Ebola outbreak – B-roll of Aisha Kamara, 32, Nurse and Ebola survivor
Two years following the declaration of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, communities and governments in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are moving into the recovery phase, determined to make their countries stronger before Ebola decimated families, economies and health care systems.
Through its five pillared response, the IFRC, in support of the three affected National Societies, played a key role in helping to bring the outbreak to an end. Thousands of volunteers were involved in contact tracing, case management, beneficiary communications and social mobilization, psychosocial support, and safe and dignified burials (SDB).
Volunteers, survivors, and their families were stigmatized and discriminated against, many kicked out of their homes, or banned from markets.
Aisha Kamara, 32, is a nurse and was working at the government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone when the first case of Ebola surfaced there. She had also treated her father, who tested positive for Ebola. Two weeks after he passed away, Aisha was diagnosed with Ebola. She survived but lost nine family members to Ebola and now, on her own, cares for her own daughter and her sister’s four daughters.
TIMECODE:
00:00 – 00:07 MS of girl cooking over open pot
00:07 – 00:18 CU of stirring pot of rice, and covering pot with lid
00:18 – 00:26 MS of laundry hanging on the line
00:26 – 00:37 MS of two girls getting fire going to cook
00:37 – 00:48 CU of working the fire
00:48 – 00:56 CU of putting pot on fire
00:56 – 01:11 MS of girl wringing out wet laundry and hanging
01:11 – 01:16 CU of the children Aisha now cares for (her daughter and 4 nieces) sitting on the house step
01:16 – 01:23 WS of kids sitting on house step
01:23 – 01:30 MS of some of the kids on the step, coming in and out of the house
01:30 – 01:46 CU of kids coming and going on the step, one starts playing to the camera
01:46 – 01:57 MS of kids on the porch, hanging laundry, dancing
01:57 – 02:04 CU of pot with spoon on lid
02:04 – 02:08 MS of girl sweeping porch
02:08 – 02:16 MS of girl sweeping porch from a different angle
02:16 – 02:30 MS of Aisha cooking
02:30 – 02:40 MS of Aisha cooking with one of the girls
02:40 ENDS