http://viewchange.org Videos from ViewChange.org (Filtered by topics: Change Makers) en-us Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:30:00 +0000 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/half-the-sky-a-talk-with-nick-kristof New York Times reporter Nick Kristof has been covering gender and poverty issues for decades. His new documentary is called Half the Sky - Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, inspired by his widely acclaimed book of the same name. Speaking at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, Nick talks about the value of investing in women across the globe. Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:30:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/half-the-sky-a-talk-with-nick-kristof Half the Sky, Gender, Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof, Women's rights, Education, Change Makers, South Asia, Latin America, Middle East New York Times reporter Nick Kristof has been covering gender and poverty issues for decades. His new documentary is called Half the Sky - Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, inspired by his widely acclaimed book of the same name. Speaking at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, Nick talks about the value of investing in women across the globe. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/viewchange-unleashing-innovation What is social innovation? Solving some of the world's most pressing problems -- including global poverty and development -- requires innovative thinking, unusual partnerships, and entrepreneurialism. And it's already working. Find out how in Unleashing Innovation. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:28:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/viewchange-unleashing-innovation Social innovation, Technology, Social entrepreneurship, Environment, Water & Sanitation, Change Makers, Foreign Assistance, David Kilcullen, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam >> TITLE: Soccer is the world's most popular sport >> BILL CLINTON: An idea for clean energy that I think it's fair to say hardly anybody else on the planet had ever thought of. >> TITLE: One out of five people live without electricity >> BILL CLINTON: It's quite extraordinary really -- kick a ball, turn on a light. >> TITLE: Thirty minutes of play generates three hours of light >> BILL CLINTON: It's an off-grid solution that gives us a way to bring power and improve quality of life, working capacity, learning capacity. >> TITLE: Soccket: innovate, play, empower >> VOICEOVER: Soccket, and other social innovations, in this ViewChange special. >> VOICEOVER: ViewChange is about people making real progress in tackling the world's toughest issues. Can a story change the world? See for yourself in ViewChange: Unleashing Innovation. >> VOICEOVER: That was Soccket. It's gotten a lot of attention recently, and not just from Bill Clinton. Which isn't surprising: it has all the trappings of a game-changer. Soccket is clever; it's creative; it's relatively cheap; and most of all, it takes on one of the biggest challenges in the developing world -- access to electricity. Soccket is unique, but it's one of a growing number of projects with a similar goal: tackling the world's toughest problems from surprising and inventive new angles. Problems like hunger, disease, clean water, security -- problems that are crying out for a fresh approach. Lynn Taliento from McKinsey & Company's Social Sector Office, and Tom Freston, chairman of the ONE Campaign, are two leaders in this field, which goes by the term "social innovation." It's a field that sits at the nexus of industry, entrepreneurial thinking, and philanthropy. As they explain, understanding social innovation takes some nuance. >> TOM FRESTON [Chairman of the Board, ONE]: Social innovation's sort of a category that wasn't even around ten years ago and has been booming ever since -- and it's really about identifying new ideas, new organizations, new strategies to attack social problems. >> LYNN TALIENTO [Partner, McKinsey & Company]: For me, social innovation is about looking at a social challenge and coming up with different ways to address it. A lot of people think it means coming up with a new technology or a new solution, sort of a point solution. But we see it way broader than that. If you think about it you can come up with a new solution but then you can come up also with a new way to deliver that solution. It might be an old solution that you deliver in a new way. >> TOM FRESTON: It's clearly an area that is growing. We see the White House has a Social Innovation Fund. We see in various countries all kinds of government support. There are all kinds of exciting people doing things. >> LYNN TALIENTO: So, some of the groups that are social innovators are pretty well known to us. Think about (PRODUCT)RED, products you can buy in the stores like the Red Apple iPod. Or think about TOMS Shoes, which many of us wear. Kiva.org, where you can actually make a loan to a micro entrepreneur in another country and get paid back and then reinvest. Or think about Ushahidi, which is revolutionizing crisis communications. >> TOM FRESTON: Ten years ago, if you got out of a good school, there's a good chance you were probably headed to Wall Street. Thirty years ago, if you got out of a good school, there was a good chance you'd want to be an investigative journalist. I think a lot of the bloom is off the rose on the Wall Street, money-making culture, not all of it certainly, but a lot of people are attracted to this realm because it combines their innate desire to do something good along with a possibility to tie it into something innovative in terms of technology, or approach, or so forth. >> LYNN TALIENTO: There's a whole spectrum of social innovation, and it really can be found anywhere. That's really what's so exciting about it. It can be found in labs that are developing new vaccines. It can be found very commonly on the ground in a nonprofit, say a midwifery clinic working with moms to figure out how to deliver their babies more safely. But increasingly it's happening in corporations. Companies are engaging more and more in social issues and figuring out how to use their supply chains, their people, their skills to address a social issue in a location where they're operating. >> VOICEOVER: So where does this "spectrum of innovation" begin and end? From the smallest villages to the world's top tech labs, these innovators are changing the face of their industries. Here are four short films, entered in McKinsey's Social Innovation Video Contest, pushing the boundaries of the expected around the world. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> WOMAN: As I watch my child sleep, I feel a sense of inner peace. I will do everything to protect him, and I want to always be there to give him unconditional love. But the day my child was born, the only thing I wanted was to help him live. >> TITLE: Twenty million low-birth weight and premature babies are born every year around the world, 450 every hour >> VOICEOVER: One of the biggest problems these babies face is staying warm, but traditional incubators cost thousands of dollars. The Embrace infant warmer is a simple solution to this problem. Embrace consists of three parts: a sleeping bag, a heater, and a pouch of phase-change material. Once heated, the phase-change material is placed into a compartment in the sleeping bag. The product stays warm without electricity, and allows for close mother-to-child interaction. Embrace's mission is to give every infant a chance for a healthy life. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> VOICEOVER: You may already know the story. Uganda, plagued by a twenty-five year long war. Two million people displaced, left homeless, jobless, and desperate. But when we actually went to Uganda, our perspective changed. We met women with names and stories. Women who are ready to step forward and get a fresh start. The identity of 31 Bits was born, combining creativity with recycled paper to make incredible jewelry. We realized that we had a market, and they had a skill. Together, we made a business. We believe true economic sustainability is a result of holistic care, enabling a person financially, spiritually, mentally, and physically. After four years in our program, a woman has an education, a career, confidence, and a voice. She is empowered to rise above poverty. >> TITLE: Buy a necklace. Share their story. Give hope. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> MIKE LIN [Founder & CEO, Fenix International Inc.] With over 1.6 billion people without access to power, we need scalable solutions. The name Fenix comes from the mythical bird, and it's about rebirth and renewal. And we're focusing on renewable energy for frontier markets. The Fenix ReadySet system is a renewable power center that can charge from virtually anything. It can charge from solar, it can charge from a bicycle generator that we've developed, and it can even charge off the grid. We aim to reach massive scale, installing megawatts, gigawatts of power, in areas that never had access to energy. An entrepreneur can use the ReadySet system to power a small business, they can charge cell phones and they can power lights at night so they can keep their stores open longer and generate new, meaningful income. We're hoping to actually innovate a new business model where we're thinking about people, prosperity, and the planet. We're hoping to address not just the environmental issues but also improve the quality of life for billions of people around the world. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> TITLE: Meet Kamala. Kamala and her mother spend hours every day collecting water for their family. This leaves little time for school, for play, or for work. One billion people on the planet lack reliable access to safe water. This means they must travel at least half a mile to reach a safe water source. Transporting water is time consuming. Average time spent = 25 percent of a woman's day. Water is heavy. Five gallons = 42 pounds, or one piece of checked luggage. People need at least five gallons of water per day to stay healthy and hydrated. Kamala and her mother struggle to meet their family's daily water needs. Would you rather be the woman on the right, or a woman on the left? Wello is a social venture with a bold mission: to deliver clean water to a thirsty world. Now that they have a Wello WaterWheel, Kamala and her mother spend their time in more productive ways. This gives Kamala and her family a chance at a better future. In a single trip, one WaterWheel delivers enough water for an entire family. By re-imagining the water crisis as an opportunity, Wello has reinvented the wheel. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> VOICEOVER: Those are only four of many stories happening around the world. Meanwhile, governments and aid groups have been targeting challenges like water and electricity access, and children's health, for almost a century. Lots of progress has been made, but there's plenty of room for more. Problems this deeply entrenched require more than just another look. They need a whole new outlook. >> LYNN TALIENTO: If we're going to solve some of these increasingly complex social issues we definitely need fresh thinking. We need unusual suspects if you will. We need people who haven't spent their lives necessarily thinking about social issues but who have talents and capabilities in areas like gaming, or design thinking, or financial engineering to put their talents to work to solve these issues. The essence of social innovation is finding new solutions to old problems. >> VOICEOVER: Consider the case of Mozambique, the site of a severe landmine problem. Leftover from a 16-year civil war, the mines are a national menace. Untold thousands remain hidden. Bart Weetjens, a Belgian engineer, studied traditional demining methods and found them dangerous, expensive, and slow. And that's when he tried enlisting the help of an indigenous ally. This ViewChange film has the story. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> TITLE: Bomb Squad Rats >> VOICEOVER: Here in Mozambique, the Cricetomys gambianus, or, as it's better known, the African giant pouched rat, is no longer feared or reviled. >> ALBERT ZACHARIA: Mostly in our African culture, rats are considered as a useless animal. So, at first when I heard that rats are being used for demining, I didn't believe it. >> VOICEOVER: Here at this rat training camp in Chokwe, near the Limpopo River, these furry heroes are going through their final training. When the rats detect some explosive, they indicate by scratching the ground. The trainers then make a clicking noise to let them know they can return for a reward. >> ANDREW SULLY [Program Manager, Apopo]: What we are trying to do is here the rats are an African solution to an African problem. >> VOICEOVER: Andrew Sully works for Apopo, the Belgian NGO that runs the rat program. He says the inspiration came from scientific work dating back decades. >> ANDREW SULLY: Well, rats have actually been used for the detection of explosives for many, many years. I mean, there were experiments using laboratory rats back in the 1950s if not before that. >> VOICEOVER: Putting that research into practice hasn't been easy, and each rat takes two years to train. But they have some distinct advantages over their canine counterparts. Unlike sniffer dogs, they're loyal to food, rather than one particular trainer. And they can also be more effective on windy days, like today. Demining teams have spent more than a decade trying to clear Mozambique of land mines. Millions of them were laid during the ten-year fight for independence and the two decades of civil war that followed. Today, the rat team is on its way to the former garrison village of Hate-Hate. >> ANDREW SULLY: From the initial surveys that have been done I think there have been at least five or six mine accidents in this sort of horseshoe shape which was the mined area around the barracks. >> VOICEOVER: Alfredo Adamo gave up his job as a schoolteacher to work with the rats, and he's proud of his new career. >> ALFREDO ADAMO: Because I know every time we find a mine and we destroy it, I know if it continued there something bad should happen, either to a person or to an animal, actual cattle or whatever. >> VOICEOVER: The area the de-miners are working in today lies either side of a track leading down to a borehole, the area's main water source. >> VENDELINE SHIRIMA: So they put mines in this area in order to protect those local people inside here. >> VOICEOVER: By the end of today's shift, they've already found two live land mines. The final job of the day is to safely detonate the rat's haul. >> CERVEZA: It's TNT, almost all of it. There's 150 grams. This is the detonator. >> VOICEOVER: It's slow and painstaking work, but bit by bit, Mozambique is being cleared of land mines, and it's all thanks to the work of man's new best friend. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> VOICEOVER: So far, the organization has cleared more than 2,700 explosives in Mozambique's Gaza province. And it plans to make the area completely mine-free this year. Apopo is one of three demining groups in Mozambique today, and they've branched out to Thailand and Tanzania too. This new approach was met with skepticism at first, but the rats have proven themselves worthy allies. The United Nations, many governments, and foundations support the program. And the rats themselves? Like any specialist, they're subject to regular testing. >> VOICEOVER: So who are the social innovators of today? It turns out; they come from some pretty unlikely fields. Professionals in areas like engineering, design, and finance are realizing that they too can make headway on social causes. That's a powerful discovery. Enter design thinking -- usually something that pertains to things like art and architecture. But as Dave Kilcullen and his team at Caerus Associates know, it's a way of engaging social problems, too. Kilcullen has been an advisor to the Bush and Obama administrations, aid groups, and governments around the world, but he is best known for his work in postwar reconstruction. In his bestselling books, Kilcullen shows how social challenges require the same kind of engineering. And the most important part of design thinking for social problems? Understanding the local environment, and the local issues. >> DR. DAVID KILCULLEN [CEO, Caerus Associates]: I founded Caerus with a bunch of like-minded people, with the objective of identifying ways to solve complex problems, things like poverty, urban overstretch, energy shortage, and particularly conflict, understanding how those problems overlap and figuring out simple design-based solutions to resolving them. Design thinking is a way of thinking about problems, and it's a way of bringing in the environment where something's going to be used. And the people that are going to use it, and the system within which it's embedded, and wrapping all of that up into the production of a particular type of thing, an object or a product, or a service. I'll give you an example. Things that are happening in the rural areas around cities lead people to move into urban environments. And the urban environment can't handle the people that are now putting pressure on its infrastructure. And you end up with what we call peri-urban areas, so slums and shantytowns and a variety of different unplanned development happening around the outside of preexisting cities. So you can intervene to make things better by looking at the cluster of urban problems that result from that movement. And what we try to do is look at it as a whole system, and think where we can intervene in concert with local populations together. People talk about making things population-centric, but often we just pay lip service to that. We treat the population like she's a silent movie heroine tied to a railway track, and the bad guys are driving the train down the track. And she's like, "Help me!" You know, and we say, you know, "hang on, we'll rescue you." Our experience is it doesn't really work like that. You actually have to, no kidding, treat the population like they're the principal actor. They are the clients, and you have to work with them as an architect would work with a client to design a solution that really meets their needs. >> VOICEOVER: So what happens when smart design is applied to a tough problem? Look no further than the latrines of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The city is saddled with an overtaxed sewage system and thousands of overflowing pit latrines. But some engineers in Colorado have designed a solution that mitigates the need for central sewers, while also reducing disease. It's a clean answer to a messy question. This ViewChange film explains. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> TITLE: The Gulper, Rockhopper TV, Tanzania >> VOICEOVER: Only ten percent of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's biggest city, is connected to the central sewage system. Eighty percent of the city's population lives in settlements that have sprung up without planning permission. They rely on a huge number of smelly, dirty and unsafe latrines. But a solution is at hand. Meet "The Gulper." These motor tricycles, and the equipment they carry, are transforming the way pit latrines are emptied here. In the past, sewage often ended up contaminating water supplies, particularly during the rainy season. >> ERNEST MAMUYA [Environment Health Officer]: You wouldn't get surprised if you were finding fecal matter rolling with the storm water. It was common. In those areas, we had a problem of widespread cholera and other infections related to the disposal of waste. >> VOICEOVER: The Gulper is designed to reach customers who live down even the narrowest streets. >> JULIUS CHISSENGO: We have gloves, masks, helmets, and gum boots. Then, when we arrive, we assess the toilet for any risks. >> VOICEOVER: Many of the latrines are unsafe because of the old way of emptying them. >> JULIUS CHISSENGO: We used to completely demolish the toilet to drain it. The owners would get upset because it was completely broken. >> VOICEOVER: Julius used to earn his living this way, and saw how dangerous it could be. >> JULIUS CHISSENGO: There was one time when our colleague died because the toilet collapsed in on him and covered him completely. >> VOICEOVER: It's The Gulper's pump that has made life safer and cleaner for Julius. It's not motorized, so it's easy to maintain. It's cheap and, above all, it's effective -- he can clean up to six latrines a day. All the sewage is removed, and very little spills on the ground. >> JULIUS CHISSENGO: We have a container that can hold fifty liters. We usually drain into this, and when it is full, we put it on a motorbike. Then we take it to a place specially designated to pour it all away, and that is that. >> VOICEOVER: There's another way the Gulper has made life sweeter for Julius: he's paid better. Yet customers pay less for the Gulper's services. And it's this affordability that's key to improving health for everyone living in the unplanned settlements. The more sewage that gets dumped centrally, the less risk there is to local people. Cholera is not the only disease in decline. >> ERNEST MAMUYA: The Gulper is getting rid of intestinal diseases: strongoloids, hookworms, tapeworms. There's a reduction of typhoid, amoebic dysentery. If the coverage increases, we are sure of reducing these infections quite a lot. >> TITLE: ViewChange >> VOICEOVER: Mobile sewers, super rats, and electric soccer balls. It's an almost unbelievable spectrum of ingenuity. But all these projects are very real. They're the result of business savvy; of irreverence toward the expected; and of design meeting need. Projects like these are turning aid work on its head, and turning heads in the business world too. That's the promise of social innovation. It's redefining the power of creativity in social causes, and it's blurring of the lines between what's good business, and what's just good. >> VOICEOVER: Want to learn more about innovation, design, or anything else you saw here? Head over to ViewChange.org/TV, where you could watch, read, and get involved in projects that are making a real difference. Watch the films you just saw, and over 400 more from around the world, at ViewChange.org/TV. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-entrepreneurs Florence, Esnart, Ng'andwe and Precious all come from backgrounds of extreme poverty in rural Zambia. They've embarked on five months of intensive training in leadership and enterprise. With courage and determination, these young women defy the odds and establish their own successful businesses, proving that anything is possible. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:41:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-entrepreneurs Zambia, Social entrepreneurship, Gender, Sub-Saharan Africa, Microfinance, Education, Social change, 10,000 Women, Mpika, Entrepreneurship >> TITLE: Camfed presents: A See Change Films Production, in collaboration with Goldman Sachs, 10,000 Women Initiative, and The University of Cambridge.>> TITLE: 150 young women from rural Zambia, from backgrounds of extreme rural poverty, are coming together to undertake an intensive training course. Over the next five months they will be taught leadership skills, social entrepreneurship, and how to become successful businesswomen. >> SIGN: Lubwe High School Educaiton Board>> TITLE: The Entrepreneurs>> BENJAMIN CHAMA [Camfed Zambia]: Lubwe is a rural community with no source of employment except for the fishing and maybe peasant farming. So I think that there isn't any money to go around. We would like to empower rural people through education, because I believe with all my heart that it is only through the giving of education that we can change the poverty cycle in our country.>> BARBARA CHILANGWA [Camfed Zambia]: Welcome all of you again, I know I welcomed you yesterday but I would also like to welcome you in a special way this morning because this now marks the beginning of this very precious course to all of us, because it is the first of its kind in Zambia. >> WOMAN 1: As you've heard already, they've introduced the Camfed program and our learning objective is to empower the young rural girls just like yourselves so that you don't have to struggle. Everyone, you are expected to write one expectation that you hope to achieve at the end of the three weeks. I want to learn how to start a business and to be a leader of different people. >> WOMAN 2: With the expectations you've given me I can predict you are ready to learn, isn't it? >> CATHERINE BOYCE [Course Leader]: The overarching theme of the course is leadership. People have to believe in themselves and their ability to affect change, to have the skills, to have the confidence, to have the vision to look around them and see opportunities where previously they had seen none. >> WOMAN 3: When choosing a leader, we have to see that this person has the qualities of a leader in them. >> WOMAN 4: Am I going to be a director? That is a leader who has a vision ahead of them. >> WOMAN 5: A leader must be honest, a leader must be with good behavior, and communicate. That's all. >> WOMAN 4: Why did you draw a picture of a man instead of a picture of a woman? Because we have taught you that we are leaders, I am also a leader, you are also leaders.>> BARBARA CHILANGWA: These young women will draw men as leaders because that is what they have known all their lives. At the family level, it is the father who is the leader. At school, it's mostly male teachers that are leaders and head teachers. So what this course will do is that it will break that perception. The communities will see for themselves that women can do the job and can do it well. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI [Trainer]: Good morning ladies. >> WOMEN: Good morning. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: How are you? >> WOMEN: Fine. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: So, today we are going to talk about our rivers of life. Each one of you should be able to write your rivers of life, should indicate on your river of life the worst things that have happened in your lives, and also the good things that happened in your life. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: In one of the sessions that we had with the young women, we were talking about the river of life so that people can come out of their situations. They can be very free to express themselves and also to share with others what they are going through. >> WOMAN 1: My life was going very good and fantastic. My father was working, my mother was not working. In 1996, my father died and my river started going down. >> WOMAN 2: And he has no money to pay for my school fees and buy my school uniform and he was telling me, "It's better you get married than to go to grade 8, me I don't have money." >> WOMAN 3: And I passed but I couldn't manage to go to grade 8 because my parents, they only cultivate. >> BARBARA CHILANGWA: The women in our program, the 150 of them, come from very difficult backgrounds. Most of them, I can say almost 80 percent of these girls will have lost either one parent or both parents.>> FLORENCE [Student]: My name is Florence and this is the river of my life. I was born in 1990. And in 1997 my dad passed away. He died. In 1998, I started staying with my mom. We only survived by using the money that dad left. And in 2001, my mom died also.>> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: They think that when they are coming from poor families, that's the end of their lives. So my role here is just to empower girls to be able to believe in themselves and also to feel like they can do something about it. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: Then my river started going down in 2001. That's when my father passed away. And when he died -->> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: When my dad died life was so difficult for us because my mother couldn't support us. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: I'll always remember this year, when my river went down and the water was even too cold for me. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: When I was working with Camfed, I was able to go back to school again because education is the only key to success. My dream was to bring back the life we used to enjoy with my father. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: And then I managed to build by mother a very big house that she's so proud of. And I'm also happy. I managed to build my mother that house when I was 22 years old. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: Now I know that there are a lot of challenges that the young women are facing, that the rural people are facing, so I want to become a Member of Parliament one day, and I know I'm going to become one. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: You can also do it. Despite where you are coming from, the sky is not the limit. If you just believe in yourself that you can do it, you can do it. If you've got that zeal and the self-determination to believe in yourself, and you know that one day you are going to achieve whatever your dreams will be, you are going to excel, and you are going to achieve that, okay?>> WINNIE FARAO [Social Entrepreneur]: The poverty that was haunting our families would just not allow us to go to school. We were not supposed to be educated and we were not supposed to look at ourselves as leaders, but as subordinate. The fact that we were not supposed to get any opportunities to go to school, but we got it, then we have to use it and use it to the maximum. >> WINNIE FARAO: As a social entrepreneur, this is what I think I can go and do in my community. This is how I think I can go and make an impact. >> WOMAN: For me, what I can do as a leader, I should first join the group like Cama (Camfed alumni group) and then support those people who are in need. >> WINNIE FARAO: I feel that it is very, very important for the young women to understand social entrepreneurship and to understand business entrepreneurship, because the world that we are living in today, the young women and the communities that they come from, they are the best persons to deal with the challenges that they are facing everyday. For a long time, communities were not able to deal with their own challenges because there were no energetic young people to lead that process. >> TITLE: To help students find solutions to challenges in the community, a group of international social entrepreneurs are assisting on a number of issues. One of these issues is overfishing. >> ANNA OURSLER [Global Footprint Network]: The numbers of fish in the lake are reducing because so many people are taking them. We are going to learn how to be a scientist, and really look through our own eyes at what is happening in the waters and with the fish at Lake Bangweulu. We're going to take three data points and measure all of these things because we are doing a study to see if we can put a fish cage, an aquaculture fish cage, in the middle of the lake where we can grow and harvest fish. They've gone through about ten different scientific experiments to measure the qualities of water, which is something that all of them learned and can now do perfectly. The results will actually be submitted to the government, to the Ministry of Natural Resources, as part of an environmental assessment. So I think in their confidence there has been a real change, but also their skills, their technical skills about how to be a scientist, how to take scientific measurements. >> PRECIOUS [Student]: I'm Precious. We used to live in Kitwe. In 2001, mom died, then after a few years dad also died. Then we started living with dad's older brother. After living there for about a year, he started treating us badly. We couldn't touch our books, we weren't allowed to. Instead we were told to start doing housework. We had to do all the housework while his children were in the bedroom reading. So that was a very big problem. I found that that problem just got bigger, so that's how we came here to live with grandma, dad's mom. My grandma is very old. Sometimes she is not able to work for very long. She can't go to the field and work for a long time. But we help her cultivate, when we go to the field we cultivate. Apparently, someone explained my problem to my headmaster. That's when I came under Camfed's support. After this, the teacher who was our mentor told me, "Precious, you should remain behind and attend this course that will teach you about social entrepreneurship." I couldn't believe it. I just started crying because I didn't expect that I could have such luck. >> ALAN JACKSON [Aptivate ICT Trainer]: What we'd like to talk about now is just to find out what experience you all have with IT. >> WOMAN: I don't know anything about computers. >> ALAN JACKSON: So the four of you have never used a computer before?>> ALAN JACKSON: We have to start sort of at the beginning. Here are some computers, here's how you put them together. Here's how they work, here's how you make your network of computers work, here's how you connect to the Internet, here's how you find out if something's wrong. There are a lot of cultural adjustments, a lot of things we take for granted that of course they will have had no experience of. >> PENELOPE [IT Teacher Trainee]: Before the beginning of this course I didn't have any experience with computers. We were just learning about computers, that they exist. But this is the first time I came across a computer, using it on my own. >> ALAN JACKSON: We're working with a small group, a group of four young women who will be running the resource center after this training course. >> PENELOPE: It is connected to the Internet. And that thing that you are seeing there, that's where the position of the satellite is. >> ALAN JACKSON: I think that they're getting the right flavor, or spirit, of IT, that they're going to be able to fix things themselves, they are going to be able to find out things for themselves. They are going to be quite empowered by this technology, and hopefully then empower a community with that same spirit. >> FLORENCE: I'm excited. Before, I never knew how to type anything on the computer, but today I've learned something I think. >> MATILDA [Student, 20 years old]:: You can also sell your goods through the computer. Me, I would love to know how they buy, like when they say, "I bought this through a computer." I would like to know how they buy things through a computer. >> NG'ANDWE [Student, Age 18]: Because my item is sugar, how can someone get their sugar from the computer? When we started learning, I'm telling you, it was interesting. And the studies were very different from what I was thinking so it was very interesting, and I even learned many things: how to be a social entrepreneur, how to help people, even this time I'm a role model in our community. I think I'll be teaching my fellow youths and the young ones and those who are in school. When I was in grade 2, in 1998, my father passed away. The way of living started changing, it was very difficult. When my dad passed away, it was very difficult for us to find books, pens, even the money to pay for our school fees. But my mom was a hardworking mother, so she was fighting for us. When the results come out and if I do well, I'm thinking of studying law. I'm thinking of studying law because a lot of people who have done law are men, so I want to be one of the few women lawyers so that I can fight for people's rights and women's rights. At least in law I will not be the way I am in this time, I think I'll be someone. >> LUNGOWE CHISHINGA [Human Rights Lawyer]: Why am I telling you these technical things? Because I want you to that if you are going to claim your rights, you need to know two things. One: where is that right guaranteed? Walia and Stephen have been married for three years, and they have two sons. So she's a 17-year-old girl who is a child and is a mother of two children. Is this strange? Do we find 17-year-olds in our communities that are mothers? >> BARBARA CHILANGWA: Most Zambian women grow up not knowing that they actually have rights. Most parents, especially when girls become of age at about the age of 15 for example, they already begin to consider them ready for marriage. >> LUNGOWE CHISHINGA: So you tell me, are any of Walia's rights violated? My lawyers, what rights are violated? >> FLORENCE: Choosing, a right of choice. >> BARBARA CHILANGWA: So we believe that ensuring that focus on a program that brings to their attention that they actually have rights about their own sexuality and their lives will change the way, first of all, that they now relate to members of the community, to their husbands, the members of their family, in the sense that they will go out there believing that they have rights and that no one should trample on their rights. >> WOMAN: My question is, for example, I'm a married woman and then my husband is committing adultery. I decide to consult the elders, and then the elders say, "A man's adultery does not ruin the home." Yet it is contributing to the risk of being exposed to many diseases. What step can I take? >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: There are a lot of myths surrounding women having sex, so I thought maybe I should speak about sexuality to the 150 women so they understand that they have the right to make choices about when they should have sex and who they should have sex with. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: Especially for us parents, it's very difficult to talk about sexuality to you at your age. I want to tell you, I come from a very big family. There were 11: five girls in my family and six boys. Today, I don't have any sisters; they are all dead from the HIV/AIDS virus. Only three of my brothers are alive. Perhaps if there had been condoms, they would have used condoms and today I would be seeing them. >> ESNART [Student, 19 years old]: I was just shocked by what he said, it brought a shiver down my spine and I thought like, maybe if there was someone, someone like us today, young leaders who would have talked to those people, maybe if they knew them, it would have been possible for them to be alive this day. I think now that we are not vulnerable because we've got more information about HIV and AIDS, and we know our rights also. I have to tell the other people, letting them know how dangerous this disease is. I was born in 1990, I used to stay with my biological mom and when she died I came to stay with my mom's older sister. She's my mom now. Her husband died when I was still at school. I've got three brothers and four sisters. I love them so much. Such that when I complete I just want them to have a good future. Before my mom died, she took my real father to victim support, but he didn't respond still. He just stays in Mansa there, but he works, yes. But I don't know why he doesn't support me. I don't know why he just doesn't care for me. Sometimes when I'm sitting I just dream that I wish I could have a big house where we could all live together, just give my family the life that they've always wanted. >> WOMAN: How are we going to get the overall risk? We can get the overall risk by multiplying the likelihood of the event by the size of the effect of the event. >> MAN: You are managing your projects, and you need to understand the project lifecycle and the project chart, which is a tool that will help guide you through whether you are progressing in a particular project or not. >> CATHERINE BOYCE: Training in financial management is a key part of the program. Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge is one of our partners for designing and actually delivering this program. The MBAT actually drew on resources, on tools, and on models for learning that are actually used by MBA students all around the world. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: We are all business ladies here, isn't it? And we are fully empowered with the skills and knowledge to be able to run our businesses successfully. We've learnt a lot of things: advertising, we've learnt about marketing, we've learnt about record keeping and everything. So we are fully empowered as young women in Mpika district to be able to deliver and run our successful businesses. Okay, between now and next week we should be able to plan on which business we want to engage ourselves in as we go back to our communities. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: Today we are going to do market research in Mansa district. In my group they have identified to do communication business, which they are very excited about. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: On average, how many cards are you able to sell in a day? >> WOMAN 1: I make 2 million K (USD$400).>> WOMAN 2: You make a lot of profit, oh my goodness!>> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: She's the only woman we have interviewed so far out of 11 men, just one woman. One of the things that she said was that this business was being run by men mostly, so she's very much excited to see the girls actually coming up with this brilliant idea for them to be able to set up their own businesses. So she's actually very much inspired by the girls.>> TITLE: After carrying out market research, all 19 groups found gaps in the market for social and business enterprises. >> NG'ANDWE: This is our business plan. The total cash inflow will be 1,100,000 in month one. >> CATHERINE BOYCE: We're introducing them to the business planning side: how to do a cash flow, how to financially plan expenditure and income over the time period. And they're actually preparing those plans right now and presenting them tomorrow morning in a competition. >> MATILDA: Our mission statement is as follows: to make communication accessible to all -->> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: We're doing very fine. So far the girls are practicing their presentation for tomorrow and they are very, very excited with all the brilliant ideas they've come up with. I think they are going to be winners because they worked very hard for this and they are very excited. We can't wait, we are so excited!>> MATILDA: I know that the competition will be quite tough, but I think at least we will manage to do something, I'm thinking we'll be the first ones. >> FLORENCE: How are you feeling? >> WOMAN 2: I'm feeling a bit nervous because I'll be presenting the market research plan to a lot of people in the plenary. >> FLORENCE: I'm also feeling nervous. The reason why I'm feeling nervous is because there will be judges and there will be a lot of people that side. Tonight we are going to write the mission statement. >> TITLE: Competition Day. If successful, each group will receive funding to start their own business or social enterprise.>> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: Hi ladies! Are you ready for today? I just want to encourage you to feel confidence and believe in yourselves, and just know that you can do it, because all of us have different projects, and I believe your project is the best! So just show them that. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: Okay, thank you very much everybody. This is a very special day. We have got our judges table there, and we are going to start immediately with group 12. >> WOMAN 1: And the name of our communication business is "Beyond Vision Communication" (BVC). >> MATILDA: This is our mission statement. We will be making sure that everyone access communication.>> ESNART: The current situation in Mpika is very worrying in the sense that there is an increase in child abuse, child labor, and street children. Our mission statement will be to provide vulnerable children age two to six years with basic education and good nutrition. >> WOMAN 2: We are going to open a restaurant by the name "Big Sisters." The restaurant will offer nshima, rice, chicken, beef, sausages, vegetables, kapenta, chips and bread with eggs. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: Let's give them a big hand. >> WOMAN 3: Our goal is to raise awareness in young women against sexual exploitation. >> NG'ANDWE: Us, "Future Fighters," have decided to undertake two projects respectively. One group will take hardware as a business project and the other group will take advocacy for persons with disabilities. >> FLORENCE: This is our budget; this is the description, number of days, quantity, unit cost and amount. >> MWANGALA MUKELABAI: What inspired you to go into advocacy? >> WOMAN 5: It's through education that people will know about the dangers of HIV/AIDS. We will be able to eradicate ignorance in Zambia. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: You've all done tremendously well, I think, in the various presentations. So we deserve a pat on the back ourselves, so we shall give ourselves a good hand for what we have done. >> NG'ANDWE: Before I presented I was feeling -- I even started shivering. But when I went to the stage I came up with that courage, I felt something. Then, it went just okay. >> TITLE: All 19 groups were successful in receiving funding to start their new enterprises. The 150 entrepreneurs will now return to their communities for four months. >> FLORENCE: I never imagined that I would be a business entrepreneur in my life at this tender age. When I start having my own money, first of all I'll start helping my family, I'll be buying food for my family, then clothes. I'll be helping other children in the community, I'll be a role model to them and people will be happy about it because maybe other people never used to think that I can do it but now I can.>> TITLE: Four months later. The entrepreneurs are returning to Lubwe for the final stage of their training. >> CATHERINE BOYCE: We weren't quite sure how far the young women would get with their projects, and what we found was that every single project team created a brilliant business plan, they set up a bank account, they managed their funds, and they all achieved impact, which was going to be one of the themes of the course, the impact that they achieved. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: This is a very beautiful morning and a very important day, just like any other day. Now, today we are going to display what we were doing in Phase Two. We are going to set up stalls, all those skills that we learned to persuade. The first half of the team will be going around and will be sticking stars to what they think is the value. >> FLORENCE: As you can see, this is our group name and number on that side. That?s the Kakabalika group 13, and the profit that we made was K200 thousand (USD$40). This is our financial records book. We are planning to continue this project because we've actually made profit. >> ESNART: I think everyone is doing a great job and everyone is putting in effort because it takes a lot of guts for someone to come up with something like this. I'm really impressed with everyone, I think they are all doing great. >> CATHERINE BOYCE: We actually have 19 separate enterprises: we have a preschool for vulnerable children, a loan scheme, we have three different groups communicating about the importance of education to young girls. We have several retail enterprises selling secondhand clothes, selling groceries, and selling mobile phone talk time. Huge diversity of enterprises. >> WOMAN 1: What are some of the impacts?>> WOMAN 2: You are going a long distance to buy talk time. For instance, here we have brought talk time very near, you are buying talk-time within the school. >> WOMAN 3: I think the group is so good and they've got pride and confidence. I think they are making a lot of profit since they are girls selling talk time. >> WOMAN 4: What we wish to achieve, especially in the rural community in Mpika, we want people to have big businesses. We want them to have big businesses, we want their businesses to grow, we don't want people to be staying home, and we want them to take their children to school. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: I've been going around to look at their projects, and I feel great about the achievement that they've made. I'm simply bowled over. I don't even have words to describe what I have seen, the amazing things that they were able to do: the financial records they were able to keep, and also the products, the impact that it has had on this society I think is indelible. I think it's fantastic. >> TITLE: One month earlier, back in their communities. Mpika Microfinance Scheme. >> PETRONELLA [Managing Director]: Our business is a business where we give loans on low rates so that everyone is able to afford to pay back. We decided to embark on this venture because we saw that most women were really vulnerable in Mpika, they couldn't manage. So we wanted to upgrade their standards of living. Some of them wanted to upgrade their businesses because we saw that some people had the passion for business. At the moment we are supporting eight women. We have eight clients. Each woman had a K200 thousand (USD$40) loan. >> PETRONELLA: Hello, how is work going? >> WOMAN 2: It's all right. >> WOMAN 1: How are you? >> WOMAN 2: I'm fine. >> PETRONELLA: We've come to see how your business is going, what you are doing, how far you've come, and how you've used the money we gave you towards your business? >> WOMAN 2: I feel very good about the loan you gave me. There is a difference in that in the past I didn't have a business, I wasn't selling anything. Now I am selling goods and I am making money. I am able to solve a lot of my problems on my own. >> PETRONELLA: Would you like to receive another loan? If so, how much more would you like to receive? >> WOMAN 2: I would like much more. Make it big; make it K1.5 million (USD$300). >> PETRONELLA: K1.5 million (USD$300)!>> WOMAN 2: Yes. >> WOMAN 1: Will you manage to pay us back quickly, with interest? >> WOMAN 2: I will do so very well! Very quickly! Easily with interest on top!