DoGoodFilms first international project since Covid 19 engulfed the world was a feature documentary about the farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Commissioned by Search for Common Ground in February 2020, this project was jinxed from the start. First DoGoodFilms were way too busy filming across the globe and then one by one, countries started shutting down their borders, planes were grounded and world has sunk into a COVID-19-induced hibernation.
Continue reading “BRIDGE ACROSS THE PLATEAU: STRAIGHT OUTA LOCKDOWN”NetHope provides connectivity to Venezuelan migrants in Colombia
WHEN INFORMATION IS PROTECTION
My first foreign job in 2019 was in Colombia with NetHope, a gem of an organization doing everything tech for humanitarians and populations in need anywhere in the world. Last year we spent time with them in Uganda where they supported NGOs responding to the South Sudanese refugee crisis, documented and helped in disaster connectivity training in Panama and hang out with them in cheeky Dublin where they discussed how to apply digital transformation to the humanitarian sector. Recently I met with them in Palu after the Indonesia’s earthquake and in Beira, where they coordinated NGOs connectivity after cyclone Idai. NetHope is both an interface between the tech sector and non-profit community as well as a hard core field team deploying communication technology in disaster zones all over the world. Continue reading “NetHope provides connectivity to Venezuelan migrants in Colombia”
Cyclone Idai March 2019
On March 15, Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast if Mozambique near the coastal city of Beira. It first devastated Beira and the surrounding areas before taking its deadly force further inland to Malawi and Zimbabwe. As it stands, the death toll is around a 1000 with thousands missing and many more in deadly risk of cholera and malaria outbreaks currently wreaking havoc on the impacted communities. Make no mistake, this is textbook climate change. Continue reading “Cyclone Idai March 2019”
SULAWESI EARTHQUAKE OCTOBER 2018
On September 28, 2018, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was struck by 7.5 magnitude earthquake with its epicentre located around 75 km away from provincial capital Palu. the earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc in central Sulawesi, killing at least 2100 people with many more still missing, displaced tens of thousands and forcing them to live in tents in the harsh tropical climate with impeding rain season. Continue reading “SULAWESI EARTHQUAKE OCTOBER 2018”
NetHope Disaster Preparedness Training
A few months ago we were in Panama documenting (and through a cameo appearance as a dodgy journalist even participating) in NetHope Disaster Preparedness Training for NGOs and corporate partners as the hurricane season comes to the Caribbean. Continue reading “NetHope Disaster Preparedness Training”
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