"Be the change you want to see in the world"
Mahatma Gandhi
There are about 6.000 young people working for armed drug dealers in slums. We can´t save them all but our work can be an example for government and other poor communities.
UK registered charity number: 1127765
We now have our blog in portuguese with all the work made by our Grupo pensar at Complexo do Alemao.
http://grupopensarcultural.blogspot.com/
Drug trafficking offers slum youth things
that society does not: status; money and access to goods; as well as social
ascension; in a world with sub-par education and no real opportunity.
You see young boys with enormous weapons
which you would normally expect to see in the war in Iraq.
You see people selling drugs out in the
open and you see a situation where the governance is one which is what they
call the parallel power, meaning not the state but basically run by the drug
gangs.
The interesting thing is not that people
are ever able to cope with it, but that it becomes normal, it becomes the
reality there and people are no longer
shocked by what they see.
Video Manifesto exists to transform the lives of disadvantaged young people and their
communities by providing them with training in vocational audiovisual skills,
post -training support and educational and recreational activities.
We are an
UK registered charity that are providing a better future through the power of
education and training to youngsters in the slum. We believes that the
art of filmmaking will provide these youths with an outlet in which to express themselves - a chance to manifest
themselves.