>> PETRONELLA: And if you fail to pay back, what should we do to you? >> WOMAN 2: We will agree on what should be done. >> PETRONELLA: All right. >> WOMAN 2: I wouldn't fail to pay you back. >> PETRONELLA: How do you feel about all this? >> WOMAN 2: I feel joyful. >> WOMAN 1: Thank you. >> WOMAN 2: I thank you too. >> PETRONELLA: Our plan is that we'll get a loan from Microbankers Trust. We are planning to get a loan of maybe K5 million (USD$1,000) so we support fifteen women. And from that I think our business will keep on growing and the profits that we'll be making, we'll be giving to more women. >> WOMAN: I decided to use the loan you gave me together with my profit to buy my own sewing machine. So I bought a sewing machine. Also, that profit is helping me because I'm now able to pay my children's school fees. >> PETRONELLA: I feel very proud and I'm very happy that I'm able to solve big people's problems, women's problems. >> BARBARA CHILANGWA: They have had hands on practice, I think, by designing their projects, which they did. They have tried them out; they went and launched them themselves in the communities, in communities, where, before this program, they were looked down upon. >> PRECIOUS [Company Secretary, BVC]: As of now, I am in a position to take care of my grandmother because of our business we are doing, I'm not even nervous about my future, I'm just looking forward to it so that I can have my own bright future now. >> BARBARA CHILANGWA: They'll be received very well; they'll be accepted back in their communities because they will have proved the point that women are capable of leading programs, they're capable of solving problems, and they're capable of playing a role in the development of their communities. >> TITLE: The Great Ones Preschool>> ESNART: Our social enterprise is opening up a preschool for vulnerable children and our objectives are to teach 30 to 60 children in the first term. And when we teach them we aim at letting them know why basic education is important. >> ESNART: What's a preschool? >> CHILD: A preschool is a place where children are taken to be taught how to read, how to write, and how to count numbers, how to be disciplined. >> CHILDREN: Well done, well done, such a good girl. >> ESNART: It's also very good for a child to go to a preschool because it builds up a foundation. When that child goes to grade 1, that child will be able to count, write numbers, and that child will be very active. It's very interesting to explore a child's mind, just how they develop, how they learn, you just start remembering your childhood and it was very interesting and so inspiring and it made be proud. The children that we've enrolled here mainly are from vulnerable backgrounds, backgrounds where we find that their parents are dead; we find that they don't have all that much to sustain themselves. That's why if this preschool didn't exist these children would just be roaming around. >> WOMAN: Preschools that are here are private, but us here, we provide them with books, pencils, crayons and uniforms. Then they should just pay a certain amount, maybe if that parent can't afford to bring money and then that parent is a farmer or something like that, they can bring anything in terms of crops like maize, millet, cassava, or groundnuts. >> ESNART: And it's not always that all the children pay, it's not everyone who pays, and we don't chase those children away who don't pay. We allow them to learn because we are giving them an opportunity to shape up their future. >> WOMAN: I didn't know I could run a preschool for vulnerable children, helping vulnerable children and maybe in the future I could do more than we are doing to develop my country and maybe develop my community. A lot of people say that, "If you are poor, there is nothing you can do in the future." What I have learned is that even if you are poor, you can do something in your life. At least in the future, you can learn and you can become somebody one day. >> TITLE: Graduation>> BENJAMIN CHAMA: My prayer is that these 150 women will continue with the social enterprise, with the business skills that they have acquired. I know that we cannot just leave them like this. They will need support from all of us because this is a big thing that we have built, we have given them hope and the belief that they are able to do something on their own. >> BARBARA CHILANGWA: Good afternoon leaders. I overheard one of you talking, I don't think they knew that I was listening: "Now that this thing is finishing, what am I going to do?" There is no reason for any of you to despair. Camfed is committed to assisting you to get into that college of your choice.>> BARBARA CHILANGWA: We will support them if they decide to carry on with the projects that they have established, we will support them if they decide to go to college, we will support them in many ways to ensure that they have the independence that we want for all of them. >> ESNART: Yes, I feel that I'm a leader and I'm an entrepreneur. Firstly, I'll start by saying that I'm a leader because I know that leadership is not about leading everybody, like maybe in front, telling them, giving them orders, no. Leadership is about being who you are, being passionate about what you do, and also making others feel important, also knowing that you depend on other people for your success. And leadership is about working hard with others, being committed, and teamwork. I also believe that I'm an entrepreneur because I'm able to start up my own business, I'm able to run it smoothly, know whether I'm succeeding or I'm failing in my business. I think my future really holds so many things for me. I just feel that I will really achieve so many things. >> TITLE: Ng'andwe is working as an assistant IT trainer in the new IT Resource Center in Samfy. Next year she plans to study Social Work. Precious continues to grow Beyond Vision Communications. She uses the money she earns from her business to help support her family. Florence is studying Gender and Development Studies at the Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts. She is proud to be one of the youngest female Managing Directors in her community. Esnart is now studying to become an accountant at the Zambian Institute of Management, Lusaka. "The Great Ones Preschool" is currently educating 68 vulnerable children. Since graduation, Camfed has supported the entrepreneurs with business mentoring and bursaries for Higher Education. In December, another 150 young women from rural Zambia will embark on the next Leadership and Enterprise course. Camfed International and the University of Cambridge - particularly the Cambridge Assessment Group and Judge Business School - collaborated to design this Leadership and Enterprise Training Program, which is implemented in Zambia by Camfed. The Goldman Sachs Charitable Fund and The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative made this program possible through their generous sponsorship. Camfed supports the education of girls and young women's empowerment in Africa. For more information about Camfed please visit www.camfed.org. >> TITLE: [End credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/viewchange-one-good-idea <strong>"ViewChange: One Good Idea"</strong> presents four stories about individuals and organizations who are taking on the biggest global challenges:<br /><br /><strong>India's Free Lunch</strong>&nbsp; Since 2001, all Indian primary schools have provided pupils with a free midday meal. Since then, truancy rates have dropped and child health is soaring. <br /><br /><strong>Project Peanut Butter</strong>&nbsp; In Malawi, children with malnutrition are being given a radical new treatment that is cheap and very effective: fortified peanut butter. Best of all, mothers can administer the ready-to-use food at home, eliminating the need for hospital stays.<br /><br /><strong>Banking on Change</strong>&nbsp; J.S. Parthibhan is a bank manager with a difference: he's interested in people, not numbers. Through micro loans, he's helping villagers in rural areas of India develop a sense of entrepreneurship and self-respect. <br /><br /><strong>Vidiyal</strong>&nbsp; Village women in Tamil Nadu are using mobile phones and computer technology in innovative ways to benefit their agriculture-based businesses. <br /><br />Watch on NDTV Profit or profit.ndtv.com Saturday 10pm / Sunday 5pm IST.<br /> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:26:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/viewchange-one-good-idea India, Agriculture & Food, Microfinance, Technology, Change Makers, Malnutrition, Malawi, Link TV Presents the World, NDTV Profit, Poverty Big problems versus a little inspiration...a surprisingly fair fight. See what happens in India, Malawi, or anywhere else, when you take one good idea, big or small, and run with it. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/element-emmanuel From Lost Boy to international rap star, Emmanuel Jal's story has taken an incredible turn. He's using his newfound platform to push for an end to conflict, hunger, and poverty in his native Sudan. Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:42:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/element-emmanuel Sudan, Emmanuel Jal, Southern Sudan, Millennium Development Goals, Lost Boys of Sudan, Ethnic conflict, Africa, Change Makers, Civil war, Poverty >> TITLE: Element>> TITLE: Child soldier, Sudan>> EMMANUEL JAL: I was born in a war zone, wanting revenge and to fight. I planned an escape. We walked a distance of three months, but there was no water to drink, there was no food to eat. Wild animals ate other people. I was dependent on vultures; those were the points where I was tempted to eat a human being. The number of people that I believe survived was twelve. Then I got rescued. Emma was a British aid worker, she smuggled me into Kenya, just like it is done in the movies. I was a Lost Boy, but I was found. Later she died in a car crash. Life wasn't easy so I started doing music. >> TITLE: London, UK>> EMMANUEL JAL: People need to hear what I have to say. I survived, that means I'm here for a purpose. >> TITLE: Emmanuel>> TITLE: Millennium Development Goal #1: Wipe out extreme poverty and hunger>> EMMANUEL JAL: Poverty is caused by conflict, when people are displaced from where they make their own food. They have no way to survive, so they become a refugee. I have taken a campaign to fight poverty from my own level in Africa. When I came here I found many other organizations that are willing to help Africa and the rest of the world. If one person tries, then another person joins, just like a journey of 1,000 meters begins with one step. >> EMMANUEL JAL: I'm going to a refugee camp. I normally go there to work with them and try to inspire them and show them that I was a refugee, but now things are different. I want to give them hope to continue. >> TITLE: Refugee Council, London, UK>> EMMANUEL JAL: Many young people have talents and have dreams. They are refugees like me. When they see me, and they read my story, they know, "This guy was a refugee, and he has managed to reach this far." So to them it's a challenge.>> EMMANUEL JAL: You have the possibility to actually make it in life and be someone. You guys are here for a purpose, and this is a cry for all of us. >> EMMANUEL JAL: I never thought that I would be at this point. I've lost my childhood, and I've seen so many terrible things. But now, despite my sad story, things are becoming different. >> MAN: Please give it up for the fabulous Emmanuel Jal!>> TITLE: Live 8 Concert, England, July 2nd, 2005>> EMMANUEL JAL: Thousands of people didn't like what was happening to Africa. They wanted fair trade, debt forgiveness, and they wanted more aid. The people decided to do that, and now their government is taking it into action. >> TITLE: Millennium Development Goal #8: More aid, fair trade, debt relief>> EMMANUEL JAL: We still have a chance to change the world, but it has to begin with one person. If people are willing to do so, it will happen. >> TITLE: Millennium Development Goals: eight goals for a better world by 2015. Every one counts. www.element-tv.net. Element. For more information, please visit: http://www.tve.org. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-south-africa-finding-grace Seventy-four year-old Ma Grace Masuku is a community health worker with a mission. She works with young women in South Africa's rural areas, passing on the traditional knowledge she learned from her grandmother to encourage entrepreneurship and self-respect. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-south-africa-finding-grace South Africa, Education, Africa, Poverty reduction, Gender, Change Makers, Poverty, Health, LinkTV Picks, tve >> TITLE: Why Women Count>> TITLE: South Africa has one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. Yet, 150 women are raped every day and one in five young women die of AIDS.>> MA GRACE MASUKU: You know, we are so rural, if we don't just stand up and do things for ourselves, we will die. >> TITLE: Finding Grace>> MALE RADIO PRESENTER: In New York City, as we approach twelve noon, you are tuned to listener-supported, commercial-free community radio WBAI.>> FEMALE RADIO PRESENTER: Our guest, Ma Grace Masuku, is a widely recognized traditionalist, environmentalist, and community worker. Ma Grace, welcome to Global Medicine Review.>> MA GRACE MASUKU: Thanks. I come from South Africa, and in South Africa when you grow up you grow up with the grandmothers. As people got more sophisticated and educated I remembered my grandmother. And I said, "I'm not going to die without [passing on] this education." So I started what I call traditional conservation clubs in schools. Come closer and have a look at this. This is the best measles cure you have on this earth. It gets all the viruses and all the bacteria out of your system. I think in the past we had our hands tied, because we were not allowed to think. We had to toe the line all the time. But today you can do anything. >> TEACHER: You may start typing.>> MA GRACE MASUKU: Women have come out now with mighty talents that we did not think of. That's your main challenge. The challenge is to create sustainable livelihoods. I bring women together and we hear from other women about what they are doing in their communities. We tap into the experience of the women there -- what they do best. And what is important is that it's not something that she copied, it's something within her culture. These women, without a salary from anyone, are running this road safety creche. And they are dipping into their own pension money to keep the creche running. They give the children food. They wash the children. That is the most significant thing about these women. They are just wonderful. They are just wonderful. Mrs. Mbeki asked us to start what she calls a caravan where we go into a community and stay for a time, to help them start projects. It is always the woman who brings light. This is the sign of the sun and the moon and this home has got light. And then when the projects are firm and we can see that they are well established, then we can move on to another province. Because that is the only way you are going to fight poverty and unemployment in South Africa. I don't think there is any other country that has even passed a law that encourages everybody to have women as entrepreneurs, as whatever.>> MALE RADIO PRESENTER: Well, we're slowly winding down here. Ma Grace, please, any closing words for us?>> MA GRACE MASUKU: When you come to South Africa, don't come as a tourist. Come to the village! Let me take you to other old women. Get exposed to Africa itself. Sit with us in the evening and see how we mentor the young children and prove to you that what I say is not myth, and that Africa is still Africa.>> MALE RADIO PRESENTER: You've been listening to our special guest from South Africa, Ma Grace Masuku.>> TITLE: [End credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-13-face-off The tumultuous first season of Imani FC's existence has boiled down to this, the championship game. They must put all that they have learned about perseverance and teamwork together into one full match of stellar play to win against all odds. Do they have what it takes? Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:33:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-13-face-off Kenya, Education, Ethnic conflict, Ethnic group, Gender, Change Makers, The Team: Kenya, search for common ground, Soccer, LinkTV Picks >> KEZIA: Tina, sorry.>> TINA: They say there is no evidence. How would I have known?>> KEZIA: Are you sure you would be in a position to play today?s game?>> TINA: Why wouldn't I?>> KEZIA: Are you sure?>> TINA: We have to go and win that tournament. Anyway, let me get ready so we can go to the game, okay?>> KEZIA: Okay, don?t worry.>> JUMA: Hi Abbas. I?m talking to you Abbas. Abbas, I?m talking to you.>> COACH: Team, we have a game today, a major game. It is the final. Let's go out there and win. The journey to get here has not been easy. We started as a group of individuals, but now we're a team. It's true we've had our ups and downs, but now this is the crucial moment, the time we've all been waiting for. So guys, I want you to go out there and give it your best shot. All right? All right, team?>> TEAM: Yes, coach.>> BEN: I have something, for Priest.>> MR. BUKENYA: Quick! Look organized, the press in on their way. Why the armbands? >> JOHARI: It's in memory of Priest.>> MR. BUKENYA: But he died under suspicious circumstances.>> OLI: Priest was one of us.>> KEZIA: We are not going to play without the armbands.>> MR. BUKENYA: Coach, you will let them behave like this?>> COACH: Ben, give me an armband.>> BETH: Me too.>> MR. BUKENYA: Armband. Thank you, members of the press, for coming. >> JUMA: Are you playing today? I?m talking to you Abbas. Aren't you playing today? >> ABBAS: I don't think so.>> JUMA: Why not?>> ABBAS: I resigned in disgrace, as you so like to remind me.>> JUMA: Don?t you think you?re teammates need you more now that your friend is dead? You know Abbas, if I were you I?d go out and play that match and help your team.>> MR. BUKENYA: I?d like to take this opportunity to inform you that though we've lost a crucial member of the team, the players have agreed to play this match in memory of -->> BETH: Pristiera Mukwanja.>> MR. BUKENYA: Yes, of him. Even in this time of pain and sadness, Imani Co-ed Football Team will make sure it plays this game to the best ability possible, isn?t it?>> TEAM: Yes.>> MR. BUKENYA: That will be all. Thank you very much.>> MAN 1: One question please. >> MR. BUKENYA: That will be all. Thank you.>> COACH: Tighten the midfield. Tighten! Song, Song!>> BETH: I'll have to substitute you.>> KEZIA: I can play.>> BETH: You could end up damaging your foot completely.>> KEZIA: I'm going to play.>> BETH: Even against my advice?>> COACH: Beth, How's she doing?>> KEZIA: I'm fine!>> BETH: Not good.>> KEZIA: Come on coach, you know we have to win this game and we cannot win it by playing a defensive game. Coach, all the players left on the bench are all defenders.>> COACH: Doctor, you think she can hold until the end? >> DOCTOR: If it's well bandaged, yes.>> COACH: All right, do what you must. When I first started coaching this team, I knew I was in trouble. Big trouble. Today, when I watch you play, I realize how far you've come, how much we?ve invested both as individuals and as a team. I am proud to be your coach.>> BEN: I wish Abbas were here. We would have shown this team who they're messing with.>> COACH: That is probably true, but we have to depend on who we have now. All right? All right team?>> TEAM: Yes coach.>> COACH: Johari.>> JOHARI: Okay guys, let's gather around. On the count of three: one for Priest and one for Imani. One, two, three. Who is this game for?>> TEAM: Priest!>> JOHARI: Who are the best footballers ever?>> TEAM: Imani FC!>> SONG: All right guys, lets go to it.>> MOTHER: How can you disrespect me so much?>> COACH: Mother, what are you talking about?>> MOTHER: You kicked me out of your house so Johari can continue being captain?>> COACH: But Ma, she is a good captain.>> MOTHER: A good captain and yet they have already been beaten two to zero? I told you, people of that tribe are not people you work with.>> LULU: Grandma, Dad isn't like that, he doesn't believe in all this tribe business.>> MOTHER: We know what they did to your mom. We will not forgive them nor accept them.>> LULU: Dad already has.>> MOTHER: You're too young to understand this, and do not speak to me like that.>> LULU: He paid the hospital bill for Kezia's brother.>> MOTHER: What did he do?>> KEZIA: It was you? You paid for my bill? You paid for my brother's bill.>> LULU: I told you!>> KEZIA: But why?>> COACH: Kezia, just go play; we?ll talk after the match.>> KEZIA: Thank you coach.>> MOTHER: You even went ahead and paid hospital bills for one of them! >> COACH: This has to stop right now. For how long will we blame each other?>> MOTHER: For how long? How long? These people, we cannot accept them.>> LULU: Why Grandma, what did Johari ever do to you? Or Kezia's brother?>> MOTHER: You are too young to understand what is going on, do you hear me? >> LULU: Why grandma because, it's the truth? If we all focus on being different tribes, what makes us Kenyans? Sorry Dad.>> COACH: No, it's okay Lulu. She had to be told the truth. And I?m glad it came from you. Now let's go to the pitch and win.>> COACH: Abbas, what a surprise! >> ABBAS: Coach, let me play. Please.>> COACH: Well, it doesn?t depend on me. It depends on them.>> ABBAS: I?m so sorry about everything. Please let me back.>> JUMA: What's he doing? Go Abbas, go!>> COACH: Team, I am proud of you. I am proud of you all and the way you played. You showed excellent team spirit. Despite all that was going on against you, you played a superb match. It is a pity that we lost and even I don?t know the fate of this team. Just know I am honored to have been your coach, and given the chance, I would coach you guys any day.>> BETH: I?m also please to have worked with you. I grew a lot during this whole process and I think -->> MR. BUKENYA: That was unbelievable, guys! I?ve never been that entertained in my whole life! That was awesome. >> MR. BUKENYA: Attention, attention. Thank you. I have an announcement to make. I think I?d rather let our technical director Mr. "Ghost" Mulee make it. >> JACOB "GHOST" MULEE: Thank you Mr. Bukenya. I would like to announce that after very careful scrutiny of the match records, the board that runs the league has decided to award Imani FC the "Best Sportsmanship Award.? That?s not all. You are also qualified for the next championship. I think you should all be proud of this achievement.>> MR. BUKENYA: Why the long faces? To add to that, I have decided that I will sponsor the team for the next season. All right, all right. Settle down. And coach, what do you have to say to that.>> COACH: Thank you, thank you.>> MR. BUKENYA: Congratulations. Can we get applause for that please? >> COACH: So, how many of you will be with us in the next championship?>> BETH: Well, I really don't think that?s the kind of decision we want to make right now. Let?s party. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-12-challenging-moments Still reeling from Priest's murder, Imani FC must begin the process of grieving while dealing with the trial of the policeman who assaulted Tina. Will these challenging moments bring them together as a team? Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:07:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-12-challenging-moments Kenya, Gender, Ethnic conflict, Ethnic group, The Team: Kenya, Change Makers, Education, LinkTV Picks, search for common ground, Priest >> KEZIA: What?s up bro! You look fat.>> RODEZ: I?m okay, have I grown fat?>> KEZIA: Why have you grown this fat?>> RODEZ: It?s this bad hospital food.>> KEZIA: Come on, you look fine.>> RODEZ: And I feel better too! But you? You don?t look very well. What?s up?>> KEZIA: It?s Priest. He?s dead. Murdered.>> RODEZ: I?m so sorry Kezia.>> KEZIA: And to make matters worst, I hear he was involved in crime. He lied to us, all of us. I?ll never forgive him. Never!>> RODEZ: Kezia, being here in the hospital has made me appreciate life. And life is too short to hold grudges.>> KEZIA: I know, but it?s hard.>> RODEZ: He lied to you, fine, that was wrong. But his behavior to you was one of a friend. That?s all that matters. Remember the good and forgive the bad.>> KEZIA: I know, but it?s hard.>> RODEZ: I know. Now what have you brought for me, hospital food is terrible. >> KEZIA: I have just remembered that I have to go somewhere. But this will make you happy.>> BEN: You did nothing. The biggest match of our lives is coming soon, and you make it worst by being a lousy player.>> OLI: Me? Come on man, you weren?t passing the ball to anybody.>> BEN: You suck.>> OLI: What?>> TINA: Boys, relax! Stop fighting, okay? I have a plan. Get up quickly, come here. Okay guys; for the sake of Priest let?s take a moment of silence. >> OLI: Okay. Thank you so much everybody. So, what was your plan?>> TINA: My plan is very simple. This thing of blaming each other when we get off the field is not good. We have come here as a team. Is that true? >> TEAM: It?s true.>> TINA: Okay good. For the team: One! Two! Three! Team! >> TEAM: Team! >> TINA: Someone to go and call coach and Beth.>> COACH: What?s that for Tina?>> TINA: This is for writing all the things we liked about Priest and what we like about teammates.>> PRIEST: Hey my guys, now what about this showoff plan of ours? Someone cannot spill the flour while looking. You ladies are the ones selling us off. If you don?t want to meet head on with someone who has the ball then there is nothing you are doing on the pitch.>> TINA: Then why don?t you just become a goalkeeper?>> PRIEST: Why would someone steal from us? Give us our money then we?ll give you your practice.>> TEAM: Give us our money and we?ll give you you?re practice. Give us our money and we?ll give you you?re practice.>> JOHARI: Are you crazy?>> PRIEST: People haven?t been paid. These people don?t respect us, so we shouldn?t respect them. Coach, you can?t handle this incident it is over you by nine feet. Pay us or we?ll pay you. >> PRIEST: Coach, we were all afraid. By that time people were dancing to the music, sir. >> COACH: What else would they be dancing to?>> PRIEST: Yes, the music, the music.>> PREACHER: God's people, it is well. On behalf of the church, bring your condolences to mama Priest. We are so sorry. Today is a sad day. It is a sad day that we have to see off son Priest. Can we bow our heads and pray? Our God and our father, we thank you for this beautiful day, we thank you because all things happen because we have allowed them to happen. Big questions come to us. Why did it have to happen? We thank you father because we have answers to these questions. We thank you, we give you glory and we give your honor. Thank you Jesus. Different people will express their love differently, and we are all unique. We've got to understand our fellow brothers and sisters.>> MEN: For your trip, keep yourself with that! Priest! Priest! >> PREACHER: Brothers and sisters, different people have different ways of expressing their feelings and we have to allow our brothers to express their own feelings. >> MAN 1: Priest, we are missing you big time, you know we miss you. It?s your brother.>> PREACHER: By man came death; by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam, all die, even so in Christ all must be made alive. For every man in his own order, Christ, the first food afterwards the time Christ shall come. Behold I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, we shall all be changed. >> PREIST?S MOM: No! No!>> PREACHER: Amen. Members, ashes to ashes -- >> PREIST?S MOM: My son.>> PREACHER: -- Dust to dust.>> PREIST?S MOM: My son. No! My Son.>> MAN 2: Everything that we did together, take that. Peace, my friend.>> MAN 3: This one man, you quench your thirst on your journey, peace my friend.>> MAN 4: Priest man, we miss you big time.>> MAN 5: This is yours man, for quenching your thirst on your journey.>> PREACHER: Oh death, why is you stay? Let?s pray. In our God and our father, we thank you for this service and we do know that one day we will meet again with our son, with our brother and our comrade. We ask you general masses, thank you that you continue to comfort this family. In Jesus? name we pray in beneath. Now with the grace of all of Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more. Amen.>> JOHARI: Tina, you look great. >> TINA: Thank you, thank you. You don?t have to sound so surprised. I?m so scared. >> KEZIA: Come on Tina; don?t be scared. Here, have this. It was Priest?s. He told me it brought him good luck. I really hope it brings you good luck.>> TINA: I hope so. Thank you.>> COACH: Beth, what time is the hearing?>> BETH: Eleven.>> COACH: What does the lawyer say?>> BETH: No DNA evidence.>> COACH: So it?s her word against his.>> TINA: What if he comes after me later on?>> JOHARI: Come on, he?ll be in prison.>> TINA: But what if he isn?t?>> COACH: Tina, whatever you?re doing is incredibly brave. We are going to be with you when you come back. No matter the outcome. >> OLI: Coach, we took a vote.>> COACH: Here we go again. Let?s here it.>> JOHARI: Coach, we would like to ask if we could miss training today so we can be with Tina. She really needs us. >> COACH: Sure, Johari?s right. I wish I?d thought of it. For better or worse, we?re all in this together. Right?>> TEAM: Yes coach.>> COACH: Let?s pray.>> JUDGE: Are the defense and prosecution ready with their submissions?>> PROSECUTOR: Yes, your honor.>> JUDGE: Carry on.>> PROSECUTOR: Your honor, we are asking that this court find the accused guilty of the crime of rape, which happened on the third of February 2008. Your honor, my client is a disadvantaged young girl who is an orphan and who takes care of other orphans with whom she lives in Bangladesh Slum. Her only mistake your honor on that day was to seek assistance on that day from a group of policemen and who were manning a roadblock in the area. This was to rush a young child who was in her care to the hospital. However, contrary to the police call of service to all, the accused, instead of helping my client, pulled her into an alley where he raped her. Your honor, we are talking about an eighteen year old who is emotionally disturbed by the actions and the crime committed by this man. She is a young girl who is committed to serving humanity even in adversity. This is a young girl who is traumatized by the actions of the very person that she went to seeking help. Your honor, this is Tina, who is emotionally distressed by the actions and the crime committed by that man and because of the subsequent death of the child who could not make it to the hospital. Your honor, the prosecution feels that it has proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt, its case. My client has given a clear and consistent account of the events of the evening of the third of February 2008. The testimony and evidence we feel are sufficient to convict the accused. To prove a rape case, your honor, we do not need an eyewitness. Your honor, we ask this court to find the accused guilty of the crime of rape. These are the prosecutions? humble submissions your honor, thank you.>> JUDGE: Defense.>> DEFENSE: Your honor, it is self evident that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove this case. The complainant here, and the prosecution team, did not avail any witness before this court. Furthermore, there was no medical evidence brought forward to support this case. For these reasons, I humbly request that you acquit my client in accordance with the law. These are the submissions of the defense. Thank you your honor.>> JUDGE: The court will break for an hour recess before I make my ruling. The court takes note that rape is a very serious crime and on the increase in our society. It?s time society, and particularly men, deceased from using women as objects. What happened to the complainant was terrible and should never happen to anybody. The law is there to protect. Ms. Tina Sombayo, what you did today was very brave and I wish more women would come forward like you did. However, the court requires evidence to convict and in this case the court had not been provided with medical evidence to sustain conviction. There was a glaring lapse in the time of reporting the crime that would have been very crucial in this case. I am very, very sorry, but I have no option but to dismiss this case. >> TINA: Animal, animal.>> JUDGE: I am very, very sorry, but I have no option but to dismiss this case.>> OLI: I?m sorry Tina. I?m so sorry.>> TINA: That fool has to pay! You know what Oli? A guy like you doesn?t deserve to be here wasting your time playing kids? games.>> OLI: But I love football Tina. What should I do, should I quit?>> TINA: Fine, it?s talent, but you should fight for people like us, fight for me at least. >> OLI: I?ll think of something. I?m sorry. You?ll be fine. Okay?>> TINA: Okay. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-11-priesterera Tragedy strikes Imani FC hours after a last minute victory over their hated rivals Nyota FC. They'll need each other now more than ever to get through these hard times. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-11-priesterera Kenya, Education, Soccer, Change Makers, Ethnic conflict, Ethnic group, The Team: Kenya, Gender, search for common ground, LinkTV Picks >> PRIEST: Mamu.>> MAMU: Hello dear.>> PRIEST: Mamu, what are you doing here?>> MAMU: My dear, I came to congratulate you.>> PRIEST: What if coach finds you here?>> JOHARI: You have played very well, congratulations. Guys, look how rude priest is to his mom.>> BEN: If he knew how lucky he is, you know?>> TINA: I wish she were my mom.>> JOHARI: Anyway, let's clean up before coach comes.>> MAMU: One last job, for old time?s sake. And then I?ll leave you alone.>> PRIEST: What if it?s not the last job? What if I get caught?>> MANU: You?re the best. You?ve never been caught. Why should that happen now? >> PRIEST: My luck might have run out.>> MAMU: I?ll double the money.>> PRIEST: You know what? I won't do it. It?s not always about money Mamu. Okay I?ll do it, as long as I have your word that this is the last job.>> MAMU: You have my word. This is the last one.>> PRIEST: Mamu, I don?t want you coming here, it will bring me problems. I don?t know how you guys act. >> MAMU: Priest, don?t I get a goodbye kiss?>> PRIEST: Yeah, whatever.>> WATCHMAN: Hey, my friend. >> PRIEST: Hey, my man. Let me out. >> WATCHMAN: Okay, you are now going out?>> PRIEST: Yes man.>> WATCHMAN: That?s nice.>> PRIEST: Today I?m in a hurry. >> WATCHMAN: That is nice, that is nice. >> PRIEST: I know you want to look good, look good with that man.>> WATCHMAN: Priest, today you will have to add something more. >> PRIEST: Even you?re a thug. What?s up man? >> WATCHMAN: The problem with you is you complain too much. Why do you complain so much? >> PRIEST: Okay, fine, when I get back.>> WATCHMAN: When you get back I will have gone to report that you sneaked out.>> PRIEST: My friend, you can sell me out like that? After all this money that I have been giving you, friendship is not like that.>> WATCHMAN: That is not my fault. The price of flour went up, it?s not me who hiked the price.>> PRIEST: Stop eating ugali; eat some rice man. What?s wrong with you?>> WATCHMAN: The way you see my body, can it be fed on rice? This body cannot be fed on rice.>> PRIEST: It?s just that I?m in a hurry. >> WATCHMAN: Cool, go well. >> ABBAS: Morning mom.>> MARY: Morning son. You?re up early today.>> ABBAS: It?s a force of habit. >> MARY: Force of habit? Abbas, since when? As long as I can remember your wake up call is from midday.>> ABBAS: That was in the past mom. I?m a changed man now. I even wake up by 5 am.>> MARY: Seems like that soccer camp did you more good than bad.>> ABBAS: More than you?ll ever know. I even make my bed.>> MARY: You make your bed? I've got to see this one.>> ABBAS: Can you imagine?>> JUMA: Good morning.>> MARY: Good morning. There are some eggs there, sausages, and your coffee is ready. Please help yourself. >> JUMA: No, not right now. This email is really -->> MARY: You need put your phone down just for a few minutes.>> JUMA: I?ll eat later.>> MARY: What time is your meeting?>> JUMA: About 11:30. Abbas, where are you going?>> ABBAS: To work out.>> MARY: But Abbas, you haven?t even finished your breakfast!>> ABBAS: Later mom.>> MARY: I wish you wouldn?t be so harsh on him.>> JUMA: I haven?t said a thing.>> MARY: You didn?t have to. He can feel your disapproval. Even I can feel your disapproval of him.>> JUMA: After what he?s done, of course I disapprove.>> MARY: All I?m asking is just be a little more civil to him. After all, he is still your son. >> JUMA: Unfortunately.>> MARY: Now what is that supposed to mean? Honestly sweetheart, sometimes you can be so insensitive. And let me tell you something -->> JUMA: I never meant to -->> MARY: I don?t care what you meant! I am no longer going to be a go-between between you and your son. If you to continue this war with Abbas, go ahead but leave me out of it. I am so tired of walking on eggshells in my own house. Deal with it sweetheart.>> NEWSCASTER: The incidences of carjacking are on the rise again. Last night, yet another victim succumbed to this social ill. >> LULU: Daddy, what?s a carjacking?>> COACH: I?ll tell you in a minute.>> NEWSCASTER: This time, the unfortunate victim was a young, promising local football player going by the name of ?Priest." Priest scored the winning goal during Imani FC?s most recent match. Priest died of gun wounds. It seemed to be a gangland style killing. Priest was dead on arrival at the hospital.>> WATCHMAN: Priest, you have just gone like that.>> KEZIA: Coach, what happened?>> COACH: We don?t know yet.>> BEN: This story doesn't make sense. Yesterday he was fine. He was here with us. >> COACH: I know.>> KEZIA: What are the police saying?>> TINA: Those are not trustworthy people.>> COACH: Well, not everything is a conspiracy.>> TINA: Try living in the ghetto, you will find out.>> COACH: Let's all calm down. We will start looking for answers when the time is right. But right now it's not. You may choose to go home or you can stay behind, provided you are back by evening.>> BETH: And if anybody wants to talk, we?re ready to listen. Please don?t go through this alone.>> COACH: Johari, as the captain, please empty Priest's locker. >> JOHARI: Yes coach.>> COACH: All right.>> ABBAS: Hi Johari.>> JOHARI: Hi Abbas. Have you heard?>> ABBAS: Yes. How are you?>> JOHARI: I?m okay, under the circumstances.>> ABBAS: He was my roommate.>> JOHARI: Abbas, I was thinking if it's not too much trouble, the coach has given us the rest of the day off. If it?s okay with you, I could come over, or something?>> ABBAS: I think I?d like that. I?ll pick you up from town.>> JOHARI: I?ll meet you in town. Take care.>> JOHARI: Coach, coach.>> COACH: What?s this?>> JOHARI: I found this in Priest's locker. >> COACH: My god.>> JOHARI: What shall we do?>> COACH: For starters, we shall not disclose any of this to the team members.>> JOHARI: But why? They deserve to know the truth.>> COACH: Why? What good will it do?>> JOHARI: I don?t want to keep this secret.>> COACH: Johari, the Priest you knew, we knew on the pitch, was not a criminal. He was trying to be better. So let's keep the Priest we knew in our hearts. We don?t want anyone planning for revenge. We don?t want to up to the hate, do we?>> JOHARI: No coach, we don?t. I guess I have to get going. >> JUMA: Hey Abbas. >> JOHARI: If anyone has something to say, please say it. It really helps to talk about it.>> KEZIA: Priest was a very kind man. He helped me pay my brother?s bills. >> JOHARI: Anyone else? How can you guys describe Priest?>> KEZIA: Kind.>> BEN: Generous.>> OLI: Intelligent.>> JOHARI: He was talented. Does anyone of you have the pepetathon tape?>> OLI: Yes, I have it.>> JOHARI: Please can we watch it?>> BETH: Be strong for the team. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-10-quitting-in-honor As the dust settles from the team's latest skirmish, Imani FC's management looks for someone to take the fall. Will Imani FC be torn apart, just as they were starting to play together as a team? Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:42:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-10-quitting-in-honor Kenya, Education, Gender, Ethnic conflict, Change Makers, Ethnic group, Posttraumatic stress disorder, The Team: Kenya, search for common ground, LinkTV Picks >> BETH: You are very courageous, Tina. Thank you officer. I am so proud of you, and I am always here to support you.>> TINA: Thank you Beth. I wouldn?t have done it without you.>> BETH: You know what? You?ve really reminded me of what is important in life. And thanks to you.>> TINA: Really?>> BETH: Yes Tina.>> BETH: Here are the papers to get that goon convicted.>> TINA: Yes. At last the cop has been arrested. I just pray to God he is locked up until he rots. But coach, how will the others look at me?>> BETH: Just leave that to me. You?ll be fine.>> TINA: The nightmares are getting worse. I?m having flashbacks during the day, at times in practice. I just don?t know what to do.>> BETH: I?d like you to consider counseling.>> TINA: Do you think I?m crazy?>> BETH: No, you?re not crazy. You just need professional help and there?s nothing wrong with that.>> TINA: It?s my fault that the cop raped me>> BETH: It?s not your fault. He is the criminal, not you.>> TINA: All this time, he kept telling me I deserved it because I?m from the bad-blooded tribe.>> BETH: All tribes are equal and nobody is more special than the other.>> TINA: But why me? Why my tribe?>> BETH: It?s sad how men have been turned into beasts.>> TINA: Beth, you are my only family and thank you.>> DR. ROSE: You can come in Beth. Now Tina, that?s it for this week. I hope you?ll remember everything that we?ve discussed, and have a quick recovery.>> TINA: Thanks Dr. Rose.>> DR. ROSE: You?re welcome my dear. Now could you please give us a minute? >> TINE: Okay.>> DR. ROSE: It is a big task. However, together, we can get her back to where she was. Unfortunately, she?s suffering from post-traumatic stress and it will take her a bit of time to for her to get back to where she was and get a full recovery.>> BETH: Is it that bad?>> DR. ROSE: Yes. All of us need to kill the prejudices against rape victims. We need to give them understanding, we need to give them support, we need to give them care, and that is exactly what Tina needs from the team. If everybody gives her understanding and care, that is her cure. >> BETH: I?ll try as much as I can to make that possible.>> DR. ROSE: And that will be the best and the greatest best friend.>> BETH: Trust me, I?ll be more than that.>> COACH: That was a good game we had yesterday, apart from the fracas you all know about. There are certain issues that I imagine -- I know you guys were not involved, but it?s being said that one of you was involved in it. But anyway we are going to talk when you come back, all right? Beth?>> BETH: Just take care of yourselves. >> JOHARI: When do we report back?>> COACH: Johari, as usual. All right? Good. Enjoy your day off. You are free to leave.>> MR. BUKENYA: What is this? You know what happened? Abbas has to go. >> COACH: But sir, you promised to keep off my coaching, and off the team.>> MR. BUKENYA: It?s for the good of the team. This kid perpetuated a riot, actually a war, at a peace match.>> COACH: If you might have noticed, he had plenty of willing participants.>> MR. BUKENYA: Don?t you get it? Somebody has to get the blame for this. That?s how it works. Coach, either you drop him or you go. Understood?>> COACH: That?s your decision, sir.>> TINA: It?s playtime! >> CHILDREN: Tina!>> TINA: I missed you guys. How is it going?>> CHILDREN: Fine!>> TINA: Is everything okay? Today I am here the whole day and I have brought you something.>> KARIS: Oli, what?s up man? Welcome. Your mom is not home.>> OLI: That?s okay. What time is she coming?>> KARIS: She never tells me these things. So, Imani FC! How are things going over there?>> OLI: Everything is fine. We?re alive and kicking. >> KARIS: Football is cool. But everything is okay?>> OLI: Things are fine; we?re enjoying life there. It?s a good place to be. Anyway, that?s not why I came by. I need us to talk about you and my mother. >> KARIS: Oli, I love your mom. I really do. I hope you can support me on this one. >> OLI: Actually that is why I came by. Don?t you ever hurt her, because it won?t go well between us. >> KARIS: I don?t intend to. I plan to make her happy.>> OLI: Deal?>> KARIS: Deal.>> ABBAS? FATHER: Sit down. I don?t understand what you?re up to.>> ABBAS: Dad, what have I done?>> ABBAS? FATHER: I am very disappointed in you.>> ABBAS: What are you talking about?>> ABBAS? FATHER: You?re a troublemaker. I know. Mr. Bukenya called me this afternoon.>> ABBAS: But I was defending the girl.>> ABBAS? FATHER: You should have walked away from that fight. Now you have been kicked off the team!>> ABBAS: I don?t think so. And anyway, coach has been against me all this time.>> ABBAS? FATHER: You see, always blaming somebody else.>> ABBAS? MOTHER: Maybe you?re being a little bit too hard on him.>> ABBAS? FATHER: You can actually say that?>> ABBAS? MOTHER: Yes, these are young people. This is football. You know arguments always happen.>> ABBAS? FATHER: I didn?t know we had another striker in the house.>> KARIS: Darling, this meal is very delicious.>> OLI?S MOM: It?s your favorite. I knew you?d enjoy it.>> OLI: So Mr. Karis, what do you do for a living? >> KARIS: I?m in the music industry. >> OLI: That?s interesting. Do you sing? Or what kind of instrument do you play? >> KARIS: No, no, no Oli. You don?t have to play an instrument or sing to be in the music industry. I?m more of a producer and distributer. >> OLI: That sounds interesting. Very interesting I must say.>> OLI?S MOTHER: Oli, everything is interesting? >> OLI: Yes mom. Anyway, so when is the big day?>> KARIS: Well, we were looking at December. Hope that?s okay with you. >> OLI?S MOTHER: Oli, we don?t have to discuss this if it makes you uncomfortable.>> OLI: No Mom, I?m fine. Understanding comes from talking.>> KARIS: Exactly. I always say that brushing away issues just makes them worse.>> OLI: That?s the point.>> ABBAS: It?s best that I resign for the good of the team. I thank you very much for the opportunity to have served and I am grateful for how much I?ve learned in this team. All the best in your future matches. Thank you once again. Abbas.>> COACH: Well, I?d love to put it differently, but it?s true. Abbas has resigned from the team.>> PRIEST: Abbas, you know that the team needs you right now. Even him, why would he do that?>> OLI: It?s interesting how fast you drop your close friends.>> PRIEST: Oli, let me go man, I have to -->> OLI: Wait, I have a solution. What if we go on a hunger strike and demand that Abbas be reassigned?>> PRIEST: No, it won?t work.>> OLI: What if we threaten that all of us are going to quit?>> PRIEST: No, I don?t see it.>> OLI: I know: what if we get a lawyer to speak on behalf of Abbas and the team?>> PRIEST: My friend, we are not in court. What?s wrong with you? Keep on thinking. Think, and I?m sure you?ll come up with a solution. >> JOHARI: Hey Oli, you?re not alone. We?re in this together.>> OLI: Thanks.>> JOHARI: Come on. Take it easy. I?ll see you around. >> COACH: Boys and girls, despite everything that is happening concerning Abbas, it is important for a team to stay together. Team is everything! As I?d told you earlier on, Abbas has resigned from the team. But I am personally going to do everything possible to make sure that he stays. This is the time for us to be closer and together. We need to stick together as a family despite our social, political, or even religious backgrounds. That is my faith and that is my belief. It is all wrong and unfair for Abbas to be -->> ABBAS: Can I say something? The local leaders and team owner want someone to take the fall for this. Right or wrong, I meddled in a situation that I shouldn?t have. You guys will never hear the end of this, unless I resign. There comes a time when the team is more important than an individual. I?m going to miss you guys. I?m going to miss you guys so much. >> JOHARI: I can?t believe this is happening. It?s a nightmare.>> KEZIA: I will miss him. I really liked him.>> TINA: He was a really nice guy; he used to give me money sometimes.>> JOHARI: So how are we supposed to play without him?>> COACH: You don't have to. I'll think of something.>> ABBAS: No coach. I've decided, and so has Mr. Bukenya.>> COACH: Then help me convince him.>> ABBAS: I don't need to help you convince anyone.>> COACH: What about the team? What then?>> ABBAS: I know, but Mr. Bukenya can sort that out.>> COACH: Do you love football?>> ABBAS: For me, football is divine, and that's why I have to do this. But coach, you know what? You?re the best.>> COACH: You?re also a superb player.>> JOHARI: Don?t tell me that. I?m not your age-mate. Now that Abbas is gone, you are taking it out on me.>> PRIEST: You people, stop with the foolishness. What?s wrong with you?>> JOHARI: It?s this fool.>> KEZIA: Me, I'm just expressing my feelings >> JOHARI: You?re lying.>> PRIEST: Wait a minute. Listen here, if you don?t want to listen, okay fine. Continue fighting, you bitches.>> JOHARI: I?m sorry.>> BETH: That?s a shady play! You are playing like kids; like it's the first time you?ve handled the ball!>> OLI: Does she know that Abbas isn't here?>> PRIEST: This woman bores me; she usually bores me in a big way. >> BETH: Oli, I'd also like to hear what you are whispering to Pristiera.>> OLI: I was telling him to -->> PRIEST: Coach, not to be offensive, but the truth has to be said. Abbas's absence is causing this sitting big time. When Abbas passes the ball to me, Triza on the other end -->> BETH: Enough of your excuses. >> PRIEST: It?s good for the truth to be told. When you are quiet, people get hurt.>> COACH: Lulu, are you okay? >> LULU: Yes, I wanted to see the team training.>> COACH: All right, can you pick the balls and do individual juggling around there. You really like her?>> LULU: I wish she were my elder sister. >> COACH: Don?t worry I like her too. All right, now let daddy work.>> BETH: Boys and girls, I hope this session has been helpful. Any comments? >> JACKIE: Yes, this session has really made us to open up and talk about our problems. >> BETH: That?s good. >> OLI: Well for me, I?m always happy to stay for this kind of session because it has helped me as a person and also as a group to be able to accommodate those people affected in the society. >> BETH: I?m glad to hear that. I hope this session will help us understand, accept, and support Tina. Whatever happened to her can happen to anybody, rich or poor, young or old, male or female. >> JACKIE: What? Do you mean it can also happen to me?>> SONG: Yes, it even happened to someone I know.>> BETH: That?s right, it happens. >> PRIEST: What are you doing here?>> MAMU: I have come to talk.>> PRIEST: Talk about what? You are getting me into trouble by coming here. Just go. >> MAMU: If I have offended you, forgive me. >> PRIEST: I?m late for the meeting in the common room right now. Do you know that my other teammates are watching for me?>> MAMU: Priest baby, I beg you to understand me.>> PRIEST: Why are you bringing me problems? >> MAMU: I?m not done with you yet!>> BETH: Any ideas, suggestions? Late again?>> PRIEST: You ladies are bitchy.>> JOHARI: By the way, today?s session has been great. We should do this more often.>> PREIST: I don?t know who cares.>> KEZIA: What?s wrong with you?>> JOHARI: Are you okay?>> PREIST: Yeah.>> KEZIA: Come on Priest. You can talk to me.>> JOHARI: I mean talk to us. Trust us. Take your time.>> PRIEST: You guys won?t like me for everything I?ve been doing in my life, and everything that has happened in my life in general. You guys won?t like me.>> KEZIA: Come on, you know we love you. Better out than keeping it inside.>> JOHARI: Look here; we can help each other in one way or the other. Talk to us. Trust us, bro. Take your time. >> PRIEST: I feel like sometimes I?m at the wrong place at the wrong time. And I miss every of boat of every opportunity that comes in my way. But this time around I wont let it happen.>> KEZIA: That?s the spirit brother. Come on, that?s the way forward. >> JOHARI: Look here, we accept you as you are and we love you and appreciate you as you are.>> PRIEST: I was wondering if after everything that?s happened in my life -- my family deserted me -- but I?m so happy for you guys. See, at least I have you guys as my family. >> KEZIA: And at least your mom loves you. She comes to visits you all the time, even today.>> PRIEST: She?s not my mom.>> JOHARI and KEZIA: She?s not your mom? >> PRIEST: She?s my other mom. After everything that happened in my life I had to turn to her. I know you guys are shocked. But don?t look at me as if I?m a murderer. Don?t look at me as if I?ve killed or done anything wrong. I mean she was the only way forward. It could have happened to anyone of you guys.