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| Directed by | Turk Pipkin |
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| Edited by | Molly Conway |
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Building Hope is a film by Turk and Christy Pipkin. [1] It was produced by The Nobelity Project and premiered on March 12 at the 2011 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. It is the sequel to the film One Peace at a Time .
After rebuilding a rural Kenyan primary school, Turk Pipkin and The Nobelity Project agree to help build the area’s first high school - including the award-winning RainWater Court, classroom building, science and computer labs, and a library. Through drought, flood, and fundraising challenges, Building Hope chronicles the construction of Mahiga Hope High, and the connection between a thousand people in the U.S. and an African community working to create a better future for their children.
In 2009 The Nobelity Project began construction on Mahiga Hope High School in rural Kenya. It is the first high school in the area of Mahiga near Nyeri. The school held its grand opening on October 1, 2010. The Nobelity Project is also building a science building for the school along with organic gardens to be completed in the fall of 2010. Construction of the school has earned the Nobelity Project a nomination for Architecture for Humanity's book, Design Like You Give a Damn 2, the sequel to Design Like You Give a Damn, which is a collection of writings about projects taking place around the world designed to benefit humanity.
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TheNobelity Project is a nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, USA. It was founded by Christy and Turk Pipkin in 2005, while producing the film Nobelity. Their mission is to increase access to quality education and better the lives of children across the globe. The Nobelity Project's programs relate to educational and environmental progress. Their films include Nobelity (2006), One Peace at a Time (2009), and Building Hope (2011). In 2010, the Pipkins spoke at this TED conference.
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Turk Pipkin is an author, actor, comedian and director. He is the co-founder of The Nobelity Project, a non-profit organization which seeks to find solutions to global problems, and which advocates for basic rights for children. He was a lifelong friend of Harry Anderson up until Anderson's death in 2018.
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