WHO – Somalia

WHO Somalia commissioned Arete to produce a series of videos documenting its approach to tackling the 2017 outbreak of cholera in Somalia – the worst in years.

We sent videographer Rachel Reed to the country, where she captured WHO’s ongoing activities as well as interviews with those affected by the outbreak. The footage was then edited by our Production Lead, Eden Sparke, with animation elements produced by Lead Designer, James Isgrove.

Four separate videos, each looking at a different aspect of the campaign, were produced, before being combined into a longer-form mini-documentary, as well as being used to produce a 30-second promo video for Twitter.

ClientWHOServicesVideo production and animationYear2017Linkwww.who.int

Part 1: WHO’s Cholera taskforce

This film explores the set up of a cholera taskforce by WHO to deal with the 2017 cholera outbreak.

Part 2: Monitoring the outbreak

This film documents WHO’s creation of a national disease surveillance network in Somalia.

Part 3: Oral Cholera Vaccination campaign

This film looks at WHO’s co-ordination of the largest Oral Cholera Vaccine campaign in Africa.

Part 4: An integrated response to the outbreak

This film shows how WHO used an integrated response to tackle the 2017 cholera outbreak.

Twitter promo

A Twitter promo video for the series of documentaries following WHO’s work to contain the outbreak of cholera in Somalia in 2017.