Think Small
A global series of film screenings of the inspirational and award winning documentary "A Small Act" directed by Jennifer Arnold. Benefiting the Students of Vutakaka Junior School in Takaungu, Kenya.
New York . Seattle . Boston . DC
Cambridge: Sunday, September 18th, 6:30pm
Gallery 263, 263 Pearl Street, Cambridge, MA
Open bar and light food
Enjoy framed photography by People editor and photographer Brenna Britton on display and for sale,
shop sewing items from the Takaungu Sewing Co-operative,
and check out the XO laptops from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that our 5th and 6th graders are now using and see the terrific art they have created with them.
You will leave this amazing space feeling inspired.
After 2pm on Sunday, September 18th, you can only purchase tickets at the door - $20, please bring cash.
"With clarity and grace, A SMALL ACT, bears witness to the ripple effect a single action can create."
be inspired - A SMALL ACT trailer
Live outside of these cities?? Don't worry!
Even if you don't live in a city where a screening is occurring, you will still be able to contribute to this global event!
Any contributions made or students sponsored from now until November 1 will be considered participants in this global event and will receive a special hand sewn item from the Takaungu Sewing Cooperative in Kenya!
Student sponsors will also receive a calendar of student made projects on their XO laptops from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).
DONATE NOW or SPONSOR A STUDENT to be a part of this exciting global affair!
A Small Act is an incredible documentary about a young Kenyan whose life dramatically changes when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger.
"When Hilde Back sponsored a young, rural Kenyan student, she thought nothing of it. She certainly never expected to hear from him, but years later she does. Now a Harvard graduate and a Human Rights Lawyer for the United Nations, Chris Mburu decides to find the stranger that changed his life. Inspired by her generosity, he starts a scholarship program of his own and names it for his former benefactor.
Using a strong narrative, the film interweaves seemingly separate lives into a cohesive whole. With clarity and grace, A SMALL ACT, bears witness to the ripple effect a single action can create."
Join us for a night of food, drinks, and to take our own small actions in alleviating global poverty.
Offical Selection of Sundance and the Edinburgh and Los Angeles Film Festivals
THINK SMALL NYC, DC, Seattle and Portland...
In October of 2010, hundreds of individuals on the East and West Coasts came together each making a single gesture that when combined made one enormous impact!
Between New York, Washington DC, Portland, and Seattle, over $17,000 in student sponsorships and donations have been raised. This effort enables the nearly 300 students at our Vutakaka Primary and Junior Schools in rural Kenya to receive a quality education for the year to come. It means that those individuals will have a chance to actualize their and their families, hopes for their futures. It means that each boy and girl at our school has the best chance possible to live a better, more fulfilled, healthy and productive life.
The ripples made by these individual acts will travel not only across the world as these students and their teachers and parents hear about the individuals across the globe who have made this gesture on their behalf, but also across time. The relationship between a student whose valuable education was made possible by strangers and the stranger that becomes a hero by providing a child unknown to them the opportunity of a better life is one unlike any other. It's the type of relationship important enough for such an amazing film as "A Small Act" to be made around.
Make your own single act and join these others in supporting an education that leads not only to vastly improved lives of these individuals, but that also contributes to a better, more peaceful world.
- sponsor a student at Vutakaka Primary or Junior School
- watch the trailer for A Small Act
- join the EAC's mailing list to receive updates about the school and clinic
- join the EAC's Facebook Cause