>> JOHARI: You do have a family here though. >> PRIEST: See, my past is my worst nightmare. I try everyday to be on the right side, to do good and be loved, but I know with you guys I?m safe and I have a home. Thanks a lot guys. >> KEZIA: We love you Priest. >> JOHARI: Does anyone want to give Priest a hug? Come on cheer up. We love you so much, we?re proud of you. I really am and we accept you. Come on cheer up. >> PRIEST: See you guys later.>> JOHARI: At least we made someone happy.>> KEZIA: And better.>> JOHARI: Yes. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-9-meetings A last-minute scheduling change means that Imani FC is suddenly thrown into action against Shalom FC in a rough neighborhood of the city. But a series of ominous encounters could mean that they won't make it back in one piece. Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:35:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-9-meetings Kenya, Slum, Education, Ethnic group, Change Makers, Gender, Nairobi, The Team: Kenya, Ethnic conflict, search for common ground >> COACH: There you are baby. Look, I brought you your favorite breakfast. So how was your night? Did you sleep well? Baby, you?re not talking to me. What are your plans for today? You're kind of quiet this morning. >> LULU: Dad, what's going on?>> COACH: What do you mean?>> LULU: I'm not a child. I can tell when something is not right.>> COACH: What are you talking about?>> LULU: Why did the players strike?>> COACH: It had something to do with their allowances.>> LULU: Why did granny leave so suddenly?>> COACH: She had to go back to the farm. I guess I better tell you the truth. We disagreed about Johari.>> LULU: What about?>> COACH: Well, she doesn?t want Johari to spend time with you.>> LULU: Why doesn't granny want Johari to look after me?>> COACH: It's because -- well baby, I don't know how to explain this to you.>> LULU: Johari is my friend, and I don't care what you and granny think.>> BETH: They are really catching up very fast.>> COACH: Yes, especially Oli. He?s doing fine.>> BETH: Even Tina, she?s really trying.>> COACH: Hello sir.>> MR. BUKENYA: Coach.>> COACH: Yes Mr. Bukenya?>> MR. BUKENYA: How's it going? >> COACH: It's going well.>> MR. BUKENYA: Good to hear that. Have you heard of the Peace Tournament?>> COACH: Yes. I heard about it on the radio.>> MR. BUKENYA: Good. I want us to enter a team.>> COACH: What? But we're not yet ready sir.>> MR. BUKENYA: This is a training camp. People will accept the game in the spirit it is intended.>> COACH: No, but sir, I think the team spirit and morale are very, very low.>> MR. BUKENYA: In that case the tournament might be just what we need to remedy that.>> COACH: Mr. Bukenya, there is too much media attention for my comfort. And considering what has been happening of late -->> MR. BUKENYA: This team needs the right type of publicity. This will also show that the team still exists and all is working smoothly.>> COACH: All right.>> MR. BUKENYA: Fine. But you know what I expect. Good man.>> COACH: That was Mr. Bukenya; he?s entered us in the Peace Tournament. Let?s get the stuff ready.>> BETH: Sure.>> KEZIA: What will I do about my brother?>> TINA: Don?t worry. What did the nurse tell you?>> KEZIA: She said that was not enough. >> TINA: I wish I could help you.>> KEZIA: I understand.>> TINA: You do understand that I can't. Don't worry, he will get well. >> JOHARI: What?s up ladies?>> KEZIA: We are fine.>> JOHARI: We have a game in the next 15 minutes.>> TINA: Where?>> JOHARI: Ghetto.>> TINA: Cool.>> JOHARI: You won?t make it Tina.>> TINA: But I have to try.>> JOHARI: Kezia, coach has said you won?t be playing.>> KEZIA: Why?>> JOHARI: He thinks you have issues to resolve. >> KEZIA: But I can handle it.>> JOHARI: He thinks otherwise.>> KEZIA: What about you? I will be playing.>> BEN: What's with you?>> OLI: Leave me alone.>> BEN: What happened to mister neat and tidy?>> OLI: Do you have a problem with me?>> BEN: Just wondering.>> OLI: Come in.>> JOHARI: Hey guys, we have a match. Transport leaves in the next five minutes.>> OLI: Yes!>> BEN: This was supposed to be a rest day!>> TINA: What's up mama?>> CHILD 1: Who is it? >> TINA: It's me, Tina. Hey, what?s up? How is it going?>> CHILD 1: We are fine.>> TINA: I have missed you guys. I just had to come and see you today. Everything okay? >> CHILD 1: Yes, is there a problem?>> TINA: No.>> CHILD 2: Have you come to stay?>> CHILD 3: What have you brought for me?>> TINA: No, there is no problem. I am here because we have a game at the city council?s field. I have brought you something nice.>> COACH: Priest, where you going? >> PRIEST: Toilets, coach.>> COACH: Then hurry.>> CHILD 1: Wow, that?s a lot of money.>> TINA: You don?t want to be heard out there. You know we have three month?s rent that we haven?t paid. Lawrence, I want you to use this money to pay the rent; and the remainder, you should buy what you need, okay? Please put the money away in a safe place, you know what kind of people live in this area. I have to go now.>> CHILD 3: Where did you get the money?>> TINA: I was paid. I have to go right now because of the game.>> MAN 1: Hey Priest?>> PRIEST: Who wants to know?>> MAN 2: Us.>> MAN 1: We hear this time around you are pretending to be a footballer.>> PRIEST: Is there a problem with playing ball?>> MAN 2: You can stop playing football if you have a broken leg.>> MAN 1: Or should we try with this fool?>> MAN 2: We have a message for you.>> PRIEST: What message?>> MAN 1: You know once you are in, you can?t escape, you cant get out.>> PRIEST: Get the hell out of here; I am not ready here. >> MAN 2: There is no one who is ready for that game.>> PRIEST: Stop being fools men, I am not ready to play your game. What's wrong with you? First of all, you drop that knife. Drop the knife. You fools, drop it. I also have a message. Tell the guy who sent you that Priest is out. I am out, you hear me?>> MAN 1: You are making a mistake.>> PRIEST: Who, me? Let me tell you boy, I also made a mistake associating with fools like you. Get the hell out of here!>> CHILDREN: Don?t go.>> TINA: I have to go, keep well.>> CHILD 1: Can we come watch the game?>> TINA: No, you have to first do the shopping, okay? Bye.>> JOHARI: Coach, we have a problem.>> COACH: What is it?>> JOHARI: Tina is missing and Priest hasn?t come back yet.>> COACH: What do you think about Tina? >> BETH: I think you should let Kezia play.>> COACH: All right. Tell Kezia to change. She's on.>> COACH: Hey, what took you so long?>> PRIEST: Coach -->> COACH: Join the team.>> JOHARI: Abbas, move there, open up. Kezia, move inside. Let's go.>> TINA: Coach. Sorry coach.>> COACH: Where were you?>> TINA: I had gone home to see my family. >> COACH: Who did you tell?>> TINA: No one.>> COACH: Who did you tell?>> BETH: May I? Tina, we will discuss this later. Join the team.>> TINA: Okay.>> COACH: You call yourselves footballers? That was the biggest load of rubbish I've ever seen. Apart from Oli, Abbas and Johari, the rest of you might as well have stayed at camp. Priest, you're either on the pitch or you?re not. What are you looking for in the spectators? Kezia, as much as I understand your problem, if you don?t focus and concentrate on the game then we have a bigger problem. Ben, as good a player as you are, you are lazy! Where is your dedication to the team? This is my last warning. I expect 110 percent effort from you. Do you understand?>> BEN: Yes coach.>> COACH: I wont repeat again. Johari, do you have anything to say?>> JOHARI: Guys, we've come a long way, and I just want you to know that nobody ever remembers number two. So let go out there and be number one. And if we can?t be number one, provided we?ve done our best. So let's go out there and do our what! >> TEAM: Best!>> TINA: Animal!>> POLICEMAN: What?s your problem girl?>> TINA: Animal! Animal!>> KEZIA: Tina, what?s wrong?>> TINA: It?s him! It?s him.>> POLICEWOMAN: What's the problem madam?>> BETH: I think she just came face to face with her tormentor.>> POLICEWOMAN: What exactly do you mean, tormentor?>> BETH: The policeman that you are with today.>> POLICEWOMAN: Really? When did this happen?>> BETH: A while ago.>> POLICEWOMAN: Excuse me. Command come in, command come in. I think we have a situation here. >> ABBAS: Wait a minute. What?s going on? Let go of her. >> MAN 1: So you've come to rescue your girlfriend?>> ABBAS: She's not my girlfriend. Are you ok?>> GIRL: You shouldn't have done that.>> ABBAS: You're welcome.>> GIRL: Thank you. But I still think you shouldn't have done that.>> ABBAS: I was just trying to be a gentleman. >> MAN 2: You are the guys who are always messing with our girls.>> JOHARI: Abbas, what's going on?>> JACOB "GHOST" MULEE: Guys, cool it down. I think we were having a very nice game. Everything was good. Why should we lose focus? We have one aim here: football is supposed to bring people together. We are supposed to play as brothers and sisters. There is a future, there is tomorrow. We have lived together for so long, as brothers and sisters from different tribes. Why now? The future is good when you are disciplined, but like this; forget it, guys, okay? Let's not lose our focus. Is that okay guys? You promise it? Okay? Shalom? Imani? Let's shake hands guys. Let's shake hands. >> KEZIA: Hi.>> RECEPTIONIST: Hi.>> KEZIA: How have you been?>> RECEPTIONIST: I?ve been okay.>> KEZIA: This is part of Rodez's bill.>> RECEPTIONIST: There's no need. You're brother's bill has been cleared and a further deposit placed to cover him for the next two weeks.>> KEZIA: By who?>> RECEPTIONIST: The payer wishes to remain anonymous.>> KEZIA: Just tell me.>> RECEPTIONIST: Only that the bills have been cleared.>> KEZIA: Just tell me.>> RECEPTIONIST: The bills have been cleared.>> KEZIA: Thanks. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-biker-boys-of-the-dirt-island A crew of young men roars through the heart of Nairobi's Korogocho slum on motorcycles. But unlike most motorcycle gangs, this is a team of reformed crooks who have switched to helping people. Can they convince their friend to join before it's too late? Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:40:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-biker-boys-of-the-dirt-island Kenya, Mungiki, Murang'a, Westlands, Nairobi, Korogocho, Slum, Poverty, Change Makers, Life on the Edge >> VOICEOVER: Mucina and Boniface, the motorcycle boys of Korogocho. They're among the first to own motorcycles on the Nairobi slum they call the "Dirt Island." Some say the motorcycle boys own this slum. And they've got their own ideas about improving slums. Are they a threat, or do they have anything to teach us? Kama's one of their new recruits. He's a rebel, even by motorcycle boy standards. This is their story. >> TITLE: Biker Boys of the Dirt Island>> VOICEOVER: Kama's home Korogocho is Kenya's fourth largest slum. Dirt Island has been home to many Kenyan crime lords. Like Kama, many young men here get involved in crime at some point in their lives. >> BOY 1 [Rapping]: It's another, it's another...I'll build a nice house for you. >> HENRY KAMAU [Motorcycle Boy]: I came to Korogocho when I was twelve years old. I used to steal clothes from the clothesline in the neighborhood. I wouldn't just wear them; sometimes I'd wear or sell them. >> VOICEOVER: Kama reckons he was fortunate to move to Korogocho considering his line of work. It was almost as if they slum was designed for crime. >> HENRY KAMAU: Alleys don't have issues, but if you pass on the main road you might meet the police and get shot by them. That's why I use the alleys when I steal, because you can hide here. >> VOICEOVER: Kama's ambition was too big for Korogocho. It may seem designed for crime, but there's too little to steal. So Kama searched for wealthier targets in central Nairobi. >> HENRY KAMAU: There are many people in town, man. You can look closely at someone and see that they have money. I can tell from the way they hold their bags. You can see someone walking on the road holding their bags tightly, always looking over their shoulder. I'm very observant. This town is ours. >> VOICEOVER: Kama started "working" in Westlands, a posh suburb of Nairobi. This was after joining the Mungiki, a notorious vigilante group. He'd made serious profits by extorting money from minibus owners. >> HENRY KAMAU: So I joined the Mungiki. Thirty-seven of us were initiated into it at that time in Westlands. These guys were my good friends. We worked together. We used to help each other out. They all died. I thought about my life and said no. The way people are dying; I can't die without leaving something behind. I met a girl named Ciku and we had a baby girl. Her name is Brigit. >> VOICEOVER: Mucina also saw most of his friends die on the streets before he became the original motorcycle boy. He had an idea, which might be frowned on in conventional development economics. >> FRANCIS MUCINA [Motorcycle Club Founder, Korogocho]: A friend of mine told me he had a plan and we would make a lot of money from it. We went and robbed a supermarket in Murang'a town. We took roughly 250,000 Kenya shillings. >> VOICEOVER: The idea? Profits of crime ploughed into a legitimate business in the slums. >> FRANCIS MUCINA: With the money I bought a bike and set up at the stage. We were only two motorbikes, and then we increased to four. At first people weren't comfortable with riding motorcycles, but after we became many they got used to it. >> VOICEOVER: Mucina and his crew of motorcycle boys now provide much needed taxi services within Korogocho. From four motorcycle boys in the beginning, they have grown to forty -- including Kama. >> HENRY KAMAU: I never planned to be a motorcycle boy. When I heard that the cops were hunting for me and counting my bullets, I decided to stop going to Westlands for a while. >> FRANCIS MUCINA: Most of these guys are reformed criminals. We tell them, "Leave crime -- it doesn't work," that they will never lack money to meet their needs and be independent. >> VOICEOVER: Boniface, one of the two original motorcycle boys, feels that crime profits have led to a lot of improvements in Korogocho, more than most people would care to admit. >> BONIFACE MWANGI [Motorcycle Boy, Korogocho]: Here in Korogocho, you find that someone has set up a business but that shop is part-time employment. After stealing outside people come back and invest in businesses here. You can't just sit around idling, just relaxing. You'll look suspicious. The businesses that do well here are the illegal ones that cause harm. >> VOICEOVER: Kama doesn't make the profits he used to make from full-time crime. But what he makes from the bikes is just enough. >> HENRY KAMAU: For example, sometimes business is good and I can make a profit of about one thousand shillings, which takes care of all of my expenses. Most of my money is spent on my child Brigit. When she grows, I pray that she reads hard, and that she agrees to study hard in school. >> VOICEOVER: Every day, Mucina walks his kids to school in the nearby Dandora estate, before going to work at the biker stage. He too feels that the motorcycle boys have made a difference in Korogocho. >> FRANCIS MUCINA: These bikes are also a form of upgrading, because before, people couldn't walk there at night. People were being robbed a lot, but now that the bikes are carrying people they're now safe. >> MAN 1: Sometimes I use these bikes when I'm late from work, because the road is not safe at night. There are many thieves. So these bikes really help us a lot when we use them. >> VOICEOVER: Kama's still not sure about the motorcycle club, and he's not alone. Khadija is a member of the Korogocho Urban Upgrading Committee. She feels that building a youth center will be a more constructive solution to crime. >> KHADIJA JUMA [Resident Committee Member, KSUP, Korogocho]: The youth center is about linking the talents that the youth have in Korogocho with business and then also there will be a mentoring process from the center, which will be acting as a coordination point. Maybe they can be dragged away from the crime or the changaa [illicit alcohol] they take. >> VOICEOVER: Motorcycle boy Mucina is not just a motorcycle boy. He's involved in slum upgrading with Khadija and supports the youth center idea. >> FRANCIS MUCINA: When the youth don't have a place set aside for them to meet, it's not good. >> VOICEOVER: But Boniface feels that crime is about one thing only, and that the solution to it is very simple. >> BONIFACE MWANGI: Here in Korogocho, life is difficult. You don't grow up with money. So when you find a means of getting money it has a big influence on you. Getting money is very important here in the ghetto, especially for the youth. >> VOICEOVER: So Boniface believes in supporting businesses like the motorcycle club, and others that have followed in its wake. It's not what most people would think of as the best way to improve slums. Not everyone can ride bikes, but the motorcycle club has been successful in attracting and reforming some criminals. Boniface feels that it's important to include all rule breakers, criminals and potential criminals, in the Dirt Island's future. >> BONIFACE MWANGI: If the youth are not involved in the upgrading process it won't happen, because these are the people who are thieves and they're the ones who can destroy things here. The administration is not stronger than the gangs here. The youth are trying to become independent, so they should support the bikes more. >> FRANCIS MUCINA: We started this as the youth, and in the future we'll leave it for the others to carry it on. >> VOICEOVER: Kama is not waiting on the future, though. He's making his own rules, which may not be anybody else's. But he's got the energy, if anybody wants it. >> HENRY KAMAU: If you ask a child what they hope for in the future, you wouldn't find anyone who'd tell you that they want to be poor. If I had my own bike you wouldn't see me in the Westlands or find me going to steal. I can't just sit still. I always need to be busy, doing something. >> TITLE: For more information, please visit: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-8-unfriendly The team decides to go on strike after realizing that someone has been stealing their pay, and assume that their coaches are in on the scam. Coach has to get to the bottom of the situation before the strike descends into chaos. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-8-unfriendly Kenya, Human rights, Ethnic group, Education, Change Makers, The Team: Kenya, search for common ground, Ethnic conflict, Gender equality, LinkTV Picks >> BEN: All those in favor, raise your hands. Good. Now we can discuss the details, like what kind of action, and for how long it should last.>> JOHARI: Guys, I think we should have a discussion with coach.>> BEN: We can't discuss the obvious. It should last as long as our demands have not been met.>> TEAM: Yes.>> JOHARI: Guys, look, I just think this can be sorted out without resorting to a strike!>> OLI: What if we tried a hunger strike? It worked very well for Mahatma Gandhi.>> PRIEST: Mahatma Gandhi is history. I have to eat, man.>> BEN: I support Priest. I am not giving up my meals for anything.>> OLI: Okay, okay, guys, it was only an idea. But anyway, how do you guys plan to achieve anything if you are not ready to sacrifice?>> PRIEST: Let?s just refuse to train. This thing is not about miracles; it?s defiance.>> OLI: No, no, no. Priest, we just can't refuse to practice like that. See, they may well call in other players, and then we find ourselves out of the camp!>> KEZIA: In fact, you?re right, Oli, but we need to put these guys in a fix. At least they need to know what we want. >> BEN: Coach. Coach is coming.>> BETH: Guys, guys, come back here. Hurry up. Now I want you to split into two groups for one touch pass. So in a circle, one player is in the center. So get moving. I thought I was clear, in a circle with a player in the center.>> SIGN: Our right>> SIGN: No pay / No play>> SIGN: Don't play with our rights>> BETH: Okay, please, please! Can I have a minute to explain myself?>> PRIEST: First give us our money, and then we?ll give you your minute.>> TEAM: Yes.>> KEZIA: Give us our money then we?ll give you your minute!>> TEAM: Give us our money then we?ll give you your minute!>> BEN: That is great you guys. She should stop being bossy. Guys, chill out guys. I'll tell you something.>> OLI: It's just the same old story, man. We are nothing but a ladder to their riches.>> SONG: It's usual business to them.>> ABBAS: We can't accept that.>> BEN: We should have known all along. But some of us can't see past the deception.>> OLI: Dangle a carrot, and the hungry will come flocking.>> BEN: And drop a title here and there, and the stage is set.>> JOHARI: Ben, that's out of line.>> BEN: Hey, sorry sis, but that is the situation we are in. All of us.>> JOHARI: You have become a smart ass.>> OLI: It?s not being a smart ass, that?s the situation.>> BETH: Yes coach, we have a situation. I?m coming from the pitch, and the players refused to play.>> COACH: Well, I saw it coming. Now try and calm the situation down for me. I will be there in thirty minutes, all right? >> BETH: Coach, there is nothing much you can do.>> COACH: No, Beth. We have to get to the bottom of this.>> BETH: You know very well that the accountant is Mr. Bukenya's cousin!>> COACH: No, in fact, I know what to do. I?ve already talked to Mr. Bukenya and informed him about the anomalies in the accounts. But don't confront the accountant until I get there, all right? >> BETH: Okay, I?ll wait for you in the office. See you soon. Thank you.>> COACH: Good.>> PRIEST: You guys, where's the coach? Where?s coach? I smell something fishy here.>> BEN: I haven't seen him the whole morning.>> JOHARI: I know. It looks bad. But before we jump to any conclusions, let's give them a chance to explain themselves to us.>> OLI: But Johari, what if coach is part of the scam?>> TINA: Yes, what if he's the leader? >> JOHARI: But he can't -->> OLI: No buts, Johari. I don't see why you're defending coach.>> PRIEST: Now, now see guys. We go back on our plan and such things will continue to happen. Why should someone steal from our sweat? Why?>> OLI: Exactly. And again, given the prevailing circumstances, the strike is perfectly in order. These are our rights, our human rights!>> JOHARI: Guys -->> BEN: Stop with the attitude. What?s wrong with you? Relax.>> OLI: Don't you know the meaning of man? We have to fight for our own rights. If you don?t know your rights, that?s your problem.>> PREIST: Enough of your words. Relax. We are not listening to you this time around.>> COACH: Hello, sir. Well I am sure you wouldn't want the media to get wind of this. And in fact, the accountant has been invoking your name.>> BUKENYA: I'm listening.>> COACH: Well, with so much at stake, boss, we have to do something.>> BUKENYA: Where are you right now?>> COACH: Well I?m almost finished with the meeting; I could cut it and head back.>> BUKENYA: Please get there immediately and just try and calm them down right now. Please go and do that.>> COACH: All right. I?ll do all I can.>> BUKENYA: Yes, officer. I?ll brief you in the next ten minutes. Right.>> TEAM: No pay, no play!>> ACCOUNTANT: Yes, what can I do for you?>> COACH: I need a very clear explanation.>> TOM [Accountant]: Since when did I start reporting to you guys?>> BETH: Tom, we have a situation. The players are on strike!>> TOM: I don?t deal with the team. I have nothing to do with labor issues.>> COACH: Look here. Let?s not waste each other?s time. What?s going on?>> TOM: Look here, coach. I don't know what you're -- what is the big fuss about?>> COACH: I have spoken to Mr. Bukenya and he?s very upset.>> TOM: Look, if it's about that issue of the money, these are children. Just talk to them. It is no big deal.>> COACH: Get out there, and tell them that you stole their money, and that it's no big deal!>> TOM: Hey, watch your mouth. I can be very nasty if I want.>> COACH: The law can also be very, very nasty.>> TEAM: No pay, no play!>> COACH: That's what I need.>> SIGN: Our right>> JOHARI: Guys, guys, listen. Listen, let's calm down, eh? We don?t want to do anything rash -- we don't have the facts yet, and we don?t know the truth!>> BEN: Leave it alone, Johari, you can?t be this naive! Who else can take the money?>> JOHARI: Ben, that?s not the point.>> BEN: The point is -->> TEAM: No pay, no play!>> WORKER 1: It's true?>> WORKER 2: Yes, they are cutting our paycheck.>> WORKER 1: And they are not giving us a reason.>> WORKERS: Tell us today! Tell us today!>> COACH: Get out there and be nasty to them. Be nasty to them, and see if you can pacify them. Come on, get up. Get up! Let's go!>> JOHARI: Preist, are you crazy?>> PRIEST: Stop being foolish, man. People haven?t been paid! If these guys don't respect us, then we should not respect them!>> COOK: Yes, even we have questions for him. Let him come out here.>> COACH: Shh. All right, listen up.>> PRIEST: Coach, man, there is no being patient here, this man has to come out. First coach, you can?t handle this incident, it is over you by nine feet.>> COACH: Priest, are you forgetting what brought you here? Are you forgetting about the deal?>> PRIEST: Coach, man, I know the deal. But coach, there are other things you can?t just swallow. One moment the accountant says coach knew -->> TEAM: Oh!>> PRIEST: Accounts clerk knew -->> TEAM: Oh!>> PRIEST: No! Give us our money, man. Pay us or we pay you!>> COACH: Shh! Can you listen? Team, I don't have time for your silly games! Look here! Listen! Now can you get rid of these placards and get back to what brought you here?>> ABBAS: No pay, no play!>> COACH: Shh, shh, listen. This is all well and good: the solidarity, sticking together. But may I remind you that with the exception of Ben and Johari, the rest of you came here alone.>> JACKIE: Irrelevant, irrelevant, we are still being paid equally. >> TEAM: No pay, no play! >> COACH: Tina, now you listen. Tina, do you want to jeopardize your only chance to kick-start your football career?>> TINA: Coach, I can?t afford to have my money stolen every week.>> TEAM: Tell him!>> COACH: Abbas!>> ABBAS: What?>> COACH: What would your father say if he heard of your participation in this?>> ABBAS: I don't care what my father would say. For me, I got to do what I got to do.>> COACH: All right, team. You have made your point, and I have acted on it. >> TEAM: How? How?>> COACH: Whoever is responsible for this will have to pay for it.>> TEAM: That one is the thief! Bring our money, you thief!>> POLICE OFFICER: Calm down, people. Calm down. Your coach here called me, and we are going to solve this issue, if only you'd remain calm and give us a chance. >> OLI: Coach, don?t take a bribe!>> COACH'S MOTHER: Lulu, come and eat.>> LULU: I?m not eating until I see Johari.>> COACH'S MOTHER: What?>> LULU: I?m not eating until -->> COACH'S MOTHER: Lulu, I've heard you.>> LULU: Then why are still asking me what I have said?>> COACH'S MOTHER: See, since you have started associating yourself with Johari, you have become a bad girl. Lulu, I am still talking!>> LULU: Keep talking.>> COACH'S MOTHER: Lulu, come back here! Lulu! It?s good you are here.>> COACH: Why, what is going on?>> COACH'S MOTHER: Lulu has been disturbing me the whole afternoon. She says she cannot eat until she sees Johari. This Johari has spoiled Lulu. I told you about this girl Johari. Ever since Lulu started being her friend, she has become a bad girl. Even you, putting Johari as the captain, I fear for the other players, they will also be spoiled. >> COACH: Ma, I know that girl. She is respectful and she has a good heart. I am even happy that Lulu likes her. It doesn?t matter which part of the country one comes from. Ma, we can?t continue like this.>> COACH'S MOTHER: How do you mean?>> COACH: Fighting every day.>> COACH'S MOTHER: Okay fine, I will stop fighting with you.>> COACH: It's not that simple. Mom, when you live with people from other parts of the country, you will come to see that they are not bad people.>> COACH?S MOTHER: Give me another one -- where is Lulu?s mom? Have you forgotten what happened? The only thing we have left is her picture to look at. >> COACH: Mom, what I think is we should not cause a rift between Lulu and her friends.>> COACH'S MOTHER: What do you want us to do? >> COACH: Leave Lulu to be free to choose whomever she likes.>> COACH?S MOTHER: Okay, I don?t have anything to say. Let me go rest.>> COACH: Beth, can I have a word with Johari?>> JOHARI: Yes, coach?>> COACH: Johari, I wanted to tell you something. You know I?ve been cool towards you, although you come from the same tribe as the people who killed my wife, and you remind me a lot about her.>> JOHARI: I don't know what to say, coach. You know I would never try to -- >> COACH: I know. I do understand, Johari. But you know, sometimes matters of the heart make you act irrational.>> JOHARI: I'm flattered coach. You're a very nice man. But you know I wouldn?t like to be entangled in relationships that will lead into -- >> COACH: Johari, you misunderstood me.>> JOHARI: Oh good! For a moment there I thought -->> COACH: I was talking about my wife. You know, the people who killed her happened to be from your region. And my mother came visiting the other day, and she kind of brought to the surface all those irrational feelings that I thought were dead and buried.>> JOHARI: And how is that?>> COACH: Well, you know, according to her, she thinks that you represent and remind us of the tragedy we went through. We argue a lot about it. But I am glad your only crime is that you happen to come from that region, and you also happened to come my way during an argument with my mom. But I?m happy all that is over now.>> JOHARI: I'm glad it's over, too.>> COACH: You're good to the team, Johari. And I hope you?ll use your influence to rally them to win.>> JOHARI: Yes, coach. And thanks for the vote of confidence.>> COACH: You're welcome.>> COACH?S MOTHER: What time is my bus?>> COACH: The bus is at 9 p.m.>> COACH?S MOTHER: We still have time?>> COACH: Yes, we do have time. Ma?>> COACH?S MOTHER: Eh?>> COACH: Maybe you should change your attitude towards Johari.>> COACH?S MOTHER: I don?t have anything against Johari. All I want to know is the truth of the matter.>> ABBAS: And you were telling me what about Priest?>> MAMU: Okay, that is enough about Priest, what about you?>> ABBAS: Ah, Priest, there you are. Your mom was telling me some stuff about you. So you have such a cool mom!>> PRIEST: Yes, the coolest, actually. Abbas, please give me a chance to talk with my Mom a bit? >> ABBAS: It was a pleasure meeting you.>> MAMU: Thank you.>> PRIEST: Mamu, what if coach comes and finds you here. What will you say?>> MAMU: Ask him to join the party.>> PRIEST: Mamu, I want out.>> MAMU: You can't have out. You know, maybe all you need is a rest.>> PRIEST: No, Mamu. This won't change my mind. I want out.>> MAMU: There?s no option. You know our code.>> PRIEST: Yeah, but -->> MAMU: No buts! >> PRIEST: But we were supposed to -->> MAMU: No buts. You promised football was not going to interfere!>> PRIEST: Mamu, it's not just the football team, there is also my family there. I want to be in their good books.>> MAMU: You can still be in the business and be in their good books.>> PRIEST: Yeah, but I?m starting to lose my mind. I want out. I want out.>> MAMU: You will regret this, Priest. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-7-under-pressure The team pulls together to help Kezia's brother Rodez, who is in critical condition in the hospital after suffering a beating fueled by ethnic conflict. As the world around them is consumed by violence and hatred, Imani FC begins to look past their differences and act as one team. Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-7-under-pressure Kenya, Ethnic conflict, Refugee, Gender equality, The Team: Kenya, Internally displaced person, Change Makers, Education, Ethnic group, LinkTV Picks >> COACH: Oli.>> OLI: Yes coach?>> COACH: What's going on?>> OLI: What do you mean?>> COACH: You burned your law books.>> OLI: Yes I did. >> COACH: Why?>> OLI: I want to focus on football. Because last time I checked, this is a football camp, not a law school camp, right? >> COACH: Oli, I'm concerned about you. We both know you have a passion for law.>> OLI: But I also have a passion for football.>> COACH: But law is your future, isn't it?>> OLI: What exactly is your point?>> COACH: Tell me about the bonfire.>> OLI: With all due respect, I don't think this is something you would understand. Just let it go. >> COACH: Its okay Oliver. You're free to go. But when you need someone to talk to, you know where to find me.>> OLI: I?m sorry coach, but I won't need to talk. Sorry.>> COACH: Oli?>> OLI: Yes coach?>> COACH: My wife was killed right in from of my eyes. That is the worst nightmare I have had to live with. They asked her a question in their language, and of course she couldn?t answer. That?s when they -->> OLI: I?m really sorry. >> KEZIA: Do you have a moment?>> BETH: Hi Kezia, have a seat.>> KEZIA: I really need to talk to you.>> BETH: You've come to the right person. What do you wish to talk about?>> KEZIA: My brother Rodez. I?m really scared.>> BETH: He'll make it through. And so will you.>> KEZIA: He better. He's the only family I have.>> BETH: What about your parents?>> KEZIA: My dad is as good as dead to me.>> BETH: And your mother?>> KEZIA: Mommy says we remind her of daddy. >> BETH: I see.>> KEZIA: I really wish it were daddy instead of Rodez.>> BETH: Kezia! You don't mean that.>> KEZIA: I do.>> BETH: You're just worried about Rodez's condition.>> KEZIA: I'm really scared Beth. What if he doesn?t make it?>> BETH: This will work out. You're not alone in this. You?ll see. >> KEZIA: I really hope so.>> BETH: Don?t worry. It will be fine.>> COACH: Look Oli, I know what you are feeling. Especially seeing this violence.>> OLI: Its okay, I?ll handle this.>> COACH: That's what I said in the beginning. Oli, right now you may not need to talk, but whenever you need to talk to someone, I will be there for you.>> OLI: Never mind. I?ll be fine.>> COACH: Johari.>> JOHARI: Yes coach.>> COACH: How are you doing? >> JOHARI: I?m fine.>> COACH: Lulu, here's Johari. Maybe you can tell her why you don't want to study.>> JOHARI: What? You don't want to study?>> COACH: Can you try and talk some sense into her Johari? For some reason, nowadays she seems to listen to you.>> JOHARI: I'll do my best coach. So why don't you want to study?>>LULU: Because it's boring! I want to play football like you.>> JOHARI: That's very nice of you, but even I had to go to school just like you.>> LULU: You mean at the IDP camp?>> JOHARI: Yes, at the IDP camp.>> LULU: What does IDP stand for?>> JOHARI: IDP stands for Internally Displaced Persons.>> LULU: And what does that mean?>> JOHARI: It means people who have been sent away from their homes.>> LULU: But why would anyone want to chase you away from your home? You are so nice.>> JOHARI: You too Lulu. But some people would say you are not nice just because you don?t speak like them or come from the same tribe as them. >> LULU: Johari?>> JOHARI: Yes Lulu?>> LULU: Thanks for being my friend even though we are not from the same part of the country.>> JOHARI: You mean you and me are not from the same part of country? Oh no! I have to get away from this monster from a different part of the country!>> PRIEST: Stop talking to me, its time for money. >> TINA: Finish up and get going.>> PRIEST: Money is money.>> BEN: If you have my debt, pay up.>> PRIEST: Tina, come here. Tonight at the pitch there is a pepetathon. I want you to come.>> TINA: Yeah, I will come.>> PRIEST: You will come? Come here. Why are you rushing past like that? Tonight there is a pepetathon at the pitch. Will you guys come?>> JACKIE: Cool, we will be there.>> PREIST: But it won?t be for fun. Don?t miss it. It?s juggling tonight. >> JACKIE: Okay, cool.>> PRIEST: You just say cool and then you don?t show up. Ben, come here. Look, tonight there is a pepetathon at the pitch from seven p.m. onwards. Don?t fail me guys. You guys look happy. Abbas, tonight there is a pepetathon at the pitch.>> ABBAS: Who is doing the juggling?>> PRIEST: Me, of course.>> ABBAS: That will be mayhem! >> PRIEST: Do this; sign this quickly so we can leave. >> ABBAS: I?ll make sure I bring my camcorder.>> PRIEST: Will you come with it? Don?t miss it, especially you. Don?t miss it my man. Oli, come. How are you? Look, tonight there is a pepetathon at the pitch.>> OLI: Exactly what does this pepetathon entail?>> PRIEST: This is easy. I?ll juggle the ball for one hour, and if I don?t drop it you will each give a thousand shillings to pay Kezia?s brother?s hospital bill.>> OLI: And if you drop the ball?>> PRIEST: If I drop the ball, you will all give out five hundred shillings, and I will give out all of my allowance.>> OLI: Sounds fair. >> PRIEST: I will give out all of my allowance. Don?t worry. >> OLI: Trust me Priest. I'm giving a thousand whether you drop the ball or not.>> LULU: Really? You?re my boy. We?ve come a long way.>> COP 1: Will you tell us or not?>> PRIEST: I don?t have anything to say. >> COP 2: Why are you disrespectful to the boss?>> PRIEST: I don?t have any problems with anybody.>> COP 1: I don?t know why the coach thinks that you are a good player.>> PRIEST: Maybe he is right.>> COP 2: Who told you to speak?>> COP 1: Listen, I have talked to the coach and told him that you should not be on the team. But we have made a deal.>> PRIEST: What deal?>> COP 2: Who told you to speak?>> COP 1: Don?t worry, but part of it is that you tell us who your associates are.>> PRIEST: Honestly, there is nobody.>> COP 1: If you don?t tell us about your associates there will be serious trouble, if you know what I mean. >> COACH'S MOTHER: Lulu! What behavior is that? Stop being silly and eat your food. This is why I keep saying your father is not raising you properly. You have not respect for grownups.>> JOHARI: Guys, are you ready?>> TEAM: Yes!>> JOHARI: Priest, are you ready?>> PRIEST: Yes!>> JOHARI: Let?s go!>> LULU: Then I chased her across the pitch. Then we got so tired we had to rest. And then she told me that I should study because I am very lucky. She told me about how she went to the IDP camp.>>COACH?S MOTHER: Eat. Your food is getting cold. Lulu, you were saying that Johari was in an IDP camp?>> LULU: Yes, she and her brother.>> COACH?S MOTHER: Then Johari has suffered.>> LULU: Yes. Imagine their books and clothes all burned. In the IDP camp there were no lights, so Johari could not read at night. Tonight I will study.>> COACH?S MOTHER: Johari must be an angel!>> LULU: No, she not an angel, but she is my friend even if she is from a different tribe.>> COACH?S MOTHER: You are saying that Johari is not of our tribe? >> TEAM: Priest! Priest! Priest! Five, four, three, two, one. Yes!>> COACH'S MOTHER: Hello, welcome home my son.>> COACH: How are you?>> COACH'S MOTHER: Fine.>> COACH: How was your day?>> COACH?S MOTHER: It was okay. How are the players? >> COACH: They are well.>> COACH?S MOTHER: That is good to hear. We have eaten and Lulu has gone to bed.>> COACH: Good.>> COACH?S MOTHER: Have you eaten?>> COACH: Yes, I ate at school.>> COACH?S MOTHER: That is good.>> COACH: Thanks mum.>> COACH?S MOTHER: Why didn?t you tell me that Johari is from the other tribe?>> COACH: Why should I tell you? Who is Johari to you?>> COACH?S MOTHER: It?s just that Lulu looks up to her. I wouldn?t want Lulu to follow a different culture.>> COACH: Mum please, I am very tired. I can?t deal with your issues tonight.>> COACH?S MOTHER: That is okay. But make sure that you deal with them tomorrow.>> COACH: Ma, what do you want me to do?>> COACH?S MOTHER: I don?t know, but I don?t want her to be around Lulu so much.>> COACH: I don?t want Lulu to have hatred in her heart. >> COACH?S MOTHER: No, it isn?t that son. It?s just that those people, when you promote them to captain, tomorrow they?ll want to be president.>> KEZIA: Priest, who taught you how to juggle like that? >> PRIEST: What?s that? ?Juggler?? That?s a personal talent. I was born with it. I know I got you guys there! Isn?t it? Mayhem!>> KEZIA: Yes Priest, you got me there. Priest, you are an angel.>> PRIEST: What?>> KEZIA: My friend you are an angel. And help me with your cigarette.>> PRIEST: You said I?m what? >> KEZIA: An angel. >> PRIEST: Kezia, you say I?m an angel? Which angel smokes bhang? An angel who takes weed? Kezia, you are not serious.>> KEZIA: And one who breaks all the school rules. >> PRIEST: All of them.>> KEZIA: Apart from that, help me with your phone.>> PREIST: Phone? Girl, that?s where you?ve gone wrong.>> KEZIA: Please. Priest, you are my friend.>> PRIEST: What if you are caught with this thing?>> KEZIA: I won?t, I promise.>> PRIEST: Kezia, if they discover the phone you will be caught, please be careful.>> KEZIA Okay thanks.>> PRIEST: Be careful, if you get caught I get caught too.>> KEZIA: Thanks.>> PRIEST: An angel who takes weed? Preisterera.>> KEZIA: I?m coming. I won?t be long.>> PRIEST: Yes. >> KEZIA: Rodez, get well soon.>> MR. BUKENYA: Ladies and gentlemen of the press. Thank you for making it here today. >> KEZIA: Let?s go.>> PRIEST: Look, look.>> KEZIA: What? This is our team.>> PRIEST: That is Abbas.>> KEZIA: And that is Johari. What are they doing with Bukenya?>> BUKENYA: I have convened this press conference to condemn the attack on Rodez. He is the brother of Kezia, who plays on my team, Imani FC. I am doing all I can to help Kezia in this very, very difficult time. He is in critical condition, but stable. This is such a tragedy, I must say, and I would like to make a call to the end of such violence. Well I will let them speak for themselves. Johari.>> JOHARI: For me, tribal violence is real; it is here with us. I have been personally affected by the tribal violence, and we lost everything. >> JOURNALIST 1: So winning the scholarship must be very important to you?>> JOHARI: Yes it is, but not only for me. It is important for the rest of the players.>> JOURNALIST 1: Even to you Abbas?>> ABBAS: Yes. Why not?>> JOURNALIST 2: Abbas, is it true that you got onto this team only because of your father's money?>> ABBAS: I got onto this team because I am a good football player. But having said that, it is true that money makes the world go round, and it doesn't hurt that I have access to it. Actually, to a lot of it.>> BUKENYA: And speaking about money, I would like to point out that this is the best-paid team in this region. There is no other co-ed team in this competition that pays their players an allowance of 2,000 shilling per week, per week.>> JOHARI: Um, sir, you mean 1,500 shillings? >> BUKENYA: No Johari. I said 2,000 shillings.>> KEZIA: These people aren?t serious.>> JOURNALIST 1: So which one is it, is it 1,500 or 2,000?>> BUKENYA: I said two thousand shillings.>> PRIEST: We must tell everyone. This isn?t possible.>> KEZIA: This is a joke. Let?s listen to Bukenya.>> BUKENYA: Right, so that?s it. Thank you very much. It?s very trying times, thank you for making it here.>> PRIEST: Let?s go.>> KEZIA: Yes, let?s go.>> PRIEST: So it?s two thousand shillings. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/skateistan A strange sight appears amidst the violence and poverty of Kabul: girls and boys gliding through the war-torn city on flat boards with wheels on the bottom, their shoes seemingly glued to the surface. But even more unusual than the sight of Afghan teenage skateboarders is the expression on their faces. They're smiling. Wed, 25 May 2011 08:44:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/skateistan Afghanistan, Education, Skateistan, Hazara people, Kabul, Pashtun people, Skateboarding, Change Makers, Gender, Journeyman Pictures >> TITLE: Skateistan>> VOICEOVER: The city of Kabul is reeling from decades of warfare. Thousands of its children face a life with few prospects. But some are finding hope in an unlikely place.>> WAIS [Skateboarder]: People keep looking at our shoes and boards in a weird way. They think that they are attached to the boards through some sort of magnetic field. One day without skateboarding is like a month without skateboarding for me. My family and I used to work at Mikroyan, my father and three brothers washed cars for a living. We made a living but the work was intense. Before, my life was hard, but it's better now because of Skateistan.>> VOICEOVER: The Skateistan project is transforming the lives of hundreds of children like Wais through a unique sporting and education initiative.>> SHARNA NOLAN [Skateistan Co-founder]: Skateistan is Afghanistan's first skateboarding school and was brought together by a bunch of expatriate aid workers living in Kabul that had the common love of skateboarding and wanted to share something with the Afghan children here.>> VOICEOVER: Another one of Skateistan's pupils is Murza, a 17-year-old boy who has known nothing but a lifetime of war.>> MURZA [Skateboarder]: We can't escape the violent situation. I am so used to it that it doesn't scare me anymore. It's been happening throughout my life and will continue into the future.>> VOICEOVER: But Murza's involvement in Skateistan has renewed his hope.>> MURZA: Life is hard in Kabul. It is solely because of the support of Skateistan that I am standing now.>> SHARNA NOLAN: Skateistan builds on the positive interactions that kids experience through skateboarding and we also build in education. We expose our students to a whole range of new ideas and new subjects that are typically under-resourced in Afghan regular schooling. Kabul's a city that was designed for around two million people max and at the moment they estimate there's anywhere between 3.5 million to five million people living here. The roads aren't clean, there are no real waste disposal systems, and water and sanitation is an issue. The majority of people are doing quite poorly still and it's a real struggle day-to-day. We're able to bring working children that have not been to school or have limited educational opportunities into a classroom with more educated children. We're able to bring children that typically wouldn't mix in Afghan neighborhoods, so among our 240 students we have Hazaras, Uzbeks, Pashtuns, Tajiks, all playing together, all building relationships and all having fun through skateboarding and through the classroom activities that we do. >> VOICEOVER: One of the most remarkable things about Skateistan is its inclusion of women in sport, something that only a few years ago would have been unthinkable.>> FAZILLA [Skateboarder]: My name is Fazilla, I am 12 years old and I live in Qalai Zaman Khan. >> SHAMS RAZI [Teacher, Skateistan]: Fazilla comes from a very poor family. They have a lot of problems in the family, so we are providing the money for her to go to the school.>> SHARNA NOLAN: When I first met Fazilla, she was incredibly shy. Skateboarding has given her an outlet to express herself through sporting achievement but also to think ahead to her future.>> VOICEOVER: While the Skateistan project has enjoyed support from the wider community, there has been opposition from some corners, especially towards girls skateboarding.>> FAZILLA: I believe that people have negative thoughts; they disagree with girls wanting to pursue skateboarding as a hobby. My family is mostly on my side, however my father disagrees with this hobby. When I am skating on the streets, I can feel people questioning my right to skate. Their opinions are meaningless to me. I really like skating and I won't stop.>> VOICEOVER: Fazilla is not the only one who has found people questioning her right to skate. Mariam was a top pupil at Skateistan until her brother forced her to stop, as he didn't believe girls should skateboard.>> MARIAM [Skateboarder]: My family wants me to stay at home and do housework. I am often upset at home because I want to skate.>> SOPHIE FRIEDL [Volunteer, Skateistan]: She used to be skating for two years now, I think, and since we got the skate park she's not allowed to come skateboarding anymore because her brothers don't want her to take part in any sports. That's sadly still the attitude of quite a few families here.>> VOICEOVER: Old prejudices may not have completely disappeared, but the fact that girls are now involved in sport at all, is a sign of shifting moods in Kabul. In a country with few opportunities for young people, Skateistan represents a way for children to build their confidence and form new ways of seeing the world.>> SHARNA NOLAN: We really believe that if these children are going to inherit the problems that they will, particularly in a country which has been through 30 years of war, it's important to show them new qualities of what it takes to be a leader.>> MURZA: We the people of Afghanistan must unite to rebuild the country.>> VOICEOVER: The problems Afghanistan faces are enormous. However, in classrooms of Skateistan, children are growing up learning the skills they need to help rebuild their devastated country.>> MURZA: My hope is that someone who is able to bring peace leads my country.>> VOICEOVER: Until there is peace, nothing can be certain. Hope is being kept alive in this school, with a difference. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-6-desperate-situations After coach punishes the team for having a party by cutting short their leave, Kezia and Oli happen upon a group of people beating up Kezia's brother Rodez. The team must confront the reality of mob justice and an unfair health care system, and joins together to help Rodez. Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-6-desperate-situations Kenya, Health, Poverty, Ethnic group, Ethnic conflict, Change Makers, Gender equality, The Team: Kenya, Education, LinkTV Picks >> COACH: I trusted your judgment. >> JOHARI: I didn't know it would turn out that wild, coach. >> COACH: What was the fracas about? >> JOHARI: It was started by a wrong joke at the wrong time. >> COACH: When will you people going to learn how to act as a team and not individuals? >> JOHARI: I?m sorry coach. >> COACH: Go and assemble the players out there. So who started the fight? >> ABBAS: Coach, I think it was Ben who started it. >> KEZIA: Definitely the boys. >> BEN: Me, I just saw blows flying from every direction. >> PRIEST: I wish I knew.>> JOHARI: Me, I?m not sure. >> COACH: Who brought alcohol to the camp? >> BEN: I don?t know.>> KEZIA: Coach, definitely the boys. >> JOHARI: There was alcohol? I had no idea. >> COACH: I understand some of you were seen coming through the gate at eight in the night. >> PRIEST: Yes coach. You see, we were just sitting and then we heard the sound of a car at the gate, so we rushed there to check what was wrong with the car. Suddenly we saw a bag fly from the fence to the compound. We wondered what was happening. So we took the bag and we came to the dining room to find out what was in it. By that time, guys were dancing to the music. >> COACH: What else would they be dancing to? >> PRIEST: The music coach, the music. Now coach, we took the bag to the dining room. In the haste of opening the bag, coach, lo and behold, gases came out of the bag in a very unique design. We were all surprised. Blue, red gases came out of the bag, and then people started getting drunk. When everyone was drunk, the fistfight began, followed by slaps and kicks. It became a mix coach. People started meeting differently. Generally, coach, that's what happened. >> COACH: That was a very good performance. Only how I wish you?d perform the same as a team. You are to report back from your day off tomorrow evening. However, courtesy of Priest, you will report back tomorrow in the morning at nine am sharp. Dismissed. Priest! >> PRIEST: Yes coach? >> COACH: Can you try writing fiction? You would sell volumes. Leave! >> BETH: I disagree with you punishing the innocent and guilty alike. >> COACH: Beth, if these boys and girls don?t socialize as a team, how do you expect them to win as a team? >> JOHARI: What were you fighting about yesterday? >> BEN: If you just knew how my head is feeling, you wouldn?t ask me that question. >> JOHARI: Your drunken situation last night put me in the bad books with coach.