A team from the Headwind, a documentary film on the issue of exiled Bhutanese, handed over a set of large-size 40 photographs depicting camp life to the camp management committee (CMC) of Beldangi camp last week.
A statement issued Thursday by the Empowerment Foundation (EF) stated that the photographs were handed over to Camp Secretary D.B Subba and his colleagues through a joint effort with the BRAIN (Bhutanese Refugees Association of Intellectual Novas).
The photographs depicting camp life as seen through the lenses of Director and Producer of the film Alice Verheij and Co-director Eveline van de Putte will be available for exhibitions in various places including schools, said the statement.
“On request of the BRAIN representatives, the Headwind production team will make a photo documentary about life of resettled Bhutanese in the Netherlands and bring that exhibition to the camps later this year,” added the statement.
Meanwhile, the Dutch team also supported 12 women, who fasted to death for 12 days in November, with some cash donations that the EF received from the Dutch Nepal Foundation VNN (Vereniging Nederland Nepal).
“Every individual ex hunger striker received an equal amount of funds meant for food support.”
The Headwind is a project of the Empowerment Foundation that will produce a feature length documentary about the Bhutanese refugee issue, life in the camps and during and after resettlement in the Netherlands.
The documentary film has been privately funded by the Director with support from individuals and the Dutch Refugee Council (Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland).
