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Kebbi State: The Power of Partnership
This film looks the power of a truly symbiotic relationship between NGO and State as the strive to eliminate River Blindness from Nigeria.
Client: Mectizan Donation Programme
Sector: Global Health
Kebbi State: The Power of Partnership
Client
Mectizan Donation Programme, Sightsavers
Distribution
Company Website + Social Media
Sector
Global Health
Service(s)
Concept Creation + Editing + Filming + International
Location
Nigeria
Director/Camera Operator
Stephen Maud
Editor
Evie Franks
Fixer
Ajeck Mangut
Camera Assistant
Chinedu Igweneme
Photographer
William Nsai
River blindness is a crippling disease that affects people who live at the margins of society, where they don’t have access to clean water, proper medical care or the preventative treatment Mectizan that is donated by Merck.
The work of non-governmental organisations like Sightsavers is key to helping strengthen national health systems in their response to neglected tropical diseases.
This film looks at the power of a truly symbiotic relationship between NGO and State as the strive to eliminate River Blindness from Nigeria.
Kate McCoy from Sightsavers said of this film: “It’s absolutely brilliant, the footage is stunning and the partnerships and different players in delivering oncho work come across so well – congrats!”
Stamp Out Oncho: A Distributor’s Story
Edoa Pierre is a CDD who travels miles and miles every day to distribute Mectizan in Cameroon.
Client: Mectizan Donation Programme
Sector: Global Health
Stamp Out Oncho: A Distributor’s Story
Client
Mectizan Donation Programme
Distribution
Company Website + Social Media
Sector
Global Health
Service(s)
Concept Creation + Concept Led + Drone Operation + Editing + Filming + Graphics & Animation + International + Interview & Documentary + Script Writing + Translations & Transcriptions
Location
Cameroon
Shooting Producer
Lewis Davies
Stamp Out Oncho is a campaign idea that Cloud9Media came up with on behalf of the Mectizan Donation Programme, to galvanise ministers of health around Africa to take an interest in eliminating the crippling and unnecessary disease, onchocerciasis or River Blindness.
The success of the campaign, to get everyone to take Mectizan to protect them from River Blindness, has been enabled by village health workers like Edoa Pierre, one of many community drug distributors who travel miles and miles to deliver Mectizan in communities around Cameroon.
Stamp Out Onchocerciasis!
Riverblindess still affects many across Africa - but there is hope.
Client: Mectizan Donation Programme
Sector: Global Health
Stamp Out Onchocerciasis!
Client
Mectizan Donation Programme
Distribution
Conference Launch
Sector
Global Health
Service(s)
Concept Creation + Drone Operation + Editing + Filming + Graphics & Animation + International + Reversioning + Script Writing + Translations & Transcriptions + Voiceover
Location
Cameroon, Nigeria
Executive Producer
Steve Maud
Shooting Producer Director
Lewis Davies
Photographer (local)
William Nsai
Fixer
Bernard D. Nagmo
Camera Assistant
Alric Davis Ndoko
Editor
Bruna Amaral
Client (MDP)
Joni Lawrence
Getting people to stand up and take action is at the core of the Mectizan Donation Programme’s remit. Especially when the intended audience are Ministers of Health in African countries. This is the first of a series of films intended to get key influencers to commit to putting their name to a 30 year-long elimination programme – ridding Africa of River Blindness or onchocerciasis. If we work together we can stamp out oncho!
We used a local fixer to go in search of stories that were set up in advance of our shooting producer director’s arrival. We then worked with a wonderful local photographer and camera assistant to create a more integrated team and integrate more in to remote and challenging settings.
It started off a relationship with Cameroon and Nigeria that continues to this day, adding to the list of the many African countries that we have ties with.