 | Pedal=Sight  Jacob Seigel-Boettner | Empowerment | 05:14 For many, the bicycle is an expensive toy...a lifestyle choice. For Bharati, the bicycle is much more. It is a means to an education..a means to a better future...a tool to achieve what women in her mother's generation could not. Bharati wants to change her world...with a little help from her own two wheels. |
 | Children of the Trains Barbara Grandvoinet | Overcoming Conflict | 05:12 Children of the Trains is a story of transformation: where junk-yard train cars become locations of learning and abandoned street children become hopeful youth. Increased competition for jobs and single parent families has led to instability in the family structure, a decline in basic needs support, an increase in violence, and a loss of adequate housing. As a result, many of these children ... More |
 | Sierre Leone: Where Every Pregnancy is a Gamble Lauren Malkani | Leadership & Governance | 05:14 After a decade-long conflict, Sierra Leone has many challenges ahead including improving child and maternal health. in 2009, one in eight women died during pregnancy. Fatimata Konte, an expecting mother, fears giving birth after already losing five of her children. She hopes the new policy to bring free health care to all pregnant women will save her next child and make giving birth safe for all w. ... More |
 | Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color and Culture Maureen Gosling | Empowerment | 05:11 "Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color and Culture," a one hour documentary, tells the story of women from Bamako, Mali, whose artistic creativity became a force for alleviating poverty and affirming identity in West Africa. In the 1960s, a small group of impoverished and resourceful Malian women cloth dyers reinvigorated the craft of hand-dyed cloth using a fabric called bazin (imported polished c. ... More |
 | Because I Dare Dirbdil Assefa | Empowerment | 05:12 All it took was a strong heart, a determination and self-belief to overcome the challenges, a desire to stand up against the opinion and expectation of friends and neighbors. Just for one cause, a cause she dares to face no matter how difficult it would be. This is a story of a single mother, who was determined to realize her simple dreams of feeding and sending her four kids to school working in ... More |
 | Rising to the Top Ana Cetina | Local/Global Partnerships | 05:11 The Sarakasi Trust is a non-profit organization founded by Marion and Rudy Van Dijck in Nairobi, Kenya. It aims to improve the lives of impoverished people through arts and culture by supporting local dancers and acrobats. "Rising to the Top" tells the story of two of the many artists that have advanced their lives by being a part of this organization. |
 | Parto Libre Laura Elliott | Leadership & Governance | 05:10 Parto Libre is a Mexican non-profit civil association founded in November of 2007 by women who work to promote our rights to a humanized, respectful and safe pregnancy, labor and birth from our role as women, mothers, citizens and human beings. We support alternate ways of giving birth: at home or in a hospital with professional midwives, in special hospital units or in clinics, with health pro ... More |
 | Amra Shakti Shalli - We Are Powerful Annie Escobar | Empowerment | 05:15 Amra Shakti Shalli - We Are Powerful, features the voices of women in Bangladesh who, through the support of the organization BRAC, are radically transforming the societal consensus about the value and treatment of women. In the face of a patriarchal society, in which women have little voice in the public/civic spheres, women are demanding power through their collective actions. They are stopping ... More |
 | Carina Water Wells Project Jacqueline Simone Ambrose | Sustainability | 05:12 I grew up in Tanzania from 1949 -1970. In December 2003 I returned to Tabora Tanzania for the first time since my daughter Carina was born there in 1964. During the visit I was asked to help find money for water/sanitation projects. The film depicts the construction of a well at Kwihala Village & a rainwater harvesting tank built at Isukamahela School. The villagers take ownership of the wells/g ... More |
 | Vital Voices "Kakenya" Aaron Kisner | Overcoming Conflict | 02:59 The film "Kakenya" is a Vital Voices film that tells the story of Kakenya Ntaiya and the power of her vital voice in making a simple dream come true: the first primary school for girls in her Maasai village in Kenya. But realizing her dream was far from simple |
