How to Make a Difference in Africa - PREVIEW

"Despite all the aid that has been sent to Africa, the continent has gone backwards. Why is it that if money can buy the necessities for life, pay for education and infrastructure, aid money has not delivered broad positive changes? Does money simply not work?" — Sorious Samura

African journalist and Emmy Award winning film maker Sorious Samura has spent his life in search of answers to the many problems of Africa. His approach has sometimes been controversial and his methods extreme, but his reputation for the unflinching pursuit of truth regardless of its inconvenience has earned him respect across Africa and throughout the world. Earlier this year Sorious Samura and Storyhouse Films spent a month with AfriKids and its operations in Ghana investigating the effectiveness and impact of foreign based charities on the lives of African people.

'How to Make a Difference in Africa?' came about out of the desire of AfriKids' supporters to help communicate the organisation's methodology more widely and of Sorious Samura to tell, at last, a good news story from Africa. The film has been funded by four of AfriKids' supporters and has been produced to the high independent journalistic standards of Sorious Samura's previous work.

Looking in depth at three of AfriKids' 21 projects and its ground breaking strategy to make AfriKids Ghana independent and the UK fundraising office redundant, the film examines how the bottom up approach can transform the impact of aid and make it truly sustainable. The result is a documentary film that impacts not only on the local area, but on Africa as a whole.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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