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Update #1: Final Push!
Thank you guys for all your generous support! We now have less than 2 days to go and are 78% funded. But if we are not able to raise the remaining 22% then we lose everything we've raised!
Can you help us out by posting the link on your twitter or facebook accounts? Even better, if you can send out an email to your family and friends that would be amazing!
Cheers,
Lily + team
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on July 24, 2010.
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6: You'll get all of the above. In addition your donation will purchase clean water for the entire YouthBank center for 1 month-- this includes all the fellows and staff (11 people).
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7: You'll get #1-5, plus your donation will provide lunch for all the fellows and staff for 1 week (11 people).
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7: You'll get #1-5, plus you will be listed as an Executive Producer in the film. Your donation will also provide electricity for the YB center for 6 months.
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7: You'll get #1-5, plus you will be listed as an Executive Producer in the film. Your donation will also provide lunch for an ENTIRE MONTH for all the fellows and staff (11 people). Note: Each additional $2k is another month of lunch for the entire center.
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I love stories and I especially love when they are about real people and real experiences. I am a photographer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, civil servant...and in everything I do, I find myself trying to understand, capture and improve these real stories I encounter.
I'm now working with 48th Floor Films to document what happens when the lives of young people living in poverty in Africa have the opportunity to get a business loan and pull themselves towards independence and financial freedom. International organizations have proven that micro-finance models work in tightly knit, small communities for adults. But do micro-finance models like this work for young people living on the streets in one of the biggest Mega-cities in the world?
I certainly don't know the answer to this, and I'm not sure anyone does. In the words of Radner, "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end." We don't expect this documentary to be easy to accomplish, and it will most likely be a story with many ends left undone and unanswered. But we're not expecting a nicely packaged story. We're expecting to capture the real ups and downs that occur in the best stories and real stories of our time.
Some of our links:
www.lucidafotos.com
www.48thfloorfilms.com
www.publicstuff.net
Friends & Supporters,
Thank you so much for supporting the Street Dreams Documentary. The past few months have been a great learning experience for us and we have seen received great feedback and support from all of you. Documenting the YouthBank venture has been extremely interesting, and the group is planning to take another site visit to Lagos in the fall. The organization is also looking to possibly expand to other countries as well, including India!
Through the Kickstarter campaign we were able to raise $7,842, which was about 80% of our goal! We are hoping that you will be willing to resubmit your pledge as a donation here and of course the original listed rewards are still active.
Thanks again for all your support-- we honestly could not do this without you!
Cheers,
Lily & the StreetDreams Team