VAI Spring Drive Campaign

Hi everyone,

This summer WITNESS is training 33 human rights activists from around the world at WITNESS's Video Advocacy Institute (VAI), where they will learn how to use video to defend human rights. Participants are campaigning on issues ranging from child labor in Zambia, the right to clean water in Papua New Guinea, and public education in the US.

Your support now will help us sustain the program and to provide additional resources like technical equipment and ongoing editing support. It will enable advocates who cannot otherwise attend the training to join us for two weeks in Canada.

Please forward this page far and wide and help me reach or surpass my personal goal. My appreciation is boundless.

Many thanks,

Guergana.

Make an impact by giving to WITNESS!

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$10 enables WITNESS to digitize a human rights video and put it onto the Hub for the world to see

$25 puts the world’s first-ever comprehensive guide, Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism, into the hands of Arabic, English, French, Indonesian Russian, Spanish and Turkish speaking activists

$50 enables schools and community groups to hold public screenings of WITNESS video titles to create social change

$150 puts a camcorder into the hands of a frontline human rights defender. These easy-to-use Flip Digital camcorders with on-board software can be uploaded to the WITNESS Hub. Now, for every $150 contribution, Pure Digital Technologies will match your contribution, doubling the impact of your gift!

$250 provides each human rights defender who attends the VAI the support they need from WITNESS to implement their video advocacy project throughout the year

$500 enables WITNESS to train 30 human rights defenders in a day long workshop

$1,600 sets up a screening room – with a multimedia projector and speakers – in remote villages where WITNESS partners educate their community

$2,500 equips human rights activists so they can engage in digital witnessing and make powerful videos to fight for human rights. Equipment includes a digital video camera, tripods, headsets and maintenance kits.

$5,000 fully sponsors a frontline human rights defender to attend the 2008 VAI. This full-scholarship covers course fees, meal plan and accommodations, travel and insurance, and equipment for a full two weeks of hands-on practical instruction

$10,000 covers travel and accommodations for a WITNESS partner to edit their film …

Gifts are tax-deductible

Get involved: hub.witness.org

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