HEALTHCAM GOALS :
- Equip, with basic audiovisual and internet equipment, NGOs and public-health actors involved in healthcare in emerging countries.
- Provide basic audiovisual, new media and communication education to NGOs working in the health sector in these countries.
- Develop local communities’ capacities and ability to conduct prevention and awareness campaigns through best practices by empowering them with this knowledge and learning, with autonomy of these communities in mind.
- Design, write, produce, regroup and promote health-prevention films in developed countries. Part of these projects’ income will be dedicated to projects in low-income countries.
- Sensitize the youth on issues of smoking, marijuana, AIDS, sexuality and, more broadly, on the preservation of the world’s natural resources, especially water.
- Establish a free, wiki-based database for all the associations who have film projects about health, provided that these films are not intended for commercial use.
We
are a newly born association !
The association HealthCam was created on December 9th, 2006 at Casablanca in Morocco, during the first Panafrican Congress on Tobacco or Health.
Cam aspect
With HealthCam, it will be possible to organize a communication network, set up a blog, hire a camera crew or producers suited to quickly design small films about prevention.
HealthCam pursues a challenging goal: to create custom-made training workshops and to gather the required funds necessary to purchase of audio-visual equipment entrusted to NGOs. We are creating partnerships with equipment retailers or brand manufacturers. We also solicit assistance to continue our operations from health-oriented and social-enterpreneur oriented Foundations and institutions. We are also willing to expand our team, if your dream is to share your communication tools with people in dire need of a voice. If you are a filmmaker, a reporter cameraman, or an editor, a journalist or a health advocate, you might want to join HealthCam in sharing your knowledge with the African people.
You want to help to organize a film project?
• Contribute
or
• GIVE a little of your time
Health aspect
The actors in local public health have a great experience in the field and are very motivated. They have a world to save, because the health stakes are enormous among their fellow citizens.
Because many countries don't have tools to inform the population and prevent the disease.
Because most of the developping countries have an high illiteracy rate.
HealthCam offers the possibility to be in contact with international experts and broaden the scope of expertise, by organising North-South exchanges and as soon as possible South-South exchanges. Our first such project concerns epidemiologists and will be on Cancer and Globalization. To share knowledge beyond the research community with the people of the world at large. Check out
Subsidiarity above all.
Learn the modern communication tools to make prevention locally.
• design workshops
• shooting workshops
• edition workshops
To recede the disease with broadcasting it is possible.
Our experience at the level of general public communication campaigns on various health subjects are a wealth to be shared.
Who says IMAGE, says CULTURE.
Films which are made locally, by people who know the culture, the language, are more effective.
To make the actors of the local communities, already specialized in the field of health, make videos about prevention is the best way of guaranteeing a good targeting, a successful message.
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