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offering films and other resources that everyone can use to communicate social
issues, help fundraise, etc. Find useful media related to Kenya,
to India, and to other resources we've found useful and collected here.
The New Heroes
DVD highlighting the exciting work of social entrepreneurs such two Brits
who developed an affordable manual water irrigation pump for Kenya.
Contact: http://www.thenewheroes.org
Media Rights
Prepares the "Media that Matters" festival. This is a DVD
compilation of short films that grassroots groups can use to start discussions
on important social, political and environmental topics around the world. For
example, "I Promise Africa" is a short film on AIDS in Africa.
Teachers Guide available.
Contact: http://www.mediarights.org
Contact: http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org
Africa Centre
A collection of books, films and videos, journals, posters, and curriculum
guides related to the countries of Africa.
Contact: http://www.africacentre.org
Literature: "Modern
Kenya: Social Issues and Perspectives (review)"
by April A. Gordon. Africa Today - Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2001
pp.161-162
This volume of essays on Kenya is the result of research from a 5-week
summer 1998 Fulbright-Hayes Group Projects Abriad Program to Kenya. The
participants were American high school and university teachers from schools in
Colorado.
Media for International Development
"When Women Unite: The Story of an Uprising" narrates the
incredibly moving story of the anti-arrack (state-supplied distilled liquor)
movement that led to the eventual ban of arrack sales in the Indian state of
Andhra Pradesh in 1995.
Contact: Media for Intl Development, 55 East 92nd Street, 4th Floor,
New York, NY 10128. Tel: 212.289.6790
The New Heroes
DVD highlighting the exciting work of social entrepreneurs such as an eye
hospital and cataract replacement lens factory in Southern India.
Contact: http://www.thenewheroes.org
Bullfrog Films
BullFrog films offers documentary films on social issues around the world
to educational organizations. Some titles include: "Helping
Ourselves" about two community projects in India that helped people move
out of poverty and gain control of their lives; "Credit Where Credit is
Due" about a micro-credit organization providing loans to the village
poor; "Untouchable?" about the Indian caste system; "Mothers of
Malappouram" on how literacy and access to health services slow population
growth; and "Slum Futures" which shows the slums of Mumbai as a microcosm of how
slums are developing around the world.
Contact: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com
Media Rights
Prepares the "Media that Matters" festival. This is a DVD
compilation of short films that grassroots groups can use to start discussions
on important social, political and environmental topics around the world. For
example, "Children at Work" is a short film on child labor in India.
Teachers Guide available.
Contact: http://www.mediarights.org
Contact: http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org
Association for India's Development
Find DVD resources and streaming video such as AID's relief work
with tsunami victims.
Contact: http://www.aidindia.org/resources/
The George Foundation
TGF is a non-profit group that has made incredible efforts to improve
education, healthcare, the environment, and the position of women in India.
Dr. George's book "India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural
Poverty" documents efforts to effect change in a difficult political and
social environment. The NYTimes notes, "Dr. George has precisely
the kind of imagination that we should all want to emulate and I certainly
hope he will be a role model for...others around the world."
Contact: http://www.tgfworld.org
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the
Power of New Ideas
by David Bornstein (Penguin Books)
The stories of several amazing grassroots social entrepreneurs - those
special individuals who question the status quo, create new opportunities,
refuse to give up and remake the world for better. This book shows how a
single person can make a huge difference.
Contact: http://www.ashoka.org
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against
World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank
How one man started the micro-lending movement that eventually led to the
development of the Grameen Bank, a "bank for the poor" that serves
2.5 million people and that is adapted in more than 100 countries.
Contact: http://www.grameen-info.org
Mauritius Program
Mauritius is a nation with 5 distinct societies, 4 major religions and 9
spoken languages, yet it is a model of cohesiveness. In documentary style,
this video shows how the people of Mauritius learned to replace
"mine" with "ours" and change their mindset from
"now" to "the future" by recognizing the inherent power of
diversity. Trainers can use this films for leveraging diversity, optimizing
teams, and improving problem-solving skills.
Contact: http://www.crmlearning.com/mauritius-program
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