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Speaking with Vatican Media on the sidelines of a global Vatican communications seminar for the Jubilee of Hope, Chris Walter, co-director of 'On Our Radar' in the UK, reflects on the organizations efforts to tell real stories with, not for, communities that might otherwise go unheard.
From flagship documentaries on slavery in Ghana to films co-produced with garment workers in Bangladesh; from networks of reporters experiencing homelessness and dementia in the UK to election trackers in the Niger Delta and citizen reporters on the frontline of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone,"On Our Radar" works with people to tell their stories in their own words and their own time.
On Our Radar: can you tell us a little bit about how it was founded, and a little more about the activities that you do? Out of those stories, is there a particular story of On Our Radar that you have found most moving? or that has left the greatest impression personally on you? Often when you see stories of housing or homelessness in the media, you see someone at their moment of crisis and you don't understand what's happened in their lives that has caused them to reach that moment. This group wanted to tell stories that told the whole story, their live and what had happened to their lives that had meant that they'd ended up where they had, and in doing so, build empathy. If you know someone's story, you connect better with them and you build empathy.
By sharing stories, working with them to tell the stories they want to tell in their own words and their own time, we can change the world, but we need to rip up the rule book a little bit in how we've told stories in the past and start telling stories with, not for, communities.
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