Documentary and photographs
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Project Review Project Location: Moshi-Karatu-Arusha and Babati. Minimum time: 2-4 weeks Best time to Volunteer: All around the year but likely from June to November. Number of Volunteer at a time: from 5 to 8. Project Activities: Volunteers are working with local kids from our center to teach and direct them how to use the camera, filming,editing and make documentaries.The class also learn English as language for communication. Volunteer schedule: Arrival and be met-Next day orientation including Moshi town excursion,Project visit and learn what you will be doing-Start the project. Project allow the photographer to work under regular basis all around the week. Accommodation: Volunteer can decide to stay at the hostel hostel Foot Prince (if the program is arranged in Moshi)or at a planned camps depending on where the filming or photograph activities is going to take place. Resources available for Volunteer: There is reference from previous volunteers on same projects and one filming camera with its equipments. Recommended thing to bring: There project mostly hire the equipments and we would ask you to bring your equipments.We can send you the list of equipment we have been using if you will ask us. Project summary: In the year 2000, Johnson travelled with a team of Korean photographers to the countryside of Tanzania. His role was as a translator between the cameramen and local people to help facilitate communication. On reflection of his trip, Johnson remarked; ‘ It was the greatest job. The crowds of homeless kids, old men and women all eager to be questioned and have their picture taken. They were all keen to know how they could see the photographs which had been taken, whether it would be on television or the internet’. As a result of this trip Johnson decided to run this project with street kids to allow them to acquire this knowledge that will give them employment in future. Africa is home to hundreds of tribes and cultures. Many people within Tanzania are keen to show the positives of their lives and the outstanding natural beauty of the landscape in which they live. Africa is synonymous with various terms like, instability, AIDS, corruption, hunger, unemployment, crime, gender inequalities, but to mention a few. Through this project you will have a chance to view Africa through new eyes. You will be able to see that Africa is in many respects an oasis of beauty and splendour, a real Garden of Eden. Pictures say a thousand words and the pictures you take will have the power to bring to the world’s attention not only the beauty of this country, but also the true reality about the challenges that people face. The hardships and struggles will be captured within documentaries that are made. Hopefully as Tanzania is opened up via the documentaries which are made, then the quest for truth and social change can be sped up. The project aim to give the kids an opportunity for employment by attaching them to Safari company around Tanzania and Kenya where they will accompany them during Safari and make documentary that later will be sale to the Tourists. If you are interested in this project please ask for more details. |