Jamie N Kim & Mo Manager presents:

IMAGINING MOZAMBIQUE
A TRAVELLING GROUP EXHIBITION                         

What happened? I don’t know.
This question and this response represents in full my reaction after reading the recent history of Mozambique. The boy protagonist of my film is a boy like me that for too long remained in the dark, unable to see what was happening around. The evil is able to deprive ourselves of a lot. It’s coming suddenly, silently, and you will see it only at the very last second. And this leaves us empty and we are the only ones able to fill this huge space that was left. So a funky world will win over a really bad guy, so the smoke of a weapon that has just fired turns into a cloud full of water that carry the hope and the desire to change our lives.

The Context

In 1991, after a visit to Mozambique, Barbara Hoffman founded ASEM -- a non profit organization which aims to help Mozambican children who are victims of a long civil war as well as different natural disasters, which have devastated the country and prevented people from becoming self sufficient.

Over the past 17 years, ASEM has offered children an alternative to living life in the streets, abandonment and rejection from society. Various centers have been created to provide shelter, education, and food to thousands of children. Cultural and sports activities are organized and play an important role in the psychological rehabilitation of the children.

A large part of ASEM's mission is to retrace each child's history to help him or her find their families and evaluate the possibility to send him or her back to the original community. This process involves a string of visits in the possible foster family, after which the child is left free to choose. After the process is completed ASEM assures a financial support: to the child, so s/he might go on to school; and to the older children, so that they may start on a job to provide them with a minimum of security in their life. ASEM continues to visit the children for two years subsequent to their return into the family, in order to make sure they are confident in the new environment. This is a way to help not only the children, but the entire community into recovering a social and cultural balance that was torn apart by the war.

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