Project Report
| Feb 7, 2022
Your help is needed, this story need to be told
By Francisco Alcala | Executive Director
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Have you seen a significant increase in documentaries in your streaming services? Well, you are not alone. This a part of a global trend in what is being called social impact entertainment. It is a variety of mainstream entertainment forms, predominantely films and TV, that intend to have social impact next to great entertainment value.
HOME Storytellers produces inspiring character-driven short and feature documentary films to help advance the refugee self-reliance movement.
Please click on this link to watch the trailer of our latest feature film produced in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. This is an example to what we do. The objective of this film is to promote reading among children and teenagers in refugee communities and alsewhere.
We are not a business, so we depend on grants and individual donations to fund social impact projects. We need your support to amplify refugee education in Malawi. Please watch this short 3 min video to have a glimpse of Jacques' story and why it should be told.
Thank you,
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Oct 21, 2021
We just ask you 3 min of your time
By Francisco Alcala | Executive Director
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In this report we just have one small ask, please take three minutes of your time and watch with all your attention this video: https://vimeo.com/369891768
If after watching it you want more information, you can go to http://thereishopemalawi.org/ to learn about their programs that are helping to change the lives of many people at the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi.
We are convinced that an IMPACT CAMPAIGN powered by SAWDUST can reach a wide audience and significantly increase resouces to grow their vocational training program.
We still have a significant gap to achieve this project's fundrasing goal. We invite you to help us get there and enable people like Jacques to become self-reliant. Together we can do it.
Sincerely,
Francisco Alcala
HOME Storytellers Executive Director
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Jun 27, 2021
We need the funds to schedule the film production
By Francisco Alcala | Executive Director
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Jacques' Family outside their home
As a reminder of what we told you in the last report, We are avidly waiting for the lifitng of travel restrictions to send the SAWDUST film crew to Malawi. In the meantime, we are also working hard to continue raising funds for the project. We are at 27% of the funding goal of $25,000.
While COVID 19 travel restrictions still exist, we are now ready to start planning to send a film crew to Malawi. However, we cannot achieve the plan if we do not have the funding. The objective of this project is to empower Jacques to tell his story. Jacques is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in the Dazleka refugee camp in Malawi. He and his wife are raising 6 children and working very hard to give them a better future. Jacques is a distinguished graduate of carpentry vocational training by the nonprofit There is Hope. With these new skills, he started a shop and not only giving his family a better life but also help training other young refugee aprentices. Please watch this short video with more details of why is so important to create this documentary.
This is story will create awareness and support for vocational training at the Dzaleka camp, increasing the oportunities of many other refugees to become self-reliant.
With your continued support for this project you can team up with us make this project a reality.
If you’re unable to donate at this time, there are other ways you can support us! Please share our project with your friends, family and social networks. If you want to start your own fundraiser for your birthday or any other special ocassion please contact us at info@homestorytellers.org and we will help you set up your personal page.
With gratitude.
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