>> BEN: Are you going to defend me if you?re talking like that?>> JOHARI: No way. I'm responsible for everybody. No favors. >> BEN: Enough of you bossing me around! >> JOHARI: Stop behaving like a kid and grow up! >> BEN: Have you considered the fact that it's because of "your" mixed tribe? >> JOHARI: Ben, you have crossed the line. Have you heard, get used to it. >> BEN: Brother, huh? Sometimes blood is thinner than mostly assumed. >> JOHARI: But we are family Ben! >> BEN: I already have family within the camp. Furthermore, "Miss Captain," thanks to you some of us are missing our weekend outing. >> KEZIA: Have you heard the rumor? Captain is going to be sacked because of last night?s party.>> OLI: What do you expect after such a wild party? >> KEZIA: The party was tight. >> OLI: Hey, what's going on over there?>> WOMAN: This guy is the stupid guy, and he belongs to the bad tribe. Burn him! Kick him! >> OLI: Stop it! You can't do this!>> MAN: Philosopher, go away with that. Kick him! Take your philosophy away from here. Beat him! Kick him! >> JOHARI: Abbas! Hey, Abbas! >> ABBAS: Sorry. What's going on? >> JOHARI: Nothing much. Yesterday night, whatever happened, it was a mistake. But I still feel we can be -- >> ABBAS: We can still be friends? >> JOHARI: Yes. How did you figure that out? >> ABBAS: Actually I feel the same way. >> JOHARI: Really? I feel the same way too. >> ABBAS: So are we cool? Are we good?>> JOHARI: Yes. See you later.>> ABBAS: Okay, talk to you later.>> KEZIA: You?ll be okay. I?m going to talk to the nurse. Nurse, please?>> NURSE: Hold on, I?ll be back.>> WOMAN: Excuse me. I?m a patient.>> RECEPTIONIST: Have a seat there.>> KEZIA: Come on nurse, please, there must be something you can do to help him? >> NURSE: It is hospital policy. I'd love to assist your boyfriend -- >> KEZIA: He's my brother. Please nurse, please. >> NURSE: We can't admit him yet, but in the meantime let me give him some pain relievers. >> KEZIA; Thank you nurse. Excuse me, how much will that be? >> RECEPTIONIST: Two hundred to open his file, doctor's consultant fee, there is the food fee -- >> KEZIA: Roughly how much? >> RECEPTIONIST: Twelve thousand shillings. >> KEZIA: Is there a phone anywhere around here? >> RECEPTIONIST: Behind there.>> KEZIA: Behind where?>> RECEPTIONIST: Behind the wall.>> KEZIA: Thank you. >> OLI: Guys, we have a situation! >> BETH: Calm down, Oli. Relax. >> OLI: It is about Rodez, Kezia?s brother. >> JOHARI: What has happened? >> OLI: They almost lynched him right in front of my eyes! They grabbed me, but luckily I got away. >> BETH: What about Kezia? Is she ok? >> OLI: She?s with him at the hospital. I tried to stop them but they wouldn't listen. >> PRIEST: Did those guys hurt you?>> OLI: No, they grabbed me. I just got away. >> PRIEST: Easy man. Those people don?t have mercy. Easy man.>> JACKIE: Poor Kezia.>> PRIEST: You know those guys would have hurt you bad. Guys, this is a serious issue. What do you say? You know the hospitals nowadays. Without money they can't help you. I know they haven?t attended to that boy. We all know Kezia is our sister. We can?t abandon her. Let's do something, what do you say?>> BETH: I think Priest has a good idea. What do you think we should do?>> BEN: By the way you guys, we get allowances, so let's help out as a team. What do you think?>> JACKIE: I think we should first raise the admission fee. What do you think? I pledge five hundred shillings.>> PRIEST: You?re giving five hundred shillings, that?s good.>> JOHARI: Who does not have five hundred?>> OLI: Two hundred.>> PRIEST: That?s good.>> ABBAS: I can get like one thousand, probably.>> BEN: Same here.>> TINA: Fifty. >> PRIEST: Fifty shillings, that?s not bad.>> TRIZA: One hundred.>> BETH: So do you need a minute to get the money from the rooms? >> KEZIA: Hello coach, it's me Kezia. My brother has been beaten by a mob. I?m at the hospital and I don?t have the money. Please coach; I don?t have anyone else. I am at the city hospital. Fine thanks. >> COACH: Yes, I'm on my way to the hospital now. Is Oli okay? Was he injured? >> BETH: Not physically. Yes, they started a fundraiser. >> COACH: Really? That?s good. Take care of things for me there. All right.>> JOHARI: Thank you guys very much. Oli, please count the money for us. >> BETH: That was coach. He's on his way to the hospital.>> COACH: Mum! Welcome! >> MOTHER: Thank you! How is my boy doing? >> COACH: I am very fine mum, welcome. It?s a surprise. >> MOTHER: My grandchild. How is it going? Are you well? >> LULU: I am fine grandma. >> MOTHER: And you have become thinner. >> COACH: Mum, this child is fine. >> MOTHER: Girl, help me carry my things. They don?t feed you?>> COACH: This child is fine. Mum, I have to run to the office.>> MOTHER: Why? I have just arrived. >> COACH: But Ma, you didn't even inform me you were coming. >> MOTHER: You have forgotten. We arranged this visit last month, have you forgotten? Will I stay outside here or will I get in? >> COACH: No ma, go in. The brother of one of our players has been attacked. >> MOTHER: You know I don?t like it when you get involved in fighting. Don?t you remember all we?ve been through? >> COACH: It?s true Ma, but I have to go and help out. I am running to the hospital. >> MOTHER: And this player, where is she from? In which part of Kenya does she come from? Where was she born? >> COACH: Ma, that doesn't matter. You get in. I will try to hurry up, and then we can chat. Welcome Ma. Lulu, keep your grandma company.>> OLI: 4,350.>> COACH: Hello, a man was brought here badly injured.>> RECEPTIONIST: And who are you to him?>> COACH: I?m a relative.>> RECEPTIONIST: Yes he?s here. And he?s here to be admitted.>> COACH: Here, use my card. Where is he?>> RECEPTIONIST: Over there.>> COACH: Thank you.>> NURSE: Give me the paper I asked for.>> RECEPTIONIST: The deposit has already been paid.>> NURSE: Oh, okay.>> BETH: Oli, are you okay? I?m going to the hospital. Do you want to come? Come on, he will be fine. Let's go, it will be fine. Don?t worry yourself too much. Rodez will be fine. >> DOCTOR: Are you the family of Rodez? This is the situation: Rodez has suffered injuries to the head and also to the body and this has lead to multiple fractures and internal bleeding. >> KEZIA: Is he okay? Can I see him?>> DOCTOR: Not at the moment. We need to operate so we have put him in what we call an "induced comma" before we operate.>> COACH: Meaning? >> DOCTOR: Don?t worry; he is a strong young man. He will pull through. My advice to you, go home, take a rest. He?s in safe hands.>> JOHARI: Come in. Oli, how are you? What is it? >> OLI: Rodez is a mess. The world sucks. >> JOHARI: And how is Kezia? >> OLI: What do you think? >> JOHARI: Trouble knows no boundaries. Today it's me and tomorrow it's you. >> OLI: Yeah. >> JOHARI: Oli, what's eating you? >> OLI: I don?t know. >> JOHARI: What don't you know about? >> OLI: How could he go back there?>> JOHARI: Who are you talking about? What are you talking about? >> OLI: Rodez. It keeps playing in my mind. He knew the people who attacked him. Most of them are his friends. How will he ever go back to his neighborhood if he lives through this? Or Kezia? >> JOHARI: Listen, man is a victim or a villain, one way or another. >> OLI: Do you hate them for what they did to you and your family? >> JOHARI: No. I feel sorry for them. >> OLI: I would hate them. I will hate those people who did this to Rodez if he dies. >> JOHARI: And what will you get from that Oli? Come on, you need to go and get some rest. Come on, let's go.>> OLI: Thanks.>> JOHARI: You?re welcome.>> OLI?S MOTHER: Hello baby. >> OLI: Fine mother. Mom, I'm done with law school. >> OLI'S MOTHER: Don't be silly. You're just in shock. >> OLI: No, I am not in shock, I'm completely rational, mother. >> OLI'S MOTHER: Hold on, darling. I'm talking to your stepson. >> OLI: Sorry for interrupting, mother. >> OLI'S MOTHER: Sarcasm won't do. Have you talked to your father? >> OLI: For what? For a long time now, I have been forced to do what he wants. This time around, I'm doing it my way. Goodbye mother. >> PRIEST: Unfortunately Oli, it's a cruel world and you may never be able to understand everything or everyone. >> OLI: I don?t get it Priest. Why get degree in law if you can?t do anything? You can't help but watch innocent people getting more victimized each and every day. It's just not getting into my system. >> PRIEST: Unfortunately, that?s life Oli. You can't be able to understand it. >> OLI: Whatever, Priest. I?ve made up my mind. I have decided to follow my dream, rather than what my parent's want. It's my life and especially from now on, my football! >> PRIEST: It's your call, brother. It's your call. >> OLI: My destiny, period. >> TINA: Oli, this is no solution. >> OLI: There is no convincing me otherwise. >> TINA: But you know there is no way to reverse this. >> OLI: I've made up my mind. >> KEZIA: Oli, I made the same mistake once. Please think before you make this decision. >> PRIEST: Oliver, if you burn those books, no one will be able to differentiate you from that lynch mob. No one. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-5-celebration Coach is pleased with Johari's performance as captain, so when she asks for permission to host a small party to celebrate victory, coach agrees on condition that the team doesn't get disorderly. Abbas and Priest break the rules by bringing alcohol and drugs, and soon enough, tensions rise. Just as the team is starting to gel, will this party undo everything that has been achieved? Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-5-celebration Kenya, Gender, Ethnic conflict, Education, The Team: Kenya, Change Makers, Ethnic group, Soccer, LinkTV Picks, search for common ground >> COACH: Johari. >> JOHARI: Yes, coach?>> COACH: So, are you up to it?>> JOHARI: I guess so. The team has been very supportive.>> COACH: So, I bet the lineup remains the same, unless you have something to tell me. >> JOHARI: No, nothing I can think of at the moment.>> COACH: By the way, I have noticed my daughter is so fond of you.>> JOHARI: She is an adorable little girl. I like her very much.>> COACH: True, true, she is a nice girl, though she can be stubborn at times.>> JOHARI: Yes, children are always like that at times. But if I may ask coach, where is her mother? Sorry coach, I have offended you. I guess I must be going.>> COACH: No, it's okay, its okay Johari. You know, the trust Lulu has in you made me choose someone I can trust as the captain.>> JOHARI: Thank you very much. >> COACH: Fate has a way of bringing people from the same blood together. I believe it's only natural. We should be proud that out of the two of us, one is the coach and the other one is the captain. >> JOHARI: And what do you mean by one of us?>> COACH: You see, we were about to celebrate seven years of our marriage. I had taken the team away for a friendly match when it all started. Had we been together, she wouldn't have died.>> JOHARI: I am very sorry coach.>> COACH: That is why I?m insisting that we have to stick together! Blood is thicker than water.>> JOHARI: I see. But I'm not from there; I'm from the other side of the country.>> COACH: Oh, I see. How come I hadn't noticed this?>> BETH: What? >> COACH: Oh, nothing. Nothing.>> JOHARI: What?>> ABBAS: Come on Johari. Relax. I was just thinking, isn?t it time we go onto the field? >> JOHARI: If I wanted to know what you were thinking I would have asked you. I?m sorry. I'm just a little bit nervous.>> ABBAS: I know, I?ve been there before. >> JOHARI: But where's coach?>> ABBAS: Don't worry about coach. You're now the captain, and our leader. You can make the decisions.>> JOHARI: So what should I do?>> ABBAS: You should give the guys a pep talk. Psych them up so that we can go and unleash on our opponents.>> JOHARI: Abbas, what should I say?>> ABBAS: No, I have faith in you. You know what to say.>> LULU: Dad, are you okay? Dad, are you okay?>> COACH: What? I'm sorry I didn't hear you.>> LULU: You've been quiet since morning.>> COACH: I?m nervous; I think it's because of the match.>> LULU: I am not nervous. Good luck daddy.>> COACH: Thank you.>> MR. BUKENYA: There you are. I just wanted to let you know that we'll be watching the match. >> COACH: Good, I'm sure the team will be thrilled.>> MR. JUMA: Aren't you supposed to be in the changing room with the rest of the team?>> COACH: Well that?s how I work; I hope you don't have a problem with that?>> MR. BUKENYA: Coach, you realize that we have to win this match?>> JOHARI: Hey guys, listen people. We have a game to play. Whether one plays as a striker, midfield, or on the bench it doesn?t matter. We are all what?>> TEAM: One team.>> JOHARI: We've played one game so far and we have lost. Let's not make it a constant. Let's go out there and play as a team, work as a team. If anything happens on the field, let's fix it and move on. What do you think? Even as we go on the field, people should know that we, Imani, are the greatest. >> TITLE: Halftime: Imani FC 0; Simba FC: 0. >> COACH: Well done guys. No, I mean it. That was good, all right? But that was just the first half, and I can see most of you are dead on your feet.>> PRIEST: No coach, I'm not.>> COACH: Probably. But are you playing alone? So what does that mean?>> JOHARI: We have to score.>> COACH: Exactly. You must score! Now, these guys are unable to crack your defense, but I'm sure they have noticed you guys are exhausted. So what will they try to do?>> KEZIA: Take advantage and beat us? >> COACH: Yes, and we can't let that happen. I want you to dig deep into your reserves and play this game as if it's your last game. In this and every match you have to score. Ready?>> TEAM: Yes coach!>> COACH: Are you ready?>> TEAM: Yes coach!>> COACH: Are you ready?>> TEAM: Yes coach!>> COACH: So lets go there and --?>> TEAM: Win!>> COACH: Johari! Look here, if you are unable to make this team click, maybe I should -- Show me that you deserve the post.>> JOHARI: Yes coach. >> TITLE: Fulltime: Imani FC: 1; Simba FC 0. >> JOHARI: Come in. >> ABBAS: Do I come right in?>> JOHARI: Come in.>> ABBAS: I hear you wanted to see me?>> JOHARI: Yes I did, please have a seat. >> ABBAS: What's up?>> JOHARI First, I really wanted to thank you for the support that you gave me.>> ABBAS: No problem. I have nothing against you being captain and I'll help you in any way I can.>> JOHARI: Cool. Now here's what I was thinking: I want us to have a party.>> ABBAS: Who is "us"?>> JOHARI: The team of course.>> ABBAS: When would you like us to have this party?>> JOHARI: Tonight. I think its going to be good for team spirit and team bonding.>> ABBAS: Wow. Well, I have nothing against a good party, but I don't want to cross coach, especially since we started off so badly. >> JOHARI: Come on man. Relax. I'll go and talk to coach. If he agrees, you'll help me convince the rest of the team. I really wanted to thank you. I better go see the coach.>> PRIEST: This one has to give me a high; there is no secret here. >> ABBAS: Priest, why have you locked the door?>> PRIEST: What?s up man, even I need privacy, sometimes, no?>> ABBAS: What for?>> PRIEST: If I tell you, then there is no reason why it did it, what do you think? >> ABBAS: There is a possibility we might have a party.>> PRIEST: Are you kidding?>> ABBAS: For real. Johari has gone to speak to the coach. >> COACH: Ah, Johari! >> JOHARI: Yes coach?>> COACH: I was coming to congratulate you for the way you handled the team.>> JOHARI: Thank you.>> COACH: And also to apologize to the team for not being there in the changing room when the match began.>> JOHARI: That's okay.>> COACH: I?m also glad the talk we had yesterday didn't affect you and the team.>> JOHARI: Come on coach, how could it? We just came to understand each other better. Now I know where you?re coming from. >> COACH: Thank you. Apologize to the team on my behalf.>> JOHARI: I'll do that. Coach, can the team have a party tonight?>> COACH: Why?>> JOHARI: To celebrate.>> COACH: Wait a minute; this is not a party club but a football team. >> JOHARI: Just this once coach. Please?>> COACH: And whom do you intend to invite to this party? >> JOHARI: Some members of the team who have gone through the camp came to watch the match and they are here with us, so we would like to invite them.>> COACH: All right, you can go ahead. On one condition: no messing around.>> JOHARI: Thank you so much!>> ABBAS: Can you organize some stuff for the party?>> PRIEST: Abbas, what do you want?>> ABBAS: Something soft, I don?t want anything hard.>> PRIEST: Soft, not like ours, the hard ones.>> ABBAS: No, not like the hard ones. Come in.>> JOHARI: Hey guys, guess what?>> PRIEST: Guess it.>> JOHARI: The coach has agreed that we can have a party. How much does everyone contribute?>> ABBAS: What about 1K each?>> PRIEST: Stop being silly, not everyone is given that kind of money. A thousand shillings, what are you guys talking about?>> JOHARI: Let's make it five hundred.>> ABBAS: Five hundred? What kind of party do you organize with five hundred? >> PRIEST: Money is money.>> JOHARI: Just a simple party, Abbas. Snacks, nothing much.>> ABBAS: Okay. >> JOHARI: Fine. You go tell the guys and I'll go tell the girls.>> PRIEST: Okay, cool.>> ABBAS: So you will organize those things?>> OLI: Come on, you can't just throw your sweaty and smelly kit in the room like that.>> BEN: Hey, it's on my side of the room. So just mind your own business.>> OLI: Come in.>> ABBAS: Hey guys, what's that? Anyway, I need your help to fund raise. We're having a party tonight.>> BEN: Great! How much?>> ABBAS: Five hundred shillings only.>> OLI: For me I guess I?ll have to stay behind and study and maybe I?ll join you guys late.>> ABBAS: No problem, you can come at anytime you want.>> OLI: Actually that is the problem. Do I still contribute the same amount as everybody else? The refreshments?>> ABBAS: What about them?>> OLI: How will they assure that everybody consumes the same amount they contributed, and not more or less?>> BEN: Listen, if you don't want to contribute, you can stay here and study. It's not like anybody is going to miss you.>> OLI: Whatever. Will I get a receipt? >> ABBAS: Come on Oli. Grow up. See you later.>> OLI: Hey man. We are living in the era of accountability and transparency>> BEN: Shut up!>> PRIEST: I?m very fine. It is Priest here man! So what?s up? I would like to know if you could organize those things. We have a party going on. Yes, man. I want KK, weed, whisky, but not the hard stuff. Thank you man, no problem man, nice man, okay brother. Party time!>> JOHARI: Come in! I?m fine, what?s up?>> ABBAS: The guys have raised the funds. The party is on.>> JOHARI: That?s good news. One more thing: Tina is not coming. She cannot afford to pay. Hello? Did you hear me?>> ABBAS: Don?t worry about Tina. I'll pay for her.>> JOHARI: Why? She's your date?>> ABBAS: No, it isn't like that. She has to be at the party as one of the team members.>> JOHARI: I guess you're right.>> ABBAS: So you will tell her?>> JOHARI: Yes I will. >> ABBAS: Let me go and get ready. Wear the maroon miniskirt. You look hot in it.>> MR. BUKENYA: The game was excellent today.>> COACH: True, I loved it.>> MR. BUKENYA: That girl, what?s her name? >> COACH: Kezia?>> MR. BUKENYA: Yes, Kezia. She was brilliant today. For a woman, I would have thought she was one of the boys. Anyway, to a deserved win!>> COACH: Cheers. >> MR. BUKENYA: It?s a pity that the press did not come as I expected.>> COACH: Mr. Bukenya, that was just a friendly match.>> MR. BUKENYA: My friend, every page and every space on that television counts.>> COACH: True. That would be exposing ourselves too much to the advantage of our opponents.>> BETH: That is true, Mr. Bukenya. Let us wait for the right time. The team is still too young for all that glare of publicity.>> COACH: I know what this team means to you.>> MR. BUKENYA: Excuse me. >> COACH: Now, were you honest when you sided with me or where you doing that because he was here?>> BETH: Honestly. I think you?re right. But to an extent I agree with him.>> COACH: So you think the team needs such publicity at such a tender age?>> BETH: It's harmless you know.>> COACH: So you are not sincere. >> WATCHMAN: Are you back?>> PRIEST: Yes, we are back to the system.>> WATCHMAN: Just wait a minute, what is this you are carrying? These ones, where are you taking these things?>> PRIEST: These things belong to the coach, man.>> WATCHMAN: They belong to who?>> PRIEST: These things belong to the coach, man.>> WATCHMAN: How will I know they belong to the coach?>> PRIEST: Here is the letter, man.>> WATCHMAN: You have a letter?>> PRIEST: These things belong to the coach, watchman. All these years we still don?t understand each other. These belong to the coach.>> WATCHMAN: It?s for the coach, yes? Priest, you said these belong to the coach. If it is so, then you can take them to him.>> KEZIA: Excellent, now is the time for a makeover. >> JOHARI: Tina, someone has paid for you, so you can attend the party. >> TINA: Who has paid for me?>> JOHARI: Don?t worry.>> TINA: You wont leave me?>> JOHARI: Who are you scared of? You know everybody.>> TINA: It's not like that. I want you to promise you won't leave me.>> JOHARI: Okay then, if you come, I will be with you.>> KEZIA: Excellent. Now Tina, it is time for us to dress ourselves up. Let me show you how. >> TINA: But I look fine.>> JOHARI: Kezia is right. Come, we can dress you up. >> KEZIA: You know this is the only chance we have, let me show you. Oh God, you will see. I want to give you a makeover and then I will lend you a really hot dress. Sit here, sit properly and stop licking the makeup off. >> TINA: But you know I am not used to these things. But it will be nice.>> KEZIA: Sit tight.>> TINA: Will I look as nice as you?>> KEZIA: God, is that a question or an answer? Can't you see how good I look?>> TINA: Yes, you look good.>> COACH: By the way, for how long have you two known each other?>> BETH: Is that really important?>> COACH: I just want to know the person I am working with.>> BETH: My name is Beth, and that is good enough.>> COACH: Thanks for the lovely dinner sir, but I have to leave. Goodnight.>> MR. BUKENYA: I thought you were also staying a bit longer?>> BETH: Next time dear, I need to sort out some issues. Sleep tight.>> BEN: Wow! You're looking hot!>> TINA: Thanks.>> BEN: So, can I have this dance?>> TINA: No, leave me alone.>> BEN: Just once. >> TINA: No, leave me alone.>> BEN: Just once. >> JOHARI: Ben! Can't you take no for an answer? >> BEN: What's wrong with you? What is she to you?>> TINA: Thank you Johari.>> JOHARI: Don?t worry. I want you to have fun, okay? What drink will you have?>> TINA: Whatever you have.>> JOHARI: Okay, then come. Abbas, you guys are drinking alcohol? >> ABBAS: Come on, Johari. Relax. Why are you being so uptight?>> JOHARI: Just taste this.>> ABBAS: These are just juice and snacks. What?s the big deal? >> JOHARI: I don?t want problems with the coach.>> ABBAS: Don?t worry about coach. You just relax. Look, look how guys are having a good time. I think we need some proper food now. Can you please take me to get some? Please? You have to trust me. Don?t worry. You are the boss now.>> PRIEST: Wow Kezia, you're looking hot.>> KEZIA: You're also looking hot.>> PRIEST: Now Kezia, let me ask, what time did you come here and the way the party is great. >> KEZIA: And let me ask you, why does your mother come to see you all the time? >> PRIEST: Mother? Stop asking so many questions and enjoy yourself. Now what, you came out here alone. Hey, why don?t you try weed today, just for today, come on.>> KEZIA: Priest, that won't knock me out?>> PRIEST: Nothing like that, this thing? Just try.>> KEZIA: Just this once.>> PRIEST: If you say it's only this once you are going to get used to it, you will be looking for me. >> KEZIA: Oh go away.>> PRIEST: It's not a lie.>> JOHARI: There?s Tina, there?s Kezia, Ben. Abbas, you know the rules.>> ABBAS: Come on, nobody saw us come in. And we have the room to ourselves. >> JOHARI: Abbas, I don?t want to get into trouble. I want to concentrate on my football. >> ABBAS: So do I.>> COACH: Well, I?m sorry if I sounded a bit intrusive. I hope you understand. >> BETH: I understand, there is so much pressure you are under.>> COACH: True, true. I mean we have an enormous task to carry out and I just wanted to know whether we are together in this. >> BETH: Trust me, we are a team.>> COACH & BETH: I was thinking -- Sorry, you first.>> BEN: Would you like to dance? >> TINA: No, I don?t want to dance.>> BEN: Let?s dance. Don?t be like that.>> TINA: Leave me alone.>> BEN: Just for a short time.>> KEZIA: What?s wrong Tina?>> TINA: It?s this boy who is annoying.>> BEN: Man, this is a party. What?s wrong? This is a party.>> PRIEST: Ben, do you know that you are drunk?>> BEN: So what if I am drunk? >> PRIEST: Stop disturbing this girl. >> BEN: Do you know that you are proud?>> PRIEST: Don?t spoil the party.>> BEN: Why do you feel so proud? You are the people who are sellouts, yet you are feeling proud for us?>> PRIEST: We are in front men; we are in front.>> BEN: Go away, where in front?>> PRIEST: Let me tell you Ben, do you know why you are jealous? You man, are like a pig. >> COACH: What is going on? http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-4-change-of-guard In the wake of a disastrous loss in their first match together, massive changes are afoot in the leadership of Imani FC. Tension around ethnic, economic, and gender differences rises to the surface as players struggle to deal with the past. Will the roster, captain, and coach of Imani FC all be different by their next match? Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-4-change-of-guard Kenya, Youth, Soccer, Ethnic conflict, Gender, Ethnic group, The Team: Kenya, Change Makers, Education, LinkTV Picks >> PRIEST: Hey Abbas, relax man, it was just a friendly. No big deal.>> ABBAS: But I got substituted and I'm the captain. >> PRIEST: So? In fact it was me who was removed from the field. Next time you'll do better. I'm the one who got sent off. I spiked the guy.>> ABBAS: Don?t forget I?m the one who ordered it. But it says one thing about you.>> PRIEST: What?>> ABBAS: You know how to follow orders.>> PRIEST: You are silly. It?s only because you are the captain that I even agreed.>> JOHARI: Ben! Ben! Ben! Wake up. Ben wake up.>> BEN: Johari, what's wrong? What's the matter? Would you please excuse us?>> OLI: Sure. >> JOHARI: I had that dream again.>> BEN: You mean nightmare. Take it easy; it was just a dream.>> JOHARI: No, it was what happened.>> BEN: But we're okay. All of us are okay, including Mom and Dad.>> JOHARI: But I could hear them asking for our blood, Ben.>> BEN: Relax; we all got out of it, and probably stronger than we were before. >> JOHARI: I don't know what I would do without you.>> BEN: Let's hope you never get to find out.>> OLI: What was all that about?>> BEN: You will never understand.>> VOICE: And Kezia has the ball; she breaks through, she dribbles past both defenders and unleashes a scathing shot and goal! Kezia has scored. This young girl is beautiful, glamorous and amazing on and off the pitch.>> KEZIA: Tina? Tina? >> TINA: Leave me alone!>> KEZIA: What is wrong Tina? Just tell me.>> TINA: Kezia, this is not like you. One minute you are treating me well, the next you are mean to me. Do you expect me to tell you anything? I won?t. Leave me alone.>> KEZIA: Okay. I am here when you need to talk.>> TINA: Okay.>> COACH: Yesterday you played poorly, and the Bible says you will get your reward. Where is Ben? Oli, where is Ben?>> OLI: Sleeping?>> COACH: Why didn?t you wake him up? I will deal with you later. Now, does this team have a captain? And just what do you think is your role on the team? Laps. Remember, you can still be dropped from the team. >> COACH: You have five minutes to get to the pitch. If not, you are off the team. What's going on here? What?s going on? Ben, what?s going on?>> BEN: I don't know! It?s this crazy woman! I mean she just came up and hit me.>> COACH: Tina, what's going on? Tina, I'm talking to you!>> BETH: Let me handle this.>> KEZIA: Coach, Tina is normally bewitched.>> TINA: Kezia, how do you know, have you become the witchdoctor?>> BETH: Tina, Tina. You can talk to me>> TINA: What do you want me to tell you?>> BETH: What is the problem?>> TINA: I don?t have any problem.>> BETH: And the nightmares?>> TINA: You can't change anything. If you want to help me, just leave me alone.>> COACH: Yesterday?s match was a disaster! Abbas, you are the captain. What happened?>> ABBAS: Coach, I don't mean to be rude, but the problem is playing with these girls. That?s the truth. That?s the truth.>> COACH: I see. Does anybody else have any other views? >> JACKIE: The problem is the boys. They were refusing to pass us the ball even when we were in the right positions.>> ABBAS: Coach, the best example is Tina. She runs away any time a defender gets near her. How can we play like that?>> JACKIE: What did you expect, for us to rush into a defender?>> BEN: Football is a contact sport.>> ABBAS: Exactly.>> PRIEST: Let me tell you, these girls are letting us down. If you don?t want to meet head on with someone then there is nothing you are doing on the pitch. Go home, you are selling us out.>> TINA: Why should you be on the team if you want to play alone? Why don?t you just become a goalkeeper? >> COACH: Order! Tina has a point. You all failed to perform as a team.>> OLI: Not all of us coach. I was better.>> COACH: As the saying goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link!>> BETH: Thanks to technology, it doesn't have to be my word against yours.>> COACH: First, there was a total lack of teamwork. Boys, what makes you think you can play this game without the girls? And then, there are those who decide who their coach should be. And then there was just plain stupidity! I not only have one fool on the team, I have two! And what makes it worse, one of them happens to be the captain.>> PRIEST: What do want me to do?>> ABBAS: Get her off the pitch.>> PRIEST: Do I trip her? That?s easy work.>> COACH: Priest, I expected better of you than to act like Abbas' robot!>> ABBAS: She had to be stopped. She was making us look bad.>> COACH: Abbas, your attitude is all wrong. Having said that, we also had some moments of brilliance. And that, boys and girls, is how a team should play. Now, I hate to do this, but I have to. I need to cut the team to ten players. So the following four will be leaving. Tony.>> TONY: Coach.>> COACH: Jane. >> JANE: Coach, please.>> COACH: Juliet. Myna. Now, not everyone can be on the team. The remaining ten players consider yourselves very lucky. I expect to see more effort and discipline from you. One more thing: Abbas, you are no longer the captain.>> ABBAS: But why coach?>> COACH: Who is the coach of this team?>> ABBAS: It is you.>> COACH: Who makes the decision here?>> ABBAS: it is you.>> COACH: Good! Now, do you understand that your conduct on the pitch was not that of a captain or a leader, but that of a gangster or a vigilante? That I will not allow on my team.>> ABBAS: I think -->> COACH: I will only discuss this if what I?m saying isn't true. Priest! Don?t go on leg breaking errands. Johari!>> JOHARI: Yes coach?>> COACH: You are the captain.>> ABBAS: Coach, you can't do this to me! >> COACH: And who are you to tell me what I can or cannot do?>> ABBAS: But I was elected!>> COACH: My first mistake. This is a football team, not a political party.>> ABBAS: This is unfair! You are being so hard on me.>> COACH: If I were being hard on you, you would have been one of the four I dropped. >> ABBAS: No, listen. I?m sorry. All I?m asking for is that you give me another chance.>> COACH: That you're still on the team is your other chance.>> OLI: Hey, congrats. I?m proud of you.>> JOHARI: Thanks. Oli, I can't be captain. I don't even want to be captain.>> OLI: You'll make a very good captain.>>J OHARI: You think so?>> OLI: I liked the way you handled the team during the friendly. That was brave of you.>> JOHARI: But I let in four goals!>> OLI: If it weren?t for you, it would have been much worse. I thought I was the only one who thought so, but thank God coach thought so too. >> JOHARI: What about the rest of the team?>> OLI: They're all behind you. Trust me, they are.>> JOHARI: What about Abbas?>> OLI: Don?t mind him. He?ll sort himself out. Now cheer up. It?s your happy day. See you around.>> BEN: Hey sis. Or should I call you captain?>> JOHARI: Don't you start?>> BEN: Did you ever imagine you would be captain of this team?>> JOHARI: Not at all.>> BEN: Neither did I. But it works for us, right?>> JOHARI: What do you mean?>> BEN: Hey, I'm you brother, your twin. Doesn't that count for something?>> JOHARI: Yes it does. It means that as the captain, I'll have to make sure I'm not accused of favoritism. So you have to work harder than before.>> BEN: You must be joking.>> JOHARI: No Ben, I'm not joking. You have to work harder than ever everybody else. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some things to attend to.>> MR. BUKENYA: How much?>> MAN: The total value, which is inclusive of insurance, is 22.5 million shillings. Two weeks to arrive at the boat and our commission will be five million shillings.>> MR. BUKENYA: That?s too little. >> MAN: Mr. Bukenya, considering that our only work here is to facilitate the procurement of these goods, it makes very good business sense that we accept their offer. We won?t be breaking any sweat bringing in these goods, and mark my word Mr. Bukenya; we will then be retained as their official agents in the East African region. Which would definitely be good business for all of us.>> MR. BUKENYA: Coach, how are you doing today?>> COACH: I?m good.>> MR. BUKENYA: How is the team doing?>> COACH: The team is fine; the players are in good shape.>> MR. BUKENYA: Great. You know, sometimes I, Mr. Bukenya, have to step in, for the interests of his investment. >> COACH: I don't understand.>> MR. BUKENYA: This tournament presents a very good opportunity for me -- I mean for this community -- to prove a very important point. You see, for the last ten years I have been in all kinds of businesses and charities. But none as visible as this one, when one has to deal with people directly, especially young people.>> COACH: But Mr. Bukenya, football earns nothing compared to, for example, your petroleum business.>> MR. BUKENYA: True, true. But that's not like this football tournament that we are in. I mean, the whole country is watching; there is extensive media coverage. Don't you get it? >> COACH: I see.>> MR. BUKENYA: And what better way to show that? A team is comprised of players from all corners of Kenya.>> COACH: Mr. Bukenya, I keep on losing you.>> MR. BUKENYA: That is the point. You will keep on losing me as long as you continue sacking elected leaders of the team.>> COACH: So you mean he came complaining to you?>> MR. BUKENYA: But he was elected by his teammates. >> COACH: In an election he won because he was able to buy the players.>> MR. BUKENYA: That?s beside the point. >> COACH: Fine. Abbas can be captain, as long as I'm not coaching this team. >> MR. BUKENYA: Coach. I know we can reach a compromise. >> COACH: Mr. Bukenya, not on this.>> MR. BUKENYA: Okay, have it your way.>> COACH: Have a very good day, sir.>> KEZIA: Tina, do you have to practice in the room?>> TINA: I?m just doing a little practice.>> KEZIA: It makes the room smell of sweat.>> TINA: Sorry, I am about to finish.>> KEZIA: Tina, I have a plan.>> TINA: Which one?>> KEZIA: Why don?t you go share the room with Johari?>> TINA: Why?>> KEZIA: Just like that. I feel like I?m in your way.>> TINA: How?>> KEZIA: Just like that.>> TINA: Why don?t you go share a room with Johari?>> KEZIA: No hard feelings?>> TINA: Is it because of my tribe?>> KEZIA: Listen Tina, not everything is about tribe. >> TINA: Okay, you go away.>> KEZIA: It is not hard. I will go.>> TINA: Okay, go.>> COACH: This is the line up for our next match. In goal will be Johari. Backs will be Priest and Oliver. Then Kezia, Ben, and Tina will strike, and Abbas will play midfield. If there is a problem and any of you thinks they can't play, let me know. Good. Well, I hope you play better than you played in the friendly. Good luck.>> ABBAS: Coach, I just wanted to thank you for including me on the team.>> COACH: No problem, as long as you realize it had nothing to do with your father or Mr. Bukenya. >> ABBAS: I know. In fact, I?m so sorry for running to Mr. Bukenya behind your back.>> COACH: Do you really mean that?>> ABBAS: I do. >> COACH: You might be learning something after all.>> ABBAS: Thank you. Thank you so much. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-3-friendly After a night of partying, led by Abbas, the players of Imani FC don't look up to the task of facing Nyota FC in a friendly match that very afternoon. Coach is angry with the players, and chooses a starting lineup that leaves Ben and Oli fuming. As game time approaches, the team must find a way to play together to avoid losing badly. Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-3-friendly Kenya, Education, Ethnic conflict, Soccer, Change Makers, The Team: Kenya, Gender, search for common ground, Ethnic group, Youth >> KEZIA: What is all the noise for? Stop being annoying and keep quiet.>> COACH: What did you say Kezia? >> KEZIA: Nothing coach.>> COACH: I thought so. Abbas! Abbas!>> ABBAS: Coach?>> COACH: This is your first and last warning. A repeat of last night and you will be out of here faster than you can spell your names. We have our very first friendly match today, and what do I get? A bunch of good for nothing partying misfits masquerading as players!>> OLI: Coach, with all due respect, you don't have the right to call us names.>> COACH: You, my learned friend, don't have the right to tell me anything!>> OLI: But coach, honestly, why are you ignoring our rights?>> COACH: Not after breaking all the rules of this camp. Ladies and gentlemen, let us agree that we are all doomed. Nyota FC is going to plow through you the way a matatu plows through rush hour traffic.>> KEZIA: And coach, who are Nyota FC?>> COACH: Now let's watch a bit of Nyota FC?s play. Okay, from there, can anyone tell me what their strengths are? >> ABBAS: The girls' faces?>> COACH: Abbas!>> ABBAS: Coach?>> COACH: Can you go and find out where Oli is and tell him to come back here? Anyone else? Yes?>> PRIEST: Let me ask you coach, this Nyota FC, what strength do they have that we don?t?>> COACH: Their strength? Well, it is very simple. They are everything that you?re not. As you can see, they play as one unit and everyone knows their place on the field. They are disciplined, determined, and dedicated. Most importantly, they respect each other's role.>> PRIEST: The way we have become good players yet you say we are not?>> ABBAS: Hey Oli, are you still alive?>> OLI: Barely.>> ABBAS: But last night was fun, man. >> OLI: Honestly, that was the wildest party I?ve ever been to man. My hat is off to you. >> ABBAS: Next time I will definitely take you to a much better place.>> OLI: When is there a next time? >> ABBAS: There?s always a next time.>> OLI: I surrender. I?m not attending any of your parties.>> ABBAS: Clean up. Coach is missing you.>> OLI: No way. I?m never going back.>> ABBAS: Never say "never." >> OLI: No, no, no. My head is killing me.>> COACH: That is the line up for today?s game.>> BEN: But coach -->> COACH: Yes Ben? >> BEN: The team needs me.>> OLI: Excuse me coach, what criteria have been used in naming today's team? Because I smell foul play!>> COACH: Look here Ben, you may be the best player on this team, but always remember that you are not irreplaceable.>> BEN: But coach!>> COACH: Ben! >> BEN: But coach!>> COACH: Ben! When will you learn to respect me as your coach? And as for you Oli, I do not need sick people on my team.>> OLI: Coach, I?m not sick.>> COACH: Look here; I made this decision after a very careful consideration.>> OLI: But then why -->> COACH: An hour ago you looked as if you were dying.>> OLI: Yes coach, but now I feel much better. I?m okay, I promise.>> COACH: You don't look it.>> OLI: Coach, we may not be as disciplined or dedicated as Nyota FC players, but we are determined.>> BEN: Very determined!>> OLI: That's how we got here in the first place.>> BEN: And some of us against great opposition.>> OLI: So please coach, we are begging you. Please give us this chance.>> BEN: Let us prove ourselves.>> OLI: Please coach. We need this chance.>> COACH: All right, you are in.>> OLI: Yes!>> BEN: Yes!>> COACH: But don?t make me regret my decision.>> OLI: Thanks coach!>> PRIEST'S AUNT: Hello?>> PRIEST: Hello.>> PRIEST'S AUNT: How are you?>> PRIEST: Did you receive the money I sent you?>> PRIEST'S AUNT: I got it, thank you very much. How are you doing there?>> PRIEST: I am fine. In fact, today we have a friendly.>> PRIEST'S AUNT: Don?t worry. You will win.>> PRIEST: Thank you. How are Mum and Dad?>> PRIEST'S AUNT: They are fine. Mum was telling me she has a minor cold that is disturbing her.>> PRIEST: Say hello to her and tell her to get well soon.>> PRIEST'S AUNT: I will tell her.>> PRIEST: Thank you. Let's talk later.>> PRIEST'S AUNT: No problem, my child. Thank you. >> PRIEST: And thank you for talking to Mum. >> PRIEST'S AUNT: You?re welcome. Sister, that was Priest, your son.>> PRIEST'S MOTHER: No. Not any more.>> PRIEST'S AUNT: You can't say that. He is your son. >> PRIEST'S MOTHER: I can't believe I brought such a person to this world.>> PRIEST'S AUNT: You have to understand the environment that we live in. All we can do is pray for him and accept him. I believe that will change him.>> PRIEST'S MOTHER: I have tried that for years.>> PRIEST'S AUNT: We can't give up. Furthermore, he?s even trying to reach out to you. Please, let's give him a second chance. >> PRIEST: Hello, Mamou, we can?t talk right now. No, but don?t let it get in the way of business. I will call you later.>> COACH: Where is Priest? Today is your first match as a team. Yes, it's a friendly match. But to me, it is a deciding factor. It's going to decide the tone of the remaining time between now and the championship. This game decides who goes home and who stays in the camp. Therefore, you must play well and you must play good. And to win, you must remember three very important things: One, teamwork; two, teamwork; three, teamwork. And if anyone of you does anything to piss me off, I'll make your life a living hell. Grumbling is one of the things that pisses me off! That's better. Well, if you win today's match, you get an extra day off.>> ABBAS: Imani FC! Imani FC! Tell me, who's going to win?>> TEAM: We will!>> ABBAS: Who's going to win?>> TEAM: We will!>> TITLE: Imani FC: 0, Nyota FC: 1. >> RODEZ: Don?t worry. We've still got a long way to go before the end of the match. >> COACH: Kezia! Long ball, long ball!>> RODEZ: Kezia! Short pass! Kezia, short pass!>> COACH: Long ball, long ball! What is she doing? >> TITLE: Imani FC: 0, Nyota FC: 2. >> TITLE: Halftime: Imani FC: 0, Nyota FC: 2. >> COACH: Now, could someone please tell me what is going on out there? Ben! You practically begged me to put you in today's team. Now prove to me that I've made the right mistake! Kezia! >> KEZIA: Yes coach?>> COACH: Who's the coach of this team? Now can you try and remember that before taking unsolicited coaching from foreign entities! There can be only one team coach at a time.>> KEZIA: Yes coach.>> COACH: Abbas, football is a team sport. I need to see your team spirit. Clear?>> ABBAS: Crystal.>> COACH: Now the rest of you, I want you to go out there and pull up your socks. I need you to go there and do better than you did. All right?>> TITLE: Second half: Imani FC: 0, Nyota FC: 2. >> TITLE: Imani FC: 0, Nyota FC: 3. >> ABBAS: Hey Priest, this team is making us look bad.>> PRIEST: What do you want me to do?>> ABBAS: Get her off the pitch!>> PRIEST: Do I trip her? That?s easy work.>> COACH: Priest!>> TITLE: Full time: Imani FC: 0, Nyota FC: 3.>> BETH: What?s wrong with you? Players shake hands. These players have displayed what it means to behave honorably. Why don?t you respect that by following their example by shaking hands?>> PRIEST: Yes Mamou, I'll be there. No, for the whole weekend. We have leave. Okay. See you in a bit.>> COACH: Well, I was happy to see you help calm the fans down, but their sentiments are valid. You played very, very poorly. Where is your captain? Where is Priest? Well, can you convey to them that this weekend's leave has been cancelled?>> RODEZ: Cheer up! The place where I sat, everyone was cheering for Kezia. I told them, that?s my sister. >> KEZIA: Oh come on. The coach is angry. Even the leave we were supposed to have this weekend has been cancelled.>> RODEZ: Why?>> KEZIA: He said I did not play well. When you told me to pass the ball to another player, coach asked why I listened to you and not him.>> RODEZ: So he is angry with me?>> KEZIA: It will be fine.>> OLI: Ben, come on man! Could you possibly be any more annoying than that?>> BEN: I don't know, but since our leave has been cancelled and I have all this time on my hands, let's see just how annoying I can be.>> COACH: Lulu, I have had a bad day, and we are not going to go through this tonight. Eat the pasta.>> LULU: It is overcooked. Mum didn?t cook like this.>> COACH: Mum is no longer with us; it's just you and me. So you either take it or leave it. >> LULU: I'll leave. >> COACH: Sit down! I?m sorry, please forgive me? Please, please, please? There you are. A smile. Give me a hug? Okay, a handshake then. Good girl. That?s more like it. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-2-bonding Coach drives the players hard on the first day of practice, hoping to get them ready for the first match. The players of Imani FC convince the coach to allow them to vote for captain. Abbas, who is from a wealthy family, decides to bribe his teammates to ensure victory. What was supposed to be a team bonding opportunity now threatens to tear the team apart. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:49:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-2-bonding Kenya, Ethnic conflict, Soccer, Education, Change Makers, The Team: Kenya, Ethnic group, search for common ground, LinkTV Picks, Gender >> PRIEST: Hello, bro. Let me ask you, did you pick up the money I wired? Mum didn?t accept it? What?s wrong? Well, that's sad. What's wrong with that money?>> COACH: Wake up! Wake up!>> BEN: Why didn't you wake me up when you were getting out of the room?>> OLI: Section 7-cap 3a of the international code -- >> BEN: Shut up.>> OLI: Come on. >> COACH: Move closer. Hey, you?re late! Go to the touchline and give me 30 pushups. Quick! The rest of you divide yourselves into groups. I want four there, I want two there, I want one there and I want six in the other station. Move. How many so far?>> JANE: Sir! >> COACH: Do you know the meaning of time?>> JANE: Yes sir. Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen -->> COACH: Do you have a watch?>> JANE: Yes sir! It's in the dorm, sir.>> COACH: That watch is supposed to be in your small head. Understand? Move it.>> BEN: Coach is treating us like inmates!>> OLI: I don't follow...>> BEN: We've got to stand up to him. We are stars!>> OLI: Perfectionism is a learned art that calls for an intractable character -->> BEN: Shut up! >> OLI: No, for real! If you want to become a star -->> BEN: Cut it out genius!>> COACH: Speed! Speed, Abbas, work on your speed! Hey! What does the whistle mean? Remember that this is a training camp and not a picnic. So once you're here, you've got to push, push, push and push harder. Right? I can see that most of you will not make it. Once you are here, you have only one purpose, and that is to win. To succeed, you have to work together! To succeed you have to forget any other family, or any other village that you come from. Forget your baby cots that you used to sleep in and remember that this is a camp! Your family! You've got no other but the camp. Understood?>> TEAM: Yes, coach.>> COACH: Hey boy! Are you a soccer player?>> ABBAS: Yes I am.>> COACH: I hope you did not carry your face lotion to the camp. And you girls, there are no hair salons around here, all right? So you might consider cutting that hair. What is your name? And you? And you? Wrong! When you come here you forgot your individual names. You all belong to one big family, and that is Imani Football Club. What?s your name?>> TEAM: Imani Football Club!>> COACH: That is your name! And that is your family! And to remain in this family, you have to prove yourself! To be in this family you have to work hard at it. You have to work as a family and as a team! In a few days time I will be selecting only ten of you. So you have to prove yourself and be on time. You have to eat football, dream football, and at this moment you have to live for football. So what are you here for? >> TEAM: Football!>> COACH: Good. Football is a team game. It belongs to neither you, you, nor even me. It is a team game. Hey you! Can you join us if you are still alive? I'd hoped to appoint a captain by the end of the day. But none of you are showing leadership qualities.>> OLI: Excuse me sir. Democratically speaking, the rule of law states that the majority vote and appoint the most favored candidate -->> COACH: What's your point?>> OLI: I was suggesting that we elect our own captain as a team. Or what do you guys have to say?>> COACH: Whichever way, all I want is a name come tomorrow morning. You can have a five-minute break.>> BETH: Hey what was that about girls' hair?>> COACH: Some of them look like they have come for a beauty pageant.>> BETH: But they can keep their long hair if they want to. Please do not be too hard on them; this is only their first day.>> COACH: Nice hair. Hey, don't worry, that was just a joke.>> JOHARI: Why you want to get us in trouble? >> OLI: Freedom of expression. I'd rather bite the bullet by its head!>> JOHARI: It's not as easy as you say!>> KEZIA: Listen Oli, even bullets fire back sometimes. So be very, very careful.>> OLI: Where did that come from?>> ABBAS: Hey guys, I?ll be your captain. What do you think?>> TINA: I?m the one who is supposed to be captain.>> KEZIA: You, Tina?>> TINA: What don't I have?>> KEZIA: I just didn't think that people with your blood could be leaders. >> TINA: Watch your words, Kezia.>> KEZIA: Or you'll do what?>> TINA: Look at her. Your face looks like a pregnant mouse.>> BEN: Stop it, ladies.>> TINA: She's no lady.>> ABBAS: Who wants a bully captain? I know I don't.>> KEZIA: We'll see who will make a better captain, rich boy.>> ABBAS: Put your money where your mouth is. Can you run a team?>> OLI: It's by the vote that we will decide who becomes the captain.>> COACH: If I answer this, who will I find on the other end? Give me two laps then go back to your respective positions. >> TOM: Hey Beth, what's up?>> BETH: I?m fine. How are you?>> TOM: I?m good. How do you do?>> BETH: Everything is fine. Thanks for helping pay allowances for the team. >> TOM: In fact that?s what I?m working on. I should be through by the end of the day. >> BETH: Why are the players making noise?>> TOM: Should I check on them?>> BETH: No, thanks, I?ll handle them.>> KEZIA: I?m not like you. Your people eat cockroaches.>> JACKIE: And your people eat mice. I?ll hit you.>> KEZIA: Try.>> BETH: Stop it. I want to see some respect around here!>> JACKIE: Does she know what respect is? Look at her! She is saying that our people eat cockroaches.>> KEZIA: She also says my people eat mice.>> JACKIE: But it?s the truth!