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Food for Hungry works with Collins College Instructor to Film Programs in Africa

(PHOENIX, AZ January 11, 2007) – Food for the Hungry, an international organization based in Phoenix, and Collins College film instructor Chad DeMiguel teamed up to produce a video in Africa on the non-profit organization’s different programs.

When DeMiguel heard that Food for the Hungry was searching for a videographer to work in Africa, he immediately contacted the Phoenix office and was filming on the continent within a month’s time. DeMiguel worked abroad for approximately six weeks and filmed programs in Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya.

DeMiguel shot footage to showcase a number of Food for the Hungry’s programs, including highlighting a semester-long college program — Go ED. Africa. Go ED. Africa is designed for undergraduate college students nation-wide who are interested in international studies, social work, church ministries, or medical careers. The program integrates spiritual and academic study (for more information, go to www.go-ed.net).

"I appreciated Chad’s energy and excitement about the video project. He specifically focused on working with Go ED. students, capturing their experiences in Africa. The end result will be a video used to educate and motivate students to step out of their comfort zone and get a bigger picture of how they make a difference in the fight against physical and spiritual hungers," explains Greg Forney, director of Creative Services at Food for the Hungry.

DeMiguel also filmed other programs the agency is involved with, including child development (parental counseling, medical checkups, education, new skills development, educating youth about AIDS and rehabilitating school buildings); church development; economic development (micro-enterprise, irrigation, natural resource management, education, community health, and water and sanitation); food security (transferring farming technologies to increase agricultural production, promoting forestry, soil conservation, and water conservation); health and HIV/AIDS support (preventing malnutrition, illness, and poor sanitation practices, performing health assessments, administering first-aid treatment, training and educating local health-care representatives); and water (drilling wells, constructing dams, water pans, and catchment systems; educating people about proper hygiene).

"The Experience was life changing," concluded DeMiguel. DeMiguel’s goal for his students is to encourage them to get involved in some type of community minded activity or organization.

About Food for the Hungry
Food for the Hungry is an international relief and development organization reaching out to the poor in more than 45 countries. The vision of Food for the Hungry extends far beyond temporary relief; the goal is to transform communities and help them become self-sustaining. It is called Vision of a Community, and it means going into the hard places—areas facing extreme poverty and hardship, working with churches, community leaders, and families to accomplish this goal. Basic needs for food and water are met, along with developmental needs such as education, agriculture, health, food security and church development. The task of ending worldwide hunger can seem overwhelming— up to 1,000 people a day die of hunger—but Food for the Hungry believes that "since they die one at a time, we can save them one at a time." For more information on Food for the Hungry, visit www.fh.org.

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