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Making Noise

"Noise Lives Here"

About Me

MAKING NOISE is a non-profit organization dedicated to speaking LOUD against social injustices in Africa through the arts. We are a generation that will no longer ignore the cries of 27 million people held against their will in labor and sexually slavery, preventable diseases taking lifes each second in sub-saharan Africa, political corruption, and the exploitation of the poor. We will be the NOISE!

We're calling this generation to join the fight to live LOUD and unashamed. The only way this world will hear us is by our love for one another.

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute."-Proverbs 31:8

My Interests

Movies:

The Last King of Scotland, Hotel Rwanda, Constant Gardner, Beyond the Gates, Blood Diamond

Books:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Slave, What is the What, God Grew Tired of Us, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families,

My Blog

Sex Trafficing in West Africa- Blogs

According to Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), 10,000 people are trafficked from Nigeria for forced labor and prostitution. Often times, the victims are...
Posted by Making Noise on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:23:00 PST

NEW MAKING NOISE BLOG SITE!!!!

Hey all,Thanks for joining Making Noise! You've waited for it, and here it is: the new Making Noise website! We are really excited about how it turned out. I think you will find it to be pretty cool. ...
Posted by Making Noise on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:17:00 PST

(VIDEO) Speaking with Sex Workers in Turin (Part 2)

(While watching my TAMPEP colleagues eat ice cream)This is my follow up of a young 21 year old Nigerian girl who had recently been trafficked into Turin ...Even though she was doing this type of work,...
Posted by Making Noise on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST

Unita d' Strada: Speaking w/ Sex Workers in Turin-VIDEO BLOG

This is a clip of my dialogue during the afternoon street units in Turin. Each week TAMPEP drives around the city, speaking with the girls who work on the street. This particular day, we were targetin...
Posted by Making Noise on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:49:00 PST

So You Wanna Know More About Sex Trafficking?

I'm psyched that some of you are interested in learning more about the issue of sex trafficking. This is the point of these blogs....to get you guys fired more to read more about it and spur you to ac...
Posted by Making Noise on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:44:00 PST

Working in the Corn Fields: Juliet and Sylvia

Working in the Corn Fields: Juliet and SylviaMy little naive eyes are seeing much, and my heart wants to break each time with each new discovery. There are things you see that leave you speechless&exp...
Posted by Making Noise on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:18:00 PST

(VIDEO) Renal Failure...and Stll on the Street (part 3)

We met a girl who had been diagnosed with kidney failure 2 months ago. When we met her, she was having dialysis 3x a week...and still did prostitution.She felt that she had no other choice but to do t...
Posted by Making Noise on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:08:00 PST

Renting in Turin: Race in Italy (Part III)

This is a quck video-blog recounting a conversation I had about renting to Africans in Italy.
Posted by Making Noise on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:47:00 PST

Delicate Issues

"Delicate Issues"Written June 18, Occurred June 11 This was soooo cool! It was after an awesome church service at a local Nigerian church in Turin. I was standing among a Nigerian pastor, two Nigerian...
Posted by Making Noise on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:36:00 PST

Nigerian- Italian Love: Race in Italy (Part II)

Ok, so I knew trafficking was a complex issue, causing complex consequences, but this one I totally didn't expect. Apparently there are a number of Italian male clients who end up marrying the foreign...
Posted by Making Noise on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:59:00 PST