tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59141292956868234252024-02-20T02:53:20.633-08:00Eva Gilliam - VideojournalistEva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-63292839465819884092019-10-07T19:44:00.003-07:002019-10-07T19:44:22.074-07:00NEW WEBSITE!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-60946729180486322982013-01-18T03:44:00.001-08:002013-01-18T03:44:44.869-08:00Audio Slideshows - HOW TO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Editors can only do so much with the material they’re provided. Freelance audio slideshow and video producer <a href="http://evagilliam.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2e76db; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank" title="eva blog">Eva Gilliam</a>, who lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and produces videos and audio slideshows for various news agencies and NGOs, likes to provide a checklist to photographers and reporters she works with. One late night on Skype, she shared her list with the Soundslides community. What do you have on your field checklist? Tell us in the comments section below.</div>
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Photography strategy</h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Develop a rough scripting of the story before you go out: where is it, who are the characters, what are they doing?</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">List the shots that will illustrate each step of the story.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prepare to photograph the situation from many angles. From each angle, be sure to get wide, medium and extreme close-up images. “Close-ups give you emotion; wide shots give you context,” Gilliam says. The variation between close-up, medium and wide provides overall texture in the audio slideshow.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Get close-up images of the objects, settings and situations around the subject that can fill out the story in interesting ways.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Show broader context by getting general wide shots of the place.</li>
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Audio recording strategy</h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gather at least two minutes of ambient sound from of each of the main locations.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Record segments of each interview subject making his or her own introduction. “I always get an introduction of the person saying ‘Hi my name is ####. I’m ### years old and I live in ###,’” Gilliam says. “This has two purposes. One is, I don’t forget to include the person’s name in the slideshow. The second is, I’ve gotten the person’s consent. If they’re giving their name and everything on mic, they’re giving their consent; you don’t need a consent form. It’s also a really nice way to introduce someone in the audio slideshow, to have the person telling you who they are, as opposed to (presenting) a name on a screen.”</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Record some local music if you can. “It can be someone singing on the streets, kids singing at school,” she says. “Find music that matches the story.”</li>
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Keep this in mind for sound</h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pay attention to noises in the background of your interview. Make sure they work with the tone and subject of the interview.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Protecting that interview sound is important,” Gilliam says. If it’s noisy, “pull someone aside or go behind a building, and watch out for wind or any background noise. Don’t hold the mic so close to the person that you get distortion or pops when the person is speaking.”</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Good recording devices include Moranz or Roland RO5.</li>
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Check out more of Eva Gilliam’s audio slideshows and videos at the <a href="http://www.childrensradiofoundation.org/" style="color: #2e76db; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank" title="Children's Radio Foundation">Children’s Radio Foundation</a>.</div>
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For more information on Gilliam, read <a href="http://evagilliam.blogspot.com/" style="color: #2e76db; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank" title="Giliam blog">her blog</a>.</div>
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Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-12798009220555078332012-11-16T06:37:00.000-08:002012-11-16T09:39:09.564-08:00Social Intelligence Reporting: A new approach to Social Service Delivery in Kenya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-26407970094104661622012-11-16T05:34:00.000-08:002012-11-16T05:34:30.798-08:00Inside Somalia: Violence against women and girls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Another collaboration with photographer Kate Holt and UNICEF. This audio slide show aims to bring to light the devastating plight of women and girls who are constantly at risk of Sexual and Gender-based violence in Somalia.<br />
