Fourteen Days remain until the special day that we've anxiously awaited all year arrives. Christmas, to most people, is a time of celebration and gathering of family and friends. Countries celebrate it differently and traditions vary from family to family but one thing usually travels through most cultures and that is giving. Whether it is the giving of time, food, love, shared excitement or presents, the desire to give spreads across the world. What if this year was the same, but with a twist? What if we chose to give in a new way? What if we chose to give the gift that keeps giving, and we're not talking about a 12 month fruit club. We're talking about giving the gift that goes far beyond the here and now; a gift that is an investment into the future of the very world we live in. There are many organizations that have just that opportunity for you and Light Gives Heat is one of them. With LGH films', "Moving On", stuck in post-production, a new campaign is taking place through the month of December called Kickstarter.

Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers and other creative endeavors. With $8,750 already raised by 30 backers, we are nearly 20% on our way to fifty grand. To reach our goal would mean much more than obtaining the cash. For this film to be funded and thereafter completed, it would mean for a voice to be heard in truth rather than assumptions and stereotypes. For far too long Africa has been looked at through a lens of despair. Stories of war, injustice, genocide, poverty and disease seem to be the norm. This notion is redefined in the film "Moving On" as it journeys alongside a young American family’s life as they struggle with the discontentment of the path they were told they should follow and risk everything with the decision to uproot their family and move to Uganda to adopt their daughter. What they encounter is life changing and bids them to not only enter in to lives of Ugandans, but also to change the complete course of their own lives.

From failure and sickness to relationships and adoptions; the film shows that though circumstances differ, the struggles faced are the same and begin to close the gap between America and Africa, connecting all as human beings dealing with the messiness of life. But hope prevails. A relationship with Africa is not one sided- we both need each other, in fact, our rescues are tied up in one another. And it is through the choice of hope that we find out love is winning.

This holiday, give the giving gift; a gift that allows a voice to speak, a story to be told and hope to rise from a place that has been told there is none. Become a backer this Christmas season and spread the gift of hope!