Carterets video starts doing its job
As some of your know, Luis Patron (my UNU producing colleague) and I have recently returned from filming on the Carteret Islands in PNG. The situation there is terrible. The media has started picking up on the relocation efforts but the islanders still need financial support of about US$2 million to relocate the 125 families. The videobrief we made in collaboration with Nicholas and Tulele Peisa (headed by Ursula Rakmova) has already been viewed by over 48,000 online viewers.
The video got a plug in this treehugger article:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/indigenous-communities-carteret-islands-use-film.php
Ursula from Tulele Peisa recently writes:
“…I was in Tinputz on Wednesday to welcome the first 5 fathers when they arrived from Carterets. I went there again on Sunday last week and they seemed really happy and have been hard at work, cleaning the place and cutting down some more bushes. They are now feeling at home. Their wives and children will come on June 5, 2009 to join them. The governor on Sunday went to present to them a chainsaw which is now helping them to build the houses that are yet to be put up…
For those of you interested here’s the video again:
Tags: Carterets Island, Climate change, unu
