J. William Hirtle - Blog

Since arriving in South Africa Erica and I have been striving to find a balance between our daily routine, fun tourist type activities and meaningful experiences – one of the ways we have discovered to both have fun and a meaningful experience has been by volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.

During Erica’s time here in 2004-05 she was sponsored by CIDA to work as a volunteer crew leader with Habitat for Humanity. It was a memorable position and as such we made it one of our main goa...

On Wednesday Erica and I were invited to go see the children of Ibhongolwethu perform “Africa, One Tribe” at the Khayelitsha’s OR Tambo Hall as a World AIDS Day event. The Ibhongolwethu project is a series of circus arts workshops enabled by Medecins San Frontiers (MSF) and Zip Zap Circus School that is sponsored by Cirque du Soleil.

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post to share three new photos and to keep you apprised of some of my volunteer projects here in Cape Town. 

With the Child Health Unit at the University of Cape Town I began shooting the first of 20 videos for the Medical Educational Training Videos project.  The shoot went well thanks to the wonderful staff at the University of Cape Town South African TB Vaccine Initiative project staff. We were shooting in their clinic space and they were wonderful to work with...

Hi everyone,

I am just posting a short update to let you know that I have updated the Video page of my portfolio and added a Design page to highlight some of my recent work.

During the last week, I have been putting a push on to finish designing a new website for Fertile Ground (now live at www.ourfertileground.org) and in the process of designing the new site, I have edited a video using HD footage from one of the organizations day camps.  The video is a wonderful interview between Cheryl...