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News 2008

SAWA receives Flip Videos to empower hundreds of heroes- summer 2008
In the last 6 months, SAWA received hundreds of emails from extraordinary grassroots organizations in the 50 poorest countries and that want to connect to the world. 99% of these stories cannot be told through video due to the lack of access and infrastructure to media and information technology in these regions. As a result, SAWA Global has partnered with the Flip Video Spotlight, a charity program run by the USA-based firm, Pure Digital Technology. The Flip Video is a pocket-size and highly user-friendly camcorder that runs on 2 AA batteries, can record up to 1 hour, has a build in USB arm and comes in vibrant colors. SAWA has received the first 4 Flip Videos and will launch a big campaign in Summer 2008 to secure sponsorship for hundreds of Flip Videos to empower hundreds of extraordinary grassroots organization to bring their successful initiatives alive via short video clips and connect to a global audience. Learn more about the Flip Video

SAWA builds Partnership with Asoka Changemakers - Spring 2008
SAWA Global was approached by the Asoka Changemakers to connect with SAWA’s local heroes and over 180 reporters in 60 countries. Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Ashoka Changemakers is the world's first global online "open source" community that provides regular story submission on best social solutions, and then collaborates to refine, enrich, and implement those solutions. Winners receive financial awards. SAWA is excited about this partnership as it brings additional exposure to the local heroes in the 50 poorest countries that can submit their project ideas to these competitions.

SAWA's Founder Guest speaks at Projecting Change Film Festival - Spring 2008
Daphne Nederhorst, SAWA’s Founder, spoke at the Projecting Change Film Festival on May 10^that the Ridge Theatre in Vancouver. The festival promotes engaging films and inspiring speakers to increase awareness and promote change within the community. Daphne and her team presented Vancouverites to learn about and connect to local heroes in the 50 poorest countries that show creative solutions to global problems. The team also screened their brand new promotional clip on SAWA’s Vision to present global solutions through video. The event was done in partnership with the screening of Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai that tells the story of Noble Peace Prize winner Wangari that went on a thirty-year quest to green the Kenya landscape devastated by deforestation and to empower marginalized citizens with food, wages and a political voice. Learn more about Projecting Change

SAWA Builds partnerships with United Nations Habitat JAM - Winter 2008
In 2005, as a preparatory event to United Nations World Urban Forum (WUF), hundreds of support organizations helped bring over 39,000 people from 158 countries online to discuss and debate solutions to the world’s most critical urban issues called the Habitat Jam. SAWA’s Senior Marketing Advisor, Gayle Moss, also one of the Habitat Jam creators, launched a project to re-connect with the supporting organizations of the JAM and connect them with SAWA Global. Most recently, the Huairou Commission, a New York-based non profit, become an official SAWA partner. The Huairou Commission is a global coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that links grassroots women’s community development organizations to partners. Learn more about Huairou Commission

News 2006-2007

SAWA Connects with Young Film Makers in Afghanistan - Winter 2007

Amrit Dhatt, SAWA’s Global Partnership Coordinator, led the initiative and among others connected with Ahad Nawabi, a 24-year old journalist student, from the University of Kabul in Afghanistan. Ahad’s dream is to establish an organization to help protect the street children of Afghanistan and provide them with shelter and food. He produced and submitted two short video clips of the street kids in Kabul.

SAWA Journalist Returns to Rwanda to Visit Former Child Soldiers - Fall 2007
Sara Elder, one of SAWA Global's Journalist, returned to Rwanda to visit the ALOSATE project. The Association for Youth Literacy and Trades Education (ASOLATE) is making real and lasting progress in improving the lives of the youth of Rwanda that participated as soldiers during the 1994 genocide. The organization has trained over 100 former soldiers in employment skills such as soap, candle and paint making and sewing and electrical work. ASOLATE was founded by Selman Nizeyimana in 2004, a former Rwandan child soldier, who witnessed thousands of children orphaned by the conflict, struggling to survive with little skills or means to support themselves.

SAWA Journalist Campaign Launched - Fall 2007
The SAWA Journalist Campaign was launched in early May, 2007. The campaign is aimed to recruit 100 volunteers to assist in building global partnerships. The mission of the SAWA Journalists is to find the unknown hero’s of the world and give them an opportunity to voice their initiatives to a global audience on SAWA Global’s website.

Film Clip Production on Kenyan Slum Project - Summer 2007
2C Visual Communication, a video production company in Vancouver, provided outstanding talent to produce a 1-minute clip of video footage that was submitted by the Kibera Integrated Project (KIP) in Kenya. The project gives hope to the most vulnerable, orphans, youth and unemployed in Kibera, Nairobi; the largest slum in Africa with close to one million inhabitants. The video clip presents the inspirational and positive impacts of KIP and offers simple actions to become involved and be part of the ongoing success of this admirable organization.

Film screening at the United Nations World Urban Forum – Summer 2006
The SAWA Global film clip, Childhood Regained: Urban Orphans in Colombia, was screened at the Vancouver International Film Centre and the Canada Place Convention and Exhibition Centre during the United Nations World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Canada, 2006. The film gives a glimpse of the “safe haven” provided by Fundación Niña Maria in Chía, Colombia by protecting and nurturing abused and neglected children. The film was made in collaboration with Colombian film producers, Two Story Production and Rainmaker Production in Vancouver. SAWA Global volunteers also managed a booth at the UNESCO, Earth Festival and informed hundreds of participant from around the world on the organization’s vision to create the world's largest online gateway with positive solutions to global change.

SAWA’s Christmas Surprise Party for 113 Colombian Orphans - Winter 2005
In December 2005, a local Colombian film crew, volunteers and the Executive Director of SAWA Global, Daphne Nederhorst, brought a surprise visit on Christmas Eve to 113 orphaned children at Fundación Niña Maria in Chía, Colombia. The foundation was selected by SAWA Global as a pilot program to showcase extraordinary projects that bring inspirational and positive impact to the world’s most vulnerable. A Papá Noel, (Santa Claus) and helpers arrived with bags of gifts, one for each child and staff at the orphanage. The gifts were delivered to the young mothers, babies and infants and young teenagers from ages 11 to 18.

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