We live in a world where a child dies every three seconds from a preventable illness, where half a million women die every year in childbirth, and where 110 million children do not even have the opportunity to learn how to read the books that tell them about the 1.2 billion people worldwide living on less than $1.00 a day.

When I hear these figures and see them brought to life in the faces of children with infinite potential, energy, and hope, I can not help but try to help them tell their stories.

Last year, I made an hour-long film about Haba na Haba, a grassroots group using performing arts for education, development, and social change in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

Now, I have been asked to make a series of films for a renowned international development organization called Millennium Villages in Rwanda. My work will seek to garner support in the states for their incredible work in Rwanda.

I firmly believe that we, as a global community, have the capacity to end extreme global poverty by 2015. This is my personal contribution to this effort. Why not make it yours as well?

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