Precious, one of our L.A. based GlobalGirl Media reporters, worries about how the Corona crisis is effecting unhoused and incarcerated people, so she (safely) takes to the streets to find out.
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CONTRA: Los Angeles, U.S.
Contra turns 21 during the Covid-19 pandemic, and even though she doesn’t get to celebrate as planned, she shares how spending her teen years battling serious depression actually prepared her well for the disappointment, anxiety, and isolation of lockdown. A courageous share, she blows out her candles facing a still uncertain future, like so many millennials.
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KARMEN: CHICAGO
Karmen is a single-mom trying to balance motherhood, online classes, and parenting a toddler…all while dealing with Covid-19. Her story is relatable for young mothers everywhere. -
LULARTA: KOSOVO
Lularta from Kosovo shares her relatively calm COVID-19 experience isolating at home. But when the government of Kosovo collapses, and her mother talks about the lockdown triggering memories of trauma from the war, Lularta wonders: what’s next?
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NAOMI: London, U.K.
Naomi is concerned about her friend Rita who was forced to leave university and return home to a domestic violence situation during the Covid-19 crisis. She investigates the larger question of people’s overall mental health, and in particular the frontline NHS workers, how they may experience ongoing trauma even after the pandemic.
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SCOOTER (IN) JUSTICE
One of our GlobalGirls in Los Angeles, Cris gets stopped by a police officer in Glendale on her way to our training. She’s told it’s actually illegal to be riding her scooter here, yet there was no signage anywhere. Besides the profiling and physical violence she experienced, she learned how to overcome her anxiety and report about it with the help of her fellow GlobalGirls! Justicia!
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ARYAN: AFGHANISTAN
Aryan, a 15-year old refugee from Afghanistan, tries to video her living center in Berlin but is not allowed to show the crowded conditions, with many refugees coming and going, and the difficulty of maintaining social distance. When her family is moved to a remote location in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, she wonders what her future holds.
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THE LOVE WITHIN
Produced by the GGM LA 2024 class, focused on the Watts Community in South Central Los Angeles. The video asks the question, What is Community? And the answer they find is LOVE…
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ADELE AND MAHMONIR: AFGHANISTAN
Adele and Mahmonir are best friends, both refugees from Afghanistan who met in Greece. But their lives are torn apart when one of them has to leave with her family to go to Germany. This is a story of a remarkable friendship, one that helps both of them survive during the Corona crisis.