>> BETH: Guys! Look at each other as individuals, not as tribes! Jackie, if you and Kezia hate each other, do it as individuals, not tribes.>> KEZIA: But she started it.>> BETH: Let's not lose focus. I want to see you work as a team. Jackie, Kezia.>> ABBAS: Tina, Tina. One minute, I want to talk to you. I want you to vote for me as captain. >> TINA: Why is being captain so important to you?>> ABBAS: I have my reasons.>> TINA: What's one of them?>> ABBAS: I can take care of things on and off the pitch, if you know what I mean. Are you taking the money or not, cause its going, going?>> TINA: Bring that money.>> ABBAS: Okay, cool. So you?ll vote for me?>> TINA: Cool. >> OLI: No I'm not!>> KEZIA: You're joking Oli! I'd love to, but why are you campaigning so vigorously for me?>> OLI: Because you handle the players perfectly well from the back position. You have what it takes Kezia. >> KEZIA: We are a team only, remember? >> OLI: Seriously Kezia, let me tell you, your candidacy for captain would be the best gift to democracy.>> KEZIA: But Abbas is bribing the players.>> OLI: Bribed? Kezia, the rule of law, transparency and good governance must always prevail.>> KEZIA: Tell that to them.>> OLI: That will be a travesty of justice. I will talk to everyone to participate in the voting process. Is that okay?>> KEZIA: But coach said that we need to pick a captain by tomorrow morning.>> OLI: Oh, I'm sorry, I'd forgotten about that. Actually, we can -->> KEZIA: "We?" I'm not interested.>> ABBAS: All your problems are over. I have the solution for you. But only to those who vote for me as captain. Ask my boy Ben what I mean. >> TRIZA: Kezia is also vying for captain. I'm saying, Kezia is vying for captain, and she plays better than you. >> ABBAS: That girl is from the bush. Does she know what it means to run a team?>> BEN: Abbas is right.>> SONG: No you cannot talk like that. That place that you're calling the bush is where I come from. Don?t you know that?>> ABBAS: I know that. I was just joking.>> SONG: There are things you don't joke around with. Just know that. >> TRIZA: We used to. What happened?>> SONG: A lot of things happened.>> JACKIE: We will vote for you. One thousand shillings only?>> ABBAS: Be easy, more is coming.>> JACKIE: Is there more?>> ABBAS: Bro, take the money. This is not much but there is more where this came from.>> SONG: I will take your money, but know this: I'm not your "bro.">> ABBAS: Okay, no big deal.>> ABBAS: Hey babe. Or can I call you star?>> JOHARI: I'm not your babe. What is it that you want?>> ABBAS: Must I always want something? Can't I just be friendly?>> JOHARI: Do I look that stupid to you. What exactly do you want?>> ABBAS: Okay, okay. I would like you to vote for me in the upcoming election.>> JOHARI: Put that away. You know, Abbas, sometimes I think that I could really, really like you. But then you start doing stupid things like trying to bribe me. Excuse me. >> ABBAS: Wait, wait. You know what? I'm sorry for trying to bribe off a classy woman such as yourself. But if you ever change your mind, meet me near the main fence.>> JOHARI: Near the main fence! Me? You?re impossible! >> TINA: Hi, how are you guys doing? >> BOY: Fine.>> TINA: How are the others doing? This money is for you guys to buy food and anything else you need.>> BOY: Thanks a lot auntie. When are you coming over?>> TINA: This weekend. Go now before we get caught.>> KEZIA: Hi friend. Listen, Tina, how are you?>> TINA: Oh, now I?m your friend?>> KEZIA: Come on, we don't have to be friends, but at least we can be civil.>> TINA: Is that why you want us to be friends?>> KEZIA: Okay, forget about the past. Vote for me.>> TINA: Hold it. Forget it. I'm voting for Abbas. At least he gives me money and he is not my friend.>> OLI: She walks in like this: "May I have your attention please? My name is Beth and I am the assistant coach. You find that funny? Get used to it. In fact, get used to the fact that you will be playing on a co-ed team." Oh and here comes the big man now: "Hey Priest, who will I find on the other side of this phone?" Hey guy I meant no harm. You can't take a joke? Priest? Come back man!>> KEZIA: Come on Priest; don't let Oli get to you. >> PRIEST: Not out of malice, but I just don't like people joking around with me.>> KEZIA: I can tell.>> PRIEST: You're a good player.>> KEZIA: For a girl?>> PRIEST: For anybody. Who taught you?>> KEZIA: My brother. He and I are tight. You'll see him at the game.>> PRIEST: My brother and I used to be so tight. My whole family, actually. We were all really tight. >> KEZIA: What happened?>> PRIEST: I screwed up and did one of those things in life that you cannot take back. One of those things that come into your life and you have no control over them. >> KEZIA: Don?t worry.>> BEN: Hey sis, I want to talk to you.>> JOHARI: What's stopping you?>> BEN: Hey, don't be so rude!>> JOHARI: Are going to tell me what you had in mind or not?>> BEN: Okay. Vote for Abbas.>> JOHARI: Me? Hell no. I don't like him, and furthermore, he hasn't bribed me. >> BEN: Watch out your loose tongue!>> JOHARI: My vote for Kezia is final.>> BEN: What is wrong with you? Kezia is from the other tribe, those who burnt our house. Remember? >> JOHARI: I didn't see her doing it.>> OLI: Ladies and gentlemen, let me say, it is my pleasure to -- Okay, fine. Votes for captain: Kezia got two votes, Johari got three, and Abbas is the winning captain.>> ABBAS: We are a total of 14 players. Where's my extra one vote?>> OLI: Someone can abstain, and as far as I'm concerned, that is within the confines of the law.>> ABBAS: Really?>> OLI: Congratulations for steamrolling your way up to captain. >> ABBAS: Steamrolling my way? Oli, let bygones be bygones. >> OLI: This is against all tenets of justice and the rule of law.>> KEZIA: It's not the end of the world.>> OLI: It's a breach of all the constitutional statutes that govern democratic elections.>> KEZIA: Come on Oli, who cares about all that? Who cares about law, or whatever?>> ABBAS: Thank you so much for the fair play Kezia. You, my brother, should be on the board of the electoral commission. Anyway, guys, here's the thing -- tonight it's a party. My treat. Can you guys come? I'll take care of everything. Trust me. >> KEZIA: I guess we'll come.>> ABBAS: Nine pm at the fence. Is that okay?>> KEZIA: Okay, see you then.>> OLI: What have you gotten me into?>> KEZIA: Come on Oli, it's just a party. >> OLI: Abbas played you like a baby!>> KEZIA: I'm telling you; tonight I'll dress to kill! And you, my friend, are going to be my date. >> OLI: Me? I'm out of here. >> KEZIA: Come on shy guy, it's just a joke!>> COACH: Tina, this is impressive! Have you chosen a captain? >> TINA: We chose Abbas.>> COACH: Abbas? That's interesting. All right, continue.>> COACH: Hello? We have a situation here. >> BEN: Priest isn't coming.>> ABBAS: Priest knows the venue; he'll find us there.>> OLI: I'm only accompanying you guys just in case you get into some sort of a quandary.>> KEZIA: Ah yes. Blah, blah, blah! >> OLI: Guys, litigation is a complex process. What, I don?t have a right to speak? http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-1-new-beginnings In the first episode of this groundbreaking series, Mr. Bukenya brings together some of the best young male and female soccer players in Kenya to play for a unique co-ed team that seeks to break down ethnic and economic barriers. But with the players already arguing, will their differences be too much for the team to overcome? Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:49:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-team-episode-1-new-beginnings Kenya, Ethnic conflict, Soccer, Internally displaced person, Change Makers, Kenyan general election 2007, Jacob Mulee, Gender, The Team: Kenya, LinkTV Picks >> COACH: Lulu, finish or we’ll be late. No, first finish your breakfast. >> LULU: I am full and the tea is cold. >> COACH: Eat your breakfast. You know how important it is? >> LULU: I don’t want cereals. >> COACH: Stop complaining and eat your breakfast. >> LULU: I wish Mum was still here. >> COACH: Mum is not here. Lulu, Mum is not here anymore. We must learn to survive on our own. >> LULU: Let me get my doll so we can leave. >> COACH: All right, hurry up. >> JOURNALISTS: So Mr. Bukenya, what is this all about? Why have you called this press conference? Is this about the orphans? Is it about the IDP's resettlement that you talked about? And there are rumors about you having a football team? >> BUKENYA: Ladies and gentlemen, please. Patience. As you know me I like conducting my things in a very open manner. It's just about you being patient, and everything will be revealed inside. Let's say, in the next 20 minutes. >> WATCHMAN: Where are you going? >> CHILDREN (in chorus): To the camp. >> WATCHMAN: Who told you this camp was for street urchins? This camp is for footballers only. Who is the footballer amongst you? >> CHILDREN (in chorus): It is Tina. She is good. >> WATCHMAN: Stop making noise. Who is Tina? >> CHILDREN (in chorus): This is Tina. >> WATCHMAN: So you mean she is a good football player? >> CHILDREN (in chorus): Yes. >> WATCHMAN: Where is your letter? >> TINA: Here it is. >> WATCHMAN: Give it, quickly! Ok, Tina you can come through. Use that gate over there. Not all of you! Tina only. The rest if you go home and wash your feet, you will dirty the pitch! >> CHILDREN (in chorus): Tina, please don’t go. >> TINA: I have to come here to better our lives. Don’t you want to be good players one day? >> CHILDREN (in chorus): Yes! >> TINA: Even better than me? >> WATCHMAN: Are you coming in or not? >> TINA: I must go now. The watchman is waiting. Okay, goodbye and take care of yourselves. >> CHILDREN (in chorus): Tina, don't go. >> TINA: I really must go now. Watch out on the road. >> COACH: Come on girls, can you join the boys? Get the ball from the pitch and do some warm ups. Hello sir. I’m just overseeing the warm up session. You mean right now? All right, I’m on my way. Lulu, I have to go to a meeting. Will you wait for me in the office? >> LULU: I want to watch the players practicing. >> COACH: Will you be okay? >> LULU: Yes >> COACH: And if you get bored, go to the office. >> LULU: Okay Dad. >> COACH: And please don’t go anywhere else. Promise? Promise? Bye dear, and don’t move from here. >> RODEZ: Let me tell you, this is a result of all of the training we used to do. And you were good! >> KEZIA: What about our team at home? >> RODEZ: Don’t worry about our team. I will talk to the coach. >> KEZIA: This place looks like a school. >> RODEZ: It's not that bad. >> KEZIA: Thanks for escorting me. >> RODEZ: Let me tell you sis, you've made me very proud. >> KEZIA: You know you boost my morale. The way you trained me. I promise I’ll work hard until I become a professional! >> RODEZ: Don’t forget that as soon as you start earning the money. >> KEZIA: Look at you! All you think about is money. See you later, now let me go. >> RODEZ: Good luck! >> BUKENYA: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, thank you very much for joining us. Before I say anything I’d like to introduce the technical director of football in the country, Mr. Jacob "Ghost" Mulee. >> JACOB MULEE: Thank you, thank you sir. Businessmen and entrepreneurs who are also philanthropists have formed this championship. Mr. Bukenya happens to be one of those. My role is basically that of an umpire, or shall we call it, ombudsman, in that I have to stay here and see things are running fairly. >> JOURNALIST 1: Why do they need you in this championship? >> JACOB MULEE: I will tell you why. In other championships, the overall performance of a team is determined by scoring goals and winning. In this one, overall sportsmanship ability scores you points. That’s basically why I am here. >> JOURNALIST 2: But isn't that the case with all competitive sports? >> JACOB MULEE: Maybe, but our case is unique because it is going to be a seven per side co-ed football championship. And you members of the Fourth Estate, this is exactly where we need you. >> BUKENYA: Thank you, Ghost. That’s exactly what we had in mind. Ladies and gentlemen of the press, any questions? >> JOURNALIST 3: Mr. Bukenya, is this just another one of your publicity stunts? >> BUKENYA: Next question! >> OLI’S MOM: Oli, don’t get to engrossed in your football. Make sure you study. >> OLI: Yes mom. >> OLI’S MOM: That’s my baby. >> JOURNALIST 1: Mr. Bukenya, isn't it potentially risky to draw players from ethnic groups that have been at war with each other? >> BUKENYA: This isn't a stunt. All I’m trying to do here is help young people realize their dreams. You know, a showcase of their talent which that otherwise be ignored, talents that need to be tapped by the country and utilized effectively. >> JOURNALIST 2: Isn't that a controversial thing to do? >> JOURNALIST 3: What are you trying to prove? >> BUKENYA: That with determination, all positive things are possible. >> JOURNALIST 2: You mentioned co-ed teams before? What exactly do you mean? And who are going to be their opponents? >> BUKENYA: Co-ed team must have at least three girls on the pitch at all times. And believe me; these girls can play very good football. >> JOURNALIST 3: Mr. Bukenya, I thought -- >> BUKENYA: I haven't finished yet. Now this co-ed team will be play other co-ed teams that are being assembled around the country, and indeed around the world. And then in the final phase we will have the Seven Aside Co-ed World Cup. >> JOURNALIST 2: And what exactly is in it for you? >> BUKENYA: This is just one of the many projects that I am rolling out for the youth. I mean, the winner of this tournament is going to take home study scholarships. This is my service to the community, and I have dedicated all of my resources and all of my life. >> WATCHMAN: Hey you. Where are you going? Where are you going? >> JOHARI. To the camp. >> WATCHMAN: Who are you? >> JOHARI: We are the players. >> WATCHMAN: Are you a player as well? Where is your letter? Hey you! Where do you think you are going? >> BEN: I am also a player. >> WATCHMAN: Show me your letter. >> JOHARI: Here is his letter. >> WATCHMAN: Why didn’t you say that earlier? Don’t be rude. We follow a procedure and you can’t just walk in. Whose letter is this? >> JOHARI: It's his. >> WATCHMAN: Whose is this again? >> JOHARI: It's upside down. >> WATCHMAN: Just go. >> BUKENYA: Ah coach, the man of the moment, the coach of the team! Please come and sit. >> JOURNALIST: What do you expect to accomplish with this team? >> COACH: Well, obviously to win. >> JOURNALIST 1: Are you up to the task? >> JOURNALIST 2: Yes exactly, considering that your team was demoted two seasons ago and never made it back to the super league. >> COACH: We shall find out that in month’s time. >> JOURNALIST 1: So coach, how did you go about selecting your team? >> COACH: Obviously, on talent. The selection process was carried out in all the major cities in the country. I believe we have the best. >> BUKENYA: Yes we do. We do have the best. >> JOURNALIST 1: Have you ever coached a co-ed team before? >> COACH: No. But I believe -- >> JOURNALIST 2: Now coach, why is it that you want to get involved in something so unusual? >> COACH: Well, unlike you well-paid members of the press, I needed the job. I love challenges and this is new and groundbreaking. Thank you. >> BUKENYA: Coach, I hope those three weeks will be enough to prepare the team for the first knockout match. >> COACH: It depends with the caliber of the players but we will definitely need a couple of friendlies. >> BUKENYA: That is your territory. And you’ll receive all of the support that you need. The boys and girls are behaving themselves? >> COACH: Ah, they're pretty good. >> BUKENYA: Coach meet Mr. Juma >> MR. JUMA: Hello. >> BUKENYA: And Ghost, our good friend. And this is Abbas. >> COACH: Abbas. >> BUKENYA: So Juma, we’ll be in touch. Thanks a lot, thanks. >> COACH: All right, cheers, nice to meet you. >> BUKENYA: That boy, he's got talent. I’d like you to nurture him. >> COACH: Well, that's what I intend to do with all my players. >> BUKENYA: I hope so. Mr. Juma is a major shareholder of the team. Shouldn't you get to camp and start earning your keep? >> COACH: Beth, have you seen Lulu? >> BETH: No, I haven't. >> COACH: I told her to come here if she got bored. >> BETH: She hasn't been here. >> COACH: Let me go look for her. >> BETH: But you have to go and brief the players. >> COACH: Can you do that for me? Please? >> BETH: Okay, I will. You owe me one. >> COACH: Thank you. I'll be back as soon as I can, all right? >> JOHARI: What are you doing up there? Come down! Come down! Okay, okay, I’ll come for you, just hang in there. >> MAMU: I hope your going to be okay. >> PRIEST: Mamu, don’t worry. I’ll be fine, I will. >> MAMU: You are here for business. Not for the football crap. I will be in touch regularly. >> PRIEST: Of course. People are watching. >> MAMU: Call me if there is a problem. Keep in touch. >> JOHARI: That was very risky. >> LULU: But if you find my dad, don’t tell him. >> JOHARI: I promise, if you only promise me not to do that again. >> LULU: I promise. >> JOHARI: Are you sure this is the right way home? >> LULU: Of course. But if you find my dad don’t tell him. >> JOHARI: What if you find mommy? Lulu? Lulu did I say anything wrong. >> LULU: Mommy. >> JOHARI: Oh come on, stop crying, everything will be okay. Don’t cry, I promise I wont tell your dad. Okay good girl. This is very beautiful. >> COACH: Where have you been? Do I know you? >> JOHARI: I’m a player at the camp. I was bringing her home. She was kind of lost. >> COACH: Thank you. Thank you very much. Now you better get back to camp. >> LULU: Thank you. >> JOHARI: You're welcome. >> COACH: I didn't get your name. >> JOHARI: Johari. >> COACH: Thank you, Johari. >> BETH: Can I have your attention please? My name is Beth and I'm the assistant coach. Do you find that funny? >> BEN: It's not funny...just strange. >> BETH: Well get used to it. In fact, get used to the fact that you'll be playing on a co-ed team. The team will consist of both boys and girls. Now, if for some reason anybody feels that they cannot play with the opposite sex, it is time for them to say it and leave. >> PRIEST: You thought I was leaving? I can’t say no to three free meals a day. >> BETH: Before we get started, I would like you all to produce either an ID or a birth certificate. >> GIRL: But madam, I though you were all selected during the trials. >> BETH: We need the documents because we need to verify your ages. You must be between the ages of 20 and 17. What is it? >> JOHARI: We don't have our documents. >> BETH: I’m sorry we can't help you. I need documents to verify your age. >> JOHARI: But we have a letter from the camp. >> BETH: What camp? >> JOHARI: Malela Camp, the IDP camp. >> BETH: This will do. Now, there are a few rules and regulations that you must all adhere to. All practice sessions are compulsory. No drugs allowed in the camp. That includes alcohol, miraa and tobacco. No players allowed out of their rooms after lights out. Lights out is at 9pm sharp! No relationships between players. No electronics or jewelry allowed on the pitch or on the sidelines. Now, a more detailed list will be on the walls of all rooms. Failure to adhere to these rules might lead to an instant expulsion. Is that clear? Any questions? None? Good. Now to room allocation -- each boy pick a blue strip and each girl a pink one. >> ABBAS: Excuse me, some of us have already agreed on how we are going to share rooms. >> BETH: That's very good. But rooms are issued on a random basis. >> ABBAS: But you can't do this! My father -- >> BETH: Who elected you the spokesman! Take this around. >> ABBAS: Excuse me; Ben and I had already taken a room. >> BETH: Then you have to move to your respective rooms. Right! Right! >> Ben: Yes. >> BETH: Be on the football pitch at 3pm sharp and I will issue you the training gear. >> COACH: What would I do without you? Johari is so cool. By the way, how did you two meet? >> LULU: We met after the training and started talking. >> COACH: Just like that? >> LULU: Just like that. >> OLI: Since we are sharing this room, I would like to let you know that I am very particular about my personal stuff. >> BEN: Whatever. >> OLI: This tape will demarcate communal and personal space. >> BEN: Whatever. >> JOHARI: Oh my god! This room is beautiful. It's beautiful. >> JANE: Wow. I like it. >> JOHARI: It's so nice. I’m Johari. >> JANE: Sorry, I got carried away. I’m Jane. >> JOHARI: Which bed will you take? >> JANE: Any will do. Which one do you prefer? >> JOHARI: Whichever you chose I’m okay. >> JANE: Okay I’ll pick this one. >> JOHARI: Okay I guess I have to take that one. >> JANE: But the room is bare. I guess we’ll have to do something with the walls. >> JOHARI: Come on, we can pep it up. >> JANE: I can do it, trust me. Here. >> JOHARI: Your daughter? >> JANE: Yes. I’m already missing her so much. >> JOHARI: How old? >> JANE: Nine months. I’m a good mother. I really need this scholarship. >> JOHARI: Come on, you're lucky! >> JANE: I’ll make sure I do everything so that she can get the best. I’m glad you can appreciate that. >> JOHARI: Here. >> JANE: So any family? >> JOHARI: Yes, I have a brother named Ben, and guess what? He’s here in camp with me. >> JANE: For real? >> JOHARI: Yes, you’ll get to meet him. He’s so interesting. >> JANE: Oh. I can't wait. >> TINA: Hi, I’m Tina. >> KEZIA: Kezia. >> TINA: Which bed do I take? >> KEZIA: Take that one. I'm sorry to bring this up, but I've a very sensitive sense of smell. Please take a shower. >> ABBAS: Hi. I'm Abbas. >> PRIEST: The name’s Priest. >> ABBAS: So you’re my roomie? Do you always play as a midfielder? >> PRIEST: I play all positions but I prefer defense. What about you? >> ABBAS: I am a striker. So where do you come from? >> PRIEST: Planet earth. Through the womb. >> ABBAS: That’s a good one. >> PRIEST: Let me finish unpacking. >> PRIEST: What do you think of playing with girls? >> OLIVER: Sounds interesting if you ask me. >> PRIEST: Lets wait and see. >> PLAYER 2: This game is not happening…this game can't go on like this. >> PLAYER 3: People are speaking in their mother tongues. >> PLAYER 4: What's your problem? Don’t you have a mother tongue? >> PLAYER 5: Do you think we can't also speak in vernacular? Grow up man. >> JANE: Is that why you people chased us from our homes? >> PLAYER 6: Was I there? Even you people did the same. >> COACH: Hey! Stop it. Stop it. Do you know why you're here? Do you? You think you’re a fighter? Show me. You think you’ve got so much energy. Show me. What is the ruckus all about? >> PLAYER 1: He is the one who started it! >> PLAYER 2: You're the one. >> COACH: Quiet! Now look here. I want you to put this into your damn heads. I am not going to tolerate any kind of indiscipline around here. Now, will you play together or would you rather stick to your own kind and play separately? Look, remember this is a football team, and not a battleground! And as long as you are going to be here, and as long as I am the coach of this team, you are going to play by my rules! Rules of the team! Do you understand? >> TEAM: Yes, coach. >> COACH: We’ve got a great task ahead of us -- to win the tournament. Therefore we must forget all of our tribal differences if we have to play as a team. Do you understand? Do you understand? >> TEAM: Yes, coach. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/grassroots-justice-in-rwanda Rwanda, with the assistance of the European Union and the United Nations Development Program, has set up a village-based justice system to try over eight hundred thousand people suspected in taking part in the genocide that shattered the Rwandan society twelve years ago. Called "gacacas," it is based on an old customary legal system and is helping establish the rule of law as well as bring reconciliation between guilty parties and victims. Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:12:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/grassroots-justice-in-rwanda Rwanda, Gacaca court, Genocide, Africa, United Nations Development Programme, Change Makers, Governance & Transparency, Rwandan Genocide >> VOICEOVER: In Rwanda, men and women wearing pink uniforms are a common sight. Pink identifies prisoners accused of participating in the genocide that shattered this society twelve years ago. In this church in Nyamata, 5,000 people were slaughtered in one attack. Today, it is one of the many memorials to the massacre of up to one million men, women, and children in the course of three short months. The bloodbath left the new government of Rwanda with the daunting task of trying some 800,000 people suspected of having taken part in the killings. It would have taken a century to try all the accused in normal courts. A village-based justice system was created, Judge Celestin Mbarimombazi explains. >> JUDGE CELESTIN MBARIMOMBAZI: The gacaca system is based on our customary legal system from a long time ago.>> VOICEOVER: Years of planning and testing out pilot projects led to the largest experiment in popular justice in modern history. The local judges were elected. They are called Inyangamugayo or "righteous people," and work on a voluntary basis. Christine Umutoni is the gacaca expert for the United Nations Development Program. >> CHRISTINE UMUTONI: All they have is that they are examples, that they are good people, they can't cheat, and they are not sectarian. But that's all. They don't have any legal training. >> VOICEOVER: More than 250,000, close to six percent, of the country's adult population, serve as judges in the gacacas. They were trained with assistance from the European Union and the United Nations Development Program. >> JUDGE CELESTIN MBARIMOMBAZI: We have been trained at three different times. I myself was taught to prepare others, with the help of this booklet.>> VOICEOVER: Today, Thadeo Mbirkanyi is accused of killing two boys. He has no defense lawyer. There is no prosecutor. Everyone in the gacaca court speaks for himself or herself. This makes the grass roots courts different from regular courtrooms in the West, and even in Rwanda. Coordinator Paul Rwangalinde. >> PAUL RWANGALINDE: We are trying to make some investigation to know exactly how genocide was prepared, how genocide was conducted, and the consequences of the genocide itself.>> VOICEOVER: The judge questions Elia Kinyogote, the father who lost two sons in the genocide. >> JUDGE CELESTIN MBARIMOMBAZI: You really saw the attack with your own eyes?>> ELIA KINYOGOTE: Yes, I saw the accused with another killer.>> VOICEOVER: These workers have been convicted in gacaca courts. They have changed their pink prison outfits for a navy vest. The letters TIG identify them as serving their sentence by working in the interest of the community. Convicts cut their penalty by half when they agree to do community service instead of remaining in jail. Stanislas Nyiribambe likes the alternative. >> STANISLAS NYIRIBAMBE: Since I confessed my crimes and asked the victims to forgive me, I think that the gacaca did its job well and I accept my punishment.>> VOICEOVER: The convicts pay for their crimes with the sweat of their brow. They are as poor as most Rwandans who live on a dollar a day and could not pay for the damages they have caused. People in this community accept the houses they build for widows and orphans as a compensation. >> JUDGE CELESTIN MBARIMOMBAZI: You couldn't say that it's a hundred percent, but really there's been a high level of reconciliation between people who are guilty and those who are victims.>> VOICEOVER: The unspeakable crimes of genocide cannot be erased or forgotten. But the gacaca court system, even with all its imperfections, is helping re-establish the rule of law in one of the poorest countries in Africa. The United Nations prepared this report. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/breaking-down-borders Nine entrepreneurs from Latin America attended Milan's international trade fair, where they marketed their goods and built relationships for future trading opportunities. The International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, was instrumental in organizing the group. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:16:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/breaking-down-borders South America, Microfinance, Entrepreneur, International Fund for Agricultural Development, United Nations, Latin America, Agriculture & Food, Change Makers, Textile >> VOICEOVER: Crowds have already begun to fill Milan's historic Victorio Emanuelle II shopping arcade. People come here from every part of the world to shop. But not this group of entrepreneurs from Latin America. They've come to get a first hand look at the competition and to sell their products. All nine have come with the hope of breaking into this lucrative European market for clothes and textiles. It would be a major breakthrough and could mean success for the poor rural artisans like Dely Surco Coyla. >> DELY SURCO COYLA: We produce the same as these but with even more complicated designs, like flowers and other designs typical of our culture.>> VOICEOVER: With assistance from an innovative program called PROMER, supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, each of these entrepreneurs has been given an opportunity to bring the best of what their groups produce to Milan's International Fair. This event draws more than two million people from across northern Italy. Waldo Bustamante Pena, coordinator for PROMER, says these people face greater challenges than most. >> WALDO BUSTAMENTE PENA: Obviously, they face bigger challenges than other entrepreneur would. The first challenge is that they are very dispersed and isolated in the countryside, which makes it difficult for them to work together to access markets.>> VOICEOVER: The biggest challenge is getting to this level -- outside their communities and countries, selling their goods in lucrative western markets and establishing contacts for the future. >> WALDO BUSTAMENTE PENA: At events like these they learn a lot about the real world of business.>> VOICEOVER: So how did members of the group do at the end of the fair? Amazingly well, since Milan is the fashion center of the world. Adrianna from Brazil sold 80 percent of her embroideries, even though her greatest competition was in Milan. Jorge from Colombia sold 95 percent of his silks and made three contacts with Italian companies. Dely and Susana from Peru sold 60 percent of their products, about average for the rest of the group. The most successful participant was Macario from Guatemala. Although illiterate and unable to speak Italian, he demonstrated a special talent and sold all the fabrics he had brought with him. Over the next few years, the PROMER project will continue to help micro entrepreneurs in poor rural communities reach beyond their borders through a number of innovative methods, including an e-commerce web site and business centers that will assist in exporting goods. James Heer prepared this report for the United Nations. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shooting-poverty-bang-for-your-buck In post-conflict Burundi, one thing remains affordable to all: the grenade. Journalist Teddy Mazina follows the stories behind the headlines of never-ending explosive lethal attacks. Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:33:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shooting-poverty-bang-for-your-buck Burundi, Grenade, Teddy Mazina, Arms industry, Oxfam, Burundi Civil War, Small arms, Violence, Piga Picha, Weapon >> TITLE: In Burundi, a grenade costs the same price as a pint of beer. >> VOICE: I think that having a weapon by your bedside table is extremely dangerous no matter where you are in the world. >> TITLE: Drewstone Productions presents a film by Seth Chase and Brice Blondel>> VOICE: When you are angry and you have a weapon, you kill or you wound; if you don't, it ends with an insult or a fight. >> TITLE: Shooting Poverty>> TITLE: Bang for Your Buck>> TITLE: "For a criminal here, grenades are the ideal weapon." -- Teddy Mazina>> TEDDY MAZINA [Journalist]: I am called Teddy Mazina, I'm 37 years old. I have spent 12 years in exile in Belgium. Before I left Burundi in 1995 I was a human rights activist. We began a movement for non-violence at the University of Burundi, which ultimately led me to my exile. >> TEDDY MAZINA: These peace agreements allowed for a symbolic peace and actually some real relief on the social level. But the presence of violence and weapons among the population remains a disease that takes time to heal and currently there's no cure. >> TEDDY MAZINA: Hello, yes, I put the video online. Yes, it's the shooting at the residential neighborhood. Yes, political gathering. OK, I'll keep you posted, thanks. >> TEDDY MAZINA: Upon my return, I began "Piga Picha" with some friends. We are an independent media group. I am working so that history is not forgotten and to protect the rights of my fellow countrymen. >> TITLE & VOICE: Mouvement pour l'image independante au Burundi: Piga Picha>> NINA SHIMIMANA [News anchor]: The presence of illegally obtained arms has completely infiltrated Burundi's social and political life. Grenade attacks have been reported all over the country. More than 100 attacks in the last two months. These attacks are symptoms of a pandemic "small-arms disease." With over 50,000 ex-combatants, in addition to countless grenades available for the price of a beer, it's all too common to see Burundians take the road to violence as a solution to everyday problems. We'll go now to our journalist in the field, Teddy Mazina, who is in "Bujumbura Rural," where just last night, a grenade was thrown in a private residence, in Ruziba. >> TEDDY MAZINA: For a criminal here, the grenade is the ideal weapon, because it can kill or injure multiple people at the same time. Last night, in the small house behind me, a grenade was thrown through the window injuring two people. The man and his wife are now receiving treatment at Rumonge Hospital and the criminal is still at large.>> TEDDY MAZINA: The flood of weapons over the last 15 years has affected the population. It keeps people in a state of tension, where some think it is legitimate to defend themselves against something that happened to them. Also there are so many weapons that people use them to sort out their daily issues, the ones you would see in every community.>> WOMAN: Martin is my little brother, he was robbed by some armed thieves. He turned to run away. As he turned they shot him in the stomach. He had an operation and it cost us about USD$2,000, and Martin only makes USD$32 per month. Martin has five children and a wife, and it's not possible for him to pay for this medical treatment.>> REGINALD MOREELS [Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres War Surgeon]: The health situation in this country is extremely precarious, much more than one could imagine. There are about 230 doctors for 8.5 million people, so you can imagine ... there is one functioning scanner for 8.5 million people.>> MODESTE HAMIMENSHI [Victim of grenade attack]: It happened at night while I was preparing dinner for my family. I was preparing the plates for my husband and my daughter. I gathered everything together to bring to the table. Then I heard something thrown into the house. There was a huge explosion. My husband and daughter were killed instantly and I was in severe pain. I think the grenade was thrown at us because my son is a member of the CNDD FDD political party. Somebody wants him dead, so he is hiding. And he wasn't even home on the night of the attack.>> REGINALD MOREELS: Well, on the medical level, any grenade can injure you, anywhere on the body, usually tearing wounds, bits of flesh, a foot can be ripped off, it can hit the face or remove -- as I have seen -- parts of the brain, or the skull. There is no brain surgery here, nothing can be done. Sometimes it penetrates into an empty organ or a lung and causes severe internal bleeding, and if you are not treated on time then you die. In fact there is nothing more disgusting as a weapon, because it doesn't discriminate between anything, not a single thing.>> TITLE: "We are all victims of this weapons system, especially me." -- Ndakoraniwe Juvenard>> TEDDY MAZINA: Life is difficult here in Burundi. We are emerging from a 13-year civil war, which has left us with a culture of fear and mistrust, in addition to a surplus of weapons. I'm now going to take you to the east of the country, to investigate an event that has become a frequent occurrence: a dispute resulting in a grenade attack.>> NICODEME GAHIMBARE [Deputy Public Prosecutor]: The family just returned from Tanzania where they were refugees during the civil war. When they arrived here they wanted to get their land back, but their relatives didn't want them to reclaim it. This is how the dispute started. So they wanted to eliminate the returnees at all cost. >> TITLE: "Isango," the local banana beer>> SALVATOR [Victim's neighbor]: We heard my neighbor threatening the returnees. He was telling the family that by the end of the week they would all be dead.>> TITLE: Rutana Prison>> TEDDY MAZINA: What are you accused of?>> NDAKORANIWE JUVENARD [Convicted killer]: They charged me for murder. They said I was paid to kill that family of returnees. >> TEDDY MAZINA: Why are you keeping these grenades and these weapons in your house?>> NDAKORANIWE JUVENARD: When people are murdered it's easy to accuse a demobilized soldier, because we know how to use guns and grenades. But in reality, most Burundians know how to use these weapons, because many people were trained during the civil war. Burundians were trained with these weapons whether they wanted to use them or not, but they were all trained. So it's always the demobilized soldiers who are accused and convicted for these killings. We are all victims of this weapons system, especially me.>> TEDDY MAZINA: What is your sentence for these charges?>> NDAKORANIWE JUVENARD: I was condemned to death. >> NICODEME GAHIMBARE: The returnees were living in that big house there. And they were sitting together back here, waiting for the food to cook. Here in Burundi, peasants make a fire and prepare food in a little area just next to the house. So a little open-air kitchen was right here. At about 8pm, the hired killer came and threw the grenades, and the entire family was decimated. I found a child's leg here. There were only scattered body remains because three grenades were thrown at the family.>> TEDDY MAZINA: Three grenades?>> NICODEME GAHIMBARE: Three grenades. They were determined that no one should live. The villagers couldn't take it. They wanted the criminals to be dealt with. When the killer and the relatives were brought to court there was an enormous crowd. We had to put speakers outside to broadcast the hearing.>> SALVATOR: Our whole village wanted the killers to die for what they did. We didn't just want a prison sentence. So together we asked for the killers to be released to us, and we would kill them ourselves, for murdering that poor family. Can you imagine somebody kills a family of six just like that? It's despicable. >> TEDDY MAZINA: Voilà, so the family of six can now be found here. The tombs of the deceased are not even cared for. This is what can happen when you have land conflicts in a country where small arms are prevalent and easy to get. Voilà, an entire family wiped out.>> TITLE: "... so there is no peace at all" -- Nchoro>> NCHORO [Arms dealer]: During the war I was arming Burundians. >> JOSEPH MUJIJI [Human rights advocate]: Heavy weapons, as well as light weapons arrived in Burundi during the war of 1993. >> NCHORO: During the war, so many people were distributing weapons. I was also dealing weapons. I was dealing weapons throughout the civil war. You had to protect yourself.>> JOSEPH MUJIJI: In 1994, weapons had dramatically increased with the creation of the community militias. The weapons were distributed by the government. Fifty-four percent of the national budget was allocated to defense, specifically to purchase weapons. Since 1994 up to recently, all of the regimes of Burundi have been distributing weapons to the population. People would also buy weapons for themselves on the regional market, from Congo, Rwanda, and from various combatant groups. And citizens thought that having a weapon equaled protection. >> NCHORO: Because there is no security for the people, you understand. Here, you can instantly get a weapon, and because they are so easy to find. >> JOSEPH MUJIJI: In order to solve our daily conflicts, people use grenades to kill the person they are in conflict with. >> NCHORO: If we want peace, a sustainable peace, we have to get rid of all these weapons.>> TITLE: "Weapons call out to weapons." -- Teddy Mazina>> CHILD: Can we have it after the omelet? >> TEDDY MAZINA: No, we're not going to have pizza.>> CHILD: But pizzas are like omelets, because pizzas and omelet taste good. >> TEDDY MAZINA: Pizzas and omelets taste good?>> CHILD: And omelets and pizzas are the same thing. >> TEDDY MAZINA: What?>> TEDDY MAZINA: Weapons have brought a disease into our country. When your neighbor is contaminated, you become sick as well. The question is, how can we free our society from this sickness? Weapons call out to other weapons, and violence, and our communities become sick. How can communities think more long-term in this environment? This is a constant tension for us. When we "resolve" our ethnic problems, other problems will come to take their place, and it becomes a cycle. Africans as a whole are damned because of this abundance of weapons. >> TITLE: Share your story. Add your voice. Help control the arms trade by showing that armed violence affects us all. www.shootingpoverty.org or twitter #shootingpoverty>> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shooting-poverty-april-6th Renu Takhellambam lost her husband to gun violence on the night of their second wedding anniversary, a result of a lack of international control in the weapons trade. She now works with family members of victims of armed violence, and fights for measures to prevent others from experiencing her pain. Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:16:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shooting-poverty-april-6th India, Ethnic conflict, Manipur, Arms industry, Change Makers, Poverty, Oxfam >> TITLE: Shooting Poverty and Drewstone Productions Presents >> TITLE: A film by Chandam Netraj >> TITLE: April 6th >> TITLE: Manipur is a small state in northeastern India renowned for its untouched natural beauty. It shares its national borders with Myanmar. >> RENU TAKHELLAMBAM: My name is Renu Takhellambam. I was born in the Moirang district of Manipur. My husband was born in Kwakeithel Ningthemkol, Paite Veng, Imphal. We have a five-year-old son. It was on Good Friday eve, April 6, 2007; my husband went out to buy a roll of film for our still camera. We were planning to take photographs at church and also for our son’s forthcoming birthday. Not long after, I heard the sound of gunfire. I was restless. I was worried about my husband because he wasn’t coming back. No one had the courage to tell me that my husband had been killed. He was killed on the charges that he failed to stop during a Police Commandos pursuit. The very next day we organized a general strike and formed a JAC (Joint Action Committee). It was devastating to me. We had been married for only two years. And now I am in this condition, having to support my son alone. Even my parents have disowned me because I chose to marry a Christian (inter-caste marriage). >> BABLOO LOITOGBAM [Director, Human Rights Alert, Manipur (HRA) Manipur, India]: When you take away the husband, the life of a widow becomes extremely difficult. The burden of bringing up a child alone is extremely heavy. And worst of all, they are often stigmatized as “family of the terrorist.” Every year we see more than five hundred people executed in the name of counter insurgency, counter terrorism natures. >> BINALAKSHMI NEPRAM [Secretary General, Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) New Delhi, India]: Twelve Indians are killed everyday because of gun violence. Out of that, here in Manipur, three to four Manipurians are shot dead daily. >> VOICES: Don’t Kill Civilians >> BABLOO LOITOGBAM: Many of the unmet human needs, for decades together have resulted into a kind of protest, a militant protest using arms, calling for a revolution, or independence, or sovereignty. Therefore, in the process of repressing this uprising, brutal force has been used. As a result, the rebels gain legitimacy. Therefore, there is more militancy and more army. More army and therefore more militancy. This cycle of violence has been going on over and over. >> TH. RADHESHYAM SINGH [Superintendent of Police, Imphal East, Manipur, India]: These are arms that are seized by us during our operations. These weapons are coming from different countries across our border. We have a border with Myanmar that is very porous. Myanmar has an open market for arms and ammunition. Arms traders get these arms from Myanmar and bring it across the border. They are used in illegal activities such as extortion, kidnapping for ransom, and ambushes on security forces. >> BINALAKSHMI NEPRAM: As a result, women like Renu and countless others in Manipur as well as in different parts of the world, are suffering as a result of the fact that nobody at the international level is taking any steps to control this. These are the weapons with which wars are fought everyday. Look at a grenade for example; if you would check a grenade found in Manipur, you would probably find it’s Chinese made. >> TH. RADHESHYAM SINGH: We have these grenades; they are the latest models of grenade. Chinese grenades. There are plenty of these in Myanmar and the arms traders bring them to Manipur for the insurgent groups. These types of weapons are made in China. Made in Austria. Made in USA. However, it doesn’t come straight from the United States, it comes in from Myanmar. >> BINALAKSHMI NEPRAM: The United States of America, who probably has never heard of Manipur before, would be surprised that their M16s are a favorite among our insurgent groups. Every day in newspapers, you see weapons captured from insurgents or terrorists by our state forces. Most of our armed groups, including underground, own only 0.2 percent of the entire arms arsenal of the world. It is the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council who produce 88 percent of the world’s weapons. These governments are responsible for this irresponsible arms trade and it is there that they should try to make a difference. Every year, three hundred widows are created in Manipur. >> WOMAN 1: I have been left alone with two young children. Our land is currently under mortgage. We have been living day to day with no real means of livelihood. >> RENU TAKHELLAMBAM: I am currently working as a native evangelist. My in-laws have been very supportive of my work. We have formed an association for families of victims of armed violence (EEVFAM). This association helps people who have had family members killed. I am currently serving as the president of the association. >> RENA TAKHELLAMBAM: We should take the signatures of all the members. >> WOMAN 2: What type of family do you belong to? >> WOMAN 3: I belong to a nuclear family. >> WOMAN 2: How old was your husband when he was killed? >> WOMAN 3: He was thirty-three years old. >> RENU TAKHELLAMBAM: Young widows like us seek comfort by coming together and sharing our woes. >> BINALAKSHMI NEPRAM: Renu’s story is a testimony to the fact that women in Manipur have strength in them to come out of trauma and fight back for peace and justice. >> RENU TAKHELLAMBAM: April 6th is our wedding anniversary. Exactly two years after our wedding date, my husband was killed. We bonded and we parted on April 6th. This day is a landmark for me because it gave me the push to organize this important association for the victims of armed violence, and to create strength to fight for the peace and justice we deserve. >> TITLE: What will be on Renu’s mind when April 6th comes? April 6th comes every year. Help control the arms trade by showing that armed violence affects us all. Share your story. Add your voice. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/team-up-south-africa The Grassroot Project is a Washington DC-based organization that pairs college athletes with at-risk youth to educate them on HIV/AIDS awareness. Grassroot Soccer is a similar organization, teaming athletes with youth in developing countries and using soccer as a tool to teach HIV/AIDS prevention. Team Up South Africa brought kids from these two groups together to share their experiences and what they've learned. Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:49:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/team-up-south-africa South Africa, Grassroot Soccer, Soweto, Johannesburg, AIDS, Change Makers, Education, Health, HIV >> COLESILA: There is one thing that I want to say. There is a difference between HIV and AIDS. HIV is a virus and AIDS is a disease.>> TYLER: Sometimes it's overwhelming to talk about stopping AIDS or wanting to end poverty. It?s overwhelming to think there?s not much that you can do, but these kids really can do a lot and they really can have an impact on their communities.>> COLESILA: I?m Colesila and I?m with Team Up 2010. >> FRANCISCO GARCIA: My name is Francisco Garcia, I?m from Washington, DC, and I?m 14. >> COLESILA: It's nice to meet the Team Up team because it was the first time for me to see them.>> FRANCISCO GARCIA: They are not shy to show their expression, they would dance and teach me new things, they would teach me their language. Zulu, by the way.>> TYLER: This is a pilot right here. This is an idea that we have had for almost a year now, and it's amazing to see it actually happening. I think it's incredibly powerful and incredibly important for programs like this to take place, especially when there is so much stigma. Sometimes you can feel like your world is so small and for them to be able to come halfway around the world and to interact with kids who are just like them in another part of the world and facing the same issues is incredibly powerful. >> COUNSELOR: So your test came back negative for HIV.>> BOY: Yes.>> COUNSELOR: Wait up, wait up. I want to make sure you keep doing everything that you are doing and I want you to come back every six months. Okay?>> BOY: Okay, I understand.>> COUNSELOR 2: We can fight HIV by working together.>> COLESILA: I think it's very important because I need to tell people more about what I?ve learned.>> TYLER: The idea behind the programs involved in this, Grassroot Soccer and The Grassroot Project in DC, is that both use sports as a way to sort of break the ice and also as a really creative metaphor to teach important life lessons and also important life saving information about HIV.>> FRANCISCO GARCIA: Yesterday?s experience playing with the orphanage and seeing their happy faces, knowing that they were enjoying their time, I probably won?t ever come back here so I did all I could and made sure they had the best time of their life.>> TYLER: Overall I think that sports are a universal language, they cut across differences within Soweto, within Johannesburg, within South Africa and they also cut across differences in the United States. It?s a great resource to tap to talk about really serious issues like HIV/AIDS to sort of break the ice. I think that athletes have such a huge power to reach kids about serious issues and issues that are taboo because a lot of kids want to grow up to be an athlete. They want to grow up and keep playing sports and so they want to learn what athletes are interested in and what they care about and I think if you can engage an athlete on an issue like this it has so much power. Really the goal is to continue this concept of a team because these kids have a lot of challenges and I think if anything they?ve built incredible relationships that may not exist in their families, that may not exist in their schools or with their teachers.