Iraq Day 2
As I looked into the room full of children and their parents I was hesitant to bring my camera up from my side. Beautiful children, each born with congenital heart problems, some with holes in their hearts, others with even more complicated issues. It hurts to see the children like this, to hear a room [...]
Pausing to Celebrate
DTJ thus inaugurates a new blog series entitled “HEROES” to celebrate men and women throughout history whom have exhibited great bravery in response to issues of injustice children were facing. We acknowledge with humility those who have gone before us in this work of hoping to care for children. And we learn from them, such [...]
Iraq Day 1
FROM IRAQ:
The heat and beauty in Iraq compete in their intensity. We drove through desert and mountains to reach the hospital, where the first child would receive surgery to correct a congenital heart problem. The team from Preemptive Love and International Children’s Heart Foundation was there, talking with a girl [...]
Discovering Haiti’s Rescued
See the story behind how DTJ discovered the story in Haiti that became CNN’s “Rescued”, a full length documentary reported by CNN Anchor and Correspondent Soledad O’Brien. “Rescued” aired May 8/9, 2010.
UNICEF// BELIEVE IN ZERO
DTJ recently completed a film for UNICEF highlighting their campus initiative program and the Believe In Zero campaign. We greatly respect UNICEF and their work helping children around the world. Every day 24,000 children die of preventable causes. Let’s bring that number to ZERO.
We made the film as part of our Media AID program. To [...]
Wyclef creates music for our documentary RESCUED! Watch and hear his song written for Mar Kenson.
Thank you @wyclef!
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DTJ in Uganda
We just completed a documentary about a woman named Rose Nanyonga that we shot in Uganda before going to Congo.
Learn about the injustice we are exposing in the documentary and watch the film.
THE INJUSTICE // CHILD SACRIFICE
Police statistics indicate that of the average 3,000 children who disappear from their homes in Uganda annually, 200-300 are [...]
Haiti [Earthquake]
Children displaced by the quake.
Haitian’s and foreigners desperately await to leave Haiti as we arrived…
Learn of Discover The Journey’s mission in Haiti. Click here
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Heritier: What is peace?
As 2009 comes to a close, DTJ invites you to remember how this year began for us.
Meet Heritier.
Heritier: What is peace? (written Jan, 2009)
A whisper. A sigh. A cry. Echoing across a sea of vastness and space, held in place by a rising chorus of aching , honest pleas for peace, a drumbeat is heard. [...]
MOISHA’S STORY
Two years ago we met Moisha, a former Mayi-Mayi child soldier. And this is what he said. This summer DTJ returns to the DR Congo to continue telling the story of child soldiers. Despite efforts, we have not been able to find Moisha since this interview. We hope that changes this summer. Track with the [...]