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Feel Great about Your Self: Dorcas' Story
By - Pamela Collett with Dorcas Saisi - Communications, Kibera Film School Trainee
My name is Dorcas Saisi. I am 23. I moved to Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, two years ago. There was nothing for me in my village. Like so many farmers, I came to Nairobi to look for a job. My first job was as a house help. I was paid only Kes 2,000 per month (about US$25) although the official minimum wage...
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Bad Company to Good: Polycap Sara's Story
By - Pamela Collett and Polycap Sara - Communications and Kibera Film School trainee
What was my turning point? I have a lot to say. I had a job as a mechanic and lost it. I became idle, doing weird things, using drugs, staying in bad company. My life was not sustaining me. Then I was arrested for a cell phone theft. Jail is a new world. You have to survive on your own. No parents....
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Bad Luck to Good: Ronald Omondi's Story
By - Pamela Collett with Ronald Omondi - Communications, Kibera Film School trainee
My name is Ronald Omondi. I am 23 years old. I live in Kibera. Things were going good for me. I had a sponsored job that allowed me to also go to school. Then something went wrong with the sponsorship program and I was out on the street again. Selling CDs. In the slum, you can find yourself...
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Luck and Success: Michael Robert's Story
By - Pamela Collett and Michael Robert Munyore - Communications and Kibera Film School Trainee
My name is Michael Robert Munyore. I am 21 years old My father passed away when I was eight years old. My dad's relatives raised me. My mother is somewhere in Western Kenya. I am lucky. I'm on my own but my cousin in Kibera helped me finish high school. When I look to my future, I see success. I don't do...
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Family Support: Quenter's Story
By - Pamela Collet with Quenter Okumu - Communications and Kibera Film School trainee
My name is Quenter Okumu. I am 24.I live in Kibera with my two children: Mario 4 1/2 and Kyla 2 1/2. My mom has a tailoring shop in Kibera. She takes care of my children while I study full time at Kibera Film School . My mother gives me her full support to learn filmmaking. She drives me, telling me...
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On My Own - Vincent's Story
By - Pamela Collett with Vincent Oduor - Communications and Kibera Film School trainee
My name is Vincent Oduor. I am 20 years old. I've been on my own in Kibera since 15, when my mother died. My dad died when I was ten. When relatives came to take my younger brothers and sisters back to their village, I argued with them. I refused to leave. I thought I would have a better...
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Participate AMAZING RACE for KIBERA 23 Nov - 31 Dec
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
While Hot Sun Foundation and Kibera Film School are celebrating the Amazing Race Kibera on Dec 3, 2011 in Kibera, supporters and friends around the world will join them in The Amazing Race FOR Kibera 23 November - 31 December A race to see how many lives we can touch, how many people we can change through...
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A Heartfelt THANK YOU
By - Kibera Film School with Clarence Ilavonga - Trainees
Kibera Film School Trainees want to Thank You for your ongoing support.Your are appreciated. You are changing lives. Reminder: October 19 is GlobalGiving Matching Day when your support goes farther.Please check out the spontaneous, heartfelt thank you which Kibera Film School trainees did today for you.Go to...
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Miracle on facebook: Reinhert's Story
By - Reinhert Onduru with Pamela Collett - Kibera Film School trainee
My name is Reinhert Onduru. I am 18 years old. Facebook brought me to Hot Sun Foundation. I came to Kibera from my home on the Western side of Kenya, many hours away, near the border with Uganda. I had a friend on facebook - a German woman who does charity work in Nairobi. I told her that after a year of not...
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Passionate Appeal - Alice's Story
By - Alice Motieri with Pamela Collett - Assistant Trainer
My name is Alice Motieri. I am 24 years old. I live in Kibera.My challenges began at 15, when I lost my mom. She died after a sudden illness. Fifteen months later my father died. I managed to finish secondary school with funds from my mother's estate. Then my life became confused. I wanted to...
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Turning Point - Wicky's Story
By - Wickliffe Mboya with Pamela Collett - Kibera Film School Assistant
My name is Wickliffe Otieno Mboya. I am 23 years old. Before I came to Hot Sun Foundation, my life took a wrong turn. I was hanging out with the wrong crowd. They were somehow misleading me - taking drugs, working at night, not sure what they were doing. I had contact with Hot Sun Foundation as an extra in the...
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Peace in Every Corner
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
A special visitor to Hot Sun Foundation this month - Emmanuel Jal, South Sudanese former "lost boy", hip hop rapper for peace who lived many years in Kenya, now on a mission for peace (http://www.we-want-peace.com). Jal came to Hot Sun Foundation in Kibera, sitting outside our office in a circle of plastic...
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A Different View-Slum Film Festival Nairobi Kenya
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
When you hear the word "slum", what do you think of? The mainstream media usually depicts slums as places of poverty, crime and violence. But in Nairobi and many other cities in sub Saharan Africa, urban slums are where most of the population lives. The living conditions may be substandard, but slums...
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Kibera youth food drive for Kenyans suffering from famine
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
The youth of Hot Sun Foundation started an inspiring initiative: Kibera Kwa WaKenya, which means Kibera for Kenya. Kibera youth are soliciting dry food goods, including maize meal, rice, dried beans for their brothers and sisters in the northern areas of Kenya who are suffering from famine due to prolonged...
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Vincent Urges Support for Josphat Keya, his role model
By - Pamela Collett (with Vincent Oduor Ochieng') - Communications (Kibera Film School trainee)
My name is Vincent Oduor Ochieng’. I live in Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa. I am 19 and currently I’m studying filmmaking at Kibera Film School. I want to share about a close friend of mine - Josphat Keya, the Program Manager of Hot Sun Foundation, who is a great influence of my life. He is that...
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Thanks and an Update on Nairobi goes to New York
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
Here's Josphat Keya talking about Hot Sun Foundation and the Kibera Film School: I was once told that films were only made by rich people, that meant that I had no chance of making films, taking the fact that I was born and raised in Kibera. I took a leap of faith and joined Kibera Film School. At the beginning I wasn't...
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Kibera Film School meets the Bronx (New York City)
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
Hot Sun Foundation has been training youth in Kibera in film skills for several years. One of our goals is to become partners with film schools and training centers throughout the world. Now we have an opportunity for one of our filmmaker/ trainers from Kibera, to go to the Ghetto Film School in the Bronx, New...
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East African YOUTH UNITY through Filmmaking
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
In filmmaking, co-productions in Africa are usually with established film production companies from Europe. African-African co-productions are almost unheard of. African-African co-productions among young filmmakers living in east African urban slums undreamt of. Until now, with the TOGETHERNESS IS, Youth Unity...
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Filmmaking opportunities for African slum Youth
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
Twelve new trainees at Kibera Film School began classes in February 2011. At Hot Sun Foundation youth from Kibera have the opportunity to learn hands-on filmmaking that will make a difference for themselves and their community. Hot Sun Foundation has three major programs. 1. Kibera Film School with hands-on...
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Youth Participation in Kenya through Media
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
Youth are on the move, in Africa, in the Middle East. We hear it in the news, in our daily conversations, every single day. In Kenya, youth are ready to work for positive, peaceful change before the next national elections in 2012. But youth must have the tools to get involved. Their voices have not been heard. Kenya...
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NEW Foundation in Filmmaking Course Starting
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
Twelve more youth from the urban slum of Kibera and their delighted parents and friends celebrated their successful completion of the Foundation in Filmmaking course on 29 January 2011. Interest is building. More and more urban slum youth want to learn about filmmaking and how to tell their stories to the...
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- Marc Maxson I was there! Good celebration once again. I wished I had made it to the student films part - that's my favorite.
  
