In June 2001, actress Jane Seymour and eight American schoolchildren from Hawthorne, California, volunteered to go to Africa for a week-long mass measles vaccination campaign in Kenya, sponsored by The Measles Initiative. To help inform the people of the United States of this endeavor, filmmaker James Keach suggested making a documentary of the trip.

By the end of the week, 13,302,991 or 97.9% of Kenyan children between the ages of nine months and 15 years had received measles vaccinations.

To read more about The Measles Initiative, a commitment to eliminate measles deaths in Africa within five years, led by the American Red Cross, UN Foundation, CDC, WHO, UNICEF, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies go to www.measlesinitiative.org/index3.asp

The following segments from the 57-minute documentary are used with permission from The Measles Initiative. This movie is copyrighted and these video clips cannot be used without permission from the copyright holder. If you are interested in obtaining permission to reproduce one of these segments, or wish to buy a copy of the complete movie in video or DVD format, please contact Julie at irbyj@usa.redcross.org