Last week the team sent thank you letters to everyone we worked with abroad, to let them know we are still thinking about them and are grateful for all of the help and supported the provided the team. This morning, when I came into the office, I had an email from Betty Sanchez, one of [...]
Read MoreMalawi’s Future Generation
Soccer balls are hard to come by in rural Malawi. But that doesn’t stop children from playing soccer day in and day out. It doesn’t take a lush field of grass, painted sidelines, or a net to play soccer in the villages. And it certainly doesn’t take a soccer ball. If you visit a village, [...]
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Guests Galore at the Post-Pro Office
Our office has been bustling with guests this past week at post-production. Friends of SOW have been meeting with our students, giving them feedback on their work and sharing their own stories and experiences in the media and nonprofit industries. Patrick Fries was the first guest speaker in our post-production office. The owner [...]
Read MorePostPro2012
A look at what we’ve been doing in and out of the office during post-production 2012!
Read MoreTestimonial: Monkey Bay
Filmmaker Debbie Vu gives her testimony at Monkey Bay. Despite the tropical scenery and Sponge Bob Square Pants music, don’t be fooled– we weren’t in Hawaii, we were visiting beautiful Lake Malawi. Enjoy! http://youtu.be/QSy_atXuJWg
Read MorePresident Banda Inaugurates New Bwaila Fistula Unit
Back in June we met with Dr. Jeff Wilkinson, the lead surgeon at the Fistula Care Center in Bwaila District Hospital in the capital of Lilongwe. He eagerly explained that they would soon be opening a new fistula unit as he showed us an open room with two neat rows of brand new plastic-wrapped mattresses [...]
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: What’s it like to be a producer?
Meet Angie. Angie Gontaruk, the producer for the UNC team, went to Malawi for one month to work with P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water. She tells all about her experience in Africa with Students of the World.
Read MoreChocolate: The Answer to All of Life’s Problems
When I was offered the position of Assistant Filmmaker for the 2012 UNC Team, it came with a caveat: I would be the only guy on a team of seven students traveling to Africa for a month. Being from a journalism school that is predominantly female, I didn’t think much of it and accepted the [...]
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UNC at the International AIDS Conference
Every year, prominent figures from around the globe assemble for a weeklong conference to deliberate on the AIDS epidemic, considering progress made in the past year and plans for the future. The conference opens up a dialogue between leading scientists, scholars, diplomats, philanthropists, and people living with the disease. The opening session will commence in [...]
Read MoreA brief history of Children’s Safe Drinking Water
P&G has come a long way since it first began addressing the global water crisis and pervasive lack of access to safe drinking water in developing countries. As we delve into our projects about the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program (CSDW) and learn even more about the organization as we go, we wanted to [...]
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