Bethel Film Screening to Benefit African School

BETHEL, CT --- On the eve of Mother's Day, Bridges of Peace and Hope will be screening "Girl Rising" at the Bethel Cinema in celebration of women and girls around the world. Tickets will be sold for $11 and all proceeds will go towards the Mukwashi Sanitation Initiative.

“Girl Rising” (PG-13) follows nine girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education. The documentary is an impassioned plea for female empowerment throughout the world.

Bridges of Peace and Hope’s partner, the Mukwashi Trust School (MTS) in Lusaka West, Zambia, recently completed the construction of a grade 10 to 12 secondary school building ­– but there is more work to be done. MTS needs a new sanitation block with enough toilets to serve a growing student population.

This is especially important for adolescent girls – who can miss up to 20 percent of their school year due to lack of sanitation services in schools. All funds raised from ticket sales for Movies for Mukwashi will be used to build a sanitation block, dig a well on school grounds, and supplement sanitation supplies for female students.

Bridges of Peace and Hope is an educational non-profit whose mission is to connect educators and students around the world to promote peace and understanding through music, arts, and technology.

Bridges of Peace and Hope will screen "Girl Rising" at the Bethel Cinema, located at 269 Greenwood Avenue on Saturday, May 12 from 10 am. to 1 p.m.

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