Support Coral Kids
Coral Kids is a long-form documentary and visual storytelling project in Aitutaki, created by artist and filmmaker Raquel Trejo in collaboration with Grow Aitutaki and Aitutaki Coral Restoration.
The project brings together children’s photography, documentary development, field notes, archive-building, workshops, and shared storytelling. It follows how children, families, and community mentors describe lagoon life through images, text, and conversations.
Coral Kids is currently in development and welcomes support for the next stages of fieldwork, workshops, photography, printing, archive development, and community screenings.
What your support helps make possible
Donations help support the practical work behind Coral Kids, including:
Cameras and underwater cameras
35mm film and processing
Digital storage and archive development
Photography workshops with children
Printing photographs, zines, and children’s books
Travel and fieldwork in Aitutaki
Mentorship and project development
Website and documentation costs
Community screenings and local presentations
Every part of this support helps build the project with care. A roll of film, a working camera, a box of prints, or a contribution toward travel can become part of the children’s image-making process and the wider Coral Kids archive.
Camera and film donations
Coral Kids is also accepting camera and film donations for upcoming workshops and fieldwork.
We are especially looking for:
35mm film
Simple point-and-shoot film cameras
Compact digital cameras
Underwater digital cameras
Olympus Tough / TG cameras
Memory cards
Camera straps
Batteries and chargers
Film processing support
Printing support
If you have an old waterproof camera sitting in a drawer, especially one of those Olympus Tough cameras waiting for a second life, Coral Kids can probably put it to work.
The children use cameras in the lagoon, on outings, during workshops, and as part of the growing visual archive. Simple, durable cameras are incredibly useful because they allow children to photograph freely, test ideas, make mistakes, and begin developing their own way of seeing.
For the next trip, donations of 35mm film are especially welcome. Film gives the children a slower way to work with images and will support future zines, prints, and archive material.
How to donate
Donations to Coral Kids can be made through Documentary Australia.
Donations made through Documentary Australia are tax-deductible in Australia.
Donation link: Documentary Australia
If you would like to donate cameras, film, printing, processing, or equipment, please get in touch directly.
Contact: hola@raqueltrejo.com.au
Supporters
Coral Kids is made possible through a growing network of people, partners, and supporters who contribute time, knowledge, equipment, funding, and care.
Photography & Film Sponsor
Lomography
Lomography has provided in-kind support through cameras, film, and photographic materials for the children’s photography workshops and future image-making activities.
Project Partners
Grow Aitutaki
Grow Aitutaki supports the community context, children’s conservation learning, and local relationships that make the project possible.
Aitutaki Coral Restoration / Mike Lee
Aitutaki Coral Restoration and Mike Lee support the reef care context, lagoon knowledge, boat access, and local restoration work connected to the wider environment of the project.
Donation Platform
Documentary Australia
Documentary Australia provides the tax-deductible donation platform for Coral Kids, allowing supporters in Australia to contribute directly to the project.
Individual Donors
Coral Kids thanks the individual donors who support the project’s fieldwork, workshops, archive development, printing, travel, and community screenings.
Donor names will be listed here with permission.
Camera, Film & Equipment Donors
Coral Kids also welcomes donations of cameras, 35mm film, underwater cameras, memory cards, batteries, chargers, and printing or processing support.
Equipment donors will be acknowledged here with permission.
Transparency note
Coral Kids is a developing documentary and visual archive project. Funds and in-kind support are used toward the practical costs of fieldwork, image-making, children’s workshops, archive development, editing, printing, travel, mentorship, and public presentation.
The project is built through long-term relationships, careful permissions, and shared responsibility. Support for Coral Kids helps make the work possible while allowing the project to keep growing at the pace needed for ethical collaboration.