Kenya: Homeland TV Star Shoots Climate Change Film in Kenya
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07/05/2015
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All Africa
Hollywood actor David Harewood known for playing David Estes, the deputy director of the CIA's Counter-terrorism Centre in the Showtime series Homeland, shot a documentary in Kenya.
David made a film with Cafod, the Catholic Agency For Overseas Development, to raise awareness about climate change.
He told Guardian, "I've worked with Cafod for a number of years as an ambassador, and six years ago I travelled to northern Kenya to see the effects of climate change in the communities there. It was just mile after mile of complete devastation. There were just clouds of orange dust, and we went through village after village and all we saw was dead cattle and dead goats covered in orange dust. Because the entire economy is based on trading cattle it was almost like the equivalent of a stock market crash. There was nothing to trade. And so no money. It was very shocking and humbling. Those people had lived on that land for centuries. Generations had lived there and passed on their traditions and now it was uninhabitable. And it had happened almost overnight."