Ledikwe Futures

09/11/2022

https://thebigsmoke.com.au/2022/11/09/timba-cimhff-winner-interviews-jenny-ledikwe-young-phoenix/

Ledikwe Futures and Quihaba Pictures send gratitude to the Canberra Mental Health Film Festival. Thank you for sharing Young Phoenix with Australia. We are honored to receive the "Stop the Stigma" award.

Jenny Ledikwe--Writer, Co-director, Producer
Isaac Marumo--Writer, Co-director
Thebe Gee--Director of Photography
Botswana-UPenn Partnership--Funding
This Is My Brave Australia Inc.

Jenny H Ledikwe discusses her and Isaac Marumo’s new film, Young Phoenix, after the duo received TIMBA/CIMH Film Festival’s Stop Stigma Award.

29/05/2022

We recently spent time at Mmadinare Primary Hospital on a Research Project with UNFPA and MOH investigating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

The health workers at the facility were truly amazing…the vibrancy of the colors on this building are an accurate reflection of their passion and commitment to their community and their patients.

“We should put ourselves in the shoes of our patients and think about how we would want to get services” was how one nurse described her work.

One of the many innovations at this facility was pharmacy decentralization. Medications at health facilities in Botswana are generally managed through a central pharmacy, with all patients queuing together to receive drugs. A novel approach to streamline services, began with a pharmacist and a doctor working together to identify the most common drugs needed for HIV clients and having these dispensed within the HIV Clinic. This simple action, which reduced patient burden for HIV clients and decreased the wait time at the main pharmacy, was expanded to other units to further streamline services.

Always a privilege to document and share .

08/05/2022

And the next film project is loading...this time we are tackling issues related to mental health.


by Ledikwe Futures and Quihaba Pictures with support from the Botswana-UPenn Partnership.