Special Outreach Programmes run by the goinghomedotcom Trust:
Media - GOING HOME VIDEO (GHV)

Going Home Video is a unit of the goinghomedotcom Trust that deals with producing audio visual materials for creating demand reduction through drug abuse awareness using the electronic media.

Going Home Video will also produce audio-visual awareness materials for individuals and organisations who are striving to educate the Kenyan public on the dangers of alcohol and other drug use at subsidised rates. This is in recognition that many such individuals and organisations would like to have their own audio-visual materials tailored for their specific line of awareness, language and target group but that the cost of these productions in Kenya today is beyond their scope.

Thus, Going Home Video will take up a portion of these costs as part of its promotion of awareness in Kenya and to further one of its goals of alerting Kenyans of the great danger present in their midst and some of the harmful policies or lack of enforcement of existing policies which have lead to a drug culture firmly establishing itself in the country especially among the youth. This can only be done by putting the production of these audio-visual materials within reach of as many individuals and organisations who require them. For we strongly believe that it is only through education that the youth (and Kenyans in general) will then be aware of exactly what they are getting into before they start using alcohol and other drugs and thus be able to make an informed choice either way.

Due to the high cost of video editing suites Going Home Video has only succeeded in completing and launching one production entitled Nobody Kicks A Dead Dog, the first in The Recovery Series, in 2002.

However in mid-October 2007 Going Home Video has managed to set up an editing suite at its offices in Hurlingham. The unit will now scale up its video production activities

With the editing suite now set up, production rate will now be stepped up so as to produce more home grown videos which are culturally and realistically more suited to the local audience with content they can easily relate to. Productions will also include training videos which are also relevant to the local scenario and take into consideration local cultural prejudices and myth.

CHALLENGES:

1. Equipment. There is still some equipment, which is sorely needed, but we have been unable to purchase, for both shooting and editing and this forces us to continue hiring and thus hampers our production capability.

HOW YOU CAN PARTICPATE:

1. Donate or purchase the remaining pieces of equipment we need
2. Purchase copies of Nobody Kicks A Dead Dog for your personal use or for use by your institution. This not only creates awareness on alcoholism but it is money from the sale of this video (and others soon being produced) that will keep this unit running and productive.

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