Running Free

Running Free A look at how landmine victims are being trained to promote a water hygiene programme in Afghanistan
00.00.29: Military helicopter
00.00.37: Bomber (B-52?) with troops filing in
00.00.45: Destroyed tank on the roadside
00.00.55: Young boys flying a kite
00.01.19: Thunder and lightening storm at night
00.01.32: Panorama of mountain range and village
00.01.55: Street with bicycles and cars
00.02.04: Two Red Cross jeeps next to a well
00.02.36: Interview with one of the local men, with well in background
00.03.00: Women teaching a group of children
00.03.45: Interview with one of the local women
00.04.32: People collecting water from a tanker in the street
00.04.44: Old man and children using water from a hand pump
00.05.05: Destroyed tank - same one, different angle?
00.05.12: Close-up of clean water flowing from hand pump
00.05.49: Man with metal detector, searching for landmines
00.06.03: Close-up of discovered landmine
00.06.16: Children being taught by man in green uniform
00.06.22: Close-up of "The Halo Trust" label on teacher's arm
00.06.43: Interview with two boys
00.06.55: Prosthetic limbs
00.07.00: Clinic for people with lost limbs
00.07.32: Interview with young woman
00.07.47: Young girl with lost leg standing with her father?
00.07.57: Collection of bombs, mortars and rockets
00.08.06: Close-ups of landmines, hand-grenades and mortars
00.08.18: Interview with man - standing in front of mortar collection
00.08.42: Men standing in front of building with green flags flying outside
00.08.51: Graveyard with green flags flying
00.08.58: Interview with man from Red Cross (in English) about: rehabilitating the disabled; training the disabled to work in the clinics; the dangers of landmines; optimism: "It's a place of hope; not a place of sadness."
00.10.27: Interview with woman from Red Cross (in English) about: hygiene promotion programme; able to hire women, which was not possible during the Taliban times
00.11.04: Interview with man in front of well (same as before); asked by interviewer to repeat what he was saying in English: expresses wish to drill another deep well
00.12.24: Interview with young woman (same as 00.03.45); asked by interviewer to repeat what she was saying in English: talks about hygiene promotion programme
00.13.45: Interview with young woman at disability clinic (same as 00.07.32): explains how she lost her leg by stepping on a landmine (with the aid of an interpreter)
00.15.10: Interview with man standing in front of mortar collection: highlights the irony that young children are the victims of mines placed there by their own people during the previous civil war (in English, then his own language)
00.17.35: Women in traditional Muslim dress (faces covered) and children receiving instruction about landmines and unused weapons
00.18.06: End

Produced by Rhys Williams.
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