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For all unaware, Kaiizen is a non-profit dedicated to underprivileged children who need it's help. It has been up and running for just over five years, making about five trips each year to an orphanage in Baja, California. Baja is Kaiizen's biggest focus due to geographical ease, however Kaiizen also has trips to other places in the world.

In September, I will be going on a two week-long excursion to Swaziland, a landlocked country between South Africa and Mozambique, with 13 others who belong to Kaiizen. We will be working closely with The Moya Center—a school in Swaziland that cares for and educates a large group of AIDS orphans in the area. We are bringing down 10 laptops, and a printer for the Moya Center to use in educating their children. In addition, we will be donating a video camera so that they may keep us updated in years to come. We will be bringing food around to each of the child-headed households as well. Other service projects we will be doing include: volunteering at an AIDS clinic, building fences and gardens for families, repainting The Moya Center, and filming/editing/and producing a documentary on the experience for those who are unaware of the culture.

Now, my main job on this trip is to film, direct, and create the film that i want to show to the world. The film will be an attempt to display the vast contrast in our culture and the African culture(s). I hope to inspire my generation as much as i have been inspired in the past 7 months to live a life worth living—free from labels, materialistic obsessions, and unnecessary luxuries. I hope for my viewer to walk away from my film faced with the question—"Life over property or property over life?"

I will update as much as I can on each aspect of our trip, but for now we are working very hard to raise the money to make this trip possible. Between car washes, yard sales, benefit concerts, T-shirt sales, and other donations, we hope to raise $20,000 to make this trip the best it can be. Like I said, we are all working hard, but any help we can get is greatly appreciated. If you would like to donate our fundraising, visit www.kaiizen.org and click on the donation link. Check back every couple days for more updates and photos on the trip and it's fundraising.