The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on POVERTY

If your foundation engages in grantmaking related to poverty issues, you won’t want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at http://media.gfem.org/.

Voices of Poverty: Radio Journalism and Training
Media Mobilizing Project seeks support to expand their radio journalism initiative, Voices of Poverty (VoP). VoP trains individuals living in poverty to become radio journalists and works to support these leaders in producing media about their own issues and struggles, as well as those of other anti-poverty groups across their city. View the project profile at http://media.gfem.org/node/10373

Good Fortune
Through intimate portraits of three individuals living in the poorest areas of Kenya, Good Fortune explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.  View the project profile at http://media.gfem.org/node/9320

Bamako Chic, Women Cloth Dyers of Mali
Bamako Chic, Women Cloth Dyers of Mali tells the untold story of self-empowered African women who turned their artistic creativity and resourcefulness into a force for alleviating their own poverty, and fueled the hand-dyed cloth industry to become a lucrative business for women in Mali, West Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world. Through the personal stories of five characters, the film explores the triumph of women’s creativity in the context of poverty, disease and corruption. View the project profile at http://media.gfem.org/node/9813.

Media Voices Youth Portal
Media Voices for Children (MVC) is an Internet news agency for children’s rights. MVC centralizes media content, conversations and tools for educators, youth, journalists and the general public, to educate about the impacts of poverty and globalization on the world’s children. The creators are developing an online community of interest to raise awareness about what children need to thrive.  View the project profile at http://media.gfem.org/node/11265.

How We Survive: Communities Organizing to Respond to Economic Crisis
A radio series and multimedia website exploring the backdrop for the crisis of capitalism, how communities are responding to the global economic collapse, and developing new models for economics and communities.  View the project profile athttp://media.gfem.org/node/10408.

Cooked
In July 1995 a heat wave hit Chicago; 739 people died. Survival was determined by the neighborhoods where people lived: air-conditioned supermarkets and movie theaters or quick-marts and boarded-up stores. Cooked, a feature documentary and engagement campaign, asks questions and explores solutions every U.S. city is grappling with – global warming, poverty, green jobs.  View the project profile at http://media.gfem.org/node/10231.

Housing Is a Human Right: Stories from the Struggle for Home
Housing is a Human Right is a multimedia documentary portrait of the struggle for home in New York City. Composed of oral narratives and photographs, along with testimonies and memories of home woven and remixed, this collection of viscerally honest, first-person narratives aims to serve as a reminder that home is as tenuous a space in New York City as the shelter that sustains it.  View the project profile at http://media.gfem.org/node/10211

Not My Life
Not My Life is a feature-length documentary film about the horrifying practices of modern-day slavery and global human trafficking, which affect millions of children, women and men in virtually every country on earth.  View the project profile at http://media.gfem.org/node/9827.