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That snail is fast!

Had a family trip to the cinema this afternoon to See Turbo. What a surprise! I usually fight the tiredness off in animated children's films but this kept my attention throughout. Its about a snail who has a passion for speed to the amusement of his fellow snails. However in an accident where he gets sucked into the gubbings of a car he comes out a racing machine. He then gets picked up by a Taco seller who races snails who discovers not just the snails potential but his own. He has failed in many whacky attempts to sell his brother's taco-making gifts but the snail gives him the crazy idea to enter him in the Indianapolis 500. The film reiterates "Go for your dreams!" "No dream is too big, no person too small no matter what people say" I won't spoil the end of the film but suffice to say I feel inspired to go for my dreams again...

Check out our Manila DVD extract on Youtube

In the Autumn 2008 the CMS Youth and Children's team set off with Tim Dendy (Freelance film maker) to make a DVD about the lives of a group of street children in Manila. We worked with a CMS mission partners in a street children's outreach project called jigsaw and worked with children who regularly attend this program. The experience was an incredibly rich one as we hung out with these young people over a period of 10 days. Their lives, struggles and responsibilities left our team feeling  humbled and inadequate to offer any real help or solutions. This is why the work of Jigsaw is so important as well as the aim of our World to Rights project to raise money for similar children's projects around the world. The DVD is due for official release in April but as a little foretaste you can see a preview on youtube.