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Ivory Coast Initiative

DIRECTOR(s): Chiquita Lockley
PROJECT TYPE: Documentary Short
GENRE:  Education, Cultural, international, Community
COUNTRY: United States
RUN TIME: 00:19:57 min.
KEY CAST: Tanya James, Ghislaine Dadie

A short documentary film about a family’s struggle to create a path to education for their children, against the backdrop of difficult living conditions as cocoa farmers in a remote village in Cote d’Ivoire. A US entrepreneur, Tanya James, and her family partner with an Ivorian-American businessman to create educational access that far exceeds the initial strategy of building brick and mortar schools.

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