A Long Journey Home

By | February 9, 2015 |
A woman in a blue sweater holds up two decorative butterflies. One says "Magdalene KC." The other says "Veronica's Voice."

Kristy Childs is house hunting. She’s looking for the perfect house: a good-sized, family home with a living room big enough for a Christmas gathering and yard space for a garden. The house isn’t for her, though. It’s for five women who need a place to rest, recuperate and educate themselves before entering the mainstream…

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‘A Path Appears: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty’

By | February 2, 2015 |

Poverty. Teen pregnancy. Abuse. What is being done to address these issues affecting our communities? From the team behind the groundbreaking “Half the Sky,” “A Path Appears” goes to locations throughout the United States, plus Colombia, Haiti, and Kenya to uncover the harshest forms of gender-based oppression and human rights violations, and solutions being implemented…

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Local producer focuses on child sex trafficking in KC

By | January 26, 2015 |
Image from "Hope Road" trailer.

Documentary producer Susan Cook was working on a film to educate girls in India about health and sex trafficking when friends in Kansas City told her that she should turn her focus to injustice in her own backyard. Since 2009, Cook has been interviewing, filming, researching and fundraising for “Hope Road,” a forthcoming documentary that…

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