Global Primary Care

“Mountains of Hope” is a Boston University School of Medicine student-produced documentary that highlights the massive departure of Lesotho’s health care professionals to the Republic of South Africa. It tells the harrowing story of the courageous doctors and nurses who stayed, what they go through on a day-to-day basis, and what is being done to lure more of them back to a place in a dire state of need.

A fourth year medical student at Boston University, Kara-Lee Pool, inspired by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation supported work of the Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance, produced this film to educate her fellow students about the health care challenges faced in resource-constrained settings, to raise general awareness about the situation in Lesotho, and to present a message that will help draw Basotho physicians and nurses back to Lesotho. Director Patrick Christell presents a compelling portrait of Lesotho’s human resource crisis and the people involved in turning it around.

A special screening of this documentary will be shown on Monday, December 10, 2007 at 7:00 pm at Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline. Tickets cost $10 and are available for purchase the Coolidge Corner Theatre box office or website: www.coolidge.org/node/1407.

Below are the people and organizations that made this documentary possible:

Written and Directed by:
Patrick Christell

Produced by:
Kara-Lee Pool

Edited by:
Jessica Reynolds

Director of Photography:
Bryan Koss

Original Music by:
Daryl Pinsdorf
Quatro Manos

Associate Producer:
Lauren Babich, MPH

Assistant Producers:
Jane Simmons
Annie Jack
Teboho Mohlabi
Kathy Schelble
Sonali Padhi
Senate Matete, PhD
Lisebo Tsumane

Translators:
Senate Matete
Teboho Mohlabi

Made possible by generous grants from:
American Medical Association Foundation
Pfizer Inc.
Global Primary Care
Boston University School of Medicine
Sara’s Wish Foundation

Special thanks to:
The Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho
The Lesotho Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance
Partners in Health
Mission Aviation Fellowship
Maluti Adventist Hospital
Queen Elizabeth II Hospital
Leribe Hospital
Tod H. Williams
The People of Lesotho

This film would not have been possible without the support of Boston University and Boston Medical Center operating as the Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance in Lesotho with generous financial support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

This documentary will benefit the activities supported by Global Primary Care.