CISV 101 - in a video...

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Recently I've seen several sites that offer software or services that explain what they do in a short introductory video on the first or about page of their website. Here's a few examples that I like:

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Now, how many times have you wondered how to explain what CISV is to a friend? How much more difficult is it, if you have somebody surfing the internet with a short attention span and only one means of communication (i.e. text to read) available?

Here's my suggestion: Let's have short videos on the CISV website that explain what CISV is, what a village is, what our educational goals are, and so on. I believe that would enormously help people understand what CISV does.

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I love the idea and highly support it. Question though: Such a video to be made, what acronymed committee/part/person in CISV should be approached for this?

I love this idea. In my local chapter we just had a whole event where we all discussed what CISV really is for parents and youth. It was really great, but the question that remained was how do I explain this to other people. These videos would be a great resource.

While tyding up my CISV hard drive a little while ago, I found a short film used back in the day to recruit new CISVers. I believe I downloaded it from an American CISV site quite a while ago. I couldn't find it on an American site any more, but CISV Italy still hosts the file:
http://www.it.cisv.org/archive/bigfiles/CISVRecruit.mov (15MB)

In Hamburg we also have two old films we show at information evenings. It is really funny to watch CISV presenting itself in the seventies and eighties...

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