>> COLESILA: I think they are different because of their language but in skin they are not different. >> TYLER: It's also about changing this issue in your community and going beyond your own behavior and trying to help other people in they way you?ve been helped.>> COLESILA: I wish to build my support team with my school, with my school classmates, and then make a group and then we tell more people information about HIV.>> FRANCISCO GARCIA: I basically became friends with everybody from Soweto. >> TYLER: When I was talking to these kids before we left, a lot of them thought that this was a service project, that they were going to be helping these kids out. But I think in a lot of ways the kids in South Africa have helped the kids in DC maybe more so than the opposite way. >> FRANCISCO GARCIA: Just because a person has HIV or AIDS, that doesn?t mean you can?t be friends or play with them.>> COLESILA: There is no problem that cannot be solved.>> TYLER: In order to make any big change we have to understand what it takes to make a bold decision and then to be strong in any situation. You guys have all shown that.>> COLESILA: It?s very important because when you are in a bad situation you have to be resilient. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-aster-from-ethiopia A local health worker from Ethiopia, Aster has dedicated her life to ensuring the health of mothers and children in her community. She traverses over seven miles daily on foot, and has saved countless lives along the way. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:51:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-aster-from-ethiopia Ethiopia, Maternal health, Infant mortality, Public health, Save the Children, Childbirth, Africa, Good Goes, Health, Change Makers >> TITLE: Aster is a local health worker in Ethiopia. >> ASTER [Local Health Worker]: I became a local health worker because I wanted to serve my community. I wanted to help mothers and children with the health problems they face, which I?ve grown up seeing in my area. >> TITLE: Aster walks 12 kilometers every day to keep mothers and children safe and healthy. Aster spends the first part of her day at the local health post, the only accessible clinic for miles. >> ASTER: If I could have one wish, I wish to see mothers and children safe, healthy and well educated. >> TITLE: Aster spends her afternoon traveling to visit new mothers at their homes. After a long day, Aster makes the journey home. >> ASTER: What makes me happy is saving the lives of mothers and children who are suffering from treatable and preventable illnesses. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-ade-from-indonesia Ade Yunarsih starts her newborn visits each day at 6 a.m., averaging 20 to 30 house calls for each week and delivering about ten babies each month. She?s been keeping this schedule, more or less, for 15 years in the village of Kampung Cirendeng, Indonesia. Ade is the person mothers turn to when they are pregnant, when they are giving birth and when their children become sick. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:51:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-ade-from-indonesia Indonesia, Maternal health, Public health, Infant mortality, Save the Children, Health, Community health worker, Good Goes, Change Makers, Maternal death >> ADE YUNARSIH [Local Health Worker]: My name is Ade Yunarsih and I am 36 years old. My father worked in the field of health and this was probably why he wanted me to get educated in health. I have been working as a community midwife in the Panembong village for about 15 years. People lack awareness about the importance of health. When the baby or the child suffers from a fever or an epileptic seizure, the parents prefer to ask about healing water rather than taking him or her to the hospital. This village borders mine, so it did not take a long time for people to start knowing me, to start recognizing me as one of the locals. My motivation is to improve this community?s health by advising them further. I hope that people will be more motivated in a positive manner. >> TITLE: The main causes of neonatal deaths in Indonesia are preventable. For the past 15 years, Ade has given care to thousands of mothers and babies, providing hands-on help when they needed it most. Help Ade and other local health workers reach more children. >> TITLE: Save the Children: See where the good goes. GoodGoes.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/rest-point Hundreds of Central American migrants cross into Mexico every day in their attempt to reach the United States. The Mexican authorities detain 200,000 of those travelers every year in the southern state of Oaxaca, where the government has installed two security belts. There, in the middle of the main train routes from Central America, is the Ciudad Ixtepec migrant shelter, an oasis on the road of the undocumented. Meet Father Alejandro Solalinde, founder of this unique shelter. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:54:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/rest-point Mexico, Immigration, Poverty, Migrant worker, ViewChange Online Film Contest, Central America, Change Makers, Oaxaca >> FATHER ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE [Coordinator, Catholic Pastoral Care Center for Migrants]: Migrants, brothers. Don't be scared. It's me, Father Alejandro. We are here to help you. If there is anyone there, come out. We will help you. Don't be scared, I'm Father Alejandro. >> TITLE: In October 2007, Father Alejandro Solalinde and his team opened a shelter for Central American migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico. >> FATHER ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE: So, it's clear that all the services here are for free, right? It's clear, right? So, you are in the railroad in Medias Aguas, or also in Lecheria. It's the same, you are there. There are people reaching you, saying, "You see, I also know what it is to be a migrant. I've suffered a lot. How many are you? Don't worry, I will go to get some sodas, I would like to help you." Instead of sodas, he will bring armed people in order to kidnap you. >> LEO [Migrant worker, El Salvador]: You leave home with the idea of helping your family. That's mainly the idea of all of us. That's my idea, to arrive one day in order to help my family, because it's a poor family. >> ARELI PALOMO [Volunteer]: Every time that the train comes, morning, midday, evening, late night, I register name, last name...>> ARELI PALOMO: I have the right, as a Mexican, to present a formal complaint in your name. >> ARELI PALOMO: ...what happened to them on the way. If they have been robbed, if the women have been raped, if the migration officers have blackmailed or attacked them. >> WOMAN: Yes, he said, "Stop there." From far away, he said, "Stop there." And my son-in-law said that we should stop, don't keep on running. And the men said, "Get naked," and he asked 300 pesos from each one. >> ARELI PALOMO: We are talking that every week between 180 and 200 migrants arrive.>> LEO: Coming in the train, we had a problem. We thought it was an army checkpoint, but it wasn't a checkpoint. Some soldiers came out, and they took her. I told them that I wasn't going to leave her, and I didn't. Actually, one of them was putting his gun in my back, and I told him, "If you are going to kill me, do it, because I'm not going to let you take her." >> FATHER ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE: Once, I asked them, "How would you be if you didn't have this place?" And only one answered. I was there, and from the back, one answered with a single word. "Devastated." That's what he said, devastated. This word is not so commonly used, but he answered with this one. And then I understood that this place for them means, first of all, security. One day, these migrants that have been robbed, that sometimes don't even have shoes, don't have clothes, that are asking for the most basic things, some day, the United States and hopefully Mexico, also, will make you a monument, because you are heroes of a new history. I believe that history is changing, but from the basement, from the poor people, without excluding anyone. You are changing that. You are not asking permission from anyone, because the migration has its own rules. If they say, "Don't cross there because there is an epidemic," you cross. "Don't go because the Zetas are kidnapping there," you go. >> FATHER ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE: Good morning, guys. How was the road? >> MAN: You know that the army took us down from the train in Juchitan.>> FATHER ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE: The army?>> MAN: Yes.>> FATHER ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE: Strange.>> MAN: Everyone, women, a lot of people. We were 250 people coming. Take a look at the few ones that made it until here. >> FATHER ALEJANDRO SOLALINDE: Okay, get into the shelter, and don't get out. I'm going to Juchitan to see what's going on. >> TITLE: Hundreds of migrants are passing through the shelter every month. They are given a place to stay, food, medicine, and legal advice. It is one of the only secure resting points on the way to the USA border. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-felix-from-guatemala Felix, 25, has been a local health worker in Xachmochán Village, Guatemala, since 2007. He has served almost 100 families in and around his village in that time, treating sick children who otherwise would not have access to the medicines that could save their lives. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:32:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-felix-from-guatemala Guatemala, Health, Central America, Public health, Infant, Save the Children, Good Goes, Change Makers, Community health worker, Maternal health >> FELIX AGUILAR RAMIREZ [Local Health Worker]: My name is Felix Aguilar Ramirez and I?m a healthcare outreach worker. The community chose me. And I accepted. This was a chance for me to grow. Not only for me, but for my family. So that?s how I decided to become a part of Save the Children. Save the children taught us how to examine the children. To see if they are seriously ill. In this community, we don?t always have the medicine or supplies to treat a severe illness. So we have to refer people from here to the hospital. There are mothers who don?t know where to go when their children get sick. So it?s all about finding a way to make things better so that once the children are taken care of their mothers can relax. My days have been very busy since I started with the program. There are days when I get to work at 8 a.m. and arrive back home at 9 p.m. I am either making home visits or at the health center. And sometimes suddenly there are lots of people arriving at the clinic, and I have to try to help them all. There are times when so many people come that I can?t see everyone in a day. I have to ask some to come back the next day. Here in the community there are a lot of people who value my work. There are people who support me. That makes me feel good. And this is something that is going to continue to grow. It makes me so happy that I now have the ability to help a family. I am motivated because I can save a life. >> TITLE: The leading causes of death for children under five in Guatemala are largely preventable. As a local health worker, Felix has helped to treat hundreds of sick children. Help Felix and other local health workers reach more children. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-madalitso-from-malawi Madalitso Masa is a health worker from Jonasi Village in the centre of Malawi. The area is rocky and mountainous, making home visits a challenge, but Madalitso has made it her mission to bring care closer to home. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:32:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/good-goes-madalitso-from-malawi Malawi, Health, Maternal death, Infant, Save the Children, Change Makers, Sub-Saharan Africa, Public health, Childbirth, Child mortality >> TITLE: Madalitso Masa is a local health worker in Malawi. She keeps the children of Jonasi Village safe and healthy. She must walk for miles every day to visit children in need. >> MADALITSO MASA [Local Health Worker]: I enjoy it when I?m working because I get to discover a lot of things while I am traveling around. It is a good feeling to know that I am helping to save children?s lives. >> TITLE: Madalitso helped save Florida?s baby from an infection. >> MADALITSO MASA: Ever since I began implementing this community program there have been no maternal deaths. >> TITLE: Madalitso then travels to see Rabeca and her newborn baby. Mike was born eight weeks early and weighed only three and a half pounds. After a long day?s work, Madalitso makes the journey home. >> MADALITSO MASA: I feel proud because I know that lives are being saved because of my work. >> TITLE: The leading causes of death for children under five in Malawi are largely preventable and treatable. As a local health worker, Madalitso has brought life-saving treatment to hundreds of children. Help Madalitso and other health workers reach more children. >> TITLE: Save the Children: See where the good goes. GoodGoes.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ferishta-a-voice-from-afghanistan Driven from her homeland by the Taliban and forced to flee to Pakistan when she was 17, Ferishta is one of a growing number of women taking part in rebuilding Afghanistan through small businesses that promote gender equality. Find out how she has overcome these odds to start a thriving sports ball company. Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:54:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ferishta-a-voice-from-afghanistan Afghanistan, Women in Afghanistan, Taliban treatment of women, Gender, Women's rights in Afghanistan, ViewChange Online Film Contest, Taliban, Change Makers, Entrepreneurship >> TITLE: In Afghanistan, women are working to rise from poverty and gender discrimination. They do this even with daily reminders that the Taliban is still present. One such woman is Ferishta, who, in Mazar-e Sharif, is rebuilding not only her life but the lives of others.>> TITLE: Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan>> TITLE: Ferishta: A Voice From Afghanistan>> FERISHTA: Like this is the ball she has printed. She does the printing on them. And also, we have the name of Balkh. Balkh is the province. One of the province in the north.>> INTERVIEWER: They're nice. They're like really sturdy.>> GIRL: They're nice.>> INTERVIEWER: They're nice>> GIRL: They're nice.>> FERISHTA: These are all the printings that has been done by Asina.>> INTERVIEWER: These?>> FERISHTA: Yeah, all of these printings, they have been done by her. She's very good at printing and also preparing sample balls. Made by Afghan women.>> INTERVIEWER: That's awesome.>> FERISHTA: I know. >> TITLE: Asina, one of Ferishta's employees.>> FERISHTA: I run a small company producing soccer ball. I have twenty employees, men and women. You know that in Afghanistan sometimes people think that it's very difficult, especially for women, to do anything, and I also had the same idea, but after starting my own business I feel so much happier. I feel encouraged and I feel very powerful that, okay, as an Afghan woman I am also able to do something. And I'm sure that one day I can compete with other businesses. My daughter also likes playing with soccer ball.>> INTERVIEWER: Yeah, you think she'll become a soccer player?>> FERISHTA: Yeah. She can. It is difficult to manage business, work and also take care of the baby. Especially when she when she was very young, like two, three months?it was very difficult to leave her at home and go for work all the day, but I manage because it's not just the case with me, it's with everyone. Every working mother has the same problem.>> INTERVIEWER: Do you think things are getting better for women in Afghanistan?>> FERISHTA: I think so. Since the collapse of Taliban there have been quite significant changes and we are happy with that. It takes time because a country cannot be built in one or two day or one or two years. For building a country, it's not the responsibility of only men. It's the responsibility of every individual to just contribute to the economical growth of the country. When the Taliban came, I was 17. We went to Pakistan, Karachi city. We lived there for almost seven years. It was very difficult being a refugee and we had to live in poverty. When we came back we had to start our life from zero. It was very difficult, but still we are happy that we've gone back to our own country.>> TITLE: Today Ferishta is one of a struggling but growing number or female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan. She employs men and women, who like herself, were refugees in Pakistan and have since returned home. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/youth-radio-magwi-project-fm-925 The Rural Youth's Voices Project is a community-based youth radio station and music production studio in Magwi, South Sudan. The radio station fosters an open dialogue within the community through the exchange of information, opinions, and experience. It allows youth to become active citizens, disseminating information crucial to supporting development and peace in Magwi. Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:54:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/youth-radio-magwi-project-fm-925 Southern Sudan, Technology, Sudan, ViewChange Online Film Contest, Change Makers, Africa, Radio broadcasting, Second Sudanese Civil War >> TITLE: Xchange Perspectives >> TITLE: Magwi, South Sudan >> MAN 1: We are looking forward to have a radio station so that it can improve the life and the standard of living of people in Magwi, and to pass the information on to the community of Magwi. >> TITLE: Six weeks later >> RADIO HOST: Hello, who am I talking to and where are you calling from? >> RADIO CALLER: I am calling from Magwi Centre, my name is Taban. >> TITLE: Rural Youth’s Voices Project, Magwi, South Sudan: A stepping-stone for peace. >> VOICEOVER: For over 20 years, Magwi County was the ground for a devastating and brutal civil war. Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005, people started to slowly return to their homelands. Upon their return, they are faced with an immense lack in the most basic infrastructure. The youth in Magwi is particularly in need of hopeful future prospects. The youth was lacking the opportunities to project their views. The Rural Youth’s Voices Project Magwi, a community based local media initiative, initiated and implemented by Xchange Perspectives, changed this reality. The first phase of the project, the Media for Peace training, focuses on understanding peace values. The 18 young people from Magwi learn and reflect on themes such as peace, conflict, violence and the role the media can play to resolve conflicts non-violently and to create cultures of peace. >> MAN 2: What is peace? Throw a few things in we have been talking about. >> MAN 3: Peace is cooperation and understanding. >> MAN 4: Unity and togetherness. >> MAN 5: Peace is economic, political, and social stability. >> VOICEOVER: The knowledge gained about peace concepts will later be translated into the daily work of the journalists and the musicians. >> MAN 6: Here we have chosen this instrument and if you want to choose a different instrument... >> VOICEOVER: The three participants of the music production training learn within five weeks about the entire music production process. To record music was almost impossible in South Sudan. Today music can be recorded in Magwi. This is an important contribution to the cultural identity of the youth. Their songs are about a stable, prosperous and peaceful future. And it is this vision that musicians like Johnsonic want to disseminate through their music. >> JOHNSONIC: Life is more important than everything else. And life can only be in unity. Let’s vote peacefully until the end. >> VOICEOVER: The most effective way to spread news and information in rural areas like Magwi County is through FM broadcasting. For the future radio journalist, it was therefore essential to first thoroughly assess the needs and expectations of their community. Within five weeks they learn about the basics of journalistic work. The 15 participants of the radio journalism training developed a great journalistic ambition and eagerness to contribute positively to their community. The youth, if provided with the necessary skills in media production, can be a voice – a voice contributing positively to social change and peace. Pre-produced songs, features and dramas were waiting to be aired. On the first of March 2010, all is finally set. Radio Magwi FM 92.5 goes on air. In the studio, the phone runs hot. >> RADIO HOST: Radio Magwi hello? Yes hello, you are welcome. >> VOICEOVER: The coverage of FM 92.5 is far beyond all expectations. The plan was for the signal range to reach 50 kilometers – but now listeners are calling in from as far as Juba, the political center of Southern Sudan. Radio Magwi fosters, through the exchange of information, opinions and experience, an open dialogue amongst the local community, and allows the youth to become active citizens of their society, disseminating information crucial to supporting the development and peace processes in Magwi County. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/favela-rising Life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has long been dominated by powerful drug gangs and corrupt cops. But Banda AfroReggae&mdash;part rock band, part community movement&mdash;wants to tell a different story, and give favela youth a different option. Co-founder Anderson Sa tells the group's uplifting story. Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:13:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/favela-rising AfroReggae, Favela, Vigário Geral, Anderson Sa, Rio de Janeiro, Illegal drug trade, Drug lord, Brazil, Social movement, Afro-Brazilian >> TITLE: Sidetrack Films and Voy Pictures present a film by Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary>> ANDERSON SA: My first memory of seeing violence: I was with my mom at a neighborhood bar, across the street from a spot where they sold cocaine. I was about 10 years old, and the dealers caught this guy that didn't pay for some drugs, or maybe he was an undercover cop, and they started beating him silly in the street. Residents were walking by like everything was normal. My mom covered my eyes, but I could still see through the gap between her fingers. The dealer was standing over this guy and shooting him many times in the head like trrraw. I remember all this stuff flying out of the back of his head, but I didn't cry. I just calmly watched and thought. I was thinking, "I'm not afraid of dying." >> TITLE: Between the years of 1987 and 2001, 467 minors were murdered in Israel and Palestine combined. During that same time, 3,937 minors were murdered in one city in Brazil. >> ANDERSON SA: For many decades, the government has ignored the slums. The government has never thought of improving the lives of the people living in the slums, living in the hills. The slums have forever been stagnant, paralyzed. It's as if the spinal cord of the favela has always been broken. >> TITLE: Favela Rising>> TITLE: Favela (f a ve'la) n. in Brazil, an urban slum or ghetto; illegal squatter settlement>> ANDERSON SA: I was born and raised here. This is the community of Vigario Geral. Of Rio's over 600 favelas, this is considered the Brazilian Bosnia. Instead of falling asleep with our mothers singing to us, we fell asleep to gunshots and people screaming, the sounds of violence. It took me a long time to understand all this. The problems of childhood stay with you the rest of your life. When I was a boy, I often dreamt that I would become a revolutionary drug lord, and I would lead the favelas towards a better life. >> ANDERSON SA: My name is Anderson Sa, and I was educated on the street. We used to play "Cops and Robbers." No one ever wanted to be the cops. We pretended our names were the same as the drug dealers' names. We carved machine guns out of wood, and we ran around pretending we were killing each other. I came from a crew of 17 friends. Seven are dead. Five are in jail. I got involved with the crime organization indirectly. I buried weapons, packaged drugs, little favors here and there. I would witness tortures, murders. I was hanging out with criminals. >> VOICES: I sell weed and powder. / If I didn't work here, I wouldn't work at all. / I use the money to buy clothes and sandals. / I've robbed and killed. / The boss tells me to kill, so I kill for him. / And I'll eventually die for being what I am. >> INTERVIEWER: What's the average age of death for drug soldiers?>> ANDERSON SA: Fourteen to 25 years old. >> BOY: We all kiss their asses. We're like, "Oh shit, what cool guns." All the teenage girls chase the guys that have machine guns. They want to be with these guys, to be respected in here. They have nice motorcycles, so the girls are called "Maria Gasolina." They don't pay any attention to us. That's why I'm getting a motorcycle now, to get some girls. They make about USD$650/week. >> TITLE: Average salary for a Black Brazilian Adult: USD$13/week.>> BOY: Everybody likes that job. The outlaws skin people, man, slice the guy's skin off his body. >> INTERVIEWER: While he's alive?>> BOY: Yep, while he's alive. I will cut your finger off so you can't point. I'm going to cut your tongue out so that you don't go telling things. >> INTERVIEWER: Are you sure this is okay? What if there's someone who hears you now? >> BOY: It's okay. I'm just explaining. >> INTERVIEWER: I get worried about you and me. >> BOY: This is no problem. But, if we used a camera to actually film them up there, that'd be a very serious mistake. >> TITLE: Name unknown, 16 years old.>> ANDERSON SA: It's prejudice. Favela residents are excluded because of our zip code. People think everyone in the favela is involved with trafficking, but the majority are honest people who just want to work and live peacefully. My favela here is one drug faction. Past these roofs is a rival faction. No one's allowed to cross into a rival drug lord's favela.>> MAN: Not even regular favela residents? >> ANDERSON SA: People have family in other favelas. They meet outside the ghettos, in a neutral place. >> JB [Former drug lord, Red Command Cartel]: Vigario Geral was the headquarters of the Red Command cartel. Every drug lord lived here. All the meetings were here. I was a drug dealer here. We were so strong, we robbed and kidnapped during the day. That was through the early '90s. Then came The Massacre. I was at the plaza that day, hanging out with friends. This one police chief used to badger and beat people to extort money. Our drug lord was fed up with this guy because everyone was afraid of him, and I remember it as if it was yesterday. The policeman's car rolled past the church and down into the plaza. The next second, I saw our van slowly driving towards the police car. The police car had its four windows open. My drug lord came out of the van alone and executed all four police. I watched it happen. >> ZUENIR VENTURA [Author and Journalist]: It was August 1993. The favela Vigario Geral, with a population of 30,000 residents, was invaded by an infamous division of the military police. They entered houses and randomly murdered many people. They were avenging deaths of four police killed by outlaws earlier that week. Except, of the 21 people they murdered, not one was connected to drug trafficking. They were absolutely innocent people. This image became the anti-postcard of Rio de Janeiro, instead of the Christ statue or the women on the beach. >> JB: It's the worst thing I've ever seen, all those corpses laid out in a line. That image is tattooed in all of our minds forever. >> ANDERSON SA: It was after 11 at night. I was in front of my house. "Rambo" was on TV. The police entered and started shooting anyone on the street. They killed one guy going to work, carrying his meal. Another guy walked by. They killed him, too. They went into a house and killed a family of eight Evangelists. They killed a 15-year-old girl, a 65-year-old man, and the woman was 70. If I had known at the time who the guys were that did this, I would have found them and killed them. No remorse at all in shooting them, honestly. There was serious suffering and serious rage. >> ANDERSON'S GODMOTHER: Anderson lost his brother in the massacre. I was afraid the pain would push him deeper into the drug army to seek revenge. >> ANDERSON SA: When the shooting started, I had gone inside my house. Then this woman came to us, screaming for my mother. "Something terrible has happened." She brought us to him, and there he was, dead, laying on the floor of the bar amongst other bodies. Even when people have done serious wrong, it's terrible to see them like that. Imagine when it's a family member, and he's innocent. Imagine. The police had checked everyone's papers then threw a grenade and killed everyone at the bar. I started to ask why we wanted to kill each other, why such hatred? Think how to stop violence. Think. I was just figuring things out and discovering without a plan, hope it'll come naturally, got nothing calculated. How do I end violence? >> ANDERSON'S GODMOTHER: I didn't realize how evolved he was at that young age. There was no reason for him not to stay with the drug army, but he didn't think it was right, and he got out. He chose another path, thank God. I am proud of him. It's a great honor to be his godmother. >> ANDERSON SA: Amidst the turbulence, the massacre, my connection to the cartel, I started to think of a better life. My parents were worried about me. They didn't want me on that path. I had clothes, food on the table, things other kids lacked. Somehow, I had to fight for something better, give back to my people for all they'd done for me. This is how it started to happen. There was this guy, Junior, who I always admired for his leadership. Junior didn't believe in lost causes. Junior looked for the people that nobody wanted, the most delinquent, and he worked with them, transformed them, like a warrior. "Why not do it? Who says you can't?" He has no barriers. He breaks them all. >> JOSE JUNIOR [Executive Coordinator, Grupo AfroReggae]: I first met Anderson in a time of terrible adversity. Anderson's from a generation where all of his friends were dead. Similarly for me. If I hadn't lost so many friends, if I didn't have so much suffering in my youth, I wouldn't be doing what I do. We're a group of destroyed people infected by idealism. Our lives all sucked before AfroReggae, but that moment when we formed the group changed everything. It's a Shiva effect. Shiva is the goddess of destruction and transformation. We are a Shiva effect. >> ALTAIR MARTINS [Grupo AfroReggae member]: Our group believes strongly in "the Shiva effect." First, the God Shiva creates the chaos in order that he can then rise as a Phoenix from the ashes. That was us. >> ZUENIR VENTURA: When I went to Vigario Geral to research for my book, that first day, I met the group of kids who became Grupo AfroReggae. It wasn't a movement yet. They had just a little newspaper then. But they intended to not seek revenge for the massacre. Rather, they sought to call society's attention to the reality they were living. >> JOSE JUNIOR: We didn't have any idea what an NGO or social movement was, but we knew the Afro-Brazilian culture was under-represented, so we created the AfroReggae News. The graphics and printing services had to be donated by good will, so we were always waiting at the end of a long line. It was a blow to our self-esteem. People left the group because we didn't have any money. We couldn't even support ourselves, just to stay alive. >> ANDERSON SA: One day, I was caught up in sadness about the massacre. I had a fight with my girlfriend, my sister, my mom, and I wasn't doing well at work. I went home and wrote a song called "To Bolado" [I'm Overwhelmed]. "I'm from Vigario. I love my community, but I'm pissed off." So I started to think about using music as an instrument of change. Ask yourself how to stop violence; culture is a vehicle. How do I use music as an instrument of change? Because through music, you can reach everyone. That's how we did it. It was tough to start the program, but, eventually, we were able to borrow enough instruments. Each week, we'd bring the instruments to Vigario, and a volunteer would come to the favela to teach percussion to us, and it was through music that we appeared. Through music, we changed our reality. And from those percussion workshops, we formed the band and called it AfroReggae. >> TITLE: Banda AfroReggae school benefit concert>> MEN: One, two three - AfroReggae!>> ANDERSON SA [Singing]: Twenty-one workers assassinated by the police. Our people killed by the luck of the draw. Hatred breeds violence. I've had enough. Yet my pride still resides in Vigario. I love my community. But I'm pissed off. >> ANDERSON SA: Young people who live in these hills, what they need is a positive reference, a nonviolent, black role model. It's the favela's choice, because the favela kid can have options. He just isn't given access to information about culture. >> JOSE JUNIOR: Sadly, what attracts a kid to crime is clothes, status, lack of opportunities. The lack of any structured groups for them to join. Youth feel the need to be involved in a collective identity, and, in the favelas, the only such group is the narco-trafficking organization. >> TITLE: Grupo AfroReggae Youth Percussion Program>> ANDERSON SA: Today, I'll show you something new. We'll get the big drums kickin' in, and then we'll do rhythm exercises to get a sense of the division. This is how we'll start. That's it. Let's work it out. Then we'll work some rhythms within it. Let me do it first. Then copy me. Right here. Right here! In all the groups, bands, and programs that we coordinate, no one is allowed to drink, smoke, or do any drugs. These are the rules for all of our participants. For every kid AfroReggae attracted to our percussion class, five were waiting to join the drug army. We were happy just to have that one kid, yet?.>> JB: After the massacre, there were riots, and the police kept killing. >> ZUENIR VENTURA: In the mid 1990s, things continued to turn for the worse. The police and the drug armies expanded the scale of their activity. >> TITLE: Military Police Boot Camp, outskirts of Rio de Janeiro>> ANDRE LUIS AZEVEDO [Investigative Journalist]: This is the elite, specialized troop of Rio police. They go up the hill into the favelas in times of conflict. They dress in black, like most urban SWAT teams, and they are trained in specific techniques of guerilla warfare. Rio de Janeiro police, especially those who work in the favelas, have become extremely corrupt. Police are the real beneficiaries of narcotics trafficking. Drug lords sell, and they make money, but you never see the millionaire drug lord, and in the favela, everyone is miserably poor. So where does all the real drug money go? It goes to the police. Who sells the guns to the favela armies? Policemen. Who delivers the drugs? We know police are always the middlemen. Police corruption may be the cause of all the lack of control in the favelas. >> MAN [Policeman]: This man we found is one of their soldiers. He was up there in their war zone. >> MAN [Policeman]: This one is marijuana, and that one is cocaine. >> JOSE JUNIOR: A member of AfroReggae named Paulo Negueba was shot in the legs by the military police. He was on his way to work and the police mistook him for an outlaw. It was a time when we were extremely angry at the State. We can't wait for the government because they have no control. Yet we know that, to fully reverse our predicament, we'd need support from the private sector, civil society, and the media. >> ANDERSON SA: AfroReggae realized that nothing could be left up to outside authorities. If we keep talking in the third person, judging other parties, then we're going nowhere. >> ZUENIR VENTURA: It was the beginning of a new consciousness, that the solution exists in the participation of each individual. >> JOSE JUNIOR: We mobilized like crazy. The first thing we did was make our own video showing random acts of police brutality to the rest of Rio. >> TITLE: In 1997 and 1998 combined, Rio's military police killed 699 people. Sixty-one percent were executed at point-blank range. Almost all were favela citizens. >> JOSE JUNIOR: There must be some police presence, but their presence needs to be dramatically more civil, more humane. Our police are undertrained, extremely underpaid, and, of all the jobs in Brazil, they are the victims of the most prejudice. >> ANDERSON SA: I have this peacefulness at times that even impresses me. My fiancee is like, "The world can be falling apart and all is wrong, and you're always just calm, convinced things'll get better." >> MICHELE MORAES [Anderson's Fiancee]: I first met Anderson at the bus stop here in Vigario Geral. We had similar work schedules and always took the same buses. Our first kiss was inside the bus. We started "dating," as they say, and we've been together for over eight years now. If everything goes alright, we'll be married beginning of the year, but I'm very afraid of the violence, of dying, afraid of how I'll die. That's really what it is: how you die. Could get caught in crossfire on the street. Could be a stray bullet while you're at work. Middle of the night, during the day, we're always in danger here. It seems like Anderson doesn't fear violence. >> ANDERSON SA: At the same time that I don't let the violence affect me, loss really gets to me. Alone in my room, listening to music, I cry often. Remembering our crew, my good friends, our time together. I wish they could be here now, to see how I've changed, to see I'm a different person. >> JB: I first admired AfroReggae when they started giving those free concerts in the favela. Then I saw AfroReggae was also doing all that positive work with young people. I saw the power their group had in the favela and particularly in the eyes of my drug army. They get respect. I think God writes wise words in crude penmanship. I recruit dealers to AfroReggae now. I go up to a guy with his gun out and tell him to change his life. To them, I'm an example of a guy who got out. >> ANDERSON SA: We have many examples of people like JB in AfroReggae now. Like the other day, JB and I went to a funk party in the favela, and this very ironic thing happened, because a drug lord came up to us and thanked us for what we do. The drug lord told us that his younger brother had joined AfroReggae, and this drug lord said he knew that his little brother would have a better life now and would stay out of crime. All that we do is directly against everything that the drug army is, and our mission is to take youth out of the drug army, yet this drug lord thanked us for the work we're doing. >> TITLE: In 1997, a prominent U.S. foundation awarded Grupo AfroReggae a multi-year project grant.>> ANDERSON SA: We have 13 groups in Vigario now. >> BOY [Member, Grupo AfroReggae]: Before AfroReggae, I was going to become a drug soldier. When I entered AfroReggae, everything changed. >> TITLE: On April 21, 1997, AfroReggae lost its first member. >> TITLE: Bigu Alves was shot dead in the street. >> JOSE JUNIOR: People want to express their anger about these things, but they could be killed if they say anything. Fear controls these people. After Bigu's murder, we started to take more risks. We began speaking out about the drug wars. >> TITLE: Plaza of Vigario Geral>> >> ANDERSON SA [Singing]: An outlaw up in here gettin' beat in our streets for his naked little woman. A gunshot and people scatter. Both cartels got beef with the other. But I got a hammer in one hand, pencil in the other. I'm another one who's made the great escape. Rio's explosion has arrived to stay. The new face of the people's culture, and it's all going to change. We're legitimately on magazine covers, newspaper spreads. We are AfroReggae from Vigario Geral. >> SIGN: Vigario Geral demands justice.>> ANDERSON SA: What are you up to, man, studying? >> MURILIO: Studying sucks. Because we don't do shit in school. >> ANDERSON SA: To be someone, you gotta study. What's your name? >> MURILIO: My name's Richard. >> BOY: Liar. His name's Murilio. >> MURILIO: You gonna believe him or me, man? >> ANDERSON SA: Murilio, why don't you say your real name, man? You think I'm gonna tell on you? I'm from the favela, too, from Vigario. What do you want to be when you grow up? >> MURILIO: An outlaw. >> ANDERSON SA: What are you talking about? Why not be a worker and avoid the suffering? Drug dealers die young. >> MURILIO: I'd rather be in prison than die.>> BOY: Six outlaws just died in Vigario. >> ANDERSON SA: They die every day. It's no good being an outlaw. I know how it is. You'll have money, clothes, all that, but name one outlaw who's 50 years old. They're all dead. You have to work, Richard Murilio, to feel good, to buy yourself an honest gold necklace.>> MURILIO: The necklace I'm wearing, I stole.>> ANDERSON SA: Oh, yeah? Come steal my watch then, huh?>> MURILIO: I can't. You're from the favela.>> ANDERSON SA: You're no thief. You're no outlaw. You're a good kid. But you gotta study or practice sports or learn something cultural.>> MURILIO: I'm gonna be an outlaw.>> ANDERSON SA: Don't believe the bullshit, man. You're no outlaw, Richard Murilio.>> ANDERSON SA: We want residents to see AfroReggae leaders can cross favela borders freely, and we're able to support ourselves, doing dignified work for a living. >> MICHELE MORALES: The other day there was a fight between drug factions, and everyone came to Anderson because the cartel took someone's nephew or whatever. He's like a voice for the community. But he wants so much to help people that he forgets the use caution. If he keeps this up, living so publicly, someone's going to take advantage of him. Like the people asking his help the other day. How does he know those weren't bad people? It really worries me, how he'll do anything to save the world, without protecting his own survival. It pains me to talk about it. >> WOMAN: Well, he's the man of your life ...>> MICHELE MORALES: Yeah. And I'm very proud of him. >> ANDERSON SA: I have a recurring dream that I'm falling. The drop is bottomless, endlessly falling and falling ... until I fall off my bed, and I wake up. Then, at three or four in the morning, I go to the beach. I go to surf. Don't need the tan. I always thought surfing looked cool on television. So I started surfing, alone. It's an escape for me. I forget everything, all the problems of life, and fully relax. Meditating on one solitary thing, waiting for the right wave. And, by 5 am, I'm back in the favela. >> ANDERSON SA: The city government wants us to expand to 20 more favelas, but movement has to come from the community itself. In other slums, we'd be applying our solutions to their problems. If we become McDonald's, putting one everywhere, we've lost the essence. It only works when residents themselves know what they want. Outsiders come into the favela wanting to implement this or that. Do they know that's what the people want? What if a kid wants to learn how to make and sell paper for profit. Sometimes he doesn't want dance workshops or martial arts class. Maybe he wants to do ... hair. He wants to be a hairdresser. Plus, Rio has over 600 favelas. >> MAN: So you're not going to expand the movement?>> ANDERSON SA: We are. But we intend to attract the leaders of each favela, people who already have some mobility in their community, and pass on to them the history and objective of AfroReggae's work. Hopefully our methodology will be applicable in their favelas. >> ZUENIR VENTURA: The favela is starting to show itself differently to the outside. They're saying, "We don't just create violence like the papers report. We create music and art. We are capable of creating our own cultural universe. >> TITLE: In February of 2001, Universal Music signed Banda AfroReggae to an international record deal. AfroReggae vowed to put the earnings back into their programs. >> ANDERSON SA: With the city government of Rio, we started "Urban Connections," a project to bring concerts to other favelas with the same production quality as the big shows they have in Copacabana and the rich areas. Twenty- to fifty-thousand favela residents will come to these shows, because it's empowering to have this offered right in front of our homes. >> TITLE: Favela: Complexo Da Penha; Population: 80,000; Cartel: Red Command>> ANDERSON SA: The thing I fear most is paralysis. Immobility. But I don't like to speak negatively. I have this paranoia that when you think negative things, they happen. When I have a negative thought, I reach my hand into my head and throw it out. Immobility ... >> JOSE JUNIOR: I was at a meeting outside of town when we found out that the war between Vigario Geral and the rival favela named Lucas had just reignited after a 20-year ceasefire. >> WOMAN: I'm not going.>> ANDERSON SA: It was Friday when the drug army from Lucas invaded Vigario Geral. I got in the middle of it all to mediate as a voice for the community, to do what I could to help prevent more innocent people from dying, because the residents were protecting the drug armies. Residents should not be coerced into a cartel war. Some of the Lucas residents who were there returned to Lucas, saying I had chased them out of Vigario with a gun in one hand, AfroReggae T-shirt in the other. >> JOSE JUNIOR: They invented a huge lie. They said Anderson had a rifle and a handgun. They said he raped a girl and that he was holding 20 hostages from Lucas. As absurd as it sounds, over in Lucas they believed it. Hours later, over 200 people showed up from Lucas to lynch Anderson. >> ANDERSON SA: We were at the community center. And everyone was yelling, "They're coming to kill you, Anderson. Let's get the fuck out of here." I said, "I'm not leaving, because if I leave they'll think I'm guilty. I won't admit to anything because I haven't done anything. I'm going to stay and try to talk with them. Go if you're going ..." They all said, "Then we're staying too." >> JOSE JUNIOR: I was driving there to die with them because I couldn't live without them. So we could all die together. It was Anderson, Altair, Vitor, Dada, Sandro, Leandro, and Samuel. They called me and I could hear all the yelling through my cell phone. All I heard was chaos. >> ANDERSON SA: In the moment I found the strength to yell, "We are neutral. We are neither Red Command nor Third Command. We're just a loud voice in the community." We stood up to them in a way they're not used to. >> JOSE JUNIOR: By the time I arrived the chaos had cleared. And they were all sitting there laughing. >> ANDERSON SA: A drug lord from Lucas who respected us had convinced the mob to listen. He said, "Let's hear what AfroReggae has to say and evaluate the situation." He said, "It's interesting that you're still here and didn't run away." If it wasn't for the Lucas drug lord, the mob would have tortured us, stoned and beaten us to death. >> JOSE JUNIOR: We've already made a name for ourselves. Why take these risks? Because as long as we reside in a war zone, our ideology won't allow us to live passively, in comfort. We have no choice but to join the combat, to fight. We go to war to demand peace.>> ANDERSON SA [Singing]: Even if justice delays, it never fails. All of you know this. Within music and culture, a new movement exists. It's the movement that fights for peace.>> JOSE JUNIOR: If you compare the Vigario of today with how it used to be, there's much less suffering, there are fewer homicides, more job opportunities. But the most important change of all is that now, for the first time, Vigario is a place of hope. >> ANDERSON'S GODMOTHER: These days, many more of us are behind Anderson. The people follow him. We want to learn from the things he says because it's rare to find a responsible black man with dignity like that. The drug dealers used to eat at my home cafe, but I didn't like them around. One day they came and said, "We're here to eat." I said, "I'm sorry. AfroReggae supports me and I won't serve you." That was a huge moment in this favela, to be free to refuse to serve them. >> TITLE: When AfroReggae began in 1993, there were over 150 drug soldiers in Vigario.>> ANDERSON SA: Families, please focus our children on their culture, on education, so our youth aren't lured into organized crime. >> TITLE: By 2004, the number of drug soldiers had fallen to less than 25.>> ANDERSON SA: The only time people mention your favela is to talk about the violence here. But we know this is also home to peace-loving, hard-working people. >> TITLE: And the AfroReggae movement had expanded to nine favelas with over 2,000 participants. >> ANDERSON SA: We need to quit the mindset of this side versus that side, slum against slum. Because we're all from the favela, right? >> JOSE JUNIOR: I was exactly here, in this office, when a band member called and told me, "Look, I think Anderson suffered a major accident." He said, "He was surfing and cracked his head on a rock.">> ANDERSON'S MOTHER: He was trapped by a wave and knocked unconscious. He's stopped breathing and was just floating in the waves. His friend dragged him to shore and called an ambulance. At the hospital I saw a crowd at the door and I thought my son was dead. >> DR. NIEMEYER: He broke his fourth vertebra and was instantly quadriplegic. It is an extremely severe injury. Rarely can this type of paralysis be reversed.>> JOSE JUNIOR: We told the doctor, "We don't have any personal money, but we can't just let Anderson be paralyzed. This is priceless." And then Dr. Niemeyer called me and he already knew about AfroReggae, he knew what Anderson represents for so many people, and he said, "Don't worry about money. I won't charge you." >> DR. NIEMEYER: Those who can pay, pay. And those who can't pay, don't. Those are the doctor's politics my father passed down to me. We have to help everyone. We all pay for each other.>> JOSE JUNIOR: But Dr. Niemeyer, who's been doing this surgery for many years, warned us that he can count on his fingers the number of patients who were ever able to walk again. >> ANDERSON SA: I don't know if this was supposed to have happened. I was always afraid of something like this. To be paralyzed. To be unable to move.>> MICHELE MORALES: He said that if he has to be paralyzed forever, then he'd rather die. He says he'll ask the doctor to give him something to ... He thinks it'd be easier to die. >> JOSE JUNIOR: We are thinking about stopping AfroReggae. Because Anderson's the face of the institution, and the band. How could it go on without him? The whole world is waiting. We've all cried so much. The youth are all praying every day for him. No one told them to do it. They are just honestly praying. >> ALTAIR MARTINS: The night before surgery, after visiting hours, we snuck behind security through the back way to Anderson's ward. We found him crying by himself. He talked to us and said that he was feeling real bad. The craziest thing: While we were talking this old lady appeared. I looked at the door and there she was, walking straight towards us. She stopped by Anderson's side and said, "I've never met this man before, but a god has asked me to come and talk to him. This god that has guided me here to talk to you, he is the god that moves the sea ..." When she said "moves the sea," our hair raised. She told Anderson that the god of the sea would give him the victory sooner than any of us could ever imagine. Today, when Anderson asked me to find a T-shirt for him to wear home, I took the top shirt from his bag. Guess what shirt it was? >> VOICE: Shiva.