Donate Your Video Camera, Laptop or Work Tools to Authentic Journalists

[Joanne98]

In this age of fast changing communications technology, many of our readers and supporters, like us, are in the position of having to upgrade at times to a better video camera, laptop or other work tool. Someone will get a new and shiny High Definition (HD) camera and the old mini-DV or DV or flip cam then sits in a closet, unused. Sometimes that happens to old laptops or digital cameras or external hard drives, too.

But at Narco News and its School of Authentic Journalism, we make use of those tools, too. In February 2010, we’ll be training 31 students from 24 countries intensively in how to use these modern-day weapons effectively to produce videos, documentaries, websites and investigative journalism. Many of these students come from lands with battered economies and don’t yet have a camera or a laptop.

And so as 2009 comes to a close we invite y ou to please consider donating any of these tools you can to The Fund for Authentic Journalism so that we can grant them to our soon-to-be graduates to take back to their own countries and more effectively do this vital work of breaking the information blockades, faster, better and with greater coherence.

Because The Fund is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, that means that the value of any tools you donate can be deducted on your 2009 taxes in the United States, too. And The Fund will be happy to provide you with a letter that documents the value of your donation.

Specifically, here is what our students need:

Video Cameras

Any Mini-DV or DV camera, or Flip Cam. (HD cameras can also be put to good use.)

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