Applying for the Startup Training School Scholarship
Lea and Jonathan Woodward of Location Independent announced recently a new program called Startup Training School designed to give entrepreneurs the opportunity “to learn all the skills – design, website & technical – you need to brand, set up and run your online business.” And there are four scholarships available for the first part of…
Aver School 2010 Final Works
The youth at Esperanza Viva continually inspire everyone around them to reach higher, go a little bit further in expressing creativity. For the past four years, the workshops have been held in the courtyard at the main youth home and every year the kids succeed in photographing something new in spite of being in the…
Update: Driving in Mexico
In a previous post, I wrote about a conversation I had with several boys at Esperanza Viva about driving a car. They were all very eager to learn how to drive and also very unsure as to how that was going to happen in their lives. So I asked one of the staff members how/when…
“Do you know how to drive?”
One of the sweetest moments I had during my time at Esperanza Viva happened on the day that I went back to edit the audio interviews with the video team. A friend loaned us their car during our stay in Puebla so that we wouldn’t need to take taxi cabs and public buses, which is…
Learning about editing audio interviews (and other good news)
On Monday, I went to Esperanza Viva again and guided the video team as they created an audio rough cut for the documentary interviews. Brett and I will be using their notes to make the final edits back in Seattle; I was impressed with their commitment and dedication in sitting down for 4 hours straight…
Gracias Seattle – Thank you for donating your cameras.
Aver School and fifteen of the photography students want to say a big thank you for the camera donations for the March 2010 workshop at Esperanza Viva. The cameras made a big difference and enabled us to open up the workshop to 10 more kids than we had last year. Thank you from the bottom…
“It’s a wrap!”
First of all, a big thank you to Valentina Vitols and Brett Renville for teaching at Esperanza Viva this past week. You inspired the children to reach for their dreams and graciously led them to increase their their photo, video and audio skills in the midst of the somewhat chaotic circumstances. I had the opportunity…
Braulio’s Amazing Self-Portrait
Valentina Vitols, Aver School’s talented photography instructor, just showed me one of Braulio’s photos and the photo just made me want to cry. It is simply amazing. It is clear proof that the kids are absorbing everything we are sharing with them. Braulio, age 13, chose to do a self-portrait as his personal project. His…
Behind the Scenes
The ten students in the video group are making a documentary about their new home that is currently in construction. Esperanza Viva Youth Home has raised over $800,000 US Dollars to purchase the land and begin construction of their home. We’re sharing some behind-the-scenes photos of today’s shoot.
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