This entry is reposted from MTV IGGY Band Aids FilmAid in Time for World Refugee Day By Beverly Bryan 20 June 2012-There is a proverb from Ghana that says “the drummer does not know how far the sound travels.” The Joy Formidable fou...
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18 June 2012 – Ahead of World Refugee Day, the United Nations refugee agency reported today that a record 800,000 people were forced to flee across borders last year, more than at any time since 2000. The new refugees are part of a total of...
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This entry has been reposted from The Fader Filmmakers Paola Mendoza and Topaz Adizes spent a month volunteering for nonprofit group FilmAid as visiting teaching artists in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. While there, they got inspired...
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CANNES, May 21, 2012 - Despite the rain, guests braved the elements to attend the Jorge Gallegos Memorial Annual Boule Tournment, hosted by Fintage House and Akin Gump, to benefit FilmAid during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, Fran...
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By Abdisalan Aw Aden Abdisalan is a refugee in Dadaab, and the Team Leader for FilmAid's refugee staff in the Ifo camp. It was an interesting miracle for me to attend a high delegate planning meeting for FilmAid in Nairobi recently. I was the on...
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This entry has been reposted from the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research By Melissa Fleming, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Scisa, looking into the camera with welled-up eyes dulled by loss,...
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It was my last night in the Kakuma refugee camp. I was visiting FilmAid, a small NGO (non governmental, non profit organization) that works in this desert like camp located in the North Western corner of Kenya near the Sudan border. Kakuma was est...
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How do you teach filmmaking without Spielberg? When the golden boy of Hollywood means nothing? ET, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones and others do not even register on the radar - zilch. That’s a dilemma I was faced with the other day...
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My first week of teaching is over but it feels like I have been in the classroom for a month. We were very demanding of our students. Class was from 8:30 until 5pm everyday including Saturday. In the last six days our students have learned the bas...
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I've accepted the fact that my sleep is rationed just like so many things here. We loose electricity every morning from 5-6am. When my fan ticks off and my body glistens with sweat, I know it's 5am. When relief comes an hour later and the hot air ...
Read more“This is what I’ve been waiting for. FilmAid has revived the lives of the refugees. FilmAid is an important area of development and education in Kakuma. It has given teachers a lot of morale.”Evans Mburu, IRC Adult Education Director
