caravia/video

Excellent initiative!

"SLUM-TV wants to documents the lives of the people in the
slum and to reevaluate these lives through the camera. A camera
always attracts attention. Our partners from the
slum film and document the life in Mathare.
The small movies are then shown in public places in
Mathare, like a newsreel. In Mathare, there exist a variety
of self-established cinemas. Mostly American
and African films and European football is shown there.

Analogous to weekly news-shows in the early age
of television our partners want to show their contributions
in these cinemas, and maybe to charge a small entree fee
in order to finance videotapes and other material.
Copies of the videos are sent to Vienna. We will also try to
distribute them under "Creative Common" licenses. That means
non profit orientated community TV's could use material for free,
but has to name authors. All other users would have to pay.
From the proceeds the manufacturers in the slums benefit again."