2000-01-25 20:31:05+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I spent some time yesterday evening talking with an anthropologist acquaintance. 20 years ago she spent time in Peru, working with 100 kids about their hopes and dreams, photographing them and their art. Recently, she went back, and in 17 days found 50 of her students. One is a lawyer, one works in a laundry, one is in jail for sympathizing with the guerillas, one in the army. She's got all this fantastic content, and the promise of finding out where these went, and she's looking for a way to pay for going back for more follow-up interviews, and ways to publish. Since my recent pleas for help (Las Vegas and modems) have been so succesfful, surely someone out there would like to sponsor a large web site on Peru over the past 20 years, and how it's affected the hopes and dreams of the children? With the right publicity this is the sort of thing that could make an educational resource in schools, or just great reading that would target the Discovery Channel/National Geographic kind of audience. And for a .com company looking for publicity it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a Super Bowl ad!