Swaying, singing, clapping women greet us in a village just outside of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. Punctuating the welcome song makeshift hammers slam into pieces of rock breaking them into smaller pieces for use in construction work. At a distance it sounds like light rain patter; up close the sound is sharp and comes [...]
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what are we doing now that we’re here: Liberia
July 21, 2011 – 8:04 pm
What Took You So Long is in Liberia (not filming camels!) for Foundation for Women (FFW), a microfinance organisation that assists 3,000 women across 12 of Liberia’s 15 counties. We are here to work with Phil Borges, official photographer for UNWomen, and cover a landmark conference: the All Liberian Women’s Summit on August 2nd. It’s [...]
Liberia: a rolling boil
July 19, 2011 – 7:12 pm
We stay 50 metres from the sea on the coast of Liberia. It looks like a storm is rolling in off the sea. Winds rip through short palms and whip up the surface waters of the pool. But there is no storm coming and no one seems particularly worried by the dark clouds. Liberia is [...]
Christmas day disaster
March 7, 2011 – 3:15 pm
25th December, 2010. What did you do on Christmas Day? What day is it? Christmas day. Where am I? Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi, The Desert. What I am doing? Waiting for a sheikh to arrive at a camel festival. I never thought I’d be writing these words. Today has been the best day filming; a [...]
Camels back on top!
March 3, 2011 – 5:46 pm
24th December 2010. Camels: back on top… Christmas Eve for us; a camel race for everyone else. It’s difficult to think of snow and Christmas trees when faced with a line of camels against a sky that blurs with heat into the sand. Dust and noise crowd for space as hundreds of cars hoot and [...]
Taking us home: Al Dhafra Camel Festival
February 23, 2011 – 7:07 pm
23rd December, 2010 - Taking us home: Al Dhafra Camel Festival We spend all of 30 seconds on the side of the road before being picked up by two young men in a huge, white 4×4. We have arrived, in the middle of the Abu Dhabi desert, for Al Dhafra Camel Festival. The boys speak schwei [...]
Six reasons why YOU should be drinking camel’s milk, by Tafline Laylin
February 18, 2011 – 8:03 am
We talk to people about why camel milk is AWESOME every day. One of WTYSL’s favourite writers Tafline Laylin says it simply and accurately HERE and below.. One hump or two? Feisty camels might have a bad rap, but their milk is low in fat, and full of vitamin C and iron. The next thing [...]
Twofour54 interviews WTYSL
February 13, 2011 – 8:49 pm
http://creativelab.twofour54.com/ 13th February, 2011 Film, educate and connect A heady mixture of youth, idealism, pro-activism, social change, travel and film, What Took You So Long (WTYSL) Foundation is passionate about aiding grass-root NGOs around the world via the immediacy and visceral impact of documentaries. Armed with their cameras and their curiosity, the WTYSL crew films [...]
A camel lovin’ story …
February 11, 2011 – 1:01 pm
21st December 2010 This morning we jumped onto a bus in Abu Dhabi and hopped off an hour-and-a-half later in Dubai. Dan has organised a private camel farm visit for us. Asem, Dan’s friend and police administrative officer, picks us up in a large white 4×4, not unlike every other huge white 4×4 that zooms [...]
