Sanitation

MDRI submission to the Inter-American Commission on Behalf of Youth in Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Paraguay

WITNESS Archive — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:26:16 -0700

Running Time: 3:30 min.

H2O for Life -- School to School Connection

Hub Intern — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:58:33 -0700

Water Advocates - Safe drinking water and sanitation. Connecting U.S. schools to global school partners.

Water Contamination and Fluorosis in India

VideoVolunteers — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:52:54 -0700

An expose on a chemical plant in a village, reveals the hideous truth that the village's water source is being poisoned leading to the rampant spread of fluorosis. Through this film, the villagers demanded a water treatment plant and due to the action taken, 600 villages received safe drinking water.

Post-Monsoon Living Conditions

VideoVolunteers — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:03:09 -0700

During the monsoons, the roads wash out for weeks at a time and the electricity goes out. In this video villagers learn who is responsible for fixing these problems. We also see the government taking action and fixing broken roads because they were 'exposed' on camera.

Slum Conditions and Government Programs in India

VideoVolunteers — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:15:44 -0700

Slumdwellers learn about a government program in which they can get inexpensive basic amenities like toilets and roads. Because of this film, Saath was able to expand the program into an area where residents had previously been confused and resistant about the program.

Lets make our neighborhoods cleaner!

VideoVolunteers — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:37:39 -0700

Filth and garbage are huge problems in the slums, with rotting waste piling up in the roads and hardly any municipal system for collecting waste. The Community Producers request their neighbors to take more responsibility and to stop dumping their garbage right outside their doors. The video takes slum dwellers on a visual journey with a piece of garbage, showing them the huge and unsustainable landfills where their garbage ends up, and introduces them to a hard-working woman who makes her living as a rag-picker in those landfills.

Children of the Amazon

ecatny — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:01:41 -0800

In children of the Amazon, Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol travels to the heart of the Amazon in search of the indigenous children she photographed fifteen years ago. She encounters a world transformed by logging, ranching and disease. From the assassination of rubber tapper Chico Mendes to the ongoing struggle to protect the forest, this inspiring story of resilience reveals how we are all children of the Amazon, breathing the same air and sharing the same fate.

for more information or to purchase the film go to : zdfilms.com

Indigenous Children in Brazil

ecatny — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:55:30 -0800

As Brazil launches an impressive initiative to help the country's most impoverished children, Nils Kastberg, the UNICEF Regional Director for the Americas and Carribean discusses the urgent needs of indigenous children.
Credits: Producer:Sabine Dolan

Arrakis - teaser #1, amianthus, italian industrial decay

Andrea — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:56:17 -0800

Arrakis - Teaser #1

"We were just workers and ex-workers.
We are firmed citizens,
who survived an announced massacre,
which took place in many Italian factories.
A massacre that hasn’t reached the peak of its terrible death show yet.
There’s someone who will always have a guilty conscience."

About this documentary:
Abandoned factories’ views are the background of a voice changed by disease.
It’s Silvestro Capelli’s voice, an ex-worker in the Breda Fucine Factory in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan.
It’s the particular voice of a laryngectomized man.