TV Producer sets up orphanage!
Let’s be straight, this is not because busy TV workers are so overstretched with childcare they are having to dump their kids!
In fact the home for abandoned babies is being set up in Uganda by TV Producer Lucy Buck. In her own words here she describes the mission and the concept behind her Child’s i Foundation:
“We are going to build a babies’ home in Uganda on the outskirts of Kampala for 50 infants, from newborn babies to five years-olds. The home will have medical facilities to help with premature and sick babies and children with special needs.
We will do this in two ways:
To build a “transitional babies’ home” with full medical and educational facilities that provides a safe haven for babies and young children.
To place these children into secure and happy families, giving them something we believe every child has a right to – a loving home.
We will recruit and train a team of Ugandan social workers, and set up a fostering and adoption service with the aim of finding loving families for every one of our children, eradicating the need for them to remain in long-term childcare institutions.
Our Home will provide nursery and pre-school education.
Alongside the home, we will build volunteer accommodation for 12 i-volunteers to provide assistance with the running of the home and local community projects. All profits generated from the project volunteer’s fees will directly finance the home.”
Lucy is using video and Web 2.0 to promote the project (see YouTube Video above) and is looking for filmmakers to volunteer to go to Uganda and film and edit the story of the creation of the new home to distribute around the Web.
Having worked at Big Brother Producer Endemol, they agreed to support Lucy and the Childs i Foundation and offered her £5,000 of kit including a Z1 with a Sennheiser microphone. The London post facility The Farm also helped out with some edit time to get the VT’s rolling.
To find out more about the babies of Uganda and how to volunteer to film for the project please take a look at the Child’s i Foundation website.
