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Photos and video
We’ll be at the G8 and G20 and have held several events in the months leading up. The following photographs and video are available for download and publication/broadcast. Please credit the images to World Vision.
Video
| June 25: World Vision's "Pregnant with Promises" event hits the town docks in Huntsville during the G8 summit. |
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| We performed our “Pregnant with Promises” event throughout the G8 summit. We encouraged world leaders to “deliver” on their promises to save lives of children and mothers. |
June 24: Event at St. James Cathedral in downtown Toronto. 73MB
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June 24: Event at St. James Cathedral in downtown Toronto. 34MB
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Preview of our “Pregnant with Promises” stunt, to be performed at the G8 and G20 summits. View
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| World Vision works to keep children and mothers healthy. Here is b-roll of one of our programs. |
B-roll of a health clinic in Aceh, Indonesia, serving mothers and babies. World Vision built and helps run it. 309MB
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Photos
| June 25: World Vision served cake at the media centre immediately after Stephen Harper’s G8 announcement, celebrating the news that many more children will turn five. |
L-R: Chris Page of World Vision UK, Minori Tanimura of World Vision Japan, Bob Zachritz of World Vision US, Sue Mbaya of the Africa Regional Office, Marwin Meier of World Vision Germany Download |
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| Parliament Hill event for Mother's Day—Click here for event details |
Agencies united on Parliament Hill May 4, calling for measures to protect mothers and children. Pictured here are: Plan Canada's Rosemary McCarney, Care Canada's Kevin McCort, World Vision's Elly Vandenberg, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health's Dr. Dorothy Shaw, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada's Dr. André Lalonde, Canadian actress Jessica Holmes and the Canadian Association of Midwives' Diane Parkin. Download |
Elly Vandenberg, World Vision's Ottawa Director of Public Affairs, addresses media on Parliament Hill. Canadian actress Jessica Holmes (who recently travelled to Tanzania to visit World Vision projects) is on her left. Download |
Elly Vandenberg and Jessica Holmes prepare to deliver Mother's Day baskets to MPs, asking them to remember mothers in developing countries. Download |
Elly Vandenberg, World Vision's Ottawa Director of Public Affairs. Download |
Two-year-old Aidan delivers a Mother's Day basket to Bev Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, as Canadian Actress Jessica Holmes looks on. Jessica recently travelled to Tanzania to visit World Vision projects. The basket contains chocolates and flowers for Canadian mothers, and safe birthing kits and vitamin supplements for moms in developing countries. Download |
MPs from four parties receive their baskets: Bloc Québécois MP Johanne Deschamps, NDP MP John Rafferty, Minister of International Cooperation Bev Oda and Liberal MP Bob Rae. Download |
Minister of International Cooperation Bev Oda addresses the group. Download |
Minister of International Cooperation Bev Oda addresses the group. Download |
Liberal MP Bob Rae addresses the group. Download |
Liberal MP Bob Rae addresses the group. Download |
| Halifax event on eve of G8 Development Ministers' meeting—Click here for event details |
The World Vision team stopped in a country graveyard en route to Halifax, to photograph baby furniture painted a ghostly white. The furniture was to be showcased at the G8 Development Ministers' meeting. Download |
Welcome to the World Vision event at the Halifax waterfront, on the eve of the meetings. Volunteers, local advocates and families showed up to declare that "Five years is not a child's lifetime". Download |
The ghostly white furniture, representing mothers and children who will not be at the G8, is formed into a giant "5". Download |
Caroline Riseboro, World Vision's Vice President of Public Affairs, discusses the issues. Download |
A young advocate wears the "Five for 5" button. Download |
Children trace their handprints to show their support. Download |
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