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The Refugee – newsletter from Dadaab
The folk at FilmAid in Dadaab have made two issues of The Refugee newsletter recently. It’s amazing to read the stories of what people go through day in and day out in their own words. This is what we try to do with film, but with the slow speed of the internet text comes even…
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FilmAid trailer
New FilmAid trailer directed by yours truly. What an experience. Thanks to everyone involved, especially Jessica Brunetto, Mandi Corso, Wendy Finster, Kevin Hyman, Ryan Jones, Liz Manne, Mary Soan, and Anthony Weintraub.
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Day one in Kakuma
Our new Executive Director and board just took a trip to Kenya, and it brought me back to the first time I visited Kakuma. I hear that some of the refugees recorded a video message for me and am excited to see it. “It will make you go kkkkk,” they said, which is Somali-text for…
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Of hawks and chicken and refugees
We filled up at the gas station with no gas, which happened to have gas that day. We were all shocked. It was lucky too because Victor was about to run out. On Thursday we went to a UNHCR (UN high commissioner for refugees)-sponsored event. The intent of the event was to expose the Kenyan…
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Face to Face at Grand Central
British Airways’ Face to Face program has been incredibly helpful for our work at FilmAid. They gifted us ten international flights which we used to hold meetings and show donors our operations, a bunch of free cargo shipments which we used to transport donations of equipment, and more. This week, Tuesday and Wednesday September 14-15…