Our mission is to support media development projects & training overseas. This support involves training nationals in countries in Asia and Africa to use their mobile phones to write and produce stories of hope. Each summer, we conduct six, 5-day workshops with local NGOs in writing, filming and editing stories that will impact their nation to be distributed by the students on social media.
Partnership Opportunities:
- Financial support – Each summer workshop series costs $15,000 to $18,000. Use the PayPal Giving Fund link to partner with us or the Contacts and Donation Page.
- Volunteer – Media professionals can contribute their time and finances to travel overseas to train using our Mobile Filmmaking Curriculum.
- Networking – If you know of a funding organization or church who would be interested please contact us.
Outcomes: (see Web page 2018-2023 (and beyond) – Training and Prosocial Media)
- 2023 – 114 trained in Thailand, India and Egypt. Production and training teams established in Egypt (2) and India (1). See LINK
- 2022 – 78 trained in Pakistan, Senegal and Egypt (2). Mobile Filmmaking trainer certified in Pakistan.
- 2021 – 80 trained in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Pakistan and Egypt. In Tanzania, we conducted a Train the Trainer approach and our Mobile Filmmaking course will be integrated into the Habari Maalum College diploma and certificate programs in October 2023!
- 2019 – 65 trained in Thailand and India (2). (2020 was COVID Year and our online Curriculum https://mobileteach.site was launched with over 50 students.
- 2018 – 70 trained in China (2 workshops) and Thailand.
Handclasp Incorporated is registered in Florida as a not-for-profit corporation and awarded IRS 501(c)3 non-profit status. Historically, the work of Handclasp was started in 1971 as a California non-profit and spanned health and development projects in over 25 countries. In the mid-90’s the organization realized the impact media could have on health, and mental and physical behavior changes. Handclasp offers a mobile filmmaking resource blog called Mobiletrain.info and an online training site called MobileTeach.site that provides free training in mobile filmmaking production and social media strategy.
Handclasp’s Board of Directors and International Advisors include professionals in media & development serving both overseas and in the USA.