>> ALTAIR MARTINS: Yep. Shiva. >> TITLE: Anderson's release from hospital, four days after surgery>> ALTAIR MARTINS: Do you want to go in the wheelchair or do you want to walk?>> ANDERSON SA: In the chair is fine. It doesn't matter.>> ALTAIR MARTINS: No one knows but you. Do you want to walk? You wanna be cool about it and walk out like you're a miracle?>> ANDERSON SA: I want to be a miracle. >> DR. NIEMEYER: He is an exception. He needs to thank every day, because it is extremely rare for a quadriplegic patient to recover.>> ANDERSON SA: It was on the second day after the surgery. The doctor sat next to me and told me to try to stand. I thought he was joking, but he said, "It's okay. Let's try it." He wasn't so confident himself that I would be able to do it. I started to lift my head and chest. I wanted to sit up and I did. I felt the greatest happiness. >> TITLE: Junior's home>> ALTAIR MARTINS: This is his ultimate test. To rise above and continue moving the slums forward.>> JOSE JUNIOR: I have to give him strength, so today I made a deal with him: "Each day will be the Olympics. Each day is a record to be broken. You'll have to work through the pain. >> ANDERSON SA: Little things have a lot of importance now, like the way I sleep. Any small movement that I do with my hands becomes important. I am a warrior of the people. I will be there again, making things happen.>> JOSE JUNIOR: What we create and destroy doesn't end with me or with Anderson. It is passed through the generations. All life is a karmic process. Our actions will be infinite. >> TITLE: 10 months later>> ANDERSON SA: This thing I was most afraid of. Paralysis. Immobility. I think the favelas can relate. They've been through this pain. It's as if the spinal cord of the favela has always been broken. >> TITLE: In March of 2004, 10 months after the surgery, Anderson performed again, for the first time since his accident.>> ANDERSON SA: Now all the favelas must start to move for the first time. We must all begin to show that we are able. That we can lift our own arms, that we can raise our heads. Now it's back to work. >> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/peru-from-garbage-to-gold Trash can be recycled and turned into many things&mdash;the Ciudad Saludable organization in Peru is using it create employment opportunities for local people in the city's poorest neighborhoods. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:49:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/peru-from-garbage-to-gold Ciudad Saludable, Albina Ruiz, Peru, Lima, Recycling, Ashoka, South America, Latin America, Social entrepreneurship, Waste management >> TITLE: Everyone a Changemaker>> TITLE: The Inventor-Entrepreneur as Pioneer, System Changer, and Role Model for Future Generations. >> TITLE: India>> TITLE: There are 8 million rickshaw pullers in India. Most spend years paying high rental fees but never succeed in owning their own rickshaws.>> TITLE: This is the story of the creation of a new, ergonomic, and inexpensive rickshaw in Guwahati, India>> PRADIP SARMAH [Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow]: In the year 2002, once I traveled with a cycle rickshaw in Guwahati. He never owned it [the rickshaw] and yet he rides this rickshaw for 16 years. If I could come out with a new design of rickshaw, with a bigger space on the back side, and I could sell that space to a corporation, he could have been the owner of that rickshaw by the end of the year. >> TITLE: As a result of his innovation, nearly 4,000 rickshaw pullers are now riding lighter, safer, and more affordable vehicles, all featuring income-generating advertisements (so drivers can afford to finance and own their rickshaw), meanwhile receiving social benefits, such as accident insurance and health care.>> PRADIP SARMAH: So, with that idea, I approached Indian Institute of Technology to develop a new rickshaw design, and very interestingly the corporations then came forward to sponsor 100 rickshaw advertisements. The new designed rickshaw has three dimensions: the technical dimension, the financial dimension, and the social dimension. The new designed rickshaw, which is running in Guwahati or even in other parts of the country, it's 40 percent lighter than the traditional rickshaw. The base is lower, the gravity is well centered. It's well covered for the both rickshaw pullers, as well as the passengers. The back space we are using as an advertisement cost, helps us a lot, giving support to the rickshaw driver. Traditional rickshaws can move in a very high speed. But here, purposefully, we have controlled the speed, and that's why, as of today, our rickshaw has never tilted over. >> TITLE: Pradip Sarmah continues to advance the social, financial, and the technological systems for rickshaw pullers. He is currently working on implementing the Soleckshaw, a motorized rickshaw driven by solar battery power, which will ease the physical burden placed on rickshaw drivers. >> TITLE: Everyone a Changemaker>> TITLE: The Inventor-Entrepreneur as Pioneer, System Changer, and Role Model for Future Generations. >> TITLE: Peru>> TITLE: In many cities in developing countries, some of the lowest income individuals survive by collecting trash. Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Albina Ruiz, through her organization Ciudad Saludable (Healthy City), organizes informal trash recyclers, so that they can earn a decent living. Her micro-enterprise model provides self-employment opportunities to local residents in poor neighborhoods who go door-to-door collecting garbage and fees, and educating people about respecting and protecting their environment.>> ALBINA RUIZ [Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow and Founder, Ciudad Saludable]: This story of working in the field of waste management really began when I came from the jungle to Lima. I discovered there was plastic, that there was paper, there was cardboard, there were cans, and, more than anything, that there was a big problem with garbage. I also started to learn that the garbage was not just in the city, but it was also in the dumps, in the pig farms, in the outskirts of the towns, and people lived there, people who reclaimed paper, cardboard, and plastic to sell. And I discovered that this was a world of entrepreneurs. We need to think of a different system. Garbage is a medium. >> TITLE: Organized by Ciudad Saludable, the recyclers and the unemployed (mostly women who are heads of households) offer waste management services including transportation, treatment, and final disposal of waste.>> TITLE: Plastic bottles are placed inside the empty compartment and, through the manual compression system, the mass is reduced to 75 percent of the original volume, saving significant storage space. Inspired by a technology to crush aluminum cans, Ciudad Saludable developed a manual crushing machine with the help of Californian engineer Nisar Shaikh. >> ALBINA RUIZ: Where many see a problem in garbage, we see an opportunity. An opportunity to give jobs to improve the issue of the environment, to improve public health, an opportunity to create more social entrepreneurs. When we start to clean a city or a neighborhood the people organize themselves. People don't want to go backwards. People know they can be clean and demand to be clean. >> TITLE: Rippling created by Ashoka and the Magnum Foundation, with support from The Lemelson and Woodcock Foundations>> TITLE: [end credits]>> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/nigeria-shit-business-is-serious-business Concerned about the health and environment issues created by the absence of public toilets in most Nigerian cities, social entrepreneur Isaac Durojaiye started a unique mobile toilet initiative to provide decent toilet facilities in strategic locations across the country.&nbsp; This video, shot by Magnum photographer Eli Reed, is part of the Rippling project, an Ashoka-Magnum Foundation partnership.<br /> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:50:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/nigeria-shit-business-is-serious-business Sanitation, Nigeria, Isaac Durojaiye, Ashoka, DMT Mobile Toilets, Lagos, Water & Sanitation, Change Makers, Public toilet, Toilet >> TITLE: Everyone a Changemaker>> TITLE: The Inventor-Entrepreneur as Pioneer, System Changer, and Role Model for Future Generations. >> TITLE: Nigeria>> ISAAC DROJAIYE [DMT Mobile Toilets, Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow]: Sanitation is a global issue. There is nobody all over the world that will say they don't want to be sanitation-oriented. Everybody must go to toilet, and, if it's a global phenomenon, then there is a need to have a global approach. Shit business, serious business. Over time, people don't pay attention to the issue of toileting or sanitation. People don't want to be identified with it in the first place. We have glamorized the issue of toilet. >> SIGN: Public Toilet: Pay-as-you-Shit. Lagos State Ministry of Environment and DMT Mobile Toilet private sector participation (PSP). Opening Hours: 5am-9pm. Keep Lagos Clean. Eko o ni Baje. "Shit Business is Serious Business" - Otunba Gadaffi.>> ISAAC DROJAIYE: Our own innovation, our own design has gone a long way in solving some of this problem.>> TITLE: Concerned about the health and environmental issues created by the absence of public toilets, Isaac Drojaiye started the first mobile toilet initiative in Nigeria.>> ISAAC DROJAIYE: When we came up with the concept of adapting portable toilet as a public toilet, it was strange to the people. They've never seen it before. >> TITLE: DMT manufactures mobile toilets locally and uses a franchise model to lease them to at-risk and unemployed youth, as well as to women who are head of households. They are responsible for spotlessly cleaning, maintaining the toilets in perfect condition, and harvesting the waste for profit-generating biogas recycling.>> ISAAC DROJAIYE: The toilets are designed in such a way that it's so easy for them to use, it's so easy for them to maintain. The flush toilet, which is the chemical toilet, has come a long way to becoming a big relief. >> SIGN: DMT Biogas Project ... Converting Shit to Gas & Electricity. Yes we can.>> ISAAC DROJAIYE: One of the things we have decided to do is to set up a biogas plant, to recycle the waste we collect from our toilet, get biogas out of it, to generate electricity. And the slough at the end of the day becomes an organic fertilizer to farmers. What works in Nigeria, might as well work in Ghana, can work in Afghanistan, can work in Peru, can work in Brazil. So, if the solutions are workable you are improving the standard of living, you are improving the public health, you are improving sanitation, and your investment, your money, it's not only coming back but it's improving life.>> TITLE: Rippling created by Ashoka and the Magnum Foundation, with support from The Lemelson and Woodcock Foundations>> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/india-the-rickshaw-bank There are 8 million rickshaw pullers in India. Most spend years paying high rental fees and never succeed in owning their own vehicles. But Pradip Sarmah has designed a new type of rickshaw that is helping some of the hardest-working people in India obtain a better reward for their labor. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:49:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/india-the-rickshaw-bank India, Rickshaw Bank, Rickshaw, Pradip Sarmah, IIT Guwahati, Ashoka, Guwahati, Cycle rickshaw, Indian Institutes of Technology, Change Makers >> TITLE: Everyone a Changemaker>> TITLE: The Inventor-Entrepreneur as Pioneer, System Changer, and Role Model for Future Generations. >> TITLE: India>> TITLE: There are 8 million rickshaw pullers in India. Most spend years paying high rental fees but never succeed in owning their own rickshaws.>> TITLE: This is the story of the creation of a new, ergonomic, and inexpensive rickshaw in Guwahati, India>> PRADIP SARMAH [Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow]: In the year 2002, once I traveled with a cycle rickshaw in Guwahati. He never owned it [the rickshaw] and yet he rides this rickshaw for 16 years. If I could come out with a new design of rickshaw, with a bigger space on the back side, and I could sell that space to a corporation, he could have been the owner of that rickshaw by the end of the year. >> TITLE: As a result of his innovation, nearly 4,000 rickshaw pullers are now riding lighter, safer, and more affordable vehicles, all featuring income-generating advertisements (so drivers can afford to finance and own their rickshaw), meanwhile receiving social benefits, such as accident insurance and health care.>> PRADIP SARMAH: So, with that idea, I approached Indian Institute of Technology to develop a new rickshaw design, and very interestingly the corporations then came forward to sponsor 100 rickshaw advertisements. The new designed rickshaw has three dimensions: the technical dimension, the financial dimension, and the social dimension. The new designed rickshaw, which is running in Guwahati or even in other parts of the country, it's 40 percent lighter than the traditional rickshaw. The base is lower, the gravity is well centered. It's well covered for the both rickshaw pullers, as well as the passengers. The back space we are using as an advertisement cost, helps us a lot, giving support to the rickshaw driver. Traditional rickshaws can move in a very high speed. But here, purposefully, we have controlled the speed, and that's why, as of today, our rickshaw has never tilted over. >> TITLE: Pradip Sarmah continues to advance the social, financial, and the technological systems for rickshaw pullers. He is currently working on implementing the Soleckshaw, a motorized rickshaw driven by solar battery power, which will ease the physical burden placed on rickshaw drivers. >> TITLE: Rippling created by Ashoka and the Magnum Foundation, with support from The Lemelson and Woodcock Foundations>> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/on-the-ground-with-nicholas-d-kristof-monrovias-street-newspaper In Liberia's capital Monrovia, Alfred Sirleaf has built a unique, roadside news outlet that has become one of the city's leading information sources, a remarkable feat considering his daily updates are all written by hand using chalk. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:46:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/on-the-ground-with-nicholas-d-kristof-monrovias-street-newspaper Alfred Sirleaf, Liberia, The Daily Talk, Monrovia, Nicholas D. Kristof, West Africa, Change Makers, The New York Times, Africa http://www.viewchange.org/videos/resilient-bangladesh-songs-for-a-changing-world Meet 14 year-old Titu Illias, who is using his talents as a singer to educate his community about the changes occurring in the environment -- a pressing issue in Bangladesh, considered by many to be one of the most climate-risk countries in the world. Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:22:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/resilient-bangladesh-songs-for-a-changing-world Bangladesh, Climate change, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Noakhali District, South Asia, Environment, Bay of Bengal, Change Makers, Climate, Education >> TITLE: India. Bay of Bengal. >> TITLE: Bangladesh, Noakhali >> VOICEOVER: Fourteen-year-old Titu is getting ready for a day of school. >> TITU ILLIAS: Mom, I am going to school. >> VOICEOVER: Unlike children in the West, Titu knows nothing about how climate change is affecting the polar bears in the Arctic. However, he too has noticed changes in his environment. >> TITU ILLIAS: Now we are in rainy season but from what I can see, I don't think we are getting enough rain. Day by day the climate is changing. The number of droughts and floods is increasing. People are struggling with this more and more. >> VOICEOVER: In grade nine at the Obaidullah Memorial High School of the Noakhali district, Titu is participating in a troupe of young performers raising awareness of the challenges Bangladesh is facing as a result of climate change. >>TITU ILLIAS: We will listen to all what Brother Rana says, now we will not listen to anyone else >> VOICEOVER: This song is part of the play "Let's Hear Brother Rana," developed with the assistance of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, in order to empower youth with knowledge and skills to adapt to the impending environmental changes. The character Brother Rana is based on the local bullfrog which is highly sensitive to climatic changes. The children relate to him because Rana is a common Bangla name. Titu is selected as one of the main performers for his exceptional singing ability. Together with his friends, he is taking the message of Brother Rana to schools and communities throughout Bangladesh. >> TITU ILLIAS: Brother Rana tells us to listen carefully to the cyclone warnings when we see a cyclone approaching. We should tell people to go to the cyclone center. Brother Rana tells us to cultivate crops that resist salty water. Because of cyclones and flooding, salty water from the sea enters the fields. Crops cannot be produced in the salty water. We need to make a moat around the field so that salty water does not enter the fields. Before, I knew nothing about Brother Rana and the environment. But since taking part in the Brother Rana play, I know everything. >> VOICEOVER: While world leaders struggle to agree on ways to tackle climate change, Titu and his schoolmates are already helping their community to adapt to the increasingly destructive climate. >> TITU ILLIAS: It's enjoyable to help people understand the problems we face and their solutions. If we put our hearts into delivering this message, and everybody talks about it, then everybody will be aware. >> TITLE: OurWorld 2.0 >> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/awra-amba <p>The members of the Awra Amba community in rural Ethiopia believe there is a way out of poverty&mdash;through improved education, equal rights for men and women, and hard work. It may sound simple, but these values turn many firmly ingrained local traditions and deeply held religious beliefs on their head.</p> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:16:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/awra-amba Ethiopia, Awra Amba, Zumra Nuru, Religion, Poverty, Rural area, Education, Child, Community, Women's rights >> TITLE: Write This Down Productions presents>> TITLE: 2008, Northern Ethiopia>> TITLE: Awra Amba (Amharic): "Top of the Hill">> ZUMRA NURU [Leader and Founder of Awra Amba]: We believe that men and women are equal. They work together side by side. When it comes to decision-making, men and women have equal say. They are both heads of the household. In Awra Amba, work is based on ability. We have to work in order to eat every day. Men do women's work, and women do men's work. >> ZIBAD [the daughter]: I am not a member of the community yet. To join you have to be free from evil things. No conflict, no immoral behavior. No stealing, no cursing. If I fulfill these criteria, I can become a member. You must get rid of all bad habits, like getting drunk. You must only pursue good things. I have many children, so I need 300 birr for food and 100 birr for other expenses: a total of 400 birr [USD$30] per month. I have to work hard to earn this. I weave, sell at the market, and work on a building site. This is for a new school in Awra Amba. I pile the stones before they are broken for construction. Members of the community don't work here. My arms ache because of lifting the stones. I also get cramps in my thighs. I want to become a member because in Awra Amba jobs are given according to one's ability. Then I can do a job I am capable of. >> SIGN: Tea. Bread. Soft drinks.>> ZEINAB [the mother]: I have been allocated to run the local teahouse. I make tea, bread, and serve customers. >> CUSTOMERS: Let me pay. / No, I will pay. / No, let me pay. / No, I will pay. / Here, take the money.>> ZEINAB: Is she your daughter?>> CUSTOMER: Yes.>> ZEINAB: Do you know Mr. Mohamud?>> CUSTOMER: Yes, I know of him.>> ZEINAB: He is an Imam. I was married to him. I left and moved here.>> CUSTOMER: Oh, you moved here.>> ZEINAB: But he is not here.>> CUSTOMER: Where is he?>> ZEINAB: He is in the South. Before I came to Awra Amba I was uneducated and oppressed. I didn't know about my rights. In our time there was nothing called "men's and women's rights". Men oppressed women. They were superior to us. Our husbands didn't even allow us contraceptives. They just wanted more children. My daughter came here without any possessions. I welcomed her and her children. We shared everything I had. We have been together for one year now.>> ZIBAD: My husband was very difficult and bad-tempered. So, I left and took my children to Awra Amba to live in peace. I left all my possessions behind. I just wanted to save my life. >> TITLE: Every year, Awra Amba receives thousands of curious visitors from around the world. Tourists and even political and religious leaders come to study their way of life. >> STUDENT: We are university students studying agriculture. There is a lot we can learn from you.>> STUDENT: I have heard about this place, on the radio and TV. Can you tell me how Awra Amba was founded?>> ZUMRA NURU: I have been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me this question and listen to me. I had the idea for Awra Amba at the age of four. My parents were farmers. They spent most of their time on the land. Plowing, scything, harvesting, etc. When they came home in the evening, my father's work finished but my mother's work continued at home. Cooking, collecting firewood and water, looking after the children, and washing his feet. These were her usual duties. Sometimes she would even get beaten by my father. Why is there a difference between them? Women are like servants, men are like masters. When I questioned this, my family would say, "You want to be different from others. If you are talking like this today, what will you do tomorrow?" They would say I am mad.>> ZIBAD: I didn't have any opportunity to study. I lived most of my life in rural areas and I used to herd cows. Other people were given basic education but I didn't get it. In our culture you cannot study once you are an adult. It is seen as a taboo. Compared to other places I have lived, they have a different way of raising children here. My kids are young and they are absorbing the way of the village. I want them to be as good as the Awra Ambans.>> TITLE: Every day people from neighboring villages come to use the mill in Awra Amba. While they wait for their grain to be milled they visit the local teahouse.>> ZEINAB: Here you go, our loyal customers. Have you dropped out of school?>> CHILD: Yes.>> ZEINAB: Up to what grade did you study?>> CHILD: Up to the third.>> ZEINAB: So why did you stop?>> CHILD: Farming and cattle.>> ZEINAB: So you have become a farmer?>> CHILD: Yeah.>> ZEINAB: Why don't you just say "no" to your parents?>> CHILD: We can't.>> ZEINAB: Why don't you tell your parents, "If the children in Awra Amba study, why can't we?">> CHILD: We can't.>> ZEINAB: Wouldn't they listen to you?>> CHILD: No, they wouldn't agree. It's all about work.>> ZEINAB: You missed out, my dear. Think about it, because we are building a new school here.>> CHILD: Okay. I want to continue.>> ZEINAB: Yes, continue. Is he paying?>> CHILD: Yes.>> ZEINAB: Take your time.>> ZIBAD: Once my husband told me to tie the calf near the beehive. When he came back the calf had destroyed the beehive. He picked up a strong bamboo and started beating me on my thighs.>> ZEINAB: Really?>> ZIBAD: Yes, I can still feel it. I feel the pain, even when I sleep.>> ZEINAB: Why didn't you tell me?>> ZIBAD: What's the point?>> ZEINAB: That is what a mother is for.>> ZIBAD: I stayed with him for so long because I thought he would learn from his mistakes. I thought we could raise our children if we have peace. I put up with a lot. One day I almost electrocuted myself.>> ZEINAB: Why?>> ZIBAD: We had a fight. I went to the police and to the elders but they wouldn't listen to my problems.>> ZEINAB: Why did you try to harm yourself?>> ZIBAD: It happened accidentally. I was upset. I was out of my mind.>> ZEINAB: So he drove you crazy?>> ZIBAD: Yes. More than one can bear. >> ZIBAD: Once a week we come here to work and raise money for charity. We do this to help people who are in need. I'm not doing this to become a member of the community, but just to help by contributing. This is not just for us, but for everyone in the world, even for Europeans. If we work at home, we could be lazy and get distracted. If we work together, a lot will get done>> TITLE: Twice a year, the profits made from weaved products are shared equally between all community members.>> STUDENT: I heard that the principles of Awra Amba were not created by you, Zumra. It's based on communism because you were a communist.>> ZUMRA NURU: I thought all this time you were listening to what I was saying. Your question shows you have not been listening. I never had the chance to have a religious or modern education. I never had the opportunity. Sometimes I wonder about the benefits if I had been educated. What does it mean to be educated? I can't understand what educated people have accomplished. I can't see it.>> ZEINAB: People from all over the country and even from abroad are learning from us. But local people like you don't want to learn from us because of religion.>> MAN: If you embrace religion this place would be very colorful.>> ZEINAB: What is religion? I don't get it. You see the work we do. We care for and help each other. Awra Amba helps to build our country. Neighbors have unreasonable hatred towards us.>> MAN: No, the issue of religion is not hatred. We have treasures in our villages, like churches and mosques. You do not have churches or any place worship. You just say you believe in hard work.>> WOMAN: Where does God exist? We know for sure that he is everywhere. Is God only confined to churches? No, in Awra Amba we believe God is everywhere. He is with us when we sleep, when we are awake. When we eat and when we rest. We don't want to lock him up through walls called "churches" or "mosques.">> MAN: Even the rain outside is the will of God. >> WOMAN: But we haven't forgotten God.>> MAN: But you never thank God. He even blesses us with the rain, which is sweet like honey. Why don't you appreciate God?>> WOMAN: Let me tell you. Listen to me! Doing good is essential for humans. We want you to understand and implement our culture. Religion is not important.>> ZEINAB: Rather than killing yourselves through axes and bullets, why not care for each other?>> VILLAGE GUARD: We are all children of Adam and Eve, so we should all help each other whether we are Muslim or Christian. >> TITLE: Village Guard>> VILLAGE GUARD: I carry a gun because people have strongly opposed us.>> ZUMRA NURU: Unless the situation changes, we have to look after ourselves. Therefore we need something to protect us. If a fly lands on my eye, I have to remove it.>> STUDENT: You said killing is not allowed.>> ZUMRA NURU: To die is also not allowed!>> VILLAGE GUARD: They considered killing Zumra because he is the leader. That's why I protect him.>> ZEINAB: Thank God I found my daughter safely and she came to live with me. I don't think she will ever have a nice husband who will care for her and her children. I have no hope that she will marry again.>> ZIBAD: Because of my past experience, I don't think I'll marry again. I have enough children, so I don't want more. I want to live in the Awra Amba community, being respected and treated like a member. Let me add some sauce. Pour me some water.>> TITLE: Zibad's application to become a member was declined. She was not able to make the annual financial contribution to the community. She is still trying to fulfill all their criteria. Zeinab runs the brand new teahouse that has been built to accommodate more visitors. The new school in Awra Amba is nearly complete. It will also accept children from neighboring communities. Zumra has applied for more land from the regional government to accept new members.>> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-art-of-activism-avery-hale <p>Can anyone make the world a better place? Californian schoolgirl Avery Hale certainly thinks so. She started the Step by Step organization when she was just 13 years old, to distribute unwanted shoes to people who need them in developing countries.</p> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:25:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-art-of-activism-avery-hale Redford Center, Foreign Assistance, Poverty, Change Makers, Charitable organization, Peru, Avery Hale, Step by Step, Latin America, Shoes >> TITLE: Redford Center: The Art of Activism. Let's listen, let's talk, let's act>> AVERY HALE [Founder, Step by Step]: We were driving up this really steep hill to the village of Chumpe y Pokes. I remember seeing all of these kids up on a ridge and they saw the car coming and they all just ran down towards the school, and we got there and we unloaded all the duffle bags that we had. I think that everybody has to have something that inspires them, some moment that they realize that they can really make a difference, or figure out what they want to pursue. My parents traveled to Peru and they brought back a bunch of pictures of the kids that they visited. And some of them had no shoes and some of them were wearing tire-tread sandals. They had infected feet and they were cut up and bruised. And some people might see that and not want to do anything or not really think about it. But I knew I had to do something. From there I kind of gradually got into the whole process of collecting shoes. And then I talked to my friends about it, and they helped me get started. And eventually I went to Peru and donated them.>> AVERY HALE: I was I think 12 years old. We got there and we kind of laid out the shoes in a classroom. We let them come in by grade and choose watch shoes they wanted or what we thought would fit them. There were so many shoes, there were over 200 pairs. It just inspired me even more to continue with what I was doing because I saw like how ecstatic they were with that one pair of shoes. My mission with Step by Step is to reach as many people as possible, both kids and adults, and provide them with a pair of durable, comfortable shoes that they can wear for hopefully a really long time.>> AVERY HALE: Keen footwear and the North Face donated so many shoes, probably over a thousand pairs of shoes. The main thing that I've learned from this whole experience, I guess, is that you can be just a normal person and you can make such a huge difference. I mean, there are people, some of my close friends, who don't really even know that much about what I do. And when I'm at school, it's about like sports and friends and schoolwork and everything, and then when I come home that's like my time to work on the organization. There are small things that you can do; you can do something on your own. When people put their effort into one thing they can really get so much accomplished. I'm really looking to make a difference, not only in other countries with other villages and with giving them shoes, but also within my own community and having people kind of recognize that one person really can change another person's life.>> TITLE: A journey of a thousand miles ... begins with a single shoe >> TITLE: [end credits]>> TITLE: www.RedfordCenter.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-chimamanda-adichie-the-danger-of-a-single-story <p>Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice&mdash;and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.</p> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:29:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-chimamanda-adichie-the-danger-of-a-single-story Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigeria, TED, Muhtar Bakare, Farafina Trust, Africa, Mourid Barghouti, Education, Sub-Saharan Africa, Change Makers >> TITLE: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading.>> TITLE: One of 700+ TED Talks. New ideas every weekday. TED.com>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: I'm a storyteller, and I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. >> TITLE: July 2009. Oxford, England>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader. And what I read were British and American children's books. I was also an early writer. And when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading. All my characters were white and blue-eyed. They played in the snow. They ate apples. And they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out. Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. I had never been outside Nigeria. We didn't have snow. We ate mangoes. And we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to. My characters also drank a lot of ginger beer because the characters in the British books I read drank ginger beer. Never mind that I had no idea what ginger beer was. And for many years afterwards, I would have a desperate desire to taste ginger beer. But that is another story.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books, by their very nature, had to have foreigners in them, and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify. Now, things changed when I discovered African books. There weren't many of them available. And they weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books. But, because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye I went through a mental shift in my perception of literature. I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature. I started to write about things I recognized.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: Now, I loved those American and British books I read. They stirred my imagination. They opened up new worlds for me. But the unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story of what books are.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family. My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator. And so we had, as was the norm, live-in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages. So the year I turned eight we got a new houseboy. His name was Fide. The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor. My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family. And when I didn't finish my dinner my mother would say, "Finish your food! Don't you know people like Fide's family have nothing?" So I felt enormous pity for Fide's family. Then one Saturday we went to his village to visit. And his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket, made of dyed raffia, that his brother had made. I was startled. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something. All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: Years later, I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States. I was 19. My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listed to what she called my "tribal" music, and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey. She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove. What struck me was this: She had felt sorry for me even before she saw me. Her default position toward me, as an African, was a kind of patronizing, well-meaning, pity. My roommate had a single story of Africa. A single story of catastrophe. In this single story there was no possibility of Africans being similar to her, in any way. No possibility of feelings more complex than pity. No possibility of a connection as human equals.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: I must say that before I went to the U.S. I didn't consciously identify as African. But in the U.S. whenever Africa came up people turned to me. Never mind that I knew nothing about places like Namibia. But I did come to embrace this new identity. And in many ways I think of myself now as African. Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country. The most recent example being my otherwise wonderful flight from Lagos two days ago, in which there was an announcement on the Virgin flight about the charity work in "India, Africa, and other countries." >> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: So after I had spent some years in the U.S. as an African, I began to understand my roommate's response to me. If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves, and waiting to be saved, by a kind, white foreigner. I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fide's family.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: This single story of Africa ultimately comes, I think, from Western literature. Now, here is a quote from the writing of a London merchant called John Locke, who sailed to West Africa in 1561, and kept a fascinating account of his voyage. After referring to the black Africans as "beasts who have no houses," he writes, "They are also people without heads, having their mouth and eyes in their breasts." Now, I've laughed every time I've read this. And one must admire the imagination of John Locke. But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West. A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet, Rudyard Kipling, are "half devil, half child.">> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: And so I began to realize that my American roommate must have, throughout her life, seen and heard different versions of this single story, as had a professor, who once told me that my novel was not "authentically African." Now, I was quite willing to contend that there were a number of things wrong with the novel, that it had failed in a number of places. But I had not quite imagined that it had failed at achieving something called African authenticity. In fact I did not know what African authenticity was. The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: But I must quickly add that I too am just as guilty in the question of the single story. A few years ago, I visited Mexico from the U.S. The political climate in the U.S. at the time, was tense. And there were debates going on about immigration. And, as often happens in America, immigration became synonymous with Mexicans. There were endless stories of Mexicans as people who were fleecing the healthcare system, sneaking across the border, being arrested at the border, that sort of thing. I remember walking around on my first day in Guadalajara, watching the people going to work, rolling up tortillas in the marketplace, smoking, laughing. I remember first feeling slight surprise. And then I was overwhelmed with shame. I realized that I had been so immersed in the media coverage of Mexicans that they had become one thing in my mind, the abject immigrant. I had bought into the single story of Mexicans and I could not have been more ashamed of myself. So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is "nkali." It's a noun that loosely translates to: "to be greater than another." Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali. How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, "secondly." Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have and entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called "American Psycho," and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers. Now, obviously I said this in a fit of mild irritation. But it would never have occurred to me to think that just because I had read a novel in which a character was a serial killer that he was somehow representative of all Americans. And now, this is not because I am a better person than that student, but, because of America's cultural and economic power, I had many stories of America. I had read Tyler and Updike and Steinbeck and Gaitskill. I did not have a single story of America.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me. But the truth is that I had a very happy childhood, full of laughter and love, in a very close-knit family. But I also had grandfathers who died in refugee camps. My cousin Polle died because he could not get adequate healthcare. One of my closest friends, Okoloma, died in a plane crash because our fire trucks did not have water. I grew up under repressive military governments that devalued education, so that sometimes my parents were not paid their salaries. And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table, then margarine disappeared, then bread became too expensive, then milk became rationed. And, most of all, a kind of normalized political fear invaded our lives.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience, and to overlook the many other stories that formed me. The single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes. There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo. And depressing ones, such as the fact that 5,000 people apply for one job vacancy in Nigeria. But there are other stories that are not about catastrophe. And it is very important, it is just as important, to talk about them.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: I've always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person. The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: So what if before my Mexican trip I had followed the immigration debate from both sides, the U.S. and the Mexican? What if my mother had told us that Fide's family was poor and hardworking? What if we had an African television network that broadcast diverse African stories all over the world? What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls "a balance of stories." >> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: What if my roommate knew about my Nigerian publisher, Mukta Bakaray, a remarkable man who left his job in a bank to follow his dream and start a publishing house? Now, the conventional wisdom was that Nigerians don't read literature. He disagreed. He felt that people who could read, would read, if you made literature affordable and available to them. Shortly after he published my first novel I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview. And a woman who worked there as a messenger came up to me and said, "I really liked your novel. I didn't like the ending. Now you must write a sequel, and this is what will happen ..." And she went on to tell me what to write in the sequel. Now I was not only charmed, I was very moved. Here was a woman, part of the ordinary masses of Nigerians, who were not supposed to be readers. She had not only read the book, but she had taken ownership of it and felt justified in telling me what to write in the sequel.>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: Now, what if my roommate knew about my friend Fumi Onda, a fearless woman who hosts a TV show in Lagos, and is determined to tell the stories that we prefer to forget? What if my roommate knew about the heart procedure that was performed in the Lagos hospital last week? What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music? Talented people singing in English and Pidgin and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing influences from Jay-Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their grandfathers. What if my roommate knew about the female lawyer who recently went to court in Nigeria to challenge a ridiculous law that required women to get their husband's consent before renewing their passports? What if my roommate knew about Nollywood, full of innovative people making films despite great technical odds? Films so popular that they really are the best example of Nigerians consuming what they produce. What if my roommate knew about my wonderfully ambitious hair braider, who has just started her own business selling hair extensions? Or about the millions of other Nigerians who start businesses and sometimes fail, but continue to nurse ambition?>> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: Every time I am home I am confronted with the usual sources of irritation for most Nigerians: our failed infrastructure, our failed government. But also by the incredible resilience of people who thrive despite the government, rather than because of it. I teach writing workshops in Lagos every summer. And it is amazing to me how many people apply, how many people are eager to write, to tell stories. My Nigerian publisher and I have just started a non-profit called Farafina Trust, and we have big dreams of building libraries and refurbishing libraries that already exist, and providing books for state schools that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories. >> CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE: Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity. The American writer Alice Walker wrote this about her Southern relatives who had moved to the north, and she introduced them to a book about the Southern life that they had left behind. "They sat around, reading the book themselves, listening to me read the book, and a kind of paradise was regained." I would like to end with this thought: That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise. Thank you. >> TITLE: TED: New TED Talks each week at www.TED.com http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-on-aid-versus-trade Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, sums up four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade on the closing day of TEDGlobal 2007, and shares a personal story explaining her own commitment to this cause. Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:39:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-on-aid-versus-trade Africa, Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Private sector, Infrastructure, World Bank, TED, Mo Ibrahim, Millennium Development Goals, Biafra >> TITLE: Remarkable people, unmissable talks, now free to the world>> TITLE: TED: Ideas Worth Spreading>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: It's very, very difficult to wrap up -- to speak at the end of a conference like this. Because everyone has spoken, everything has been said. >> TITLE: June, 2007. Arusha, Tanzani>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: So I thought that what may be useful is to remind us of some of the things that have gone on here, and then maybe offer some ideas which we can take away and take forward and work on. That's what I'd like to try and do. We came here saying we want to talk about "Africa: the Next Chapter." But we are talking about "Africa: the Next Chapter" because we are looking at the old and the present chapter -- that we're looking at -- and saying it's not such a good thing. The picture I showed you before, and this picture, of drought, death, and disease, is what we usually see. What we want to look at is "Africa: the Next Chapter." And that's this: a healthy, smiling, beautiful African. And I think it's worth remembering what we've heard through the conference right from the first day, where I heard that all the important statistics have been given -- about where we are now, about how the continent is doing much better. And the importance of that is that we have a platform to build on.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: So I'm not going to spend too much time -- just to show you, refresh your memories -- that we are here for "Africa: the Next Chapter" because for the first time, there really is a platform to build on. We really do have it going right, that the continent is growing at rates that people had thought would not happen. After decades of 2 percent, we are now at 5 percent, and it's going to, projected, 6 and 7 percent even. And inflation has come down. External debt, something that I can tell you a long story about because I personally worked on one of the biggest debts on the continent, has come down dramatically. You know, as you can see, for almost ... from almost USD$50 billion down to about USD$12 or USD$13 billion. Now this is a huge achievement.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: You know, we've built up reserves. Why is that important? It's because it shows off our economies, shows off our currencies, and gives a platform on which people can plan and build, including businesses. We've also seen some evidence that all this is making a difference because private investment flows have increased. I want to remind you again -- I know you saw these statistics before -- from almost USD$6 billion we are now at about USD$18 billion in 2005. Remittances: I just took one country, Nigeria ... you know, skyrocketing ... skyrocketing is too dramatic, but increasing dramatically. And in many other countries this is happening. Why is this important? Because it shows confidence. That people are now confident to bring ... if your people in the diaspora bring their money back, it shows other people that, look, there is emerging confidence in your country. And instead of an outflow, you are now getting a net inflow.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: Now, why is all this important? To have to go really fast? It's important that we build this platform, that we have the president, Kikwete, and others of our leaders who are saying, "Look, we must do something different." Because we are confronted with a challenge: 62 percent of our population is below the age of 24. What does this mean? This means that we have to focus on how our youth are going to be engaged in productive endeavor in their lives. You have to focus on how to create jobs, make sure they don't fall into disease, that they get an education, but, most of all, that they are productively engaged in life, and that they are creating the kind of productive environment in our countries that will make things happen. And you know, to support this, I just recently ... one of the things I've done since leaving government is to start an opinion research organization in Nigeria. >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: Most of our countries don't even have any opinion research. People don't have voice. There is no way you can know what people want. One of the things we asked them recently was what's their top issue. Like in every other country where this has been done, jobs is the top issue. I want to leave this up here and come back to it. But before I get to this slide, I just wanted to run you through this. And to say that for me, the next stage of building this platform that now enables us to move forward -- and we mustn't make light of it. It's only five, six, seven years ago [that] we couldn't even talk about the next chapter because we were in the old chapter. We were going nowhere. The economies were not growing. We were having negative per capita growth. The macroeconomic framework and foundation for moving forward was not even there. So let's not forget that it's taken a lot to build this, including all those things that we tried to do in Nigeria that Dele referred to. Creating our own program to solve problems, like fighting corruption, building institutions, stabilizing the macro economy.