Uganda 3 … New camera phone!

We sent Silviano the money (£160) for a new camera phone, the old one wasn’t really fit for purpose, and it was very hard for him to use it for the job we’re asking him to do, and also it didn’t plug into a computer in order to upload the files so there was much time and expense wasted in file transfers.

He’s doing a professional job, now he has professional equipment!

Life changing. You can see the episode in full on Compassionate.TV

I consider it ethically flawed to go to places of deep poverty and to document that situation and suffering without actually intervening in it there and then in order to alleviate it as far as possible.

Once there was journalistic value in documenting such poverty in order to ‘bring awareness of it’ to the world. No longer is this a valid line of reasoning.

The world knows. It just doesn’t care.

There is now a saturation of media in and of places of hardship. There is no need to draw attention to it other than to alleviate it, and if you are not willing to alleviate at least some if it whilst standing amongst it filming it, how can anyone else be expected to act other than equally passively.

If you are documenting poverty, without actually doing something, anything, to alleviate it, then it is little more that voyeurism. It is immoral, as would be filming a drowning person but not reaching out to save them in order to draw attention to the plight of people who are drowning.

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