TWO members of a Winchester video production team are going to Ethiopia this month to film the work that has taken place over the past 25 years to support orphans and communities devastated by famine and poverty.

Travelling with Nic Yeeles and Eshan Bhati will be Stephen Pomeroy, chief executive of the Garnier Road-based Remarkable Group.

Their specialist video and motion graphics division, Reko, has teamed up with Twenty5 to make a film about how the project has made a difference to the people of Ethiopia.

“This promises to be an incredible film that will capture the great work carried out over the past 25 years and also look at the challenges and projects that lie ahead,”

said Stephen.

Neither Nic nor Ehsan were born when Michael Burke made news headlines around the globe, reporting on the plight of the people living in one of the most ancient countries in the world.

However, both have been inspired by the Twenty5 campaign to do their bit: “We are very excited to be working on this project and, after learning more, we started to think about how, as a generation of young people, we’ve become desensitised to charity pleas,” said Nic.

“We want to create a film that cuts through and shows that there is much to celebrate, thanks to people’s support, and that it works, but that there is still a job to be done and that they can make the difference.

“After all, we are the next generation in the cycle to take on this vital work and help vulnerable communities like those in Ethiopia.”

The film will be launched at a parliamentary reception which Remarkable is organising with St Matthew’s Children’s Fund Ethiopia, whose director, Pete Jones, said: “This is a really important campaign for us and I can’t thank Reko and Remarkable enough for getting involved.

“It takes between two to five years to get a community fully back on its feet so they can go on independently to take care of their own.We have already helped so many Ethiopians in a country where there are still such huge levels of poverty, so we know these programmes work.

“Unfortunately, there are many more communities we have yet to reach and this kind of support allows us to continue this work.”

For more information, visit www.twenty5 ethiopia.org.