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We are releasing three more chapters in our ongoing series of short films, Kids in the City, highlighting issues of child protection and survival in Uganda, Cambodia and Kenya.The Dump Site tells the story of children who scavenge at a garbage dump in Nairobi. Driven out of school by poverty, they scrape a hazardous existence searching for food, plastics or metal. Home Alone profiles a family of four children in Kampala orphaned by AIDS. Ambrose, the eldest child, makes bricks to earn money and try to feed his siblings and still go to school. The Weigh Scale introduces 14 year old Sori who never knew his father, and lives alone in Phnom Penh. His income comes from charging people to weigh themselves on his scale in city parks. View or download here: http://www.irinnews.org/film/?id=4304&SeriesID=6Crowd-sourcing is a hot topic in humanitarian policy these days.
We try to sort the hype from the reality in this analysis: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89735
More juicy aid policy issues covered here: http://www.irinnews.org/Theme.aspx?theme=POL
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