The Movie Hand Held

Hand Held is about a photographer named Michael Carroll who works for a newspaper business in Pepperell, Massachusetts. The newspaper company tells him to go to Romania to take some pictures. When he arrives he finds out that it is a lot worse then he had thought. The children there were very sick and the majority of them were orphans. The nurses at the orphanages had to reuse the syringes to inject the medicine that they needed, so kids there were getting sick even faster than usual. Children were dying almost everyday and the people there couldn't do anything about it. Michael Carroll returned with the photos and they were published in the newspaper. People all over the country who saw the newspaper wanted to try and help in anyway they could. They called Michael and wanted to donate clothes and medicine. Michael went back to Romania to bring the some clothes and other things. After he left, the people who worked in the orphanages took the supplies for themselves and their children. It was pretty bad in Romania during this time and it was all because of their leader Nicolae Ceausescu. The orphans in Romania are taken care of better now because Ceausescu was executed by his citizens in 1989.