Teaching English Through Video – The Children of SEAM

I wrote previously about my friend who volunteered 8 weeks of her summer in 2007 and 2008 in India. During her time there she was assisting at an orphanage. The first time some of her time went to teaching English to the children and women. The second summer she continued that task, but also assisted in the building of the foundation for a sleeping complex for the children.

She just shared this video with me where another recent volunteers “taught the kids at SEAM orphanage how to make a movie. He gave them 3 cameras and they did this film. She is so proud of the film and they even edited in a short clip of her from summertime, which was a complete surprise! She worked on the construction at this orphanage 9am to 1pm then taught English to 4 adult women in afternoon. At 5:30pm she would go back to the orphanage for the evening. There are 38 kids here in the orphanage. Giving them access to what we see as such a simple tool in our culture has been an incredible way to help teach the children English, but even more importantly it has allowed them to share their story with the rest of the world.