GFC On the Road has launched a new feature: sharing the voices of our grantee partners and extending grassroots knowledge globally through guest blogging. The following post is from Glenn Baker, the director of Easy like Water, GFC’s most recent film investment. The film tells the story of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (Village Self-Reliance), GFC’s grantee partner in Bangladesh that provides floating boat schools to children whose schools have been lost to erosion and climate change.

Washington, DC – Producer Steve Sapienza and I recently returned from Copenhagen, where we were shooting footage for Easy Like Water, as well as premiering the trailer to attendees of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP15. Mohammed Rezwan, the subject of our film and the founder of the Shidhulai boat schools, could not attend, but he was pleased we were helping to raise the visibility of his project. Read more