Work
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The startup life in Ethiopia
Above is my very first experiment in making a timelapse video. It captures the team from Ethiopian educational media company Whiz Kids Workshop setting up a classroom library as part of a crowdfunded project to bring their high-quality educational material to government schools. The social enterprise is known across Ethiopia for their wildly popular educational public television…
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Film on the Pulse Pilot in Ahmedabad
Above is a short film my teammate Karl Oscar Teien put together of some of the key stages we went through in our pilot of the Pulse Active Food Savings concept in the slums of Ahmedabad, India this summer. Here you will see us as we developed the prototypes, brought them back to users for…
2013, Ahmedabad, CGI, CGI 2013, Clinton Global Initiative, Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, Gujarat, Hult International Business School, Hult Prize, india, July 2013, Kiva, Muhammad Yunus, New York City, NYC, Pulse Active Food Savings, Pulse Active Savings, Pulse Pilot, Pulse Savings, summer 2013 -
‘Something so important’
About a year ago I put together this video while I was working directly with the Otesha Project as Programs Director. To develop content for an upcoming fundraiser a number of the staff put together ‘digital stories’ based on our personal reflections on the work of the organization. The cheesyness of my video irks me…
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The Baha’i Academy (where I have been for the past two months)
I have always been fascinated by how Baha’i and Baha’i-inspired organizations tend to evolve so drastically to meet changing conditions and build on experience. The Baha’i Academy is a perfect example. It began in 1982 to provide an academic home for some of the many Baha’i scholars who were forced to flee Iran during the Islamic…
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A story about how every day on an Otesha tour is insane
My friends at the Otesha Project inform me that applications are now open for this year’s slate of tours and I thought I would share a story from way back in summer of 2009 when I was a rookie Programs Director with the organization. My role was to co-manage the organization’s cycling and performing tour…
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The BRQ
Like many organizations and movements, we at the Otesha Project love acronyms. We use them for our tours, our partner organizations and even for each other. One new one is the BRQ for the Billy Ray question. See, the main character in the play that forms the core of our program offerings, Reason to Dream, is…
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Andrew
What started yesterday as just another phone call from a cycling and performing team during a quiet day in the office has become the most tragic event in the history of the Otesha Project. I just got home for the first time since this all started and I just want to post a couple thoughts…
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“…and no one got chased out of town by angry pitchfork-wielding townsfolk.”
Last week I was interviewed for an article in Here Magazine about the Otesha Project cycling and performing tour we will be launching next week from Fredericton, New Brunswick. It was written by fellow Carleton University alum Paige Aarhus and couple of minor warts aside, it’s a pretty fun article. FREDERICTON – Be warned, New…
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Sometimes we do funny things at work
For a long time I have thought that I work in a pretty fun office. In fact, I have come to believe that the main difference between my colleagues and the staff of College Humor is that it is their job to sit around making funny videos while our job at the Otesha Project is…
Samuel Benoit 