Videos posted by DFID - UK Department for International Development
Linking children around the world [HD]
DFID's Global School Partnerships scheme promotes partnerships between schools in the UK and schools in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. The programme provides advice and guidance, professional development opportunities and grants to schools that are using partnerships to develop a global dimension to their curriculum. Find out more at:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/dis
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/dis
Saving lives in Sri Lanka [HQ]
DFID Humanitarian advisor Neil Barry reports from northern Sri Lanka on how UK funding is helping some of the 280,000 people who have been displaced by the recent conflict in the region.
Cyclone Nargis: one year on
Cyclone Nargis struck Burma on 2 May 2008, killing over 140,000 people. Find out how we provided desperately needed help to those who survived.
Rwanda - 15 years on: hope beyond HIV [HD]
This film tells the story of Marceline, a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, whose life has also been changed by DFID-funded a five-year, £4.25 million programme. The programme (known as CTP) is helping genocide survivors infected with HIV/AIDS to lead decent, fulfilling lives.
To find out more about how DFID is helping in Rwanda, please visit:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/fig
To find out more about how DFID is helping in Rwanda, please visit:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/fig
Motorbikes and Midwives [HQ]
Having a baby in rural north-western Kenya is a risky business for the expectant mums who live there.
The likelihood of a woman dying in childbirth here is frighteningly high. Across the country, 560 mums die for every 100,000 children - in parts of northwestern Kenya that figure can double. In Britain the rate is around 8 in 100,000.
But there are many ways that aid money is making a big difference here. As part of our wider £50m country programme, we are putting in place newly-trained community health workers, a civic education programme, a new maternity unit, and a new motorbike ambulance service.
The likelihood of a woman dying in childbirth here is frighteningly high. Across the country, 560 mums die for every 100,000 children - in parts of northwestern Kenya that figure can double. In Britain the rate is around 8 in 100,000.
But there are many ways that aid money is making a big difference here. As part of our wider £50m country programme, we are putting in place newly-trained community health workers, a civic education programme, a new maternity unit, and a new motorbike ambulance service.