Painful Feet, State funding brings relief to sore feet.

Through a joint project of THE SOUTH AFRICAN RED CROSS AIR MERCY SERVICES and THE SOUTH AFRICAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE AIR MERCY SERVICES flies orthopaedic technicians to the outlying and remote orthopaedic/physiotherapy clinics at government hospitals in the far northern KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa. This access to expert orthopaedic care for the out patients at the MANGUZI, MOSFOLD and BETHESDA GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS has meant access to the special care needed by those who from birth, illness and or physical trauma are left with a very real need for orthopaedic care and or prosthetic assistance. The hills, fields and plains of far northern kwazulu-natal region are isolated, and the infrastructure is not good. The work carried out in these clinics provides the walkers, irons and prosthetics that makes a change to those who with out this service would literally be left to stumble on with their lives in a place that is less then conducive to those with less then a perfect body. The clinics that this co-operation facilitates has helped children to walk upright, corrected small defects for others and allowed a subsistence farmer the ability to manage the planting of her personal field of beans and the restored the pride to another to father and provide for his family once again. IMAGES PRODUCED IN THE MANGUZI, MOSFOLD AND BETHESDA GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AND SURROUNDS OF THE NORTHERN KWAZULU-NATAL REGION OF SOUTH AFRICA. FEBRUARY/APRIL 2009. PHOTOS/JOHN ROBINSON

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John Robinson is a Africa based photojournalist of Zambian extraction, and now living in South Africa.

John comes from a broad based visual design and design educational background. He is a graduate of the Market Theatre Photography Workshop 1992/1995, and participant in photojournalism programs with The Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg South Africa and Poynter Institute. John freelanced for a number of years in Johannesburg with The Star, Saturday Star, Sunday Independent, Mail & Guardian, Business Day, Finance Week, Leadership, Marie Claire and numerous corporate, international developmental partnerships, and private clients.

He continues to be privileged to spend much time in the lives of some, or just a moment or two in the lives of others and come away with vivid images that convey the essence or an aspect of these moments in time.

He is currently involved in long term photojournalist projects, news features, portraits and social documentary imagery with a special interest in the current issues around health, culture, portraiture and African daily life. His clients include online media, wire services, international news media organisations, print media, international developmental partnerships, corporate and private clients.

John has left footprints in Zambia, Rio de Janeiro, Washington DC, Europe, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Dubai, Sudan, Darfur, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Mali, Ivory Coast, Kinshasa, Lesotho, Botswana, Malawi, Nairobi, Swaziland and South Africa.

John Robinson 's current location:
Kwazulu Natal , South Africa

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Painful Feet, State funding brings relief to sore feet.

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