SABREEN BUDWAN
Displaced five times since October 7th. Lost her father. Dreams of setting up a tent on the rubble of her home.
Sabreen Budwan has been displaced five times since October 7th. She lost her father, survived a massacre, and now dreams of returning to set up a tent on the rubble of her home.
Four Voices From Gaza — Teaser. Filmed October 2024.
Gaza Edition — Four voices, four lives
Displaced five times since October 7th. Lost her father. Dreams of setting up a tent on the rubble of her home.
Displaced three times, now living in a bakery warehouse. Lost his father, his brother missing. "Even mountains couldn't bear this."
Lost his three children when a missile struck the children's room at his church on October 19th. A message of love and peace.
Lost her husband Abdullah (33), son Hamza (4), and daughter Raghad (2) in a single strike. Returned to find her home buried beneath rubble.
Stories from communities reduced to numbers
Four Palestinians share their stories of survival, loss, and resilience. Filmed by Ruwaida Amer and Mahmoud Almashahrawi inside Gaza.
View StoriesStories from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Voices that have been silenced and reduced to statistics for over 200 years.
Planned for 2026Stories from communities still bearing the weight of apartheid's legacy. The humanity behind the statistics.
Planned for 2026Fund future editions and support storyholders
Names Not Numbers is a documentary storytelling initiative that humanizes people who colonial and occupying powers have reduced to statistics.
Rather than allowing them to remain faceless numbers in death tolls and displacement figures, this project gives them names, faces, and voices to tell their own stories.
Each edition focuses on a different community, produced in collaboration with local filmmakers and journalists on the ground. The first edition features Palestinian voices from Gaza. Future editions will amplify stories from First Nations Australians, South Africans, and other communities whose humanity has been systematically erased.