Let's make 2021 and every day an opportunity to Give Peace A Chance!

Did you know that a great video production requires an entire crew of people at times to ensure that every technical aspect of the job is done perfectly?

If you're in the business of video production you would appreciate the fact that regardless of the story being covered, the quality of the end product is equally as important as the actual content or message being conveyed.

As you may or may not know, each member of the crew is also impacted by the story and therefore also have insightful information to share with the world.

The documentary, the Soundman produced by Camerapix in Nairobi, Kenya is a unique perspective of war and conflict through the eyes of a member of the crew in Rwanda during the genocide of 1994 and Operation Restore Hope in 1993, a US led mission to Somalia to end the violence in that country.

The Rwandan Genocide lasted for 100 days. In those 100 days, Hutus killed anywhere between half a million to a million Tutsi civilians. The US mission in Somalia was aimed at rescuing the civilian population in that country from hunger and violence. To this day the humanitarian crisis in Somalia demands serious attention. The civil war in Somalia has had an enormous impact on the health & well-being of the Somali people.

"Covering those events, changed my life. It changed the way I look at peace. It changed the way I look at suffering. It opened my eyes to understand what people are going through when there is no peace. Somalia has been devastated by conflict for the last thirty years. People there are still rebuilding their lives and keep having to rebuild their lives. Rwanda has managed to come out of the genocide in an amazing way, the horrible genocide of the 1994. They've managed to grow into a country that is prosperous and stable. That has a lot to do with the peace process. The fact that they had a leader who was able to take them through that process and Somalia has not had that.

North & South Sudan split eventually, there was a lot of issues with South Sudan and continues to be a lot of economic hardships for the people there. Again, because the process wasn't as easy or as peaceful as they would have liked. This has opened my eyes to how lucky I am and many other people around the world, who have never had to live through events like this in their own countries, who have lived in relative peace, who have a stable government, who have some form of stability in their countries. It's opened my eyes to how lucky we are. We are very simple people. As human beings we want the basic things that we are all entitled to. We want to be able to have a way to earn a living. A dignified way to earn a living. We want to be able to take our children to school safely. We want to have electricity & water and the very basic necessities to go through life. That isn't asking a lot and you can only have that if you have peace in a country, if you have some sort of stability in a country.

When there is upheaval, when there is conflict, all of these things go away and it changes people and changes people's lives forever, so we have to give peace a chance that is the only way we can move forward.

As conflict takes place in different countries it affects those around them, and it's very easy for those conflicts to spread. So give peace a chance always.

Let's make 2021 a year for giving peace a chance." Salim Amin, Chairman, Camerapix.