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Photos by Kate Hold<br />
Montage by Eva Gilliam<br />
Music by the Color of Sound<br />
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Link to Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2012/oct/30/somalia-refugee-camps-women-audio-slideshow?fb=native">http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2012/oct/30/somalia-refugee-camps-women-audio-slideshow?fb=native</a><br />
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Photographer Kate Holt and I put together this short piece on the men and women committed to fighting polio in Chad during our visit with UNICEF in April 2012.<br />
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The country had more confirmed cases of the diseases in 2011, than all cases combined since 2003.<br />
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N’DJAMENA, Chad, 11 April 2012 – Khadija’s 6-month-old son, Nawal, had
been suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea for days, but she thought it
was related to his teething. Finally, when his fever did not go down,
she brought him to a clinic in N’Djamena, where he was diagnosed with
severe acute malnutrition.<br />
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Even in a normal year, Chad has one of the highest rates of chronic
malnutrition in the world. The region experiences a yearly ‘lean’ or
‘hunger’ season, and according to UNICEF data from 2010, 15.7 per cent
of children under age 5 were already suffering from severe acute
malnutrition. <br />
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But in 2011, the rains did not come.<br />
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The failed rains, coupled with low crop yields, are causing a dramatic
increase in rates of malnutrition – not only in Chad, but throughout the
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Read the full article <a href="http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/chad_62203.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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</div>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-44031275778461038062012-04-23T10:13:00.002-07:002012-04-23T12:15:34.265-07:00In Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, assisting children alone in the big city - February 2012<p style="font-style: italic;"><span class="leadquote">UNICEF’s flagship report, ‘The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World," launched at the end of February, focusing attention on children in urban areas. One billion children live in urban areas, a number that is growing rapidly. Yet disparities within cities reveal that many lack access to schools, health care and sanitation, despite living alongside these services.<br /></span></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><span class="leadquote">This story is part of a series highlighting the needs of these children.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, 21 February 2012 –</span> After a fight with his father, 9-year-old Junior Coulibaly left his house in a huff. It was a Friday afternoon in mid-January 2011. Nine months would pass before he would see his father again.</p><p>Junior was playing in his neighbourhood of Yopougon, one of the country’s largest slums, when conflict erupted – the result of tension that had been building since the presidential elections six weeks earlier.</p><p>Read complete article <a href="http://www.unicef.org/sowc/cotedivoire_61771.html">here</a>.</p><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyYbH-4DxPHVmoLpUgTrXhGbJ0ZdCfpnyCUCcMExz9NfiXc7iWt474nd930EWfVc1sXkMa1lfcNU0Y8c63JpQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-91442526631278798532012-04-23T07:34:00.004-07:002012-04-23T10:10:31.666-07:00Somalia 2011<span style="font-style: italic;">Below is a selection of stories from my time working with the UNICEF Somalia communications team. These stories were shot by Mohamed Sheik Nur in Mogadishu, and written and edited by myself.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Child Friendly Spaces in Mogadishu</span><br /><p>MOGADISHU, Somalia, 9 November 2011 - For hundreds of thousands of displaced Somali children, daily life is a mixture of fear and insecurity. Communities break apart, as one by one families leave their villages to flee ongoing conflict. If they survive the journey to Mogadishu, life is not much easier, as they are faced with the daily challenge of finding food and shelter.</p><p>For children, this experience can be traumatizing. Having fled their homes in search of safety, they find themselves in overcrowded camps, away from all they know.