Category: Africa
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A Gathering of Souls: The Billy Graham Crusades Promo
Here is a promo for a film I produced with Larry Eskridge, “A Gathering of Souls: The Billy Graham Crusades”. The Rev. Billy Graham passed away on February 21, 2018. In 2012 I worked with Larry Eskridge from Wheaton College to produced a documentary, A Gathering of Souls: The Billy Graham Crusades. It was produced…
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Sister Judith and 50,000 Aids Orphans
Thursday, May 24, 2001 This is a story Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I produced in Bukoba, Tanzania with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Sister Judith worked with the ELCT’s HIV/Aids program known as OSSA. She was a saint. We followed three orphan children (HIV positive) as they went for water. The fresh water…
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Godparents for Tanzania, HAI Institute of Technology
The HAI Institute of Technology is the dream of Peniel Shali, a businessman in Moshi, Tanzania. Shali saw a need for vocational training in the areas of information technology, auto mechanics, electricity and construction engineering. Shali’s dream is supported by Godparents for Tanzania, a non-profit that hope through education for young people in the Kilimanjaro…
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Faraja Primary School, Emmanuel Nguvava
The Faraja School is one of only two primary schools in Tanzania that serve children with disabilities. Faraja School gives children hope and does it through a model of financial sustainability through agriculture. Emmanuel Nguvava is Director of the school.
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Door of Hope Maasai Ministry
The Door of Hope Ministry is and example of a micro non-profit that is making a difference in the lives of young Maasai women through education. The Maasai are an African ethnic group that live in East Africa typically in and around large game parks. Door of Hope is the story of Tanzanian Lutheran Pastor…
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Faraja School: Senorina Laurent
The Faraja School is one of only two primary schools in Tanzania that serve children with disabilities. Senorina Laurent is an Occupational Therapist and helps children adapt to their environments and gain independence
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Godparents for Tanzania, Gilba Hidie Greeting
G4TZ graduate Joshua is the first in his family to attend school beyond the seventh grade. After completing secondary school, he went to teacher training college where he was ranked first in his class. Joshua has just received his first teaching assignment in Rombo, Kilimanjaro region, where he will teach math and science at a…
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Tanzania Next Summer!
In July, 2013 I will be working with Dwayne Westermann, a retired Lutheran pastor on a new video about Godparents for Tanzania. Godparents for Tanzania provides scholarships to over 120 students in the Kilimanjaro and Karatu regions of Tanzania. Most of the students are in secondary school (high school), college and university. We will also…
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Advocating for the Deaf: Rehema’s Testimony
Advocating for the Deaf: Rehema’s Testimony CBM US, asked me to record this story at a disabilities forum at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. The event took place in advance of the 2012 International AIDS Conference. Rehema works with Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT), the largest indigenous provider of disability and rehabilitation services…