School for Life Project

<p>Hello everyone. My name&#39;s&nbsp;Victor Quilichini and&nbsp;I&#39;m from Paris, France.</p> <p>I just turned 18 and I&#39;m currently studying Biology and Environment at Sorbonne University (in Paris), in order to gather as much knowledge&nbsp;as I can about our planet to find the best ways to preserve it. Because protecting the Earth&nbsp;is protecting its inhabitants (and we&#39;re part of them!)</p> <p>As we&#39;re all living inside&nbsp;this miraculous bubble of life floating in space,&nbsp;us humans have to cooperate to move&nbsp;towards a brighter future by&nbsp;<strong>focusing on&nbsp;values like love, solidarity and sharing</strong> ; because those are the&nbsp;truly important ones. In the end, we&#39;re all on the same team, right ?</p> <p>Following this mindset, I came up with this little project. It&#39;s not much but it&#39;s a good start.</p> <p>But first, let me explain how it all started :</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>On April&nbsp;25th 2015, the most powerful earthquake since 1934 in Nepal&nbsp;struck&nbsp;the country,&nbsp;77km from Kathmandu. With a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale, it caused the death of&nbsp;17 000 people in the country. Tremors were even felt all the way to New Delhi. The impact was devastating.</p> <p>In March 2017, my mother travelled to Nepal, and visited a school nearly entirely destroyed by the earthquake and&nbsp;partly rebuilt. I was deeply moved and so I contacted the English teacher of the school : <strong>M. Bam Dev Sharma</strong>, in order to get information&nbsp;on how I could help them.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/561298/IMG_6100-1545475953.JPG" width="100%" /><em>​Bam Dev Sharma (Photo taken during my mom&#39;s trip)</em></p> <p>Their institution&nbsp;was already helped by an association : Gers-Himalaya. However, Bam Dev&nbsp;mentioned another school&nbsp;called <strong>Pranabanand Ashram</strong>&nbsp;in Gaurighat, next to the Pashupatinath Temple. A&nbsp;hundred of children of all ages go there, most of them are orphans since the earthquake. They are willing to learn but suffer from a&nbsp;lack&nbsp;of ressources. Bam Dev has written to me about their <strong>shortage of school supplies like notebooks</strong>...</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/561816/KAthmanou_best-min-min-1546029598.png" width="100%" /></p> <p>The happiness soiled by misery&nbsp;in their eyes&nbsp;struck&nbsp;me when I saw the photos. I knew I had to take action.</p> <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/561754/IMG_5969-min_opt-2-1545996817.jpg" width="100%" /><em>Child&nbsp;from the school my mom visited.</em></p> <blockquote> <p>Education is the key,&nbsp;the key to development and the best way to escape&nbsp;misery.</p> </blockquote> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The starting idea is simple : to help these children&nbsp;in need&nbsp;by bringing them as many&nbsp;school supplies as possible.</p> <p>So I reached out to the French school supplies brand Clairefontaine, and&nbsp;offered them a deal&nbsp;:</p> <p>With a&nbsp;small film crew, we would go there, bring&nbsp;school supplies&nbsp;Clairefontaine would have provided and film everything so that on one hand,&nbsp;we can promote&nbsp;Clairefontaine and on the other hand help&nbsp;this school, give hope to the teachers, the principal, and the families. That would show them that they are not alone, that we are here for them.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Clairefontaine agreed.</strong></p> <p>Moreover, we are going to collect school supplies in different schools here in Paris to maximise our help.</p> <div class="k-ResponsiveIframeContainer"> <div class="k-ResponsiveIframeContainer"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="281" scrolling="no" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FNIolVBseePc%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNIolVBseePc&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FNIolVBseePc%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=8b7d8dd6504d41af9a77662672aabc2a&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="500"></iframe></div> </div> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/563861/INTER_2-1547211712.png" width="100%" /></p> <ul> <li> <h2><strong><em>But the main goal is way more than just &quot;bringing school supplies&quot; to the school.</em></strong></h2> </li> </ul> <h4>&nbsp;</h4> <h4><em>​</em>The purpose of this project is divided in two points :</h4> <p>- Help the school and its&nbsp;community. Show them that they&#39;re not alone !</p> <p>- Show, through our video&nbsp;report, the significant role of education to ensure a bright future for the children. But also, to show that they are humans like us, who deserve a decent life. Interviews with the school staff and a family are also planned.</p> <p>This project will allow us to raise awareness and make our people realize how lucky we are to live in developed countries.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The video report&nbsp;will consist&nbsp;in two&nbsp;different and complementary videos :</p> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp; - the first one&nbsp;will be of a small format (4-9 minutes) dedicated to social medias (Youtube, Facebook..) in order to share it as much as possible.</p> <p>&nbsp; &nbsp; - the second one will be of a longer format,&nbsp;for every platform or channel able to&nbsp;broadcast it.&nbsp;</p> <h2 style="text-align:center">&nbsp;</h2> <h2 style="text-align:center"><strong>The crew :</strong></h2> <p><strong>Clara Quilichini :</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/564166/Enlight34-1547395097.JPG" width="100%" /></p> <p>&laquo; I&rsquo;m 21, and I&rsquo;ve been working as an actress since I was 4. After graduating from high school, I studied movie making in a film school,&nbsp;ESEC, and I got to write and direct a short film.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m also working for&nbsp;Disney Channel France : I&rsquo;ve been hosting a show on the channel for over two years now. This gave me the opportunity to&nbsp;get involved in the fight against bullying, by participating&nbsp;to an awareness-raising spot.</p> <p>With my experience as an actress and young director, I&rsquo;ll help create the short film around this project, shadowing Victor along&nbsp;the trip.</p> <p>This will allow us to share his adventure on the internet, showing&nbsp;that it is possible to bring help to these children that don&rsquo;t have&nbsp;such an easy&nbsp;access to education as we do.&nbsp;&raquo;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Ad&egrave;le L&ouml;ffler :</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/564168/18077069_1340594366029422_2692830166556136660_o-1547395209.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&laquo;&nbsp;Studying art and communication in Switzerland for three years now, I&rsquo;ve become crazy about photography and video. The desire to bespeak the social and political problems of our society being so strong to me, it&rsquo;s in photo and video report that I found my marks. That is why, about a year ago, I started shooting marches and other social movements like the Gilets Jaunes recently.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m really looking forward to help Victor using my visual skills and my experience on the field.&nbsp;&raquo;</p> <p><strong>Victor Quilichini :&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&laquo;&nbsp;From an early age, I&rsquo;ve been working as an actor in Dubbing but also in front of the camera. In fact, for example, I had the chance to play the son of the Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard, in the movie &laquo;&nbsp;From The Land of The Moon&nbsp;&raquo;, directed by Nicole Garcia. I also lend my voice to Disney France, in partnership with Handicap International, to make a commercial spot with Frank Dubosc.</p> <p>I also co-founded an organisation called all4trees in order to support reforestation and combating deforestation projects from all around the world.&nbsp;&raquo;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The idea is to use our specific cinematic skills to make the most out of this project.</strong></p> <h2 style="text-align:center"><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/563861/INTER_2-1547211712.png" width="100%" /></h2> <h2 style="text-align:center">&nbsp;</h2> <h2 style="text-align:center">Opening :</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Any monetization of the videos will be redistributed to the school. And we can also consider going back there in&nbsp;five years&nbsp;to see what the children have&nbsp;become.</p> <p>It is important to mention that this project will also allow us&nbsp;to assess the situation, and from this moment we&#39;ll be able to think of further actions. More efficient ones.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/563861/INTER_2-1547211712.png" width="100%" /></p>