</p>Read full article <a href="http://www.unicef.org/emerg/somalia_60469.html%29">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyZS8F4pZ5Ed71EaNEgQUrm2JDRn-Uis-vsuvSWxVuRngPE5cDIfWEqP7CxoCqKejH2WeCN6XEQIMMixYLRqw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><h2><span style="font-size:100%;">Crisis continues 100 days after famine was declared in Somalia</span></h2>NAIROBI, Kenya, 28 OCTOBER 2011 – Just two months ago, three-year-old Moktar Mohamed was on the verge of death. After his parents lost their livestock and crops to the drought, they travelled by foot and truck from Middle Shabelle to Mogadishu, a trek of over 100 kilometres.<br /><br />When they arrived, little Moktar was just skin and bones, one of the hundreds of thousands of children in Somalia suffering from serious malnutrition.<br /><br />Read the full <span style="font-weight: bold;">article</span> and watch the <span style="font-weight: bold;">video</span> <a href="http://www.unicef.org/emerg/somalia_60298.html">here</a>.Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-77744771442803165792011-07-16T03:09:00.000-07:002011-07-16T03:55:19.586-07:00South Africa: Students stage “sleep-in” to get basic infrastructure in South Africa’s Schools<div id=":12i" class="ii gt"><div id=":12j"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;">Students stage “sleep-in” to get basic infrastructure in South Africa’s Schools</span></b></p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;">Nearly 100 High School students, parents and education activists are holding what they are calling a “sleep-in” outside of the South African parliament.<span> </span>They are calling on the Minister of Basic Education to adopt a Norms and Standards protocol for the country’s schools. <span> </span>Students say the overwhelming lack of basic infrastructure, including toilets, electricity and running water, is unacceptable.<span> </span>And they are willing to sleep on parliament’s doorstep until they get results.<span> </span><br /><br />RFI - 14 July 2011<br /><br /><br /></span> </div></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwS5Xix9F21oSoYs3a9MZ076c52q8dg_BAATSVJncGZx5njkMi-Lymp_bs3JECAn7jjxQ37wghKSqTSgs6Q4g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-14888149984240087542011-06-06T04:51:00.000-07:002011-06-06T05:10:49.257-07:00Will the next Einstein be African?<span>Could Africa be the home of the next Albert Einstein? </span><br /><br />That’s certainly the belief of the founders of Next Einstein Initiative at the African Institute for Maths and Science in South Africa.<br /><br />The initiative aims to accelerate higher education in math and science across Africa by opening centres of excellence for the continent's untapped bright youth.<br /><br />The Next Einstein Initiative is the third report in EuroNews' weekly Learning World Programme:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.euronews.net/2011/02/25/educating-tomorrow-s-scientists/">Learning World: Educating Tomorrow's Scientists.</a><br /><br />Broadcast March, 2011.Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-21855819590376850482011-06-06T04:41:00.000-07:002011-06-22T05:47:04.149-07:00Lesotho Cash Grants: A little goes a long wayArticle and Video for UNICEF Lesotho (this dates back a bit, but I never posted it due to it's length, but now I will start to put up some of my longer work):<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lesotho cash-grants pilot programme aims to ensure vulnerable children’s rights</span><br /><br />By Clelia Barbadoro and Eva Gilliam<br /><br />In the run-up to 20 November 2009, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF is featuring a series of stories about this landmark international agreement on the basic human rights of all children – including progress made and challenges that remain.<br />Here is one of those stories.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy_WPZHNv_0xQWBD-Z2E22yfYPxkJqsetrJ8vLAIuOQAzPZtOR5jKdq9u7K4AIAX4pElz2mZny1AssB6zMczQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br />LEBAKENG, Lesotho, 18 November 2009 – Mapalesa Sebatanyane, 73, is the primary caregiver for her four grandchildren, but she struggles to feed them with the small income she earns raising chickens in this remote village.<br /><br />Recently, help arrived for Ms. Sebatanyane in the form of cash grants delivered by helicopter from the Child Grants Programme, an initiative of the Government of Lesotho, the European Union (EU) and UNICEF.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The right to social protection</span><br />The programme is now several months into its initial pilot phase. It aims to improve the well-being of vulnerable children – including those who have been affected by HIV and AIDS, and those who live in families struggling with poverty, food insecurity, undernutrition and lack of access to essential services.<br /><br />Besides ensuring every child’s right to have such basic needs met, the Convention on the Rights of the Child states, in Article 29, that all children – either through their guardians or directly – have the right to help from the government if they are poor or in need.