Cross Currents
A music video on Grameen Microcredit
Los Angeles-based The Green Children Foundation is creating a music video on Grameen Microcredit, says a press release. For this music video, a group from the Foundation recently travelled to Dhaka. The group, which included singer Camilla Sunde and her writer Thomas Schofield, spent seven days shooting the video with their crew in the villages of Bhawal Mirzapur of Gazipur and Bhawal Rajabari and Sreepur of the same district. This was the Grameen Bank branch area just outside of Dhaka. Camilla performed as the lead singer in the video, which included dances by the children from the pre-school of Grameen Shikkha.Explaining the genesis of the music video, Schofield points out that on a visit to Bangladesh in February 2006, he was astonished to see the impact of microcredit on the poor. This inspired him to write the song Hear me now while he was in Dhaka. Later, in the US he and his friend Camilla composed the music. Subsequently they returned to Bangladesh to make the music video, which follows the life of Monika Rani, a Grameen Bank Microcredit borrower. Schofield asserts that youth worldwide are the target group for this music video. A portion of the income from this music video, which is likely to hit the market soon, will be spread across Grameen Shikkha, Grameen Health Care and Grameen Trust. At the end of this year, The Green Children will return to Bangladesh to premier the music video in Dhaka and the village of Gazaria at Sreepur.
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Camilla Sunde (C) with students of Grameen Shikkha pre-schools |
