Category Archives: Locations
“Together” – Support Groups – The Namibia Women’s Health network
“TOGETHER” explores key challenges experienced by women living with HIV in Namibia such as coerced sterilisation, gender based violence and the practice of evicting widows by their family members after the death of a husband from AIDS-related illness. NWHN works … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Gender, HIV, Namibia
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Our Africa Project
Our Africa: an amazing collection of videos by African children across the continent showing their lives and countries. Children from the SOS Children’s Villages are being trained to use small flip cameras to make their own films and tell their … Continue reading
Posted in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Children, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Participatory media, Zimbabwe
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Adugna Dance Company – A Shared Gift – Ethiopia
The moving story of Adugna, Ethiopia’s biggest contemporary dance company which has transformed street children into professional dancers. Filmed in Ethiopia by GEMTV and in Paris by Dominique Chadwick. Film directed and edited by Dominique Chadwick Dominique Chadwick was one … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Documentaries, Ethiopia, GEMTV Project - Ethiopia, Training
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Samfya – Nasanga Inshila (Extract) – Zambia
Penelope is a young woman from Samfya in northern Zambia. Her life is suddenly turned around when she becomes an orphan at the age of 14, when both her parents die of AIDs. Life becomes very difficult for Penelope who … Continue reading
Posted in Education, HIV, Participatory media, Zambia
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Preserving the Future – Fishing communities – Ghana
Illegal fishing is widespread on the western cost of Ghana contributing to the decline of fish stocks. For their own survival fishing communities have to change their fishing methods and collaborate with the government, the Marine police and Navy to … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Ghana, Good governance, Mwananchi project
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Africa’s Voices- Citizen participation, Radio and Mobile phones
Africa’s Voices is a twelve-month pilot project ran by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at Cambridge University. Building upon the existing enthusiasm for interactive radio, Africa’s Voices gathers citizens’ opinion on governance and development issues, challenging the dominant … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Good governance, Malawi, Radio, Zambia
Tagged Africa, Community Radio, Governance
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Breaking the Barrier – Deaf community – Ghana
About 1% of the population in Ghana has hearing loss. The main challenge for the deaf community is communicating with the larger society so that they can have proper access to health, education and employment in their country. The Ghana … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Ghana, Good governance, Mwananchi project
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Protecting Our Heritage – Radio Ada – Ghana
Radio Ada was the first non governmental community radio station to be established in Ghana. This film describes how, through its sensitisation work with the local community around the Songor Lagoon, it has generated greater accountability and transparency in the … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Ghana, Good governance, Mwananchi project, Radio
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Changing the Dowry System – Ghana
In the Traditional area of Bawku, in the north of Ghana, the dowry system demanded that any young man wanting to marry had to pay 4 cows to the family of the bride. With a higher population and less resources … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Gender, Ghana, Good governance, Mwananchi project, Women
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Protecting Our Children – Trafficking – Ghana
Nyamebekyere is a farming community in the Western Region of Ghana. The traditional communication system of drumming on a small gong gong to call members of the community to meet in the village hall is now replaced by the Compas … Continue reading
Posted in Documentaries, Ghana, Good governance, Mwananchi project, Trafficking
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