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In partnership with BTCODE, a NGO based in Vietnam, VHI has completed small but high-impact environmental
education projects in Vietnam. BTCODE director was Mr. Vĩnh An
who is also our project officer in Vietnam and caught red-hand in action in
the above picture.
Phase I
aimed
to produce short
films, followed by Phase II dedicated to providing more training
to the media professionals.
In collaboration with National Television (VTV-2 in Hanoi), a series of 14 ten-minute programs
were produced. These series
were aired on the tube from September to December 2000. Six of
these vignettes were reserved for the Cham and Khmer ethnic
minorities and focused on improving their living conditions
within the household and outbound in the fields, using the WIND
methodology (Work Improvement in Neighborhood development)
initiated in Cần Thơ. Topics ranged from family hygiene and
nutrition, waste management, clean water source to sunlight
harvest and environmental friendly field work conditions .
In
2001, we partnered with Vietnam Film Repository in Hồ Chí Minh
City to launch a new Environmental Video Library (EVL). It took
a crew of six persons in Vietnam three months to select,
catalog, and duplicate sixty environmental documentaries that
Mr. Vĩnh An have collected over the years mainly from
Europe with licensing agreements. Since then, this library
has seen an increased patronage: high schools, universities,
institutes, Education Office, Agriculture Office, Environmental
Sciences Office are regular patrons, using the materials to
educate their respective members, among them students of various
schools.
The next logical step was to offer further
training to the willing young television professionals.
Please visit our photo gallery
before we embark on Phase II ! |
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Shooting on Location, Phan Rang: |
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Going into a Cham village, nestled at the foot of the mountains |
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Filming in Phan Rang: On the Road entering |
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the Cham village. |
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The crew taking a break under the star fruit tree of a Cham |
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family home. |
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Resting in Nha Trang: half of the group were the actual working TV crew |
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members; the other half were tags-along, coming from France and the USA |
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Phase II: In 2002, with the
support of Saigon Film Inc. and the Center for Environmental and
Occupational Health and Safety, Cần Thơ, we organized the
"Educational Program Production for Television in Mekong Delta",
a six-week interactive workshop in Hồ Chí Minh City that
includes two follow-up workshops in the following year.
The goals of the workshops are three folds:
(1) sharpen the skills of the TV media staff in
Hồ Chí Minh City
and seven provinces in the Mekong Delta
(2) increase women's role in media
(3) promote long-term cooperation between the seven TV stations
in the Mekong Delta to make quality environmental productions.
Twelve script writers and TV producers attended the workshops
under the mentorship of four instructors:
(1) Mr. Fred Wibono, Chairman, Yogyakarta
Arts Council and Director, PUSKAT Audio Visual Studio,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
(2) Mr. George Martison, Vice President,
Kuangchi Program Services, Taipei, Taiwan
(3) Mr. Andrew Yayamanne, Director &
Producer, Ciné TV Production Training, Sri Lanka
(4) Mr. Augishine Loorthusamy, Director,
Communication Center, Asian Social Institute, Manila,
Philippines
In addition, VHI collaboration elsewhere with Dr. Dương Văn Ni,
Environmental Sciences, Cần Thơ University, led to his group's
support as scientific advisors for this media training program.
Already, four TV stations (Tiền Giang, Cần Thơ, Kiên Giang and
Đồng Tháp) attended the environmental awareness courses taught
by Dr. Ni. Together these four TV stations will produce three
environmental protection education series for the Mekong Delta
farmers in the near future.
Equipped with enhanced skills, gained knowledge, many
workshops participants were confident and enthusiastic about
delivering attractive educational productions. as one put it: "
We want to produce educational programs that our viewers
consider the "must see". We want them to contact us, mail or
call us with their feedback."
Last, but not least, we helped send two TV staff members from
Kiên Giang to further training at Probe Media Foundation three-month class,
Manila, Philippines, a media training program for South East
Asian countries sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation.
This program was supported by individual contributions and a
grant from the New England Biolabs Foundation.
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Workshop: students and instructors. |
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Workshop lab: students learned new computer editing skills. |
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Role play with Instructor Wibono: students learned to be |
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a film director, program editor, sound boom operator... |
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Students practiced interactive interviews at a farmer's home by |
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the Hậu River in the Mekong Delta. |
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Field trip: students practiced novel filming techniques in the Mekong Delta. |
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Probe Media Foundation, Phillipines: the two Kiên Giang students are in the middle, front row. |
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Phú Xuân 
