About this project
HIV/Aids. Malaria. Clean Water. Education. These are but a few of the many issues plaguing the continent of Africa. There is a tendency to become completely overwhelmed by the idea of a disease, of a plague, of an issue. There can be a tendency to dehumanize and distance ourselves from these issues.
This project is giving a name to Malaria, to Aids... to lack and to suffering. But this is not simply about lack. It is about HOPE!
It is about those that are overcoming. That have gone to the precipice of hopelessness or death and have fought their way back.
The last thing we desire to be is another voice pointing to despair and simply saying, "Come! Look! Isn't it terrible?".
There is story after story of those who have fought and risen out of the vicious poverty cycle. Those who have started organizations to help their own communities. Those who have vision, those who are sacrificing and loving and are living incredible stories. It is time they be shown.
Our desire is to show, to tell and to provide opportunity to respond. That you know what the issues are, how they are being dealt with and how YOU can be a part of a movement of compassion wipe out hunger, disease and extreme poverty.
We are going to be spending 3 months in east Africa, beginning in March, meeting with our partner organizations, working with them in their communities & establishing new relationships. Our goal is to film and document the many, incredible stories that have birthed out of these relationships.
From the amazing redemption of orphans in western Uganda to dignity and hope restored in a leper colony on the eastern coast of Kenya.
We are putting together a DVD series highlighting very specific issues in Africa. We are starting with Malaria, which you can see the trailer for on this page. We want to identify the issue, its causes, its effects, how it can be dealt with and what opportunities you have to respond. Our desire is to expand from Malaria to HIV/Aids, Clean Water, Education, Hunger, Orphans, etc.
The money for this project is to purchase gear for the DVD project, Story Documentaries, Photography & DVD Series development.
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on February 26, 2010.
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You will receive email updates from us while we are in Africa as the trip progresses.
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In addition to the email updates from Africa, you will receive the 1st DVD of our series upon completion, "Malaria" as well as 5 4x6 limited edition photography prints of your choice.
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In addition to all of the above, you will also receive a Global Support Mission t-shirt.
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In addition to all of the above, you will also receive a Home Again Children's Choir CD, featuring recorded music from children at the Home Again Orphanage in Kaihura, Uganda.
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In addition to all of the above, you will also receive a handmade card from the children in the villages where we are filming.
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In addition to all of the above, you will also receive 3 11x17 limited edition prints signed by the photographer.
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In addition to all of the above, you will also receive a personal phone call from us and one of the locals living in a community that we are filming in east Africa as well as a 1/2 pound of loose leaf tea from the community we work with in Uganda and a 1/2 pound of freshly roasted coffee from east Africa.
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My background is film/television production but I now find myself working for a non-profit called Global Support Mission. Our main focus is international community development, initiated and run by locals who have vision for their own communities.
I spent years in Los Angeles working my way up in the industry before realizing that I was completely burnt out. I had lost the plot of what I wanted to achieve and needed to get back to projects that made a real, tangible difference in peoples lives.
I've spent time in Africa and Brazil, filming and photographing for different organizations, helping them to communicate their stories and be a conduit between those with a voice and those who have been quieted to a whisper.
