It takes chutzpah to invite in a documentary crew when the organisation you founded is on the brink of collapse, but that is what Camila Batmanghelidjh did. The result, Camila’s Kids Company: The Inside Story (3 February), was eye opening.Batmanghelidjh, an Iranian-born psychotherapist, founded Kids Company 20 years ago under a railway arch in Southwark, south London. It grew to be a organisation costing £24 million a year to run, with a wage bill of £1m a month. Its philosophy was never to turn a child away, even the dangerous ones. And it was supporting many of those children in the most direct way, with money in an envelope every Friday. When this film began, Batmanghelidjh was just about to be stripped of her role as chief executive. Director Lynn Alleway, who h
04 February 2016, The Tablet
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