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"Tapestries of Hope" is a feature-length documentary that exposes the myth behind the abuse of young girls in Zimbabwe and brings awareness to the efforts of the Girl Child Network and their fearless founder Betty Makoni.

This is a 2:58 min teaser trailer of the documentary, directed by award-winning filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley, produced by Anand Chandrasekaran and Ray Arthur Wang, and currently in post-production.

The project's blog featured daily live-blogs during the shoot in Zimbabwe, and was featured on "The Huffington Post", the world's top-rated news blog. The blog also won a "Media Blog of the Year" award recently for its pioneering use of new media to raise awareness and build community.

Expose the Myth. End Abuse. Donate.
http://savehope.blogspot.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• film
• documentary
• Zimbabwe
• africa
• betty
• makoni
• michealene
• risley
• anand
• chandrasekaran
• ray
• wang
• girl
• child
• sexual
• abuse

[Stewdza]

Well done for highlighting serious and traumatic issues that are being overshadowed by the political situation. God bless you.

[tomkosnik]

Michealene Cristini Risley and Betty Makoni, founder of The Girl Child Network, are leaders who challenge us all to help this noble cause.

The Girls in Zimbabwe are canaries in the coal mine, waking us up to the horrors of child abuse in every country around the world.

Michealene, Betty, and teammates Anand Chandrasekaran, Ray Arthur Wang, and Lauren Carara, are the point of the arrow aimed at this problem. Let's pitch in and help them hit the bull's eye with maximum impact!

[mspixley]

How very sad. Thank you for bringing awareness to this issue. Good work!

[2eyesonyou]

I commnd u on ur detrmntn to reveal amng othrs, an area long of concern - the rpng of virgns amng othr nonsense prescrbd by witchdctrs. Typicly the policl situatn in zim intrfers & takes the spot light away frm such imprtant issues. As usual childrn endup beng wost affctd, under such circmstncs, good to c smeone offrng more volme to their smal voices. As a Zimbo, I relise the difclty u are opratng in. Well done.

[vallinch]

This is clearly going to be a very important and precedent-setting film re girls' and womens' unspeakable global issues. You have with passion and even humor bravely called attention to a whole new level of gender reality that exists in our world right now and that woefully few even want to know about. Thank you for a critically important and inspiring absolutely realistic view of women's strength and resilience all over the world. We think you have started a major new documentary trend!

[cnbradhsaw]

Thank you for making this video and exposing a horror of the Aids epidemic happening in many African countries.