In the Field Filming a Video Case Study About Leprosy Elimination in Cambodia for WHO
It was an honour to be contacted by the World Health Organization Western Pacific Office to collaborate with them on another 3-minute case study about the valuable work the WHO does in Cambodia.
I enjoy working on these NGO video projects as they focus on the individual, who often has a remarkable and moving story, while showing the bigger picture of the work that is being done.
This video follows Visal who works as a consultant for National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control.
He works closely with communities to eliminate leprosy.
‘We work with health centre staff, village chiefs and a team of volunteers’, he says. ‘The training we provide is an essential part of the process.’
The education they provide to communities is essential.
‘An important part of what we do is educating people in the community to raise awareness and to make sure they understand about leprosy prevention’, says Visal.
He has leveraged social media to extend the programme’s reach, ‘As most leprosy patients use Facebook, I use Messenger to share information with them’.
As well as working to eliminate leprosy he also supports patients, ‘We trained them to raise chickens. This has helped them to live independently’.
I’m confident that if people like Visal continue the good work they do, Cambodia will achieve it’s goal of eliminating the disease.
Below is the shorter edit of the video I made for social media.