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Help the Living, Slow the Bleeding

We want to give Mathare a voice. We want to make the world know about the important work that Mathare Roots Youth Group is doing. We want to make a documentary that will educate, enlighten, bring smiles, and generate money for Mathare Roots.
We want all this, and we want your help to make it happen.

The financial resources needed to make a typical documentary are staggering. Considering that we are traveling to Africa and filming in the harsh environment of the Mathare slum, our budget of $15,000 is absurdly small. We can make an exceptional documentary inexpensively because we are donating our time, the resources of a startup studio, and much of our own equipment. Most importantly though, we have friends in the U.S., the U.K., and Africa, that are helping us to succeed.
You know one of us

Or you know someone who does. We are only asking our friends and their friends for assistance on this project because we want it to be meaningful for everyone involved. Any contribution of any amount or item is greatly appreciated! To make it really meaningful for our friends that step up to contribute $100 or more, we'll give you credit on the DVD, a signed picture of the Mathare Roots members, a copy of the full-length DVD, acknowledgment on this site, and our deepest gratitude. If you would like specialized credit on the final DVD, please contact us at: productions@livingandbleeding.com

At under $15,000 to get to Africa and shoot two weeks of footage, this is an inexpensive film, but not a low quality one. Check out Matt's movie awards and numerous film festivals to review his experience.

We've just added a brief summary of this project and a few pictures from Mathare Adam took during his visit in 2006. To view it on you computer, get the web version. If you want to print it out on good old paper to show someone else, get the print version.

Thank you!

We want to thank the people that have contributed to making this documentary a success with our deepest gratitude. Each organization and person listed below will be given a personalized credit on the DVD, a signed picture of the Mathare Roots members, and a copy of the full-length DVD.

Company Sponsors:
•Azurine Productions - Matt Costanza's video and post production studio has donated time (Matt's) and thousands of dollars in equipment.
•EveryThink LLC - Adam Costanza's solution to getting a myriad of personal and business initiatives accomplished has donated time (Adam's) and thousands of dollars in equipment, logistics, and merchant services.
•AHEAD Energy - As a non profit organization that has worked for over a decade providing access to energy for African development, AHEAD has donated critical intelligence.

Individual Sponsors:
• the Costanza family has provided support in many ways. our crazy ideas are usually normal to them. thank you mom, dad, Luke, Jen, and Erin

• Susan Bartholomew
• Megan, Cindy and Roger Chang
• Howard K. Chang
• Anne Drennan
• John Fik
• Christopher and Kathleen Frangione
• Ann Goewert
• Michelle Kwasny
• Stan and Carol Kwasny
• Michael and Lorna Leselrod
• Monica and Alex Smith
• Susan McCord
• Meredith and Kelly Meadows
• Elizabeth Riddiford
• Katherine Rogers
• Gwynne Rogers
• Katerina Savvas
• Karl Schroeder
• Laura and Erich Smith
• Malcolm Spaull
• Jennifer Traggis
• Amanda Senft and Adam Vandenberg
• Brooke Wheeler


Roots:
• the Mathare Roots Youth Group (mathareroots.org) made this film possible. all Roots members supported this project and some went above and beyond:

• George Gachie
• Charles Omondi
• Titus Ndoka
• Elijah Kanyi
• Anthony Mathenga
• Bonface Mutuku
• Susan Warimu
• Victoria
• Babu Peter Muraya
• Rose Akinyi
• Anthony Macharia
• Kepha Ongany