<br /><br />“The future of Lesotho depends on how you treat your children,” EU Ambassador to Lesotho Peter Christiansen said at an October ceremony to launch the Child Grants Programme.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Endemic poverty</span><br />Half of the population of Lesotho lives below the poverty line, and the country has the world’s third-highest rate of HIV prevalence.<br /><br />“We’ve had a very high maternal and infant mortality rate in this area and others that we have chosen to receive the grant,” said Lesotho’s Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng.<br /><br />“We have children looking after families and people not looking after their health,” he added, referring to households in which children as young as 12 years of age care for younger siblings. “These are some of the factors that have contributed to destitution generally in these areas.”<br /><br />Around 950 households – comprising over 2,370 orphans and vulnerable children – are currently benefiting from the small quarterly grants. This monetary assistance is gradually being complemented by other services, such as World Food Programme assistance and psychosocial support for families and children affected by HIV.<br /><br />Along with large households like Ms. Sebatanyane’s that are unable to make ends meet on the income of a single provider, many child-headed households are beneficiaries of the grants programme.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The face of need</span><br />Mpolokeng, an 18-year-old girl, and Sello, an 18-year-old boy, come from different areas but have much in common. Both lost their parents; both are heading their households and struggling to make ends meet; and both were waiting to receive their cash grants last month in Semonkong, central Lesotho.<br /><br />“My father was a very strong man,” Mpolokeng recalled with a smile. “I used to be so happy every time he came home from the mines [in South Africa], because he used to bring us fresh apples, sweet potatoes and gifts.<br /><br />“But over time,” she added, “he started getting sick and finally came home for good, to die. Then my mother got sick and I had to take care of her and my siblings, and had to drop out of school.”<br /><br />Sello’s father also worked in the mines until he, too, became ill and died. “I miss him,” said Sello. “When he died, my mother followed, so we used some of our cattle for the funerals. I had to take care of the remaining cattle and of my siblings.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Children confront triple threat</span><br />Mpolokeng and Sello are just two of thousands of Basotho children confronted with enormous odds. The triple threat of poverty, HIV and AIDS, and food insecurity has dealt a serious blow to child survival, development and protection in Lesotho.<br /><br />More than 160,000 children are orphans, robbed of the protective and nurturing role of their mothers and fathers. Of these, 110,000 are estimated to have lost one or both parents to AIDS.<br /><br />Despite the challenges they face, Mpolokeng and Sello are astoundingly resilient. Both have hopes and dreams for the future and were excited at the possibilities offered by the cash grants they were about to receive.<br /><br />“My greatest wish is to go back to school, so that one day I can become a teacher and help other children learn and grow,” said Mpolokeng. “The money I will receive today will help me to buy myself a uniform so that next year, I can enrol in school again.”<br /><br />Sello is following his father’s legacy to make sure his siblings have a better future. He plans to use the money to replenish his stock of cattle.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Successful pilot programme</span><br />The disbursement in Semonkong marked the first complete payment covering all three communities in the cash-grants pilot programme: Matelile (Mafeteng district), Lebakeng (Qacha’s Nek district) and Semonkong (Maseru district).<br /><br />Lesotho’s Deputy Principal Secretary of Health and Social Welfare, Moliehi Khabele, explained that the pilot phase is meant to develop and test effective systems for targeting, enrolment, payment to beneficiaries, monitoring, procurement and financial management – as well as training of stakeholders, public awareness and community involvement.<br /><br />The pilot programme will be refined for a phased rollout in other districts of the country by 2011. In the longer term, the government plans to absorb the programme into its national budget.<br /><br />“Cash transfers have the greatest impact when combined with other social services such as health, nutrition, education and protection,” said UNICEF Representative in Lesotho Dr. Ahmed Magan. “The grants are part of a greater child-sensitive social protection programme that will benefit entire families.”Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-8949281259496041562011-01-18T01:51:00.000-08:002011-01-18T02:36:33.163-08:0025,000 Ivoirian Refugees in Liberia - Food and Water Scarce<style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nine year-old Sanata was home alone when chaos erupted in her village on the western border of Ivory Cost and Liberia.<span style=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Sanata’s parents were working in the fields and her brothers and sisters were out when the neighbours decided to run from the village and across the Nior river into Liberia – a long days walk under a baking sun. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Following the elections in Ivory Coast last November, many villages like Sanata’s experienced confusion, and fear that there would be violence when the two presidential candidates both claimed legitimate victory in early December.<span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Many Iviorians crossed into Liberia as early as 28 November – some seeing continued stalemate and growing aggression in the capital of Abidjan as the dangerous next step to another civil war.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">To date UNHCR has registered Ivoirian 25,088 refugees in Liberia. A report from the Liberian-Ivoirian border For UNICEF (January 2011).</span></p> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwEY01ZXLPhvifxFWtUQmG_qPq-AxDSZ5O2k1Xcw8aI3GN_v-36X0W_dO2sMNtZ3XhuIZqEtFPZf0XL6rnwjA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-5752359652060645742011-01-18T00:44:00.000-08:002011-01-18T01:26:39.730-08:00Children the Key to Adult Literacy in Mozambique<style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1</style><span lang="EN-GB">The legacy of colonization left Mozambique with a staggering 97% illiteracy after independence in 1975.<br /><br /><span style=""> </span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Since then, the government has managed to reduce illiteracy to just under 50% - but the lack of basic reading, writing and arithmetic for much of the population remains an immense challenge for the country's development.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">An innovative programme working with children, however, is turning that around.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A UNESCO Initiative that came about in 2003, the Government has taken the reigns and is now rolling out the programme nationally. Children are taking the lead, teaching their parents a thing or two.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For: <span style="font-weight: bold;">EuroNews: Learning World</span> (Nov/Dec 2011)<br /></span></p> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzv5XyeugP_aoUxSh4sQ4S-5oxaEzDEzy2of8a58tQIZbHvVANCtjNJdVgFedUoQygjT6unSCZMN9OXDQAq1A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-83915093693433179462010-03-17T08:47:00.000-07:002010-03-17T23:36:28.293-07:00Republic of Congo - Refugees from DRC<span style="" lang="FR">In February 2010, UNICEF brought me to the north of Republic of Congo, to report on the situation of refugees. Here are some of the reports from that trip.<br /><br />Republic of Congo - Refugees from DRC flood Likouala<br /><br />The province of Likouala in northern Republic of Congo, is home yet again to tens of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.<span style=""><br /></span><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="FR">The United Nations High Commission for Refugees estimates so far that 117,000 thousand refugees have crossed the Ubangi River from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the Betou and Impfondo districts in the north of the Republic of Congo.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="FR">Many of these refugees<span style=""> </span>were previously in the Republic of Congo for as long as 10 years.<span style=""> </span>They fled the violence of the DRC’s Civil war and continued instability until DRC’s elections in 2006.<span style=""> </span>The United Nations High Commission for Refugees officially completely their repatriation to DRC in 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="FR">But Last October, clashes between the Boba and Lobala ethnic groups over access to farming and fishing rights in the area of Dongo in the DRC has again left many dead, wounded and tens of thousands running back to safety in the Republic of Congo. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;" lang="FR" >While the DRC Government says it is safe to return home,<span style=""> </span>the refugees are doubtful.<span style=""> </span>Yet, living as a Refugee in Republic of Congo, is rife with it’s own challenges.</span><!