Pauline A. Greenlick is an adjunct and supervisor of special education student teachers at Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA. Pauline has been active in regular and special education for over 35 years and her teaching experience has spanned teaching students in preschool through high school.
She is also the ASA Social Fund for Hidden Peoples’ Treasurer, a USA non-profit organization supporting the following: In Uganda; Bright Kids Uganda Children’s Home, Great Kings and Queens Children’s Centre, Noah’s Ark School for the Disabled, CERESAV which supports acid attack survivors in addition to supporting a non-profit working with the Roma in Hungary.
Below are a few of the films she has produced:
- Under the Umbrella Tree, released April, 2014 documents the life of Victoria Nalongo Namusisi who is the founder and director of Bright Kids Uganda Children’s Home located in Entebbe, Uganda and profiles many of the children she has rescued and saved from wars, abandonment, and extreme poverty.
- Unveiling the Scars, (Living Beyond the Violence, and Facing the Future are revisions of the first film) released September, 2014. This documentary portrays the challenges, determination and hope of acid attack victims in Uganda and how they are regaining their human dignity and human rights through their determination to return back to society with the support of CERESAV and micro loans.
- The Most Important Number is One, released July 2016. It is about Ronald Abong, a Bright Kids Uganda young man who was rescued by Victoria Nalongo Namusisi who brought him to safety to live at Bright Kids Uganda Children’s Home. The film focuses on his early life as a victim of the Lord’s Resistance War in the north and his courageous choice to return after twelve years to his homeland to meet his extended family and visit his mother’s grave. This courageous and brave young man’s goal is to restore peace to Uganda.
- There are three additional short films Connie, Ronald and Maxi’s Kids profiling Uganda students who have benefitted from the ASA Social Fund for Hidden Peoples support.
- Pauline works independently with connections to Word Association Publishers, Tarentum, PA and films, produces and edits short films profiling local Western Pennsylvania authors and their books. The short films include 15,000 Miles on 48 Cents, Boarding the Westbound and The Jake Sullivan Series.
- Battle of Homestead Remembered, filmed on July 6, 2017, captures the Battle of Homestead Foundation event “Ceremony at the Gravesites of Battle of Homestead Heroes” This event honored the steel workers who were killed during the 1892 Homestead Strike.
- She has continued her film productions to include promotional and awareness issues in other countries: Ghana and South Africa. She also films and produces promotional films in the US as well.
International experiences include Central and South America, Europe and over fifteen African countries. She has presented topics including special education issues in Uganda, South Africa and the US and at conferences in Vienna, Austria, Tobago, Trinidad and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. International work has included providing educational information and support for teachers and administrators in South African and Ugandan schools and non-profit organizations about good teaching practices and special education issue
