wra films

Convoy to Kampala
Taking inspiration from Convoy to Cape Town in 2008, a group of young activists from the White Ribbon Alliance – including top Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine – travelled through Uganda using skills in music, art, dance, drama and communication to raise awareness on maternal mortality under the theme "Youth for Safe Motherhood – Play Your Part.” The Convoy was held in honor of the 100th year of International Women's Day in March 2010.
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Voices United for Change
Vibrant new short film to move and inspire action to save mothers lives ...available to all WRA members and supporters.
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Stories of Mothers Saved
The Stories of Mothers Saved film is a collection of individual stories of women who did not die needlessly in pregnancy or childbirth and have lived to tell their stories. Their stories emphasize how families, communities and the government helped to ensure the safety of mothers and babies on all levels by actions such as saving money to secure transportation to the health facility when labor begins, to having access to family planning services, to receiving an emergency caesarean section and to attending a well equipped and staffed facility because the government prioritized maternal and newborn health. This film is part of the Stories of Mothers Saved initiative organized by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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Birth and Death
'Birth and Death' is a short graphic film which highlights the tragedy of maternal death around the world. Simple and moving but powerfully argued, the film exposes a scandal which has been going on for far too long; that women and girls around the world are dying needlessly, leaving millions of orphans and grieving families. The film calls on viewers to take action – and on world leaders to deliver on their promises – to end this global disgrace.
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Igniting a Global Movement for Safe Motherhood: WRA Commemorates 10 Years of Galvanizing Change
Since its inception in 1999, the White Ribbon Alliance has been working to ignite commitment and action to prevent the needless deaths of women and newborns in pregnancy and childbirth. This film celebrates ten years of the tireless commitment of our members in over 140 countries and National Alliances in Africa, Asia and Europe who each play their part to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity.
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Million Mums - Why Mums Matter
Featuring Sarah Brown, Naomi Campbell, Davina McCall, Kylie Minogue, Alexa Chung and many more, Why Mums Matter, by Torie Chilcott at Rockabox Media is a inspirational film to raise awareness and garner support for the White Ribbon Alliance's Million Mums campaign. Please take a minute to watch the film and join the Million Mums campaign and show the world that mothers really matter.
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Mama
This film is dedicated to all our mothers who brought us into the world and to our newborn babies who bring us joy. Kenya's Eric Wainaina sings the traditional ballad of celebration for the birth of a child against the backdrop of Garissa Hospital where women walk many miles across the desert to give birth.
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Every Minute Long
This short film illustrates some of the challenges faced by women around the world to experience healthy pregnancies and give birth safely – and shows how our international movement is pressing for change and putting women on the global agenda.
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Speaking Truth to Power
Aparajita Gogoi, National Alliance Coordinator of the White Ribbon Alliance India, describes the situation millions of women are up against in India – and how citizens are holding their leaders to account to make pregnancy and childbirth safer.
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Stories of Mothers Lost
This film follows the 2008 Promise to Mothers Lost campaign from its inception in London in 2007 at the Stories of Mothers Lost exhibition launch. Fabric panels and film clips illustrating women's stories of death in pregnancy and childbirth, created by White Ribbon Alliance member organizations and individuals from all walks of life from around the world, are featured. This film amplifies their voices and carries them to the ears of world leaders as the Promise to Mothers Lost campaign rallies around international meetings.
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Avec Nous
Avec Nous is a participatory film project that gives a voice to women and men, mothers and fathers, midwives and community activists in one West African country, Burkina Faso-and brings that voice to a global audience.
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Play Your Part
This is a participatory film project that gives a voice to mothers, midwives and children in one African country - and brings those voices to a global audience. Five midwives and a doctor working on the front line of maternal and child heath were trained in film making in order to gather real life stories within their own country of Tanzania.
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Play Your Part - Pop Video
Tanzania's Stara Thomas, our White Ribbon Alliance Ambassador, sings her well known song in Temeke Hospital in Dar es Salaam. Dancing together with mothers, their relatives and health staff, all are (in the words of former President Nyrere) playing their part for to make pregnancy and childbirth safer.
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My Sister, My Self
This short film communicates women's joy in birth and motherhood, as well as their sorrow over the loss of babies, the deaths of sisters, daughters, friends, aunts and cousins. Its vibrant contemporary soundtrack reflects both women's courage and pain.
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Looking Beyond the Numbers
The Film traces the stories of three mothers who died – and of one who only just survived. It reveals not only the devastating impact of a mother's death on her family and community, but how health care workers, hospitals and governments are learning from what went wrong and making positive changes to improve maternal and newborn health.

The process is mapped out by the manual "Beyond The Numbers" (WHO, 2004), which details five ways of reviewing maternal deaths or near misses, and gives practical advice about which to adopt in particular circumstances.

"Whose faces are behind the numbers? What were their stories? What were their dreams? They left behind children and families. They also left behind clues as to why their lives ended so early." (CDC, 2001)

Maternal Death Reviews, pioneered in the UK, are now taking place all over the world. This film shows not only the grief caused by maternal deaths, but the passion and excitement of health care workers who know they are taking action, changing things, saving lives.
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