Building Hope

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Building Hope is a documentary by Turk and Christy Pipkin about building schools in Kenya. Produced by The Nobelity Project, it premiered on March 12, 2011 at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, and is the sequel to One Peace at a Time. After rebuilding a rural Kenyan primary school, the team works to build Mahiga Hope High, the area’s first high school, with facilities like a RainWater Court, classrooms, science and computer labs, and a library. The film follows drought, floods, and fundraising as people in the United States connect with the Kenyan community to give their children a better future. Construction began in 2009 and the school opened on October 1, 2010, with a science building and organic gardens planned as well. The project earned a nomination for Architecture for Humanity’s Design Like You Give a Damn 2. The documentary features Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, Wangari Maathai, Auma Obama, and Cameron Sinclair, was edited by Molly Conway, and distributed by Monterey Media.