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  • Africa's Child
    Malnutrition, poor sanitation and hygiene, and HIV are some of the factors that affect child survival. In this informative documentary, we see the efforts made by UNICEF, NGOs, community leaders and health workers in an attempt to save Africa’s Child.

  • And the Letter the Children Wrote to God Said...
    In a world of growing inequality, Banothile and Sihle are two children who struggle daily for simple things. This poignant documentary shows the children sharing their hopes and dreams as they go about daily activities, like going to school and pumping water from the well.

  • Ca Va Aller
    In a remote village, a little boy finds a bird. He’s about to kill it, when the bird appeals to him, saying he’ll help him at the snap of a finger. A pact is made and the bird follows through, teaching the villagers about nutrition, community cooperation, fair treatment of women, and most importantly, hope.
  • Dead Mums Don’t Cry
    Dead Mums Don’t Cry shows one woman’s struggle to stop mothers in her country from dying. She’s Grace Kodindo, an obstetrician in poverty-stricken Chad. There, one out of eleven women dies in childbirth. There, this investigation shows that there is reason for hope.
  • Everyones Child
    Tamari and Itai are devastated after the tragic death of their parents. As friends and family turn their backs to them, the children must fend for themselves. It is a time of survival, as they wait for the community to realize that they are everyone’s children.
  • Goldtooth
    Goldtooth is the neighborhood drug pusher. He dwells in shadows and feeds on doubt and difficulty. Karate meets him as a boy, a hungry street child, trying to secure his next meal. Goldtooth helps him take his mind off of his hunger, but Karate will pay dearly.
  • Karate Kids
    Pedro is a juggler. Mario is a pickpocket. They are both cunning street kids. When Karate Gil takes them in, he teaches them about the dangers of sexual exploitation and AIDS. They find out that it’s better to earn money slowly and honestly, than to take the fast route.
  • Life in Slow Motion
    A Nigerian CEO goes to Ghana to participate in an Energy Commission Forum. When he meets an escort in his hotel bar, he makes her an offer she can’t refuse: to pay her to show him the village where her son lives with her parents. Through this journey, he is awakened to the need to think about environmental and social costs of the oil industry.

  • Nawaachieni
    Mama Romoza is beginning to deal with the grief of losing her husband to AIDS, when her in-laws come to claim her house and children. They turn her away and she is forced to live in the village with her parents. As she battles the illness herself, her children face severe adversities in the care of their evil aunt and later on the streets.
  • Orphan Generation
    This film focuses on the struggles of a Ugandan village to cope with the deepening orphan crisis. Local development and social workers explain how the needs of these children can be met- and their lives protected- by support for community-based organizations rather than institutional care.
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