--EndFragment--><br /><br />You can watch the entire FOCUS programme on this subject on France24<br />In English:<br /><a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20100302-life-in-limbo-for-DRC-refugees" target="_blank">http://www.france24.com/en/<wbr>20100302-life-in-limbo-for-<wbr>DRC-refugees</a><br />In French:<br /><a href="http://www.france24.com/fr/20100302-focus-congo-la-crise-des-refugies-congolais-kinshasa-brazzaville-afrique" target="_blank">http://www.france24.com/fr/<wbr>20100302-focus-congo-la-crise-<wbr>des-refugies-congolais-<wbr>kinshasa-brazzaville-afrique</a><br /><br />Video Produced for France 24:<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxyzydYp1DDTTsM-uimZ0aR6OYLYduXTAi0tdgGAIzEPgysKBL66Xa3nQ-VgApthZ8NiPcVCoFvhR5DnEyCGA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br />Video Produced for UNICEF on the situation of <span style="font-weight: bold;">education for refugee children</span> in Likouala:<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzSR0ZG1KdaaE3N9jH6nEigqyqADuimeSMoGURNMQ0wsyi2JAQ2h0IjEgY5OeqdFI9rqjgtCwiqS_ufZqQA9g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-70280575488196767432009-12-02T22:42:00.000-08:002009-12-02T23:28:49.573-08:00On World AIDS Day, MSF is asking nine drug companies to listen to the millions without access to adequate AIDS treatment. <br /><br />Gilliam 2009<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwDpItTqisputDSAfBPOEDs8U8fxpqP_GbfAY20lLbH1U3NIxwph9dRh-Pn0mu4MiPUGvZIzMcvDHHWyNQuKw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-83422129597148912672009-11-18T04:38:00.000-08:002009-11-18T04:55:58.155-08:00UNICEF celebrates 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.<br />Listen to 20 kids tell us their rights in Cape Town, South Africa!<br /><br />Gilliam/UNICEF 2009<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyCsocSgJJbknmReY_wE-OAOKnP-yRx_Unre4XgPsIfeRXeGi5n88YqpMNdRgHS7R7HO7KqKnTFwOGE3Ttgdw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-88258122727694564252009-11-04T00:56:00.000-08:002009-11-09T13:47:42.021-08:00Kinshasa MusicIn Kinshasa I met up with Mark Nunn and Joe Herrmann recording <i>Ocean de la Clef</i>, a band of young super-talented Kinois, working on a CD addressing various social issues for Christian AID. We collaborated for an afternoon and this is what we came up with. The song is SAVE, and talks about using condoms, but also about general access to medical care to know your status, take your meds and general watch out for yourself. Enjoy the music!<div><br /><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxXa7DLeMOQvt_2evnv0a0ssPMzaYVMg1Di1i1UoLXIKFAMnbNZ-0irEZ1fkaJlczL3cX4EthawUZIul3pppA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-63498708360327233472009-11-04T00:04:00.000-08:002009-11-09T08:24:04.807-08:00Ireland's Dustin the Turkey visits South AfricaHousehold name Dustin the Turkey visited South Africa from Ireland to investigate Early Childhood Development in KwaZuluNatal. The ECD programme of the LETCEE NGO is being used as a best model practice by UNICEF. This was good fun - the kids loved Dustin and KwazuluNatal is breathtaking!<div><br /><div>A piece for UNICEF website and UNIFEED.<div><br /></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyGuPoTH6KOKwpHxzBeK4r9BqCk1sSyKBzIg5Vd8SS6a7SgW95bwI7JzMEOgIaiqBb12HfDKnDNz9pukD1Csw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-77421028535691411822009-07-07T09:13:00.000-07:002009-07-07T09:21:27.490-07:00Cameroon - Silent Emergency<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:13px;"><div>May 2009 trip to Cameroon with UNICEF, a silent emergency in Eastern Cameroon.</div><div><br /></div>On the surface, the Refugee situation in Eastern <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cameroon</span> looks like a success.<span> </span>Since 2002, over 60,000 Central African Refugees have been integrated into Cameroonian communities. <span> </span>There are no refugee camps, and there is a peaceful co-existence between Cameroonian and Central African.<span> </span>These Central African Refugees are fleeing kidnappings and killings by groups of armed men and bandits from various Central African Republic ex-military groups as well as rebels fleeing the Chadian conflict to the North.<span> </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:13px;">Click here to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mUJ0etMhU">Watch the Video</a> on YOUTUBE.</span></div>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-61914829017352479692009-07-07T09:09:00.000-07:002009-07-07T09:13:24.279-07:00Ivory Coast May 2009In May I went to Ivory Coast with UNICEF to cover the Tetanus Vaccination Campaign"<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; ">Sabra Seydou arrived at the Abobo Kennedy clinic in Abidjan with only a few minutes to spare before giving birth. This is her second visit to the Abobo Kennedy clinic in Abidjan since the beginning of her pregnancy. Extreme poverty has meant Sabra could not afford pre-natal tests or consultations. She was however able to have her first vaccination against tetanus, provided free by the Ivoirian government. Her second vaccination, that which would provide immunity against the deadly bacteria for her self and her unborn child, was scheduled for next week.....