Priyatam Mudivarti

The Spho­orti “Smiles” Project was started when I vis­ited the won­der­ful kids at Spho­orti in Jan 08′ at Hyder­abad. I wanted to tell a story through these kids’ smiles.

Pic­tures of poverty stricken chil­dren, with dire sick­ness and unholy con­di­tions are often a show­case of irony than real­ity. It does break your heart though. And when you break your heart, there is so much guilt that you some­times for­get to give. It is not because you don’t care but maybe, you’re ashamed. I was ashamed.

This project was started to change that per­cep­tion. There can be happy kids too. They can be infec­tious like the morn­ing dew and dream like you do. It doesn’t have to be a sad story, always. There is another side to these won­der­ful kids. It’s called a beau­ti­ful smile.

Event Details: Read about the event in this week’s Boston Mag­a­zine

Click here for the face­book invite.

I will be rais­ing funds at this event from the sale of these pho­tographs (as post­cards). If you know any­one that would care to come, please do let them know! Some­one needs their smile too.

If you can’t make it, I can under­stand. You can still get five post­cards from the kids, the one that says — “SMILE.” Pl donate generously …