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September'09

Sam, Chris, Freddie and Amber are climbing Kilimanjaro. May we use this moment to say the title of our page reflects only our enthusiasm for this challenge not at all the ease with which we think it can be achieved! 

Together we have selected a fabulous young but fast growing charity to support through our climb with your help, FilmAid. Whether providing a few hours of cinematic escapism or teaching people leading trapped lives in slum areas and refugee camps around the world how to make movies to help and educate their own communities FilmAid has proved to be an extraordinarily powerful tool and now provide a great deal of support to the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the Red Cross and many other NGO's working in some of the worlds poorest areas. 

Next time you go to the cinema picture yourself minus the popcorn and coca-cola, no comfy seat perhaps just the baked earth on dusty plains of Africa, a million stars lighting up the night's sky overhead and a giant movie screen,  oh , and you're surrounded by 20,000 of your nearest neighbours... all sharing the same experience - perhaps learning how to use the mosquito net your family have just been given, or learning why vaccinations for your kids won't kill them but in fact, quite the opposite, might just save them... and when these life saving lessons have been screened, due to the extraordinary generosity of many in the film industry, FilmAid are able to alleviate the crippling boredom and monotony of life in these camps by showing (carefully selected) movies which most of us have in our DVD rack at home, old favourites, blockbusters, kids cartoons - to watch the faces of the children and adults alike during these screenings is to truly understand the power and the magic of film.

FilmAid

Communities in crisis need knowledge and empowerment. FilmAid provides both, to millions of people suffering the effects of war, poverty, displacement or disaster. Films provide a way to reach many people at once, overcoming literacy boundaries, bringing forth information where it is needed and inspiring hope where it is lacking.

Since 1999, FilmAid has worked in partnership with other global aid organizations to bring critical information to more than 1 million people, in places as diverse as Macedonia, Kenya, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Thailand and the US Gulf Coast.

FilmAid engages communities to shape the messages most needed for their survival and strength. We work with communities to create films and videos in their own voice, and to show these films in the most impactful and appropriate settings. FilmAid screenings range from intimate discussion of 40 people to large outdoor screenings, reaching thousands at one time.

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