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We Can Speak For Ourselves - Project for Awesome in Bangladesh

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Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011

Funded by Donations To:
( http://uncultured.com/donate )

The Community Health Volunteers seen in this video were trained by Save the Children in Bangladesh through a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and private contributions. To learn more about Save the Children and Community Health Volunteers, visit:
( http://www.savethechildren.org )
( http://www.goodgoes.org )

You can follow the work of one of Afia (one of the Community Health Volunteers seen in this video) at Save the Children's Good Goes website:
( http://www.goodgoes.org/local-health-... )

This video is monetized because this is my year-round full-time job. However, I do not draw a salary from donations (including "overhead" donations). Full disclosure on this can be found here:
( http://uncultured.com/2010/08/12/work... )

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This is a story of what happens when the poor speak for themselves. When people speak on behalf of the needs of others - regardless of one's passion, one's eloquence, or one's on-the-ground experience - they are a filter whether they like it or not.

The only way to bypass this filter is by enabling those in need to speak for themselves. Only by having those in need speak for themselves can we truly know whether any charity, aid, and development is being done well or merely being marketed well.

All aid beneficiary responses (i.e. Bangladeshi mothers who received help from Community Health Volunteers) were unscripted and direct testimonials. Most on-screen narrations by Community Health Volunteers were co-scripted with me and the health volunteer. All off-screen narrations by the volunteers (i.e. narration to B-Roll) were unscripted testimonials direct from the Community Health Volunteers.

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Special Thanks To:

Uncultured Project Donors
( http://uncultured.com/donate )

Save the Children USA
( http://www.savethechildren.org )

Blumberg Segal LLP
( http://www.globalphilanthropy.ca )

Elgato Systems LLC
( http://www.elgato.com )

Tiffen
( http://www.tiffen.com )

Red Giant Software
( http://www.redgiantsoftware.com )

CrumplePop Software
( http://www.crumplepop.com )

CoreMelt Software
( http://www.coremelt.com )

Singular Software - Manufacturers of PluralEyes
( http://www.singularsoftware.com )

Music Provided by Zack Hemsey
( http://www.zackhemsey.com )

AfterEffects Graphics Created by Ryan Lewis
( http://www.youtube.com/ryananfrewlewis )

The video was compressed with Elgato Turbo.264 HD software
( http://bit.ly/Vazh5l )

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  • TheMightysimi

    what do you mean by the name "uncultured project"??

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  • UnculturedProject

    It's just a word that means multiple meanings to me. 1) It's a play on the word "third culture" because I'm a "third culture kid" I guess, 2) It speaks to the original and nebulous plan that I started off with, 3) It's name that people won't confuse me as a know-it-all aid expert or aid pundit.

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  • TheMightysimi

    ... ...suitable name ....but no worries tomorow third culture third is better :)thank you for you reply.....so unplanned culture for u means third culture

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  • UnculturedProject

    Third culture just means people who aren't one specific culture. Like they maybe born to an immigrant family. The family has one culture and the country the person was born in has another. And so the individual's culture is not really of either culture - but a mixing of the two.

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  • thomas de rycke

    How much money is needed to save 1 child?

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  • UnculturedProject

    Hey - thanks for the question. The short answer is that some of the medications and emergency therapeutic food can cost a few bucks... or a few pennies. But the longer answer is that aid is complex and so there is a whole system of training health workers, creating programs, running them, monitoring them, and being accountable that also need to be factored in.

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  • NewGuy DK

    Why does this not get as much attention as Kony 2012?

    I feel like you are the one who deserves it so much more.

    The only reason that kony 2012 is so big is because the docomentary is so good and yet so misleading..

    I've lost faith in humanity.

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  • md.azizul Haque

    Awesome 

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    xjzkz

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  • noorgansjustawesome

    You are what is right with YouTube. Thank you. (:

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  • Atuchy

    I'm a third culture kid! So encouraging to hear it being discussed :D

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  • HIBENNY1999

    Wonderful

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  • Claire DesRosiers

    DFTBA

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  • rachel burgess

    Such a beautiful cause helping children live past the age of 5 DFTBA!

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  • miriam chirilli

    great cause!

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  • Enox66

    Keep up the great work you do! dftba

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  • Robyn Otto

    This is a very cool cause! Thanks!

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