Community Support | Well of Dreams https://wellofdreamsmovie.com Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:11:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Goal Exceeded and Oprah Connection https://wellofdreamsmovie.com/blog/community-support/oprah-connection Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:07:58 +0000 http://wellofdreamsmovie.com/?p=149 What an exciting day it has been. First thing this morning I had a call from my church and I was told that there is someone who would like to make up the difference for us in supplying 500 sanitary napkin kits to the girls and women of the village of Angiro, Kenya. We had […]

The post Goal Exceeded and Oprah Connection first appeared on Well of Dreams.]]> What an exciting day it has been. First thing this morning I had a call from my church and I was told that there is someone who would like to make up the difference for us in supplying 500 sanitary napkin kits to the girls and women of the village of Angiro, Kenya. We had hoped to send 500. I was thrilled that we raised enough last week to purchase 352 but when I heard that an anonymous donor wanted to get us to 500 I was just amazed. After expressing my thanks I called Anne and she excitedly said “I told you that the Lord would provide.”

Several hours later I had a call and I was told that our generous donor donated $3500 and we could purchase 526 kits. Wow! What an awesome experience this has been, for many of us that got the word out on this vital campaign and saw over 95 individuals give an average of $100 each to help our friends in a developing country.

Thanks to all. Tomorrow we leave for Kenya. We are very excited and can’t wait to start shooting. My team has been absolutely amazing and I have high hopes for this project.

As if that wasn’t already a great day – I just had a call about 30 minutes ago from Roco Films. Our 17 yr old videographer and filmmaker extraordinaire also has a mother extraordinaire and she is a longtime friend of the president of Roco Films. Roco is working with Oprah Winfrey and the OWN network on a documentary film club and she, Sue, followed up with me.

I shared the story and Sue gave me some great insights and advice. But the true music to my ears was when she said “this is definitely on brand for us.” She asked me to keep in touch and gave me some steps. She said that our film is definitely a good fit for the OWN Network documentary club and she wants to see our sizzle reel and rough cut as soon as we can have them ready.

Well, we leave in the morning so I better get packed.

The post Goal Exceeded and Oprah Connection first appeared on Well of Dreams.]]> Huru International https://wellofdreamsmovie.com/blog/community-support/huru-international Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:09:44 +0000 http://wellofdreamsmovie.com/?p=146 Over the course of the last 10 days we have been raising money to meet a need in Anne’s village. She had asked us to try to find a corporation that would donate sanitary napkins to the girls and women of her village. She said that they are luxury items that nobody in her village […]

The post Huru International first appeared on Well of Dreams.]]> Over the course of the last 10 days we have been raising money to meet a need in Anne’s village. She had asked us to try to find a corporation that would donate sanitary napkins to the girls and women of her village. She said that they are luxury items that nobody in her village can afford. And so for the young girls, they end up missing 4-5 days of school each month when they have their cycle. I could hardly believe it. And I wasn’t alone. Over the July 4th holiday I was at my Mother’s and she had some of her friends over. We were talking about my upcoming trip to Africa and the film and I told them about this need. My Mother immediately said that she would like to help. And right away several of her friends concurred. That night I went home and set up a facebook causes page and we began to raise funds to purchase sanitary napkin kits from a wonderful organization called Huru International. Each kit has enough supplies to last a girl for a full year. The kits are $25 each.

I am thrilled to report that when we closed out our campaign today we had right about $7000 and enough to purchase 342 kits. Anne tells me that 250 will supply all of the girls in the school which means we will also have enough to help some of the women of the village.

Thanks to all who helped and recruited. Anne says this will make a huge difference in the lives of these girls.

The post Huru International first appeared on Well of Dreams.]]> NBC 10 Covers “Soccer Balls to Kenya” Story https://wellofdreamsmovie.com/blog/community-support/nbc-10-soccer-balls-to-kenya Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:37:35 +0000 http://wellofdreamsmovie.com/?p=127 View more videos at: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com.

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The post NBC 10 Covers “Soccer Balls to Kenya” Story first appeared on Well of Dreams.]]> Soccer Balls for Kenya https://wellofdreamsmovie.com/blog/community-support/soccer-balls-for-kenya Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:40:42 +0000 http://wellofdreamsmovie.com/?p=121 Nancy Legath is a first grade teacher at the Pickering Valley Elementary School.  Her son, Dan Frantz, is part of the film crew that will be traveling to Kenya next month to shoot the documentary film – Well of  Dreams.  Together, Nancy and Dan thought it would be neat to have the first graders Nancy […]

The post Soccer Balls for Kenya first appeared on Well of Dreams.]]> Nancy Legath is a first grade teacher at the Pickering Valley Elementary School.  Her son, Dan Frantz, is part of the film crew that will be traveling to Kenya next month to shoot the documentary film – Well of  Dreams.  Together, Nancy and Dan thought it would be neat to have the first graders Nancy teaches – send something for the children in Kenya.  We talked with Anne – the subject of our film – about what to send and she met with the people in her village.  They told us that they thought it would be wonderful if we could bring them a few soccer balls.

Apparently the people of Anne’s village have never seen or played with a soccer ball.  Instead they do the best they can to make soccer balls out of paper so that they can play as other children do.  Last week we returned to Pickering Valley Elementary School to accept the soccer balls from the children on behalf of Anne and the village of Angiro, Kenya.  We were very excited to learn that the children had collected 50 soccer balls!  They also contributed $60 to help pay for shipping the balls to Kenya.  Anne had told us that if we could bring 10 soccer balls she could share them with other villages as well!  We figure that with 50 balls, Anne and her team will be able to give the children of many villages the opportunity to play soccer using real soccer balls instead of paper.

NBC 10 was onsite to video some of the event and tomorrow at 5:30 PM – Dan and Nancy will be interviewed on the NBC program Good News!

Anne and her village are thrilled about the gift of 50 soccer balls and she tells us that the children of Angiro are actively practicing with their paper balls because they want to do well in the soccer tournament that Anne has planned to hold while our crew is in Kenya next month.

A very warm and special thank you to the teachers, parents and first grade students at Pickering Valley Elementary School for their generous hearts!  You are making a difference and we applaud you.

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