Story Lab
At Orkeeswa, we empower young local leaders to find their voice and to create constructive dialogue around critical issues in their community. Orkeeswa Story Lab provides a platform for these activists to build tangible skills in storytelling while exploring the complexity of these issues with a deeper sense of empathy and understanding.
Voice
Skills
Through film, photography, podcasts and more, young activists are equipped with the means necessary to speak up and speak out about the issues most important to them.
Young leaders build technical skills in filmmaking, photography, creative and journalistic writing, dialogue facilitation, project design, and more.
Advocacy
Authorship
By facilitating local dialogue using their own work, these young storytellers are empowered as local change makers who influence positive shifts in perceptions and behaviors.
By sharing their work internationally, young local leaders have authorship of their own experience and serve as global ambassadors for their communities.
Story Lab
At Orkeeswa, we empower young local leaders to find their voice and to create constructive dialogue around critical issues in their community. Orkeeswa Story Lab provides a platform for these activists to build tangible skills in storytelling while exploring the complexity of these issues with a deeper sense of empathy and understanding.
Voice
Through film, photography, podcasts and more, young activists are equipped with the means necessary to speak up and speak out about the issues most important to them.
Skills
Young leaders build technical skills in filmmaking, photography, creative and journalistic writing, dialogue facilitation, project design, and more.
Advocacy
By facilitating local dialogue using their own work, these young storytellers are empowered as local change makers who influence positive shifts in perceptions and behaviors.
Authorship
By sharing their work internationally, young local leaders have authorship of their own experience and serve as global ambassadors for their communities.
Story Lab
Projects
Black Head Cow
An award-winning film, written and produced by Orkeeswa students. In a remote Maasai village in rural Tanzania, a young primary school girl is suddenly confronted by an arranged marriage.
Coach Happy
Coach Happy is a film produced in collaboration with student filmmakers of Orkeeswa School and tells the story of a young leader impacting the next generation of students through the Orkeeswa Outreach program.
Shattered Dreams
Orkeeswa students investigate the role corporal punishment plays in primary school dropout rates in their community.
The More Beautiful You Are
Orkeeswa students discuss the beauty of skin color and the harmful practice of skin lightening.