A Purpose Greater than You

Originally posted on INSPIRED THINKING:
For the photo exhibit “Langtang Rising” a father photographed his daughter. He lost his wife and immediate family in the avalanche after the earthquake.  Pasang Lama is one of the survivors of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal that took 9,000…

Response To Devastating Earthquakes Evaluated By ShelterBox

Stories From The Field

Shelterbox recently returned to Nepal to evaluate its response to the 2015 earthquakes. The team was led by ShelterBox Australia General Manager, Mike Greenslade with the evaluation conducted by Response Team volunteer, Jo Reid (UK) and Head of Training and Development, Nicky Richardson (UK). The team visited sites where ShelterBox aid was distributed, to conduct interviews with beneficiaries and gain a better understanding of the impact the aid we distribute has on affected families.

ShelterBox personel conduct interviews outside a UN-spec tent SRT members Jo Reid and Nicky Richardson conduct an interview with ShelterBox beneficiaries in Pipaldanda, Sindhupalchowk, Nepal. ©ShelterBox/Mike Greenslade

Bel Bohadur Sapkota is a subsistence farmer from the hillside village of Pipaldanda, in the Sindhupalchowk district, east of Kathmandu. He was inside his house when a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on 25th April 2015. Luckily for Bel, his wife and 3 children were not with him in the house as the walls and ceiling fell…

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Eventing (with a film)

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Not the sort with dancing, leaping horses. I mean the type where you wine and dine guests

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Image from John Harwood’s flickr  page

under the thinly veiled guise of a not-to-be-missed high profile social occasion which of course we all know is really about selling or fundraising.

But your event doesn’t have to be a soulless sell out. The swell of emotion that can grow in a room of people reacting and experiencing something together as they feed off each other is extremely powerful if harnessed and used positively.

The importance of an exclusive shared experience that can be generated at such events shouldn’t be underestimated, and how better to create such an atmosphere than through screening a film.

Last night Minty Films was proud to have played a small but hopefully significant part in a fundraising exhibition, ‘Aftershock’ by photographer Chris Gravett. The private view at

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