Microinsurance Education Kenya - 2010

This short movie shows how the Swedish Cooperative Center (SCC) is educating farmers in Kenya about the importance of insurance. With support from the ILO Microinsurance Innovation Facility, SCC assists low-income families in dealing with the financial impact of shocks, such as disease and accidents.

GRT - Crossing the sea - 2010

A documentary produced by GRT for raising awareness on mixed migration challenges in Somalia. This Video aims to raise awareness on the risks of undertaking the dangerous trip across the gulf of Aden: unscrupulous smugglers, harassments by militias, sexual exploitations and human trafficking make the journey even more perilous, putting at stake the real life of the migrants. GRT has been involved on mixed migration issues in Somalia since November 2009. The main objectives of GRT's projects were to raise awareness on the human rights of migrants in transit and coming from Somalia and to mobilize local resources on addressing migrant's needs.

Funded by IOM and From the People of Japan. Produced by CVF.

Poverty and Environment Initiative (PEI) in Rwanda- 2010

A video about the UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI) in Rwanda.
Poor people depend on the environment for their livelihoods and well-being. Improved management of the environment and natural resources contributes direclty to poverty reduction, more sustainable livelihoods and pro-poor growth. To fight poverty, to promote security and to preserve the ecosystems that poor people rely on for their livelihoods, we must place pro-poor economic growth and environmental sustainability at the heart of our economic policies, planning systems and institutions.

Rwanda, 2010

Intersos - Jowhar Vocational Training Center - 2010

Informational video to highlight the Jowhar Vocational Training Center opened by Intersos in Somalia. Intersos started its operations in Somalia in 1992. Its current involvement in the country is therefore deeply rooted in its humanitarian work including Internally displaced persons repatriation, health, water and sanitation, rural development and education.

Somalia, 2010. Only in Italian

Intersos - Somalia 2009 - 2010

Photoslide to highlight Intersos projects in Somalia in 2009. Intersos is currently operating in the Somali post-conflict reconstruction and recovery scenario through strategies and policies aimed at addressing the crucial and urgent needs existing in the three key sectors of health, education and water and sanitation.

Somalia, 2010. Only in Italian

CISP - Malindi for children - trailer - 2010

Watch the trailer of Malindi for children, a documentary about the first edition of the Malindi Music Festival for Children December 2009. The Festival showcased a multicultural blend of musical talent including progressive Italian drumming star Tullio De Piscopo, a long list of big name Kenyan celebrity as Achien'g Abura, Yunasi Band, Kayamba Africa, Njota Ndogo and local talents. The event has been a meeting point for different cultures and an opportunity for exchange and mutual inter-cultural understanding. The Festival is part of the "Malindi Protects Children" Campaign, a joint effort from both the local community and the tourism sector to combat any form of sexual exploitation of children and to promote responsible tourism on the Kenyan Coast. The Festival has been organized by CISP in collaboration with Malindi & Watamu Tourism Welfare Group with the support of UNICEF and a large number of Malindi and Kenya wide based businesses.

InterSat Africa & Voices of Africa - 2009

A short documentary featuring ICT development in Africa with emphasis on how the Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) is changing the way rural Africa communicates. The Rural Internet Kiosk is 100% solar powered and is connected to the Internet via Satellite using Astra2Connect VSAT technology.

Stop dumping death on us - 2009

This video explains the campaign to close the Dandora dump site in Nairobi which is the biggest human rights violation in Kenya. What is the campaign proposing? 1. immediately close the Dandora dumping site 2. create a policy for waste management 3. create recycling infrastructures and formal employment for the people currently working around the dumping site 4. relocate the dumping site into a non-residential area where only the non-recyclable waste will be dumped 5. reclaim and decontaminate the Dandora area

Intersos - 2009

Informational video to highlight the opening of a new WOFAK center by the Non-profit humanitarian organization Intersos. Intersos in partnership with WOFAK - Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya - is active in Kenya mainly by helping the HIV positive mothers and orphans in Kayole, located in Nairobi, facing the disease and the related problems. With this new center, WOFAK has the possibility to achieve better results in the activities carried on.

