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Health can be emotional, spirititual, environmental as well as physical. Most of all our health is determined by the context in which we live, be it in our work, family or social life. The following videos, articles, case studies and photostories show how different communities have used Participatory Video as a process to reflect and act upon their local health issues.
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Umphakathi Okhohliwe (The Forgotten Community)

South Africa

A short film created by community representatives in the KwaSanti township in Durban as part of a capacity building programme for Oxfam Canada partners in southern Africa.

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Themes: Community Action, Health
Category: Capacity Building, Training

Diary of a Participatory Advocacy Film Project

In August 2007, the government of Tanzania made a commitment to doubling the number of training places for skilled midwives, following a five-year campaign by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in Tanzania (WRATZ), which culminated in the first television screening of a participatory film, 'Play Your Part'.

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Themes: Health
Category: Human Rights Based Approach, Advocacy

Documentary Continues to Gain Momentum in Burkina Faso

Update on the progress of PV for Advocacy film 'Avec Nous', undertaken by InsightShare in Burkina Faso on behalf of the White Ribbon Alliance.  Published in 'WRA Members Matter' newsletter.

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Themes: Health, Community Action
Category: Capacity Building, Advocacy
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Oxford Playday

United Kingdom

Created by 6 young people from Oxford to document the fabulous Playday in Florence Park. Commissioned by the organisers, the Participation and Play Team, who aim to educate families and encourage outdoor play.

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Themes: Health, Youth
Category: Community Consultation

Avec Nous

Burkina

Avec Nous is a Participatory Video project that gives a voice to women and men, mothers and fathers, midwives and community activists in one West African country, Burkina Faso - and brings that voice to a global audience.

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Themes: Health
Category: Advocacy

PV for Advocacy CASE STUDY: Maternal Mortality in Burkina Faso

This project in Burkina Faso was developed by the White Ribbon Alliance to boost the ongoing campaign for reducing maternal mortality through voices from the ground.

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Themes: Health
Category: Advocacy

Avec Nous PHOTOSTORY

This is a visual record of the Participatory Video process behind the production 'Avec Nous' - a powerful film giving voice to women and men, mothers and fathers, midwives and community activists in Burkina Faso.

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Themes: Health
Category: Advocacy, Human Rights Based Approach

'Lensing' a Hand to Uplift

This article describes the PV project that was carried out in Inanda, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, in the summer of 2007. It summarizes how InsightShare's capacity building PV training - in cooperation with the Valley Trust - provided different social groups of the Inanda Township community with a tool to express their perpectives on problems in their community - ranging from water and food scarcity to HIV/AIDS and unemployment - and to show their inspiring ways of coping with these issues.

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Themes: Community Action, Health
Category: Advocacy, Capacity Building
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Kono Communities Affected by Mining

Sierra Leone

The residents of the Kimberlite township in Kono District, Sierra Leone, have been relocated to make way for a lucrative diamond mining concession.

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Themes: Health, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Community Consultation
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Boajibu

Sierra Leone

The town of Boajibu in Kenema district experienced a great deal of destruction during Sierra Leone's civil war, and has since declined from its former affluence.

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Themes: Community Action, Health, Human Rights
Category: Advocacy, Community Consultation