Girls Kick It Up at the World Cup

by jay smooth on 06/15/2010

GlobalGirl Media – South Africa, Julie Foudy, Los Angeles from GlobalGirl Media on Vimeo.

The Kick It Up! project will train twenty girls in the South African community of Soweto and 10 girls in Los Angeles to produce video stories from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The girls will be given training in story development and composition as well as video editing, production, and distribution. Their reports will be shown in a wide variety of media, including ESPN, BBC, Univision, KPFK, Al Jazeera, GritTV, Soweto TV, self.com, internews.org, and Huffingtonpost.com.womensrights.change.org

Can anyone ID that song at the beginning?

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Chris Johnson 06/15/2010 at 12:48 pm

The song is Sgubhu Sam by Unathi.

Jefe 06/19/2010 at 9:05 am

And, incidentally, “S’gubhu Sam’” means “My Drum” in Zulu.

sarita 07/02/2010 at 3:31 pm

Thanks for sharing this. Kids are so stinkin’ cool.

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