This podcast is dedicated to the people and organisations making the world a better place. Every month, I connect with an NGO that's addressing inequality or biodiversity loss. My goal is to learn about the issues they're tackling, interview the founder or director, and then share their stories with you.
But I don't just want to share their stories, I also want to contribute to their work. If you’d like to help me do that, you can support this project at www.patreon.com/brodiehopkinsmedia for as little as $5 per month.
Thanks for listening, and I hope you find my guests as inspiring as I do.
18. Promoting African Storytelling with Jigar Ganatra (AFRISOS)
In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Jigar Ganatra, Frank Papushka, and Simi Nickmanova from the African School of Storytelling (AFRISOS (https://www.afrisos.ngo/)).
Based in Tanzania but working across the African continent, AFRISOS exists to provide opportunities to the next generation of African nature filmmakers and community-based storytellers. Over the years they’ve delivered dozens of innovative programs, and collaborated with a range of Indigenous communities to produce authentic, impact-driven films.
The team joined me live on location in Tanzania’s spectacular Eastern Arc Mountains, and it made for an incredible conversation, which I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
As always, half the funds that came into the Patreon this month were donated directly to AFRISOS. This money will go towards helping the organisation run even more media-based fellowship programs for their participants, and assisting with the opening of the brand new Hadzabe Media Center.
You can donate to AFRISOS by visiting afrisos.ngo, and if you'd like to help me give more money to more amazing NGOs in the future, please consider signing up to the Patreon for as little as $5 a month at patreon.com/brodiehopkinsmedia (patreon.com/brodiehopkinsmedia)
You can follow AFRISOS on Instagram and Facebook, and you can also follow the rest of my own work on Instagram and YouTube. I also have a newsletter, which you can subscribe to at brodiehopkins.media/subscribe (brodiehopkins.media/subscribe)
A huge thank you to everyone who supports this podcast, and to Jigar, Frank and Simi for joining me on this episode. If you enjoyed it, please be sure to leave a review and share it with your friends and family. Thanks for listening!
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Additional links:
AFRISOS (https://www.afrisos.ngo/)
Ishamba Film (https://vimeo.com/1159605556)
Chameleon Corridors Film (https://vimeo.com/1077238432)
Jigar Ganatra (https://www.instagram.com/jiganatra/)
Frank Papushka (https://www.instagram.com/frankpapushka/ )
Simi Nickmanova (https://www.instagram.com/siminickman/ )
Women in Conservation Organisation (https://www.wicotz.org/ )
Earth Alliance (https://earthalliance.org/ )
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17 Jan 2025
18. Protecting Gorillas Through Public Health with Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (CTPH)
Going forward, this podcast is going to be a kind of accompaniment to the Protect The World documentary series.
In case you missed it, the first episode of that was released on January 1st, and it featured an incredible not-for-profit organisation from southwest Uganda called Conservation Through Public Health. You can check it out here if you haven’t already seen it: https://youtu.be/WYck84tlqSM (https://youtu.be/WYck84tlqSM)
I’ll be producing eleven more of those documentaries over the course of this year, and, like the first one, they’ll largely revolve around interviews with the organisation’s founder or director.
While the documentaries are edited and stylised, these podcasts will simply be the full recordings of my conversations with these amazing individuals. They’re designed to provide added context to the documentaries for anyone who wants to learn more about the organisations and the people behind them.
This first episode contains my entire conversation with Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka – founder and director of Conservation Through Public Health.
As always, half the money that came into the Patreon this month was donated directly to Conservation Through Public Health. If you'd like to help me give more money to more amazing NGOs in the future, please consider signing up at patreon.com/brodiehopkinsmedia (https://www.patreon.com/brodiehopkinsmedia) for as little as $5 a month.
29 Nov 2024
17. Women's Empowerment in Eastern Nepal with Sanam Sherpa (The Small World)
Sanam Sherpa, co-founder and director of women's empowerment at The Small World, shares inspiring stories of empowering girls' education and women's empowerment in rural Nepal.
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