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Name: worldwrite

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WORLDwrite documentaries are made by volunteers in collaboration with Chew On It Productions. Our documentaries are uncompromising in their campaign for global equality. WORLDwrite the charity arranges events, conferences, global exchanges, documentary filmmaking and free film training to champion aspirations and insist on the best for all. Keen to put its money where its mouth is, the charity also assists partner groups in developing countries with anything and everything from PCs to film schools to funds for a factory. WORLDwrite is volunteer led and run has an open door policy and encourages all-comers to get involved and recognise there are no limits to what's possible.

Videos (42)

Are we what we eat?

  • Length: 4:29
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
  • View Count: 34
  • Author: worldwrite

Tags: Amanda  and  Battle  Clark  critics  day  debates  democracy  diet  Dr  fads  Fitzpatrick  five  food  Guo  health  Ideas  Jeremy  Michael  news  obesity  of  political  portions  Shepherd  Simon  Ursell  volunteer  WORLDbytes  WORLDwrite  Yue 

Historically, food was about sustenance and survival; for too much of the world in the twenty-first century, it still is. But as societies develop beyond immediate need, what we eat can be a pleasurable part of our lives. This snapshot of a debate at the Battle of Ideas in London shows that the...

Solutions to spoon crime dessert experts

  • Length: 6:43
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
  • View Count: 45' favoriteCount='1
  • Author: worldwrite

Tags: amnesty  comedy  crime  debates  fear  Katy  news  Perry  political  spoof  spoon  SS  volunteer  WORLDbytes  WORLDwrite 

Spoon gangs roam the street armed with big ladles, little pointed teaspoons and plastic un-recyclable spoons. One spoon crime victim tells us she will never be able to visit her grandfather again as he used to play the spoons. The campaign for a cutlery-free world says the crime is spreading and...

Chill out with our scientist on water

  • Length: 3:13
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
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  • Author: worldwrite

Tags: 1858  debates  Flush  Great  it  news  political  sanitation  scarcity  shortages  Stink  volunteer  water  WORLDbytes  WORLDwrite 

On the WORLDbytes Chill Out Desk scientist Joe Kaplinsky helps us realise water is not something we should worry about.In 1858 London suffered what was known as the Great Stink, when excrement backed up on the tidal Thames forcing even Parliament to consider adjourning upstream. The Victorians...

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The More the Merrier Trailer

  • Length: 3:13
  • Rating Average: 4.50 from 8 people
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  • Author: worldwrite

Tags: east  emigration  end  enoch  immigration  london  powell  worldwrite 

The More the Merrier examines the impact of immigration. Through inspired argument and the story of one young Indian woman's desire to stay in the UK, the film lyrically interweaves historical archive with shanty sea songs. It presents a uniquely pro-immigration case and asks us to open our...

Carry on up the NGO

  • Length: 3:59
  • Rating Average: 4.59 from 103 people
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  • Author: worldwrite

Tags: Africa  aid  AIDS  Debt  development  economic  family  G8  Ghana  growth  homes  Live8  NGO  planning  relief  third  world  worldwrite 

NGO awareness and education programmes assume overcoming ignorance is the key to poverty reduction and improving people's lives. Shot in Ghana, Godbless, Wofa, Deroy and local fishermen and women are not ignorant, they are articulate and angry. They loathe the peanuts offered and sanctimonious...

Damned by Debt Relief

  • Length: 3:54
  • Rating Average: 4.67 from 125 people
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  • Author: worldwrite

Tags: Africa  aid  Bob  damn  Debt  development  G8  Geldof  Ghana  Live8  NGO  relief  rock  stars  third  world  worldwrite 

Damned by Debt Relief challenges the Live8-G8 debt relief jamboree. Eloquent and angry Ghanaians cut through the spin and explain; debt relief provided no new money and draconian conditions applied. Damned by donor diktat, Ghanaians are not impressed by the West's supposed largesse. For the full...