This is a video that Shawn Willis and I made while out in Dadaab. We are really pleased with the way that it turned out and the way in which it explains what the various NGOs do out in Dadaab, the challenges they face, and how partnering with FilmAid has helped them communicate with the large and diverse refugee population.
We’re doing a video about the challenges of information dissemination between the various organization in Dadaab and the refugee community and how FilmAid is uniquely able to help in that struggle by producing informative videos that can convey life-saving knowledge on a large scale in a a variety of languages.
Saturday was spent drowning in acronyms and interviewing numerous reps from a variety of NGOs here at the camp. Above are some photos I took along the way. The first two are on the outskirts of Dagahaley camp, which is known as Bula Bakti or “place of the corpses.” This is where the refugees have to wait for several weeks before they are processed through the system. The security here is very ineffective, and it is a frequent occurrence to wake up and find a tent destroyed and a woman inside who has been raped in the night. The second two are at the MSF (Doctors Without Borders) medical center, also in Dagahaley, in the malnutrition ward.
More pictures from Dadaab. This time they’re from the town of Dadaab itself, which basically is one block in length with a variety of makeshift structures that offer goods of all sorts.
I’ve found I have a hard time differentiating between these people’s expressions of excitement and agitation. In the picture with the group of women, I thought they were getting up because they were happy I was taking their picture, but when they started throwing sand and yelling at me, I began to get their point.
Really the theme of 75% of these pictures is women being angry at or fleeing from me, which is really the theme for 100% of my actual life.
Today in our filmmaking workshop in Dadaab we watched E.T., which none of the guys had ever seen before. Yesterday we discussed basic screenplay plot development, so I thought we’d use this movie as a way to practice identifying things like the inciting incident, protagonists, plot points, and the climax.
The first and third photos were taken at the moment E.T. and Elliot are flying on the bicycle. It was so fun to experience their reactions throughout, but I was the only one that laughed at the line, “It was nothing like that, penis-breath!” Must have been lost in translation.
Here are some of my first photos out of the refugee camp in Dadaab. This was at an extension of Ifo camp, which was just built less than 2 weeks ago, and is already home to around 10,000 refugees from Somalia. In the second photo, the boy is carrying wooden planks inscribed with classroom lessons, which are used in the school.
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