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Jake Naughton
Location:
Washington, USA
University: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Regions of interest: Africa, Middle East, Latin America, United States
Skills: technology assistance, teaching, photography/documentary, marketing/strategy, women's empowerment, work with children
Volunteer Activity:
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy January 01, 2010 - April 01, 2010
Stories by this Volunteer
Life comes quickly
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Jake Naughton
May 10, 2011
I suppose I'll begin by saying let my experience be instructive to all of you potential Omprakash volunteers.I left for Kenya on my Omprakash volunteer grant 12/26/09. I shot photos and videos pretty intensively for 3 weeks and left with around 20 hours of video, which is a lot of footage, and around 1000 photos.Immediately upon my return, I began my final semester of my senior year of college– my thesis was due in 4 months, I was taking a few capstone classes, and I was also working full time as a freelance photographer shooting for a number of local publications. I drastically under-estimated the time I'd have available to begin going through all of this material and shape it into something Omprakash and it's partners could use. Here we are...
First (of many) KGSA video update
Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, by Jake Naughton
July 12, 2010
This is a short video I put together pretty quickly for a video challenge that I did not win (oh well). BUT it helped me learn Final Cut and I am now using those skills to edit together MUCH better videos about this incredible school!Look for more stories and video updates to come.
