Children's Voices: Creative Paths to Learning

We completed the film for UNICEF Uganda this week. I am very pleased with it. The interface for the dvd is shown here. The film is called Children's Voices:Creative Paths to Learning'. It is a great film, with an apt title, as songs devised and sung by the children are used as the background music for the film. We produced two versions, a full film (just over 20 minutes long) and a short film (about ten minutes long) along with some discussion points.

It was a gruelling couple of weeks, but it was a good to do the field and face to face work in such a short space of time and then also edit and complete the film as well. It was less than a month and half for the entire project. Not bad, considering part of the editing process involved ensuring the film was on track with UNICEF in Kampala. We had to find easy ways for them to view the project online and give feedback and comments, Thank you Youtube. And of course Melvyn, my editor.

You can watch the whole film in parts in my youtube site. See link at the side of how to get there.





My recent project with UNICEF Uganda used creative media and participatory techniques in Karamoja. One of the aims of the project was to test the methodology and see if creative media can be used in Primary schools in Uganda to improve learning outcomes, especially among girls. I worked with members from the Girls Education Movement (GEM). The GEM members facilitated the workshops with the children.

You can read more about the launch of GEM in Uganda in October 2001 on the UNICEF website by following the url below:
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_10450.html

It was a real pleasure to work with the people from GEM. They were committed and intelligent young people, who provided excellent role models to the children in the schools.