Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Lights, Camera … Activism

Jul 03, 2002

When four women from a poor Milwaukee neighborhood documented their lives on camera for two weeks, the result was an eloquent portrait of their community -- and a change in the women themselves. Connect for Kids has awarded the resulting documentary, My Family, My Neighborhood, My Story, the first-ever Fight Family Poverty Award. Caitlin Johnson spoke with the initiators of the project. Read her story, then watch the film from your computer.
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