Title:SCENES IN LASHKAR GAH, AFGHANISTAN, JULY 2007 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1239
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Reconstruction activities in Helmand Province.
Description: Local Afghan women from Helmand Province attend a shura (meeting) to learn about the approaches to the stabalisation programme which will be running for the next three years. (English personnel use interpreters to translate to Arabic.)
Voiceover only for edited piece regarding the development and expansion of Camp Bastion. (This includes several retakes and lasts for some 20 minutes.)
Corporal Nicky Botha (British Army) of the Lashkar Gah PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) at work; she is interviewed about the reconstruction operations being carried out in Helmand Province, and talks about various projects already under way. (She is fluent in Pashto and is also employed as an interpreter.)
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1239
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-07-16 2007-07-17
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Punter, Paul (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Botha, Nicky (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)