Digital Storytelling
As part of our new girls’ scholarship and leadership initiative, the Kisa Project, AfricAid will use digital storytelling in order to create meaningful and immediate communication between student and sponsor. In partnership with the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), AfricAid will lead the young women participating in the Kisa Project through storytelling workshops so they can develop, write, and share their life stories in a rich and vivid video format. For an example of a digital story that came out of a CDS workshop in South Africa, please click here.
We are excited about the opportunity this will create for sponsor and student to learn a great deal about one another, in a much more vivid and intimate way than the average sponsorship or letter-writing program.
At the 2009 Kisa Film Festival, on October 25th, attendees were given the opportunity to see what digital storytelling is all about through the 12 pieces created by Coloradans about their connections to Africa. We encourage you to take a look at these incredible stories!
“Take” by Ashley Shuyler
“Lucid” by Louis Gutierrez
“Making Love” by Banjo Edwards
“Everything Was Different” by Mark Mann
“Losinoni” by Hayden Hutcherson
“The Bao Bottle Tree” by Jasmine Moore
“Welcome Home” by Kelli Bee
“Window Seat” by Nirvana Bhatia
“Stella” by Hannah Williams
“Out of Context” by Daniel and Isabella Suavé
“From Here, There, and Forever” by Sarah Norton
