Filmmaker/Photographer
Filmmaker/Photographer
Gonzalo's Journey: Cleft Transformed
Organization: Transforming Faces;
Location: Bolivia
Gonzalo's Journey is illuminating and hopeful. His family, like many in Bolivia, live in a rural community at a high altitude.... Their community is remote - the gravel road disappears from the map an hour before arrival. A stable phone signal requires Gonzalo’s parents to go even further up the mountain. Like his siblings, he was born at home. His cleft lip and palate was a shock for everyone. Luciano urgently needed to call the closest health post for help. What began as a distressing phone call started Gonzalo's hopeful cleft care journey. One of Comprehensive Cleft Care with a dedicated local team.
Community-Based Comprehensive Cleft Care with Transforming Faces
Organization: Transforming Faces;
Location: Southern India
Over the past 15+ years, Transforming Faces has worked with our local partner, Sri Ramachandra (SRIHER) in Tamil Nadu, India, to build a unique community-based Comprehensive Cleft Care model. This model provides ongoing support to children with cleft, much closer to home, with the same trusted local care team. This is the story of how the community model came to be and the impact it has had on children and families, some of whom have been attending from infancy through to adulthood.
Geetha's story: a journey from (near) child bride to university student
Organization: Children Believe Canada;
Location: Southern India
Fifteen-year-old Geetha chose a tough path. She stood up for her rights and refused to be married as a child. Her bravery sparked change in her tribal community in India. It’s now been three years since a forced marriage has taken place in the village of Musallamadugu
Children Believe's successful Program Graduation
Organization: Children Believe Canada
Location: Southern India
Over the past 16 years of collaboration with PAD and the government in Thoothukudi and Ramanathapuram districts of Tamil Nadu, India, Children Believe has made a substantial contribution to the improvement of the child rights and protection systems. PAD’s program focuses on five key areas – Early Childhood Care and Development, Education, Child rights and Protection, Youth leadership, Gender, and Social Inclusion. Services for children that assist, protect, prevent, and deal with abuse situations are becoming better equipped and more accessible to all kids.
Janani's Confidence & Community-Based Cleft Care
Organization: Transforming Faces;
Location: Southern India
Janani was born with a cleft lip and palate in Tamil Nadu, India. She has been a project participant since she was only 17 days old. See how speech therapy has built her confidence and meet the teacher who has become an advocate of community-based cleft care!
Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation
Organization: Nutrition International
Over 50% of adolescent girls in Pakistan are anaemic. But efforts are underway to change that.
Bal Mitra Gram : Story of successful transformation
Client: Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation
Locations: Bihar & Jharkhand, India
Witness the successful transformational story of Nawada into a Bal Mitra Gram from ground zero!
From menstrual misconceptions to period empowerment
Organization: Nutrition International
Menstruation misconceptions can lead to adolescent girls missing out on important daily activities, including attending school. But education on menstrual health offers an opportunity – for girls to not only live life freely while on their periods, but also to better understand their growth, development and the nutritional needs of their bodies.
Nutrition International supported a menstrual health management project in Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh, India in partnership with the state government. See the difference this program is making in the lives of students and their families.
Reviving Rainfed Agriculture | Bundelkhand
Client: Development Alternatives Group
Location: Bundelkhand, India
Bundelkhand – a hilly region in the central India, has often been covered in the news for extreme climate distress and impoverishment. This film showcases a holistic approach which was adopted as part of an initiative to find agriculture solutions for small farmers in rain-fed regions of Bundelkhand. It explains the role Revitalising Rain-fed Agriculture (RRA) network along with Development Alternatives, INTACH and PSI in working towards strengthening farmer based institutions to become a mediator for small holder and marginal farmers.
#YesDemocracy | Let's Build an Equal India for Everyone
Client: Oxfam India
Location: New Delhi, India
As citizens of the world’s largest #democracy, we have the power to set the agenda of governance, rather than letting it be set by parties constrained by electoral cycles.
Creative Learning Centres
Organization: Children Believe Canada
Location: Southern India
Creative learning centres in India offer kids a safe space to learn in fun, new ways, engaging their creativity through songs, games and even crafts. The environment provides a safe space where children learn basic math, science or language. Many participants have gone on to receive recognition for excelling in school.