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Victor's Success Story and a Request
By - Victor Oluoch - Director, Kibera TV project
I am Victor Oluoch Mmboga, 23 years of age. I obtained a Kenya Certificate of Primary Education at Mituri Primary School in Western Kenya. I moved to Nairobi in early 2005, hoping to get money from a relative to go to secondary school but it didn’t work out. I made my living in the informal economy, buying...
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Message from a Hot Sun Foundation Success Story
By - Josphat Keya - Projects Coordinator
A Message from Josphat Keya (24)Projects Coordinator, Hot Sun Foundation I joined Hot Sun Foundation through Kibera Film School in the first intake of trainees in August, 2009. Though I did not have prior knowledge in filmmaking I loved writing short stories and sometimes I’d send them to ...
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TOGETHERNESS SUPREME Road Show Part Two
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
KISII TO NAROK ROADSHOW by Kibera Film School TraineesBeatrice Aringa and Kevin Machimbo Road Show Part Two MARARIANDA 8th September....
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TOGETHERNESS SUPREME Kenya Road Show PART ONE
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
PART ONE: REPORT OF TOGETHERNESS SUPREME KISII TO NAROK ROADSHOW Rural Road Show by Kibera Film School Trainees Beatrice Aringa and Kevin Machimbo Hot Sun Foundation, Kids in Kenya, and the Child Wellness Fund co-sponsored the TOGETHERNESS SUPREME film road show in Kenya. For the first time in Kenya,...
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Great Response to TOGETHERNESS SUPREME
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
Over 25,000 people living in the slums in Nairobi have attended our outdoor screenings. Viewers have urged us to take TOGETHERNESS SUPREME everywhere to encourage Kenyans to reflect on the post election violence of 2007-2008 and make sure it never happens again. Congratulations to all Kenyans on the peaceful and...
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Send TOGETHERNESS SUPREME around Kenya! Build Peace and Unity!
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
25,000 people living in the slums of Nairobi have seen it. People all over Kenya are asking to see it. NOW, we need YOUR HELP so they can see it. See what? TOGETHERNESS SUPREME A story of three youths, three tribes in one mega slum. A story based on actual events. A story of peace and reconciliation. A...
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Hot Sun Visit
By - John Hecklinger - GlobalGiving Chief Program Officer
I visited Hot Sun Foundation's Kibera Film School two weeks ago and met the students. They are enthusiastically helping us with the GlobalGiving Storytelling project - an innovative experiment in soliciting and using beneficiary feedback. A highlight was seeing the trailer for their first feature film "Togetherness...
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TOGETHERNESS SUPREME a SMASH HIT in Nairobi slums!
By - Pamela Collett - Communications
Everywhere we go in the slums of Nairobi, people turn out to see the Kibera feature film TOGETHERNESS SUPREME, a story of three youths, three tribes in one mega slum: KIBERA, Kenya. Based on actual events, TOGETHERNESS SUPREME tells a story of peace and reconciliation following the post-election violence in Kenya in...
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Hotsun knows that there is great ability in the slum, that if exploited, could suprise the world. it is the NGO thatworks towards transformation of kibera slum through film making. it selects a number of youths every year whom they train in filming and in additoin show them how to earn a living throught the same. this... Read more »
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Raising Sun - Michael Hotsun Foundation

Hotsun foundation launched its other film at Undugu grounds with proud and ululations. Truly the sun is raising we are soon approaching to noon. Many talents have been discovered at Hotsun Foundation. The utterances explains itself by the impact it has created. this would not have happened without the help of Global giving... Read more »
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Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

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Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

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Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has received 7 donations

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has received 8 donations

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Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has made updates to their project page.

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

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Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

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Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has received 27 donations

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has received 5 donations

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has received 4 donations

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has received 7 donations

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films has received 89 donations

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

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Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

Transform Lives of African Youth by Making Films posted a progress report

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