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: So now we have this platform we can build on. And it brings us to the debate that has been going on here: aid versus private sector, aid versus trade, etcetera. And someone stood up to say: one of the frustrating things is that it's been a simplistic debate. And that's not what the debate should be about. We are ... that's engaging in the wrong debate. The issue here is how do we get a partnership that involves government donors, the private sector, and ordinary African people taking charge of their own lives? How do we combine all this? To move our continent forward, to do the things that need doing, that I talked about: getting young people employed, getting the creative juices flowing on this continent, much of what you have seen here. So I'm afraid we've been engaging a little bit in the wrong debate, and we need to bring you back to say, what is the combination of all these factors that is going to yield what we want? >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: And I want to tell you something. For me, the issue about aid -- I don't think that Africans need to now go all the way over to the other side and feel bad about aid. Africa has been giving the other countries aid. Mo Ibrahim said at a debate we're at that he dreams one day when Africa will be giving aid. And I said, "Mo, you're right. We have ... no, but we've already been doing it! The UK and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid." It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today. So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive. The issue is not that. The issue is how are we using what has been given, what is being given back. How are we using it? Is it being directed effectively? >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: I want to tell you a little story. Why I don't mind if we get aid, but we use it well. From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war: the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother, cooking for the army. My father joined the army as a brigadier, the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side. And we were down to eating one meal a day, running from place to place, but wherever we could help we did. At a certain point in time, in 1969, things were really bad. We were down to almost nothing in terms of a meal a day. People, children were dying of kwashiorkor. I'm sure some of you who are not so young will remember those pictures. Well, I was in the middle of it. In the midst of all this, my mother fell ill with a stomach ailment for two or three days. We thought she was going to die. My father was not there. He was in the army. So I was the oldest person in the house. My sister fell very ill with malaria. She was three years old and I was 15. And she had such a high fever. We tried everything. It didn't look like it was going to work. >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: Until we heard that 10 kilometers away there was a doctor, who was able ... who was giving ... looking at people and giving them meds. Now I put my sister on my back, burning, and I walked 10 kilometers with her strapped on my back. It was really hot. I was very hungry. I was scared because I knew her life depended on my getting to this woman. We heard there was a woman doctor who was treating people. I walked 10 kilometers, putting one foot in front of the other. I got there and I saw huge crowds. Almost a thousand people were there, trying to break down the door. She was doing this in a church. How was I going to get in? I had to crawl in between the legs of these people with [inaudible] my sister strapped on my back, find a way to a window. And while they were trying to break down the door, I climbed in through the window, and jumped in. This woman told me it was in the nick of time. By the time we jumped into that hall, she was barely moving. She gave a shot of her chloroquine, what I learned was the chloroquine, then gave her some ... it must have been a re-hydration, and some other therapies, and put us in a corner. In about two to three hours, she started to move. And then, they toweled her down because she started sweating, which was a good sign. And then my sister woke up. And about five or six hours later, she said we could go home. I strapped her on my back. I walked the 10 kilometers back and it was the shortest walk I ever had. I was so happy that my sister was alive. Today, she's 41 years old, a mother of three, and she's a physician saving other lives.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: Why am I telling that? I'm telling you that because when it is you or your person involved, you don't care whether it's aid. You don't care what it is! You just want the person to be alive. And now let me become less sentimental, and say that saving lives -- which some of the aid we get does on this continent -- when you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy. And, as an economist, we can also look at that side of the story. These are people who are productive agents in the economy. So if we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy. And by the same token, as someone said yesterday, if we don't, and they die, their children will become a burden on the economy. So even from an economic standpoint, if we leave the social and humanitarian, we need to save lives now. So that's one of the reasons, from a personal experience, that I say, look, let's channel these resources we get into something productive. However, I will also tell you that I'm one of those who don't believe that this is the sole answer. That's why I said the debate has to get more sophisticated. You know, we have to use it well.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: What has happened in Europe? Do you all know that Spain, part of the EU, got USD$10 billion in aid from the rest of the EU? Resources that were transferred to them. And were the Spanish ashamed of this? No. The EU transferred 10 billion. Where did they use it? Have you been to southern Spain lately? There are roads everywhere. Infrastructure everywhere. It is on the back of this that the whole of southern Spain has developed into a services economy. Did you know that Ireland got USD$3 billion in aid? Ireland is one of the fastest-growing economies in the European Union today. For which many people, even from other parts of the world, are going there to find jobs. What did they do with the USD$3 billion in aid? They used it to build an information superhighway, gain infrastructure that enabled them to participate, or enables them to participate, in the information technology revolution. And to do ... create jobs in their economy. They didn't say, "No, you know, we're not going to take this." Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. My frustration is if they can build infrastructure in Spain -- which is roads, highways, other things that they can build -- I say then, why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries? >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: When we ask them and tell them what we need. One of my worries today is that we have many foundations now. Now we talk about the World Bank, IMF, and accountability, and all that. And the EU. We also have private citizens now who have a lot of money. Some of them in this audience, with private foundations. And, one day, these foundations have so much money, they will overtake the official aid that is being given. But I fear -- and I'm very grateful to all of them for what they are trying to do on the continent -- but I'm also worried. I wake up with a gnawing in my belly. Because I see a new set of aid entrepreneurs on the continent. And they're also going from country to country, and many times trying to find what to do. But I'm not really sure that their assistance is also being channeled in the right way. And many of them are not really familiar with the continent. They are just discovering. And many times I don't see Africans working with them. They are just going alone. >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: And many times I get the impression they are not really even interested in hearing from Africans who might know. They want to visit us, see what's happening on the ground, and make a decision. And now I'm maybe being harsh. But I worry because this money is so important. Now, who are they accountable to? Are we on their boards when they make decisions about where to channel money? Are we there? Will we make the same mistake that we made before? Have our presidents and our leaders -- everyone is talking about -- have they ever called these people together and said, "Look, your foundation and your foundation, you have so much money, we are grateful. Let's sit down and really tell you where the money should be channeled and where this aid should go." Have we done that? The answer is no. And each one is making their own individual effort. And then, 10 years from now, billions will again have gone into Africa, and we would still have the same problems.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: This is what gives us the hopeless image. Our inability to take charge and say to all these people bringing their money: "Sit down." And we don't do it because there are so many of us. We don't coordinate. We've not called the Bill Gates and the Soros and everybody else who is helping and say, "Sit down. Let's have a conference with you. As a continent, here are our priorities. Here is where we want you to channel this money." Each one should not be an entrepreneur, going and finding what is best. We're not trying to stop them, at all, but to help them help us better. And what is disappointing me is that we are not doing this. Ten years from now, we will have the same story, and we will be repeating the same things. >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: So our problem right now is, how can we leverage all this good will that is coming towards our way? How can we get government to combine properly with these private foundations, with the international organizations, and with our private sector. I firmly believe in that private sector thing, too. But it cannot do it alone. So there might be a few ideas we could think of that could work. They said this is about proliferating and sharing ideas. So why don't we think of using some of this aid? Well, why don't we first say to those helping us out: don't be shy about infrastructure. That health that you're working on cannot be sustainable without infrastructure. That education will work better if we've got electricity and railroads and so on. That agriculture will work better if there are railroads to get the goods to market. Don't be shy of it. Invest some of your resources in that, too. And then we can see that this is one combination of private, international, multilateral money, private sector, and the African that we can put together as a partnership, so that aid can be a facilitator. That is all aid can be. Aid cannot solve our problems, I'm firmly convinced about that. But it can be catalytic. And if we fail to use it as catalytic, we would have failed.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: One of the reasons why China is a bit popular with Africans now -- one of the reasons -- is not only just that, you know, these people are stupid and China is coming to take resources. It's because there's a little more leverage in terms of the Chinese. If you tell them, "We need a road here," they will help you build it. Don't shy away from infrastructure. In fact, the Chinese minister of finance said to me, when I asked him what are we doing wrong in Nigeria. He said there are two things you need only: "Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. And discipline. You are undisciplined." And I repeat it for the continent. It's the same: we need infrastructure and discipline. So we can make aid catalytic to help us provide some of that. Now I realize ... I'm not saying, health and education: no. You can also provide that as well. But I'm saying it's not either or. Let's see how aid can be a facilitator, in partnership: one idea. Second thing, for the private sector: people are afraid to take risks on the continent. Why can't some of this aid be used as a kind of guarantee mechanisms, to enable people to take risk? >> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: And finally, because they are both standing at my ... I guess I'm out ... I'm out of time. Am I out of time? Okay, so let me not forget my punchline. One of the things I want everybody to collaborate on is to support women, to create jobs. A lot has been said here about women, I don't need to repeat it. But there are people, women, creating jobs. And we know, studies have shown that when you put resources in the hand of the woman, in fact, there's an econometric study, the World Bank Review done in 2000, showing that transfers into the hands of women result in healthier children, more for the household, more for the economy and all that. So I'm saying that one of the takeaways from here ... I'm not saying the men are not important. Obviously, if you leave the husbands out, what will they do? They'll come back home and get disgruntled, and it will result in difficulties we don't want. We don't want men beating their wives because they don't have a job, and so on.>> NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA: But at the margin, we also -- I want to push this -- because the reason is, the men automatically, they get ... not automatically, but they tend to get more support. But I want you to realize that resources in the hands of African women is a powerful tool. There are people creating jobs. Beatrice Gakuba has created 200 jobs from her flower business in Rwanda. We have Ibukun Awosika in Nigeria, with the furniture, the chair company. She wants to expand. She needs another 20 million. She will create another 100 to 200 more jobs. So take away from here is how are you going to put together the resources to put money in the hands of women in the middle who are ready: business people who want to expand and create more jobs. And, lastly, what are you going to do to be part of this partnership of aid, government, private sector, and the African as an individual? Thank you. >> TITLE: TED: New TED Talks each week at www.TED.com http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-melinda-gates-what-nonprofits-can-learn-from-coca-cola <p>At TEDxChange, Melinda Gates makes a provocative case for nonprofits taking a cue from corporations such as Coca-Cola, whose plugged-in, global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants&mdash;and can get&mdash;a Coke. Why shouldn't this work for condoms, sanitation, vaccinations too?</p> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:40:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-melinda-gates-what-nonprofits-can-learn-from-coca-cola Melinda Gates, TED, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Africa, HIV, Coca-Cola, Non-governmental organization, Health, Marketing, Development aid http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-hans-rosling-the-good-news-of-the-decade Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing&mdash;mostly unreported&mdash;piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/ted-hans-rosling-the-good-news-of-the-decade Millennium Development Goals, Africa, Hans Rosling, TED, Mortality rate, Change Makers, Statistics, Child mortality, Health, Western world http://www.viewchange.org/videos/casablanca-kids <p>Every year, thousands of children travel to Casablanca from far-flung shantytowns. Living rough, many fall prey to sexual exploitation and cruelty. It is a problem the government prefers to ignore, but there are some local people brave enough to stand up and make a difference.</p> Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:15:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/casablanca-kids Morocco, Street Children, Casablanca, Homelessness, Sidi Moumen, North Africa, Child abuse, Vocational education, Child prostitution, Child labor >> VOICEOVER: Nighttime in Casablanca, a world away from the intrigue of the Hollywood legend. It's Morocco's largest city. Four million people live here. Thousands are young and homeless. Tonight, one man discreetly seeks out the city's street kids. His name is Omar Saadoun. In Casablanca, these youngsters are at best a nuisance, at worst a mark of shame to be pushed back into the darkness. It's an angry scene: the crowd turns against Omar for shining a light on Casablanca's grimy underbelly.>> OMAR SAADOUN [Children's advocate]: What do you do for these kids? Answer me. Answer me!>> MAN: It is the government's responsibility.>> OMAR SAADOUN: What is your role as a citizen? You do nothing for them. You're just being violent with them and calling them names.>> VOICEOVER: Casablanca's not an easy city for these youngsters who live on the margins, nor for those who try to help them. >> OMAR SAADOUN: The dangers I face are countless. The most dangerous incident was when some young kids threatened me with a knife. I tried to interfere when I saw a kid suffering from burns. I wanted to take him with me to take him to the doctor, but the young kids refused to give him to me. When I insisted, they wanted to kill me with the knife.>> VOICEOVER: There's no secret to the phenomenon of street kids, and Casablanca's like many other cities: not enough jobs, poverty, family breakdowns, domestic violence all play their part. There's about 15,000 children living rough on the streets here. They're exposed to the sex trade. Many end up on drugs or sniffing glue. The Moroccan government's way of dealing with this problem has largely been to lock these kids up.>> TITLE: Casablanca Kids>> VOICEOVER: Day breaks over Casablanca, but for many it's a false dawn. Omar Saadoun's at the city's main bus station. Every year, thousands of young children turn up from far-flung villages and shantytowns in search of a new life. Today, Omar meets another couple who've taken a one-way ticket to nowhere.>> OMAR SAADOUN: Are you okay? You didn't brush your hair this morning. Let's do this, so you can wake up and have some fresh air. Are you okay? Why do you look so scared?>> VOICEOVER: Anas is just nine years old, and Ashraf barely a teenager. Anas came to escape a father who beats him mercilessly and Ashraf to find his father who abandoned him years ago. If it were not for Omar, they'd be destined to a life as outcasts on the city's seamy streets.>> ASHRAF: My father ran away to Casablanca, and then my grandmother would not take care of me.>> OMAR SAADOUN: Does your father beat you? >> ANAS: Not always, sometimes.>> OMAR SAADOUN: I can talk to your father so that he never beats you again. I will explain to him that you are still very young and that he should not beat you a lot. I am not going to tell your father that you slept in the street. Understand?>> VOICEOVER: Frightened, fragile, and lost, these boys can count themselves fortunate: they've been found by the only group in the whole of Morocco committed to helping street kids.>> OMAR SAADOUN: Where did you sleep yesterday? >> ANAS: In the bus station. >> OMAR SAADOUN: You slept in the bus station? >> ANAS: Yes.>> VOICEOVER: It's not the most salubrious part of the city, but this is the Casablanca headquarters of Bayti, a charitable organization dedicated to helping abandoned kids, runaways, sexually exploited youngsters, and the victims of violence. Its motto is "right to life not to survival, to affection not pity, to respect not rejection." Set up 13 years ago, Bayti's creator is Dr. Najat M'Jid, a Casablanca pediatrician.>> DR. NAJAT M'JID: I don't like injustice, and I don't like inequality. I don't like the fact that children are being hurt. That's why it's important for me to work with the children on the streets, and defend their rights.>> VOICEOVER: Located on the Atlantic coast of Africa, Casablanca is a cosmopolitan city. There's much about it that's attractive and affluent. A place of wide avenues and classic French art deco architecture, this sprawling metropolis hides a dark side. >> VOICEOVER: The city's port is a refuge for those who live on the edge -- society's fringe dwellers.>> DR. NAJAT M'JID: In the street there is violence. There are drugs: they sniff glue because it's a drug. There's sexual abuse. There's harassment by the police. There's hunger and cold.>> VOICEOVER: A freezing, filthy place, Casablanca's port reeks of fish guts and industrial solvent, the solvent a salve to the port's transient, to block out the biting cold and the pain of alienation. Here, Omar Saadoun is king of the kids, one of the few who genuinely cares about their plight.>> TEENAGER [Homeless]: I swear, nobody can feel what we're going through. >> OMAR SAADOUN: How long have you been living in the port?>> CHILD [Homeless]: More than three years. I try to earn my bread.>> VOICEOVER: But it's not bread that most of these kids scavenge and beg for.>> OMAR SAADOUN: Most kids living in the street, about 95 percent of them, sniff glue. All these kids come from poor families, or families that experience breakdown either because of divorce or the death of one of the parents.>> DR. NAJAT M'JID: When I saw the children in the streets, the first thing is incomprehension. I didn't understand. It was unthinkable. Afterwards, I felt a great deal of horror and anger. >> VOICEOVER: Najat M'Jid has channeled her horror and anger into fundraising.A tireless campaigner, she has to raise USD$7 million every year to keep her organization running. Tonight, the founder of Bayti is appealing to Casablanca's rich to donate to her street kids program.>> WOMAN [Fundraiser attendee]: She's absolutely amazing, she's always in action, and she is really generous with herself.>> WOMAN 2 [Fundraiser attendee]: Najat has the reputation of being a woman who is afraid of nothing, fearless, afraid of no one, and is a model for many women.>> VOICEOVER: Since 1993, Bayti has helped more than 17,000 children. Children who cannot be reunited with their families are given a place to stay. Older kids are taught trades. Those of school age are provided with a free education in a class run and funded by Bayti. Nineteen-year old Nawal is a Bayti graduate. A street kid, Nawal spent four years at the Bayti school before training as a hairdresser. The horrors many Moroccan youngsters are forced to endure -- sexual exploitation, abuse, and prostitution -- are the stuff of nightmares. Nawal now works in this Casablanca salon and readily acknowledges a debt of gratitude to Bayti and Dr. Najat M'Jid.?>> NAWAL: I owe her a lot, not only Dr. M'Jid, but also all the educators who take care of us, especially the night staff, who are very understanding. If a girl was not able to sleep, they would listen to her.>> VOICEOVER: Just down the road from the Bayti school and office, this is the shantytown of Sidi Moumen on Casablanca's dusty outskirts. It's home to nearly 200,000 Moroccans. This fetid dump not only produces poverty: three years ago it spawned several suicide bombers, angry young men who blew themselves up in central Casablanca, killing 45 people. Aware that abandoned children can quickly be drawn into the deadly embrace of extremist Islam, Omar Saadoun promotes a different world game.>> OMAR SAADOUN: Come on! Keep going. Run and get the ball! Let's go!>> VOICEOVER: Swapping their filthy street clothes for a soccer strip, these youngsters are looking to sidestep violence, drugs, and sexual abuse. The beach is just a stone's throw from the port, but to kids like Ashraf it's a different world, one where they're embraced, not cast out. >> DR. NAJAT M'JID: When I see them playing sport in particular I see them happy, which is important. I see them far from the problems of the street.>> VOICEOVER: Najat M'Jid is one of Casablanca's privileged but she too knows emotional adversity. Widowed seven years ago, she's the mother of two daughters. Safira is the younger. >> SAFIRA [Daughter, Dr. Najat M'Jid]: She's a passionate woman, who is brave and who is strong. When she believes in something she goes with it to the end, and that's why she's a magnificent woman.>> VOICEOVER: In a country where the king boasts in excess of 20 palaces, the government's dereliction is damning. But, thanks to Bayti, a generation of homeless and hopeless young Moroccans have been given the chance to kick-start their lives.>> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/venezuela-the-pied-piper <p>In Caracas, Venezuela the streets thump with hip-hop, Latin rhythms, and violent crime. But the city is also home to a remarkable youth orchestra system that has helped more than a million kids from poor neighborhoods discover a very different world: that of classical music. Only a few will ever become professional musicians, but many more will have their lives changed for the better.</p> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:28:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/venezuela-the-pied-piper Jose Antonio Abreu, Venezuela, Education, El Sistema, Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, South America, Latin America, Gang, Change Makers, LinkTV Picks >> VOICEOVER: It's not just one of the world's great orchestras: the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra is in a class of its own. It's the showcase of a unique social experiment designed to bring music to the masses. The players have been trained in hundreds of publicly financed youth and children's orchestras, and in Venezuela, any child from any background can aspire to join it. >> TITLE: The Pied Piper >> GENESIS DA SILVA: My ultimate dream is to be part of an orchestra. My goal has been to get there and I think that with the effort and the desire that I put in, I can achieve it. >> VOICEOVER: Genesis da Silva is just 13, but dreams of being a great musician. Every day after school, she spends five hours playing classical music before going home to practice more. She and her friends come from poor families that can't afford instruments, let alone lessons. But, thanks to a visionary project, they have a chance to pursue their dreams. It's known as the National Youth Orchestra System of Venezuela, or as it's simply called here, "El Sistema," the system. It's an inspired program to bring the finest music to the poorest children of Venezuela's toughest slums. It might sound like a pipe dream, but it's already brought more than a million kids into the world of classical music. It all began in 1975, when an economist and musician Jose Antonio Abreu hit on the idea that music could steer children from crime. >> DR. JOSE ANTONIO ABREU [Founder, National Youth Orchestra System of Venezuela]: The happiness, enjoyment, and hope that playing music brings to the suburbs and poor neighborhoods, undoubtedly creates a tremendous barrier against drugs, and against violence and vice and everything that undervalues life and makes it miserable. >> VOICEOVER: It started with just 11 students in a cramped hall, but it's grown into 220 youth and children's orchestras, most in poor areas where children had never been exposed to classical music. Every day across the country, 400,000 kids line up for free music lessons. Even the cost of the instruments is covered by state grants and private donations. The local director, Rafael Elster, insists the investment benefits everyone. >> RAFAEL ELSTER [Director, Nucleo Sarria Music School]: In an orchestra, all the responsibilities are part of the success of this group. If the trumpet player plays wrong or doesn't come, or doesn't work as the other ones, the orchestra fails, as do these communities. The communities need people who do everything, and everybody works for the community. That's what we teach them. So we're trying to make them better citizens, better people. >> INTERVIEWER: So you could do the same thing with sport, for example? >> RAFAEL ELSTER: No, because in sports there's always a winner and a loser. In this nobody loses, everybody wins. So we have to make them feel that the most important thing is that everyone wins. >> VOICEOVER: The system demands and gets extraordinary commitment from the students. After sitting in school classes from seven to one, they play music until six before they start the journey home. >> RAFAEL ELSTER: So these kids work like 14 hours a day. When they don't, they just go home and sleep. That's no time for getting in trouble. >> INTERVIEWER: Most kids in the West like to go home from school and play on the computer. I mean do you have to force these kids to play music? >> RAFAEL ELSTER: They are poor people. They don't have computers. They don't have toys. They don't have anything. This is the most valuable thing for them, their instruments, their orchestra. >> VOICEOVER: The contrast with their home lives couldn't be greater. Caracas is a city of crowded slums and violent gangs. We had to bring a bodyguard to be able to film in Genesis da Silva's neighborhood. Her building doesn't even have a lift. She has to climb 12 floors to her apartment. >> GENESIS DA SILVA: It's very dangerous. People are very involved. It's always to do with the gangs. No one is really taking care of their life. It's very difficult. >> VOICEOVER: Yet Genesis is happier with her life than many rich teenagers in the West, the beauty of music a daily antidote to the ugliness around her. >> GENESIS DA SILVA: When you're there in the music, the most important thing is to know how to enjoy it, and to do it. It also helps to clarify many problems. >> VOICEOVER: She's lucky to have a supportive family, sharing this small apartment with her mother, stepfather, grandmother, two brothers, two aunts and two cousins. But nothing can shield them from the mayhem below. In a recent shooting a bullet was fired through their window. >> GENESIS DA SILVA: Many dead people ... many dead people between gangs. And there are always shootings, which sometimes lead to many deaths. >> VOICEOVER: It wasn't long before we saw just how dangerous this place can be. While we were filming, a man was shot on the street. As we left the building, we were caught up in the police response. Our bodyguard was disarmed, I was detained and searched. Police have failed to stem the chronic violence here. Jose Abreu, who founded the system, believes music is a much better weapon. >> DR. JOSE ANTONIO ABREU: Without a doubt, this is a program that transforms the quality of life in a huge way and produces enormous sentiment in the personal and collective lives of children and young people. >> VOICEOVER: Leswi Pantoja, who's 26, knows that well. He grew up in a poor slum where he ran with a youth gang. >> LESWI PANTOJA [Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra]: I have many friends who aren't alive any more. They're dead. Sometimes I meet friends in the street and I ask them how they are. They're just all right. They don't have real jobs. They manage to survive, but that's all. That's their life. >> VOICEOVER: Leswi Pantoja's life took a different path after he joined the system. Today he's a professional musician. Six years ago, he was selected to join the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. It's made up exclusively of the best students to pass through the system. >> LESWI PANTOJA: I think it's because we've known each other for 15 years, since we were very young. We've grown up together as a family, little by little. It's one of the secrets of why the orchestra sounds as it does, is seen as it is, and triumphs in this way. >> VOICEOVER: Like all the players, Leswi Pantoja grew up to a Latin beat. When he's not performing with the orchestra, he still plays Venezuelan salsa with his own band. Before the system, poor neighborhoods like his never even heard classical music. >> LESWI PANTOJA: What you hear is Latin music, salsa and merengue. Classical doesn't really exist. >> VOICEOVER: Nowadays, every community can enjoy the music of the streets and the concert halls. >> DR. JOSE ANTONIO ABREU: The wide diversity breaks down artificial barriers between classical and popular music. Society is transformed through an artistic experience that brings hope and an aesthetic dimension to life. >> VOICEOVER: Only a handful who finish the system each year are chosen for Simon Bolivar, the peak of the youth orchestras. But Genesis da Silva is sure she can do it. As she watches the orchestra rehearse, she becomes even more determined to perfect her craft. >> GENESIS DA SILVA: You don't try to imitate them, or to be like them, but you make an effort to excel yourself, to get where they are. >> VOICEOVER: An hour later, it's her turn to shine. After weeks of practice, Genesis's school group will be performing a concert for their parents and friends. Everything is done as cheaply as possible, but Rafael Elster takes any opportunity to plead for more. >> RAFAEL ELSTER: I'm asking to build a new building of 1,000 square meters to house 1,500 children and to purchase 300 musical instruments. >> VOICEOVER: It's an enthusiastic if uneven performance. Some of the children show exceptional talent, some just play along for fun. Only a few will become professional musicians, but the system will leave a lifelong legacy for all. >> RAFAEL ELSTER: The most important thing is that they believe in themselves. They believe that everything they start they can take it to a higher level, they can reach different goals in life. >> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/india-the-gulabi-gang <p>Sampat Pal is a campaigner with a mission: to ensure that those born into the lowest caste have an education, avoid child marriages, and earn a decent wage. But, while Mahatma Gandhi famously preached non-violence, Pal believes that India's long history of patriarchy, abuse, and corruption demands a new style of justice.</p> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:12:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/india-the-gulabi-gang India, Gulabi Gang, Uttar Pradesh, Sampat Pal, Domestic violence, Untouchability, Banda district, Caste system in India, Caste, Women's rights >> TITLE: The Gulabi Gang >> VOICEOVER: These women may not look that tough, but they're all hardened gang members. They've left their fields and villages in rural Uttar Pradesh for a special meeting. >> WOMEN: The Pink Gang! Long live! Sampat, keep on fighting! We are all with you. >> VOICEOVER: Sampat Pal is the leader of the 'Gulabi' – or 'Pink' – Gang. This feisty crusader for the poor and downtrodden believes in speaking loudly and carrying a big stick. Today she's teaching these women how to wield the 'lathi' - a long, wooden staff. >> SAMPAT PAL [Leader of the Gulabi Gang]: If someone aims for your head, how will you protect yourself? >> WOMAN: I'll hold it like this. >> SAMPAT PAL: All right, I'll hit you. >> VOICEOVER: India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi, famously preached non-violence. Sampat Pal says times have changed. >> SAMPAT PAL: I salute Gandhi. He was the father of our nation. But my style is different. >> SAMPAT PAL: I am Sampat Pal. I do what I think is right. >> VOICEOVER: That involves striking out at corrupt officials and men who abuse women. Gang members seem to relish the chance to hit back. >> SAMPAT PAL: Now who wants to be hit by me? Here, take this. >> VOICE: What a good leader! >> VOICEOVER: The gang's vigilante tactics have included attacking police and publicly humiliating a district magistrate. >> SAMPAT PAL: Why do I have to take the law in our hands? I'll tell you. The government doesn't obey its own laws. Police and government officials take bribes. Now people look up to me and don't go to the police. Sampat can do what the police can't. That's why people respect me. >> VOICEOVER: Perhaps it's no surprise that a women's vigilante group has sprung up here. The Banda district of Uttar Pradesh is one of the poorest and most feudal parts of India. 20% of the population are born into the bottom of the caste ladder, which dictates where they can work, whom they can marry and even where they can bathe. Above all, it's women who bear the brunt of discrimination. Sampat Pal herself is illiterate and low-caste. She was married off at 12 and had her first child at 15. Even then, she says, she was angered by a world in which people are considered 'untouchable'. >> SAMPAT PAL: It makes me angry. How could people hate another human being? They don't even hate dog piss. If a dog pisses near the water where they are worshipping, they still drink that water. But they hate touching a human being. That's why I had to do all this. I've always argued and fought since childhood. >> SAMPAT PAL: Those officials who don't listen... Kick them with your feet. >> VOICEOVER: Today, Sampat Pal is leading a protest. The target of her anger: bureaucrats accused of excluding poor people from a government jobs scheme. >> SAMPAT PAL: Those officials who take bribes... Kick the thieves! >> VOICEOVER: This former health worker spent years working quietly behind the scenes with local women. But it was only when they adopted a uniform and threatened violence in 2006 that they were finally taken seriously. The gang pickets the office of the man responsible for the jobs program and calls on him to "come to his senses". Then Sampat decides to barge in with the women's complaints. >> SAMPAT PAL: I'm here to discuss what needs to be done. I'm Sampat Pal. >> OFFICIAL: Hello, this is our first meeting. >> SAMPAT PAL: Why are people are dying of hunger? Why aren't they people given work when there's work to do? Nobody gives them work. They're making fools of everyone. Well, I just came over today to meet you… >> OFFICIAL: Look, list the names of all the people in this village. >> SAMPAT PAL: Yes, make a list… >> OFFICIAL: List those who need work. >> SAMPAT: That's it. Then I'll… >> OFFICIAL: I'll see what can be done. >> VOICEOVER: The Gulabi Gang has only resorted to violence on a handful of occasions. Sampat says most people now see reason. >> SAMPAT PAL: It is quite straightforward. Firstly, we simply approach people with our requests. "Please do what we ask. If that is wrong, don't do it. If it is right, then do what I ask." But those who have been dishonest and are taking bribes, they are not able to help us. So, when I know that my request has not been considered, I go there once, twice… If they still don't listen I hit them with the lathi. >> VOICEOVER: Sampat Pal's supporters make a list of everyone who's been left out of the public job scheme, which is handed over to the beleaguered bureaucrat. >> SAMPAT PAL: Yes it's all there, where they're from, all the details. >> OFFICIAL: Alright, I'll see that something is done about this. >> SAMPAT PAL: That's good, you are listening. >> VOICEOVER: But when Sampat is told about another official here accused of taking bribes, she wastes no time. >> SAMPAT PAL: If you've done the wrong thing, you must change your ways. >> OFFICIAL: I have changed. >> SAMPAT PAL: People are aware. If you have taken from anyone, return it. Just do it. You better give it back or it will cost you dearly. People join the Pink Gang if they're being robbed. The more you rake in, the bigger the Pink Gang gets. It's not right. This is not what you should do. Give me a list of the women who have given you money. I will keep track of it. Right? Don't make things worse for yourself. >> VOICEOVER: Tackling corruption is just a small part of what Sampat Pal does. Every day women come to her to plead for help. >> WOMAN: They hit me here, too. >> SAMPAT PAL: Oh my God, they've really beaten her. >> VOICEOVER: Sometimes they're victims of domestic violence and Sampat takes up their case with the local police. >> SAMPAT PAL: First, I have to make them understand and if they don't understand, I'll have to beat them up. >> VOICEOVER: Others are being exploited by their in-laws. This young widow's mother-in-law won't give her a share of the family home. >> MOTHER-IN-LAW: I know about being dishonest. I don't want to go to jail. We divided into four parts. Four parts. Then she said something that wasn't for her to say. >> WIDOW: She was abusing me and not giving me my share. >> VOICEOVER: Sampat frequently steps in to sort out these quarrels, acting as judge, jury and, today, property surveyor. Although she's fought with the police and still faces criminal charges for her vigilante attacks, Sampat Pal tries to stay on the good side of the law. >> SAMPAT PAL: Sir, when did you come here? >> OFFICER: Recently. >> SAMPAT PAL: Yes, they told me the sahib is here. >> OFFICER: I'm just about to go patrol >> SAMPAT PAL: I just came to meet you. >> VOICEOVER: She figures it's more effective to shame the authorities into doing the right thing than to make headlines by beating them up. But the headlines have also helped. With up to 40,000 members across Uttar Pradesh, the Gulabi Gang has become a mass movement. And thanks to supporters around the world, it's raised the funds to start its own school. Now Sampat Pal can provide poor children from low-caste families – especially girls – with the education she herself missed out on. Of course, the uniforms – and sometimes even the chalk – are pink. And Sampat's bought sewing machines, too – an unlikely weapon for a gang member, but an important one. If girls learn to sew, they can earn some money, a good reason for parents not to marry them off too young. >> VOICEOVER: Sampat Pal is just as determined to stamp out child marriages and dowry payments as she is to eliminate corruption. Today she's brought her posse to this Muslim village in order to celebrate a wedding, if she can make sure it happens. Sampat was approached by the bride when her parents wouldn't let her marry the boy she loved. >> SAMPAT PAL: Tell the story from the beginning about beating the girl. >> MOTHER: Yes, I beat her. As her mother, I did beat her. >> SAMPAT PAL: Because of the marriage? >> MOTHER: Yes, for that. >> VOICEOVER: Sampat has been here three times and spent hours cajoling and browbeating the girl's mother and father. >> SAMPAT PAL: You weren't happy about it? >> FATHER: No, I wasn't. I wasn't happy, so I beat the girl. I could have killed her. That's what happens when the community is let down. If I'd beaten her really badly I could have been sent to jail. >> SAMPAT PAL: If you love your daughter, then it's good to agree to the wedding. In the films we watch, they show such stories. The children of enemies marry and families come together. You must have seen films like that. >> VOICEOVER: The groom's parents had also refused to let him marry, according to him, because they hoped to sell him off for a higher dowry. Now, despite having eventually agreed to the marriage, the groom's father signals his displeasure by refusing to turn up. >> SAMPAT PAL: Where is his father? Call him here. Tell him to come here. >> VOICEOVER: Sampat is beginning to lose patience by the time the groom's father arrives. >> SAMPAT PAL: I'm not going to ask you any more. He's not listening to his village and his community. Are you speaking to your son and daughter-in-law or not? Soon you'll be playing with your grandchildren. They will climb all over you and you will like that. And you're going to sabotage all that. I'm bringing two souls together. God will help me. You are feeling Sampat is being unjust to you. Sampat is never unjust. I've seen enough of your drama. >> SAMPAT PAL: They fear me. I'd never been to this village so people didn't know me. When I came the other day, people argued with me. But, gradually, they found out who I was – the same Sampatji who had once beaten the police! Then they became fearful and showed me respect. They did what I told them to. >> VOICEOVER: As the fine points of the marriage contract are worked out, the gang leader gives the groom a clear warning. >> SAMPAT PAL: If you do anything illegal or wrong to the girl, you will feel the full wrath of the law. That is the simple truth. Don't hit the girl. You need to guarantee this. If you hit her, I will come back. If the boy does wrong, can the girl hit him? Tell me, council members. >> MAN: She won't do that. >> SAMPAT PAL: Why not? Boys have faults and girls have faults. They must tolerate each other. The contract implies that. >> VOICEOVER: After the wedding, the bride prepares to leave her parents' home forever. >> DAUGHTER: Father, forgive me. >> FATHER: It's all forgotten. >> SAMPAT PAL: All is forgiven, child. >> FATHER: It's all forgiven. Go now, we'll all be here for you. Everything is forgiven. May you have a good life. >> VOICEOVER: Despite the frustration, this has been a good day for the Gulabi Gang. Love has triumphed over adversity. There's no doubt the threat of violence plays a big role in Sampat Pal's success. But for the women she helps, her common sense and compassion are her most revolutionary qualities. >> SAMPAT PAL: More women are pouring in. Like an ocean flood, there's a flood in the Pink Gang! >> TITLE: [End Credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/kenyan-solution-for-charging-mobile-phones <p>In rural Kenya, electricity sockets are hard to find but pedal power is everywhere&mdash;which is why inventor Pascal Katana has come up with an ingenious method to charge mobile phones using the energy generated by bicycles.</p> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:29:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/kenyan-solution-for-charging-mobile-phones Kenya, Mobile phone, Pascal Katana, Energy poverty, Appropriate technology, Africa, Technology, ViewChange Online Film Contest, Change Makers, LinkTV Picks >> TITLE: Spark Africa. New Business Perspectives>> VOICEOVER: Spark Africa is always looking for new businesses and surprising initiatives. Today, we report from the Kenyan countryside.>> TITLE: Kenya. Population: 38.8 million. GNP per capita: USD$547. Rural population: 90 percent. Electricity: 10 percent of the rural population. >> VOICEOVER: Electricity doesn't come out of a wall here, let alone a phone connection. Therefore, a mobile phone is useful, but how do you charge it? >> CRISTINE AKELO [Spark Africa Kenya]: It is estimated currently, 17.5 million people out of the 38.5 million people in Kenya's population own a mobile handset, and thus, they need to be charged.>> PASCAL KATANA [Inventor, Smart Charger]: We'll reduce the problem that is being encountered in our rural areas. >> CRISTINE AKELO: Students of the university of Nairobi came up with a solution to this. The smart charger is easy to use: just connect it to the dynamo of your bike. The apparatus will convert the resulting energy into electricity, which can be used to charge a mobile phone. After about an hour of cycling, the phone is then charged. Normally, charging your phone is more time-consuming. Sometimes, you have to walk hours before finding a charging location. Small shops with solar panels or batteries charge it for you and charge USD$1. However, even the man who profits from charging other people's phones seems to be happy with the smart charger.>> MAN: I'm happy for the people who can now charge their phone while riding a bicycle. It won't affect my business. Customers will keep on coming. It's important to take care of each other. We all suffer because of the electricity problem. >> CRISTINE AKELO: The bicycle is a popular means of transport in east Africa, which makes the mobile charger simple and effective. For personal, business, or just for transport means, the inventors of the charger are already working with professional cyclists and bicycle couriers. >> PETER NJOROGE [Bicycle courier]: This mobile charger is good. It will definitely help us. I place this charger to my bike. The device charges while I drive. >> CRISTINE AKELO: The smart charger has recently been brought to the market. For one charger, it costs about 350 Kenyan shillings, which is about USD$4. The inventors are hoping for international success. >> PASCAL KATANA: Tanzania, Ivory Coast -- they have really requested for that smart charger.>> CRISTINE AKELO: Pascal and Jeremiah will have to look at their options in the coming period, because there is a great chance that this device will be readily available in the years to come. There is one thing they do not need to worry about: everybody here rides a bicycle. >> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-rural-women <p>Women in rural China have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Wu Qing at the Development Center for Rural Women believes that empowering women with the idea of equality, giving them out-of-home work skills, and instilling them with a sense of social responsibility will increase their feeling of self-worth and improve their quality of life. To plant the desire for knowledge, the center also started a grassroots literacy program.&nbsp;</p> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-rural-women China, Women's rights, Cultural Development Center for Rural Women, Wu Qing, Rural Women, Annenberg Foundation, Beijing, explore, Human rights, Gender >> TITLE: explore >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: I was shocked to learn that women in the countryside of China had one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Wu Qing founded the Center for Rural Migrant Workers to help women develop their voice and realize they have rights. She's an inspiration to women not only in China, but also throughout the world. >> TITLE: Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women >> WU QING [Director, Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women]: So I went through all the political movements, including the Cultural Revolution, together with my people. And that's why I'm working so hard to change the system. I want China to be a rule of law, and by law, not rule of man by man, which in a way has lasted for over 2,400 years. But I think we are laying the ground for democracy, and freedom, and political participation, and grass roots -- it's bottom up. So we are doing all kinds of projects. Women's rights are human rights. So I started to pay more and more attention to the rights of women. "Men's place is in the outside world, women's place is at home" is still prevailing in China, even now. I mean, this is universal, right? But then I think it is stronger in China, especially for rural women. These are not cover girls. They are role models. Role models to women. So this is very important. So through this magazine, you know, as a vehicle, we started to know the needs, and demands, of women. Because at that time our reporters often went to out of the way places, especially minority areas, just to find out their needs. They told us they wanted to learn how to read and write. So we started our first literacy projects in 1996. >> DOCTOR: Before, men were the ones who were allowed to go out and work. Women could only stay at home and raise children, but now they can go out and work. >> WU QING: The most important thing is empowerment. We tell them, you are a human being before you are a girl, or a woman. So, on that basis, men and women are equal. But I have to work very hard, try hard, and sometimes we have to pay twice the price of a man. Because this is a man's world. If you watch television, see who are there, men! They are deciding our future. Is that fair? No, that's not fair. Yes! We want to train women with love, social responsibility, with a kind of a desire for knowledge, with multi-skills, and to be a global citizen. >> DOCTOR: As a doctor, I wish the hospitals had better facilities and equipment. They are not as good as I had hoped. >> WU QING: With modern technology and IT, everything that happens in one corner of the world will be known immediately, sometimes within a few seconds. I'm not for separate projects for women; I think it's important for men and women to come together, so the men will know what women can contribute. Right? I think this is important, and this is what we are doing. Because if men and women can work together, this world is going to be better.