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Good Fortune is a documentary about Kenya, and two main projects to try to help their poverty problem. It follows two projects one being a government funded project to try to remove people from the slums to better homes. The second project is a private project by a man named Calvin Burgess who is investing 21 million dollars in a rice farm. The film puts these two projects under a microscope and tries to show why these two projects are not helping the people living in poverty. When you say poverty, I think of slums, food shortage, sick people. No jobs, and drugs. When you think of the slum in Kenya you could say they live in poverty and they should try to get out. However, the people living in some of these areas don’t see it this way. For

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