The Day Without Dignity Video
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I want to thank everyone who participated in A Day Without Dignity. So many of you shared thoughtful posts and touching photos. Your contributions have been invaluable to readers and were key to creating this video.
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Photos and quotes used in this video come from:
Matt Davies at Lifting the poverty curtain
Jane Reitsma at Stratosphere
TUKENI and TMS RUGE from Project Diaspora
Women of Kireka
Siena Anstis
Tales from the Hood
Shotgun Shack
Emily Tanner
Carol Jean Gallo
Amy Rorke
Rachel Zack
Marissa Nobauer
Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Extra thanks to:
Duncan McNicholl
Don D’Souza
Jolly Ann Maulit
Erin Antcliffe
And everyone else from Engineers Without Borders Canada (Untapped Markets) for their photos and updates of the shoe markets.
Special thanks to Tom Murphy and TMS Ruge for helping organize the event on such short notice.
And finally, an extra special thanks to Time Given To Us for the hours she dedicated to creating this video
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Statistics from:
Used-Clothing Donations and Apparel Production in Africa
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Note: Although I tried to credit everyone whose work I used, there’s the possibility that I missed someone or made another mistake. Please don’t hesitate to let me know of any fixes that are needed. I’m also happy to receive suggestions for improving this video or creating future videos.
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MA in International Development in hand, I was going to do my bit to save the world. But the poor don’t need saving. They need access: to information, to resources, to market, to media, to their leaders. It’s definitely time to stop bad aid. Thank you for this brilliant counter-campaign.
Thanks! And I love the way you phrased it.
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How dare you compress the infinite complexities of aid work into a visually appealing four minute video that gets its point across with striking images and short, direct bits of text! Why that’s that’s that’s… practically MARKETING right there!
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[...] * * * * * Then earlier this morning, Daniela Papi connected with me and we jumped immediately into this discussion of the real impact of NGOs and aid. I won’t reiterate all of her great points, but she mentioned the need for better marketing of real social impact and of NGOs that are socially responsible. She also sent me a link to the video for A Day Without Dignity. [...]
[...] have purposely stayed out of the “Tom’s Shoes = Bad Aid” campaign that has been going on for the past few weeks and haven’t tweeted about it. It was [...]
Hi there Saundra! FYI, I’ve seen two versions of the video; one that uses a photo of mine without me in the credits (the one posted above), and one with me in the credits that doesn’t use the photo (on YouTube somewhere), LOL. No big deal either way, just wanted to flag that. The video came out great and I was excited to take part in it. Hope you’re having an excellent break, and looking forward to your return. Cheers!
I knew it! I always had a feeling those stupid toms were not doing anything for the world, they’re just another hipster/scene kid fad.
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Wow! This certainly changes one’s perception. The photos show some shoes are made locally. Where do the others shoes for sale come from? Can everyone there afford them? Have any of the locally made shoes ever been considered as by established shoe manufacturers? what is need to create more employment opportunity’s in country’s of need?
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[...] Over the weekend I was tasked with needing to buy new walking shoes. For the last two years or so I’ve been buying a pair of Tom’s every month and using them as a measure of the amount I was walking: if I could wear through a pair of Tom’s in a month, I was walking enough. However, this also made my shoe budget $40 a month. While that isn’t an insane amount it is a consistent expense I probably don’t need to incur. On top of that some research and gentle urging from Sam led me to decide Tom’s aren’t really the best way to be spending my money. [...]
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If there’s a thriving local market that will provide these kids shoes, then why are there still so many kids without shoes?!
TOMS works with giving partners, in country, who make sure that kids WHO NEED SHOES get shoes. Without them they are more likely not to go to school and/or suffer from preventable injuries or disease. Children who are sick and not going to school are a REAL drain on the local economy, present and future.
Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Should local economies be developed? Absolutely! Is giving aid (TOMS Shoes in this case) producing a net negative impact on communities? Absolutely not!
I suggest you read some of the 70 posts written on the topic for last year’s Day Without Dignity. http://goodintents.org/in-kind-donations/a-day-without-dignity
Why?
So that you can be informed on the issues without me having to go to the effort of repeating everything for you.