Only in Italian

Terra Nuova
Behind the livestock - 2009

Informational video to highlight Terra Nuova livestock projects and programs in Somaliland and Somalia. Livestock contributes significantly to the livelihoods of the Somali people (40% of the total GDP and 80% of foreign currency earnings). The region’s economy is unique with over half of the population dependent on nomadic pastoralism for its livelihood. The Somali system is oriented towards livestock trade and export, in fact livestock trade dates back to the 14th century. Terra Nuova has been active in Somalia since 1994 concentrating its interventions in the livestock sector. The strategic objective of Terra Nuova interventions is to enhance the capacity of its stakeholders and institutions to improve animal production, health and marketing for the benefit of marginalised communities. This video focuses in particular on three main projects of Terra Nuova in Somaliland: Sheikh Technical Veterinary School, the Livestock Trade and Marketing Project and the Somali Animal Health Services Project.

VSO
Vso Diaries - 2008

A video about the VSO Jitolee programs and volunteers working in Kenya. Five diaries, five different stories, five different places, five different programmes. VSO is the world's leading independent, international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. This video highlights VSO Jitolee five main Kenyan programmes through the stories and the lives of all the people involved in it.

Diary n. 1 - The first vegetarian of Il Ngwesi - Secure Livelihoods Programme
Diary n. 2 - Ever Green - Disability Programme
Diary n. 3 - Fish for sex - HIV & AIDS Programme
Diary n. 4 - Do it at home - National Volunteering Programme
Diary n. 5 - Veterans - Kenyan and Ugandan returned volunteers

UNHCR Geneva
Do you see what I see – Refugee children photograph their own lives – 2008

This video is a collaboration between CVF and the Photographer B. Bannon, a video, audio-narrated slideshow about a photography workshop by Brendon Bannon in Namibia and Ethiopia refugee camps. This project gave refugee children a chance to explore the totality of the refugee experience; to show the world both the differences and similarities of their lives.

“See refugee life through the voices and visions of children, who are experts on their own lives." Photographer B. Bannon

Amnesty International
Social Social campaign for Human rights 2008

This video has been produced by Amnesty International for a Social campaign for Human rights after post election violence in Kenya. The footage of the video has been filmed by CVF crew between December and January 2008. Post-election violence in Kenya has forced thousands to flee their homes. More than 1,000 people have been killed

World Friends
Emergency fund-raising campaign – 2008

After the political elections in December 2007, slums areas have been deeply touched by violence. Adults, children, teachers and students had to face this situation without having the adequate tools or skills. World Friends decided indeed to dedicate human and material resources to manage the emergency through different activities: peace building workshops, health intervention, food distribution ...

This video is part of World Friends emergency fund-raising campaign after post election violence in Kenya. Only in Italian

World Friends
Emergency fund-raising campaign – Interview with Mr. Gianfranco Morino – 2008

After the political elections in December 2007, slums areas have been deeply touched by violence. Adults, children, teachers and students had to face this situation without having the adequate tools or skills. World Friends decided indeed to dedicate human and material resources to manage the emergency through different activities: peace building workshops, health intervention, food distribution ...

This video is part of World Friends emergency fund-raising campaign after post election violence in Kenya. Only in Italian

CISP
Somalia Rising – 2008

Educational video for fundraising and sensitization promoting school enrolment in Somalia.

CISP runs different educational projects in Somalia.
This video is about Somalia and its educational system and aims to promote an exchanges between Italian and Somali students and to fund raise for the enlargement of a primary school in Galkayo (Somalia). All the audio tracks in fact have been produced by the young student of Ganassi School of Music in Rome and the documentary has been screened in different schools around Italy.

The project is the result of a partnership between CISP, Rome City Council and Ganassi School of Music. Only in Italian

COSV
A video to promote COSV health project in South Sudan – 2007

In South Sudan, in the middle of a big swamp, seven days of canoe from the nearest village, there is Nyal. No electricity, cars or markets, just a community of Nuer who settled there running away from the war.

Here COSV is running the only health project of the whole area: an hospital and different dispensaries.