Proplaneta Participatory Video

📍Short presentation on our founder’s upcoming autobiography 📖
🎤 The book "Vozes à Flor da Pele " is a personal and collective narrative of the worst and best of what the world has to offer. The stories of 11 women - most of them migrants and refugees - are intertwined with the voice and questions of the author herself, the humanitarian Fernanda Baumhardt.

Fernanda's borderless narrative also reveals, at an adventurous pace, the backstage of the humanitarian world, a sector that is often distant and romanticized in people's imagination. In her constant battle to open spaces for the voices of the communities, so that they are heard and receive the appropriate answers, she is considered an innovative humanitarian, who takes risks and breaks rules to listen and support those most in need.

Using participatory communication techniques, Fernanda helps empower communities in crisis situations by encouraging people to hold a microphone, let their voices out, film their stories, and suggest humanitarian solutions that can have a greater impact on their lives. With cameras and microphones in her luggage, she often enters places most people want to leave: communities devastated by earthquakes such as in Ecuador, and refugee or IDP camps in conflict-torn countries such as Afghanistan and South Sudan.

This entire trajectory has generated a collection of more than 8,000 photographs and nearly 300 hours of footage and testimonials, mostly by women. Like a great chorus in unison, in different languages, adding voices of humanity, dignity, resilience, hope, and catharsis. Songs of joy and sighs of relief can also be heard.

🎥 Book teaser/video: 5 min, in Portuguese.

Livro Vozes à Flor da Pele_vídeo apresentação Video apresentação do livro “Vozes à flor da pele - Uma jornada feminina em busca de propósito e empoderamento no mundo humanitário”,…

Jornalista brasileira lança livro após atuar em missões humanitárias em 25 países Atualmente, existem 44 crises humanitárias de alta severidade ou graves acontecendo no mundo, de acordo com a Acaps, entidade de análise independente sobre o assunto. Dentre todas elas, a jornalista…

🎤 Who holds the microphone?

Bidi Bidi, Refugee Camp, Northern Uganda, May 2019 📸: Fernanda Baumhardt