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SHARING OUR GOOD FORTUNE

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Year
1974
Reference
F3164
Media type
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Rights Information
Year
1974
Reference
F3164
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Production company
Reynolds Television Limited
Credits
Director: Donald B Whyte
Camera: Donald B Whyte
Editor: Maureen Ellis
Script: Sue Potter
Sound: Lindsay Crozier
Narrator: Michael Woolf
Production Assistant: Mary Crozier
Executive Producer: Alfred Harry Reynolds
Executive Producer: D B White

Documentary outlining several aid packages and strategies administered by CORSO (New Zealand) in Fiji, Bangladesh, Thailand and Hong Kong. It examines:

Relief efforts following Hurricane Bibi, which struck Fiji in October 1974.

The introduction of ‘miracle’ high yield rice at the Chandraghona Leprosy Mission Hospital farm in Bangladesh, following Bangladesh’s war of independence with Pakistan.

The Chiang Mai YMCA farm project in rural Thailand, which teaches agricultural methods to young farmers.

The Yang Social Services Centre in Hong Kong, which successfully petitioned the government to relocate local boat people to new apartments, and offers social services to the relocated families.