Topics: Policy/Advocacy

This is Elicia's story about her survival through the public healthcare system and her cerebal palsy as well as her journey to become the disability activist she is today.  This story was created through a workshop with the Michigan Disability Rights Coalition and UCP Michigan.

This is the story of a "dynamic duo" from Tucson.

Xochitl describes her experience volunteering in Nicaragua.

This is a story of how Willie Blake grew up on a small farm with family responsibilities and made a good life for himself and his community.

Primarily an audio story with brief images toward the end.  Piece was created to honor a fallen soldier, Matt Maupin on the morning they announced his body had been found in Iraq.

What is the value of Adult Education?  Why is it important to our communities, state, and country? In 2003, faced with a budget deficit, the Arizona State Legislature recommended complete elimination of state funding for adult education and family literacy.  The crisis marked the begining of a remarkable learning process about government and civic participation. 

Change is never easy, especially when it is imposed upon us. In this story Thelma relates how she was able to adjust and adapt to a whole new life in a new country.

In Whose Hands explores issues of international maternal and child health, development, and research in the context of the producer's experiences in rural India.

A veteran community organizer descibes what he learned from his grandmother: how poor people don't need or want "sympathy."

People with disabilities get cameras and learn to use photos to tell their stories and for advocacy, by sharing in a Photo Story Circle. See why I'm so excited about the project.

See related project websites:

www.LifeInFocus-UCP.org

www.UCPmichigan.org