Out of every 100 girls in Malawi who begin Standard 1, only about three will enter into secondary education. Of those three, only one will enter university.
The Project: CARE believes a strategic entry point for education and engagement of policymakers and key stakeholders is through travel to see the impact made by effective development programs. Several times a year, CARE hosts high-level delegations in the countries where they work to experience firsthand the impact of U.S. investments on the ground.
We traveled with Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA 13th District) when she visited one of CARE's Join My Village programs in Malawi and met 13 year old Mwai Banda.
Join My Village is a unique initiative that unites corporate philanthropy and public engagement to make real progress toward ending global poverty and hunger. To date, Join My Village has benefited more than five million people in Malawi and India. Mwah is one who is now able to pursue her education thanks to a scholarship provided through Join My Village.
The Goal: These learning tours can be transformative for the participants. Our goal was to capture the stories on the ground and the unique intersection of those stories with the journeys of the participants.
The Client: CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place a special focus on working alongside marginalized women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to advance basic education, improve maternal and child health, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of conflict and natural disasters and helps people rebuild their lives. In 2014, CARE reached 97 million beneficiaries in 90 countries around the world, implementing long- term development and humanitarian programs to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and social injustice and to bring lasting change to the lives of poor and vulnerable people.
Client: CARE
Location: Malawi
Music: Ryan Huff
Cinematography: Morgana Wingard
Editing: Morgana Wingard