THREE GENERATIONS INC

Native American values, treaties, land and water are being threatened by big oil. In the Dakotas fracking and pipelines have decimated once pristine landscapes, causing toxic damage , destroying ancestral burial grounds and now threatening drinking water. This campaign aims to bring world-wide attention to this environmental and cultural crisis through a feature film: A Different American Dream, a series of videos and a robust engagement campaign focused on supporting local grassroots programs. Native American issues are too often invisible to wider society. Environmental and climate justice cannot happen without including Native voices. While communities of color, especially Native Americans, are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation and climate change, they are not in positions of power to make decisions about their individual and community well-being. We produce top quality films & videos to raise public awareness and encourage outrage and action.

Peru has been decimated by Covid-19. This project will help the indigenous community of Chincero recover in several ways. Over 80% of their economy has come from traditional textile weaving, but markets have disappeared due to the pandemic. Tourism-dependent families are starving, elders and children are at risk. The Ayni project revives traditional agricultural methods to provide food, help bring technology to children for education and protect the elders and traditional teaching and wisdom. The indigenous community in Chinchero, Peru has been badly affected by Covid-19. Prevention measures and help from the government have been absent. There is a dire food shortage. 3 Generations has established the Ayni Relief Fund to jump-start a new way of life for families in Chinchero. This fund will help revive traditional agri-businesses, build new homes, buy food, medicine and warm clothes for elders and children.

Amid the widespread defunding of community mental healthcare programs across the country, the Cook County Jail in Chicago has become a default treatment center for people living with mental illness. Our project exposes the challenges and injustices of treating mental health issues through the criminal justice system: A system that is punitive by design. We advocate for preventative solutions in community mental healthcare through our feature film, Any Given Day, and its outreach campaign. In Chicago, community mental health care has been actively defunded for decades. According to Mental Health America, in the United States, 1.2 million people living with mental illness sit in jail and prison each year. By telling the stories of the 3 people in this film we can draw attention to the personal impact of living at the intersection of mental illness, poverty, and substance use, and the stigma and isolation that perpetuates these cycles through communities.

This project will help us tell reproductive justice stories through an intergenerational lens. We have begun the work of interviewing people across generations about how reproductive justice has shaped their lives, what they hope to see for the future, and how abortion fits into a holistic reproductive justice framework. In addition to filming these stories, we are researching new ways to share information about abortion in the United States. The landscape of abortion access in the United States has become dark, fragmented, and violent in the wake of the Dobbs decision in June 2022. This comes at a time when abortion access is more important than ever: for the first time in 30 years, the decline in abortions in the United States has reversed. Telling stories is the first step towards change. The project will bring awareness to how crucial choice is when is comes to reproductive healthcare, and it will bring new stories to light that illustrate why reproductive justice matters.

Refugee rights have been at the core of 3 Generations' work since we covered the genocide in Darfur in the film The Devil Came On Horseback in 2007. Our feature Lost in Lebanon was part of our multi-part coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis. We have also covered stories of Rohingya Muslims and Yazidi women fleeing ISIS. Currently, we are working on a short film about camps, which includes coverage of the genocide in Ukraine. We will continue our fight for refugee justice. The global refugee crisis is growing. Today there are over 84 million people across the world who are displaced from their homes or their country of origin. Each one has an important story to tell. Geo-political and health crises like Covid-19 only make the challenges refugees and their hosts and advocates face even harder. Economic uncertainty breeds intolerance. Ignorance and lack of empathy worsens an already complex problem. We bring the stories of individual refugees to life and light.

3 Generations works to raise awareness about sex trafficking and redefine it as a human rights abuse. The most common form of human trafficking is trafficking for sexual exploitation. This human rights abuse must get more awareness for being the world's fastest-growing crime. Worldwide, it's estimated that there are 4.5 million victims of sex trafficking. While many Americans are aware that this barbaric practice takes place outside the United States, few know-or ever discuss-the disturbing reality that sex slavery exists in every state & every city in America. estimated that between 15,000 and 50,000 women and girls are trafficked each year into the United States. We use professionally produced, thoughtful, short films, & videos to raise public awareness & encourage focused action. We partner with organizations doing effective direct service or advocacy work to develop content & draw attention to their work. Our strategy supports long-term change & national and international impact.

At any given time there are millions of men and women who have returned from serving in the military during wartime. Both here in the United States and across the globe they have all faced the trauma of war. Many carry both visible and invisible wounds. Those with PTSD face tremendous challenges -- unemployment, poverty and homelessness. Help 3 Generations tell the stories of both soldiers and veterans, help us raise awareness of the mental and emotional crises they face. Hear their stories. Soldiers at war and returning veterans face huge challenges. They must deal with invisible wounds as well as their physical ones. Once they return home they must reintegrate to civilian life and find jobs which can be difficult. Most Americans are unaware of the prolonged struggle of our returning troops -- the war of reintegration. 3 Generations' project focuses on PTSD and the trauma of war for soldiers and veterans as one of the leading hardships confronting them.

Human vulnerability is the connective thread that binds all the issues we focus on. The challenge is for us to recognize that there is an ongoing human rights crisis and to find and provide hope. With each generation, there is always opportunity for growth, learning, and healing from the traumas passed down. Today's youth are fiercely carrying the torch and shining light on where trauma lives in the dark, in order to build new pathways for today and generations to come. 3 Generations work of listening to and recording courageous Native women for more than a decade has shown us that a new generation of women has risen to transform this painful landscape. We create professionally produced, thoughtful, short films, & videos. We produced two short films, Lost Hope and Native Silence. Our feature is A Different American Dream. We partner with organizations doing effective direct service or advocacy work to develop content & encourage focused action to end suffering.