We finished up the major part of our shooting at Tumaini on
Thursday. The last interview was of two girls, both of whom are sponsored, who
were interviewed together. They are friends, and they wanted to be together on
camera. In addition, Ashley took B-roll of a girl who had just been given a new
sponsor, who was writing an introductory sponsor letter.
Jumana had the idea of writing an additional script from
children’s letters to their sponsors. Adrienne gathered letters to sponsors
that were ready to be sent, and Jumana and Nick read them, copied off parts of
the letters they felt were compelling, and worked those child-generated
sentences into a composite “letter” from a child to a sponsor. They then recorded a child at Tumaini reading
the letter. Their plan is to put a Go-Pro camera on a child during the day on
Friday to capture the school – and the content of the letter – from a child’s
point of view. This will become an additional video for Tumaini’s use.
After the dismissal bell, a couple of the sports-minded BECA
students went out on the field to join the children in after-school
sports. It was fun to see Kamran, at
6’5” a stereotypical basketball player, give Mr. Paul, the Head Teacher,
pointers on shooting a basketball.
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