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Please help young voices from Lebanon be heard

Published on February 25, 2008 in education. 0 Comments

I have just spent a week working on the next Offscreen Expedition in Beirut and Saida in Lebanon. It’s been truly inspiring - such wonderful energy and passion. One of the things that I hate is having to chose. I interviewed twelve pupils for a place on the expedition to the UK in July this year and have to disappoint ten of them.

I have been thinking about how to provide a platform for some of the voices to be heard and want to provide the support and equipment for them to start making short films and reports about the issues that they face and their lives. Wonderful Irina Prentice has agreed to provide some filming and editing training and now all I need to do is to get a camcorder and MacBook out to Lebanon.

So here’s the deal… I’ve got £500 I can allocate to this, and I reckon that the total cost will be about £1200.

If you have a MacBook in good working order that you don’t need or a decent camcorder please get in touch. Likewise if you would like to fund this, I would be enormously grateful and you will be changing lives at a very grassroots level.

Thank you all!

Climbing a mountain for a better world - sponsor me!

Published on August 20, 2007 in updates. 0 Comments

I am off to the Atlas Mountains tomorrow to climb the highest mountain in North Africa. I am raising money for Offscreen to help create better understanding between young people in the Middle East and the UK.

The funds will help us to involve more countries in the Middle East in our work and roll out our workshops programme to more schools in the UK.

How can you help?

We are raising funds online (click here) and please forward this email far and wide.

The Offscreen Education Programme is expanding rapidly and we want to reach far more young people in the UK and Middle East, so that they can develop proper understanding away from the flurry of negative and stereo-typed news headlines.

Click here to see the work we did in Oman and the UAE.

The video still makes me a bit teary.

So many thank you’s and salaams!