</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Watch Video on YOUTUBE: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKL1xR5_uw">Tetanus - Ivory Coast </a></span></div><div><br /></div>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-35468360806598395952009-05-06T09:44:00.000-07:002009-05-06T11:07:43.521-07:00Brazilian Dance/Martial Art Capoeira Empowering SA Youth<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Twice a week in some of the more disadvantaged townships around Cape Town, kids between the ages of 8 and 12 are learning Capoeira. The<span style="color:#111111"> dance-martial art from Brazil, which has its roots in African Slavery, is coming back to the continent and is serving as a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>source of development, discipline and self-expression for some of South Africa’s youth. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Times;">For AP Television - Horizons</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dztp8IGq5Z25DfwSTrXCEVzRVehNbjmxIwXbhv8j2sO6TfyaAkoNIjngeUCJRyh4QFExZKcHyZsxZ_TYYN1Tw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-18799453219858531482009-03-31T00:50:00.000-07:002009-03-31T00:57:57.940-07:00New Homes for African Penguins<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:#222222;">The African penguin, also called the jackass because of its bray, is the only one to inhabit the African continent. It has shorter feathers than the Antarctic birds and is just 50 centimeters (20 inches) high.</span> <br /></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:#222222;">Numbers curious creatures have plummeted from around 3 million in the 1930s to just 120,000 because of overfishing and pollution. Some experts fear that the species will become extinct in as little as 11 years.</span> <br /></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:#222222;">Recently 200 specially designed nesting boxes big enough to house a happy family and protect the eggs and fledgling chicks from predators, and above all, from the sweltering African sun. </span> </p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Video by Eva Gilliam for AP (click on link below)</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=12732523&ch=4226714&src=news">Park rangers build homes for penguins facing extinction</a><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br /></p></span>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-75291711598596980702009-03-25T11:27:00.000-07:002009-03-25T12:06:00.026-07:00Organic Gardening in Cape Town's Townships<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px; ">Harvest of Hope is a project of NGO Abalimi Bezekhaya, meaning “Farmers of Home” in Xhosa.<span> </span>Abalimi is an urban agriculture and environmental action association operating in the poor townships of Philippi, Khayelitsha, Nyanga and surrounding areas on the Cape Flats near Cape Town, South Africa. Working with over 2000 individual member gardeners, Abalimi promotes self-sustainability and small, organic gardening practices.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwn461XkRPdUbvnV34fSxvN7yl4eGD5v9t_pkG506--hi5y-oXRFhDkV-5kt_aFH9_7Ua5vmmSnwsRYJiwY5w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-86637725947732226572009-01-21T01:32:00.000-08:002009-01-21T01:45:52.451-08:00Zimbabwean Playwright Jonathan Nkala Tells His Story<span class="featuretext">The World (radio): Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans illegally cross the border into South Africa searching for a better future. But they don't always find one. Many wind up homeless and jobless. Jonathan Nkala has written a play about his experience.<br /><br />(radio) <a href="http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/23804">http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/23804</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span class="featuretext"><br /></span>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914129295686823425.post-3217667429470366572008-12-29T02:53:00.000-08:002009-07-07T12:54:26.269-07:00Proteas - Nature & Industry in SA<span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;">The Cape floral kingdom at the tip of South Africa contains the highest known concentration of plant species in the world. Table Mountain itself, in the center of Cape Town, has over 2200 plant species, more that the entire United Kingdom. The region was given international recognition as South Africa's sixth UN World Heritage site in June last year.<br /><br />The protea is one of the dominant species in this kingdom, and nearly 400 of the world’s 1200 protea species are found here. According to the South African Protea Producers and Exporters (SAPPEX), the protea is a 40 million USD a year industry, with approximately 2000 hectares of land dedicated to protea farming.<br /><br /></span>OON...<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzFPi0M03Db-ev4yD9jVYIVQtorTESRVuMgu_Hycy5SwCak7L9uo3lZZgRIT799v732GnLBjgWHe_TLV1GPTA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Eva Gilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17469599040584728824noreply@blogger.com0