dry one, the subject of wonderment for this little girl.
"Monk-eying Around" | 2nd Place | Dr. Darren Smith | Taken in a monastery courtyard. Here one young monk-in-training tries to give another a lesson on the Noble Truth of Suffering. His playmate is not quite ready to receive it and dodges a kick to the rump. Kids will be kids, no matter the garb!
"Lighting Candles" | 3rd Place | Dr. Michael Ackland | This little girl was at Anghor Wat lighting candles as part of her faith.
Celebrate Nurses and Midwives
1st Place: “ICU Bed Technology 101” by Dr. Glen Crawford
2nd Place: “Bhutan Palliative Visit” by Dr. David Nixon
3rd Place: “Concentration” by Dr. Sam Baker
Our daughter Emily, an ICU nurse in Portsmouth, NH teaches the KCMC nurses how to use the ICU beds we donated. - Dr. Glen Crawford
Patient visit 3 days after palliative care visit. Elderly patient remarkably improved , flanked by two of the Bhutanese palliative nurses. - Dr. David Nixon
Suture Removal from Well-Healing Wound after Below Knee Amputation at JDWNRH, Thimphu. - Dr. Sam Baker
Health Workers in Action
1st Place: “Arthroscopy Training” by Dr. Sue Abkowitz-Crawford
2nd Place: “Resident Education” by Dr. Jacob Babu
3rd Place: “Teaching POCUS” by Dr. Gordon Johnson
Dr. Glen Crawford teaching arthroscopy skills to Orthopedic Residents at KCMC. - Dr. Sue Abkowitz-Crawford
Senior resident taking a more junior resident through an orthopedic surgical case. - Dr. Jacob Babu
Teaching point of care ultrasound to the Post Graduate physicians at Mbarara University. - Dr. Gordon Johnson
Humor
1st Place: “Funny Idea” by Dr. Susan Kidd
2nd Place: “Still a Good Knee!” by Dr. Sam Baker
3rd Place: “Mulago 2019 Baboon” by Dr. Viviane Leuche
I didn't take many pictures of patients and staff while I was on my volunteer placement in Bhutan. However, I took a few and I love this series of three. It shows a trainee physio assistant, who had all the attributes of gentleness and kindness combined with curiosity, who was sitting in on clinic, learning developmental assessment by playing with a toddler with delayed language development . The paediatric team are small and stretched, and much developmental support for families is from the extended allied health professionals, such as the marvelous paediatric physio team in Bhutan. The connection, smiles and humour around this little girl's joke and imagination by making glasses for her father out of the stacking game was a fleeting moment of perfection. She was asked to complete the stacking but had other plans……, a great educational vignette for social communication and imaginative play development! - Dr. Susan Kidd
Lifelong Yak Herder/Weaver and Unplanned Ortho Clinic, Phajoding. - Dr. Sam Baker
Uganda Baboons controlling traffic. - Dr. Viviane Leuche
Local Scenes and Nature
1st Place: “Gilted Buddha” by Dr. Darren Smith
2nd Place: “Kampala Sunset Mosque” by Dr. Viviane Leuche
3rd Place: “Kampala Sunset Cityscape” by Dr. Viviane Leuche
A golden Buddha ensconced in the sun-dried mud of a stupa- a mound filled with Buddhist relics- situated on a trail to a monastery high up in the mountains of Bhutan. - Dr. Darren Smith
Sunset at the Kampala Mosque. - Dr. Viviane Leuche
Sunset over Kampala Cityscape. - Dr. Viviane Leuche