Animation Rises In The Arabic World

By Mike Levin Animation is pretty easy to understand. It is pictures of things that tell stories. It doesn’t have much need for metaphor or allegory […]

How To Get mhealth For The Poor Past The “App” Mentality

The use of mobile technology in medicine – known as mhealth – has big plans. It promises to revolutionize health care by delivering front-line care to […]

Looking For A 2013 Guardian

  In the 13 years since the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals were first set, there’s come an understanding that without poverty alleviation, none of the […]
poorest people

Your Chance To Shine

  There’s many ways to help those without access to electricity protect their health from the grimy fumes of indoor lighting and cooking. Our goal is […]

What Happens When Activism Gets Animated

Chispa Productions has just wrapped The Animated Activist, an hour-long documentary about Firdaus Kharas’s No Excuses animation campaign against rape and sexual violence. For producers Randy […]

Reanimating A Cartoon Classic

If you ever wanted to know how Firdaus Kharas funds his non-profit public service announcements, here’s a piece that lays out his current project to bring […]

There Are No More Excuses

For decades Canadian Firdaus Kharas has been mass-communicating messages of intractable human rights; he’s seen unimaginable results of violations. Yet there’s one example that is still […]

UN Declaration On Violence Against Women Echoes The Objectives Of The Humorous Animated Campaign No Excuses

No Excuses campaign creator calls for greater efforts to prevent use of culture as a justification for violence. HOW NO EXCUSES WORKS: BACKGROUNDER An integrated multi-lingual […]