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Invisible Form of Greed

There's this invisible form of greed. It’s difficult for us to see. Us being “the greedy ones”. We are so removed as wittinesses. We rarely go to places where the greed is having its full effect. We are even further distanced from the deeper causes. Global commerce moves without feelings and with no awareness around the dis-equity of opportunity.

There are forces in the world I feel powerless at times to affect. How do you convince a government or a corporation to open a factory in Somalia? How can you get the next hi-tech manufacturer to open a plant in Kibera? We will not have equity for humanity until we have equity in prosperity. Until we all have equal opportunities we are not equal. Does equity matter to you?

The big changes are difficult, maybe we leave those to Bono. Small changes are so easy to make. May I suggest the following:

If you have plenty to eat go a day or two hungry. I can get your savings to someone who is lacking. Here’s the best part, go 2-3 days without eating and that savings will feed a family in Kibera for 2-3 weeks.

If you have employment sell some PTO. You will never miss it, in the big scheme of things you’ll quickly forget you even did it. But $100 will help someone get a micro business going in a big way. How many can you help by simply selling 1-2 days of PTO? 5? 10? 20? You’ll never miss the PTO, but for those on the other side of equity, it will change their lives. I have people lined up.

Let me ask this? Did you get a good education? Did you get to go to college? Maybe consider the impact of that on your current life. What can you do to give thanks? In Kibera mothers/parents are forced to choose beteween food or school for their kids. Education isn't a given. What can you do?  

For sure life isn't fair, but still - people can be fair. As individuals, we can choose to be fair.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

The New Trailer

Here's the new trailer for the film "The Road to Pundamilia". This documentary film is about international volunteering. It's being made entirely by volunteers, including the music, provided by The Farewell Circuit. We hope to have the entire film completed sometime in September. VIEW HERE

overdue post

i'm long overdue for an update. there's actually too much to update - i just don't have time. i've returned from my second trip to kenya and it was amazing. just bullet points for now. visited chazon in molo - so exciting to see how it's grown visited at melon in nakuru - got to meet a whole new set of volunteers who came to work together and accomplished so much spent a lot of time in kibera - stayed with the amazing brothers of mother teresa got to get a lot accomplished re: kibera pride got to meet and interview the amazing irene kasandi wish i had more time to blog!

lost files

:( i lost a lot of files to my film and other things. pretty sure i know what happened. one morning while working on one of the somali pieces and i deleted stuff to make render space believing i was backed up. there is an option in final cut, i thought it only eliminated render files - it was far more. i have been able to recover a fair amount but only beginning to realize how much is gone. i was just going to go to bed, but instead i will start the process of recreating all that's lost. i fear it's hundreds of hours of work.