Date : 11/1991

Country/Region : LIBERIA

Title : Liberia, November 1991

Duration : 00:10:52

Director : SIDLER, Roland

Cameraman : SIDLER, Roland

Editor : unknown

Keyword : SANITATION SUPPLIES; FOOD AID; WATER AND SANITATION; DISABLED PERSON; FAMILY REUNIFICATION; ACTION; CHILD; ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF; THERAPEUTIC FEEDING CENTRE; ORPHANAGE; REPATRIATION

Confidentiality level : public

Publication restrictions : publication without restrictions

Copyright : ICRC

Production company : ICRC

ICRC producer :
none

Description : Family reunion: two Liberian children coming from Ghana, where they had taken refuge in 1990, are brought back to their family by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (1'45).
Drinking water and nutrition centres: the ICRC set up suction pumps on wheels in a village located in the no man's land between Monrovia and Kakata. Food is prepared and distributed at the village's nutrition centre. (2'17'')
Orphans: orphanages in Kakata and Gbanga. The latter houses disabled children, some of whom survived the massacre perpetrated at the Lutherian Church in Monrovia on July 29, 1990. (1'34"")
Distribution of food: arrival of ICRC trucks loaded with rice and other basic products, in the village of Mnein located in the no man's land between Monrovia and Kakata and distribution by the Liberian Red Cross to some 2,500 civilians of the area. (1'34"")
Repatriation of foreign civilians: preparations at the Kakata shelter and departure of the last convoy organised by the ICRC, for 222 Ghanaians who will be repatriated to there country via Ivory Coast. (2'28"")."

Original language : International soundtrack

English title : Liberia, November 1991

Colour/B&W : colour

Original material/format : Betacam SP

Best material/format available : Betacam SP