http://viewchange.org Videos from ViewChange.org (Filtered by topics: explore) en-us Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:36:00 +0000 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-a-place-to-run-to <p>In the town of Iqaluit in the far north of Canada, domestic violence is a serious problem. But Arctic women are supporting each other at Qimaavik, a safe haven for abused women and children. Through peer support and counseling, they are rebuilding their self-esteem and healing wounded spirits.</p> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:36:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-a-place-to-run-to Domestic violence, Nunavut, Canada, Iqaluit, Arctic, Women's rights, Intuit, Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Annenberg Foundation >> TITLE: explore.org>> TITLE: The mission of explore is to champion the selfless acts of others.>> TITLE: explore traveled to the Arctic on a philanthropic fact-finding mission to uncover the current issues facing the Intuit people.>> TITLE: A place to run to ...>> TITLE: Canada, Nunavut, capital city Iqaluit>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN [Founder, explore]: I'm Charles Annenberg Weingarten. I'm in the Arctic with my explore team, to learn and to gather information about people and organizations making a positive difference throughout this region. The Arctic communities face many unique challenges. But even those issues we are familiar with are often magnified in this part of the world. Some of what I discovered was hard to hear. What's the most difficult aspect of living up here in the Arctic?>> MARY ELLEN THOMAS [Executive Director, Iqaluit Research Institute]: For me personally, it's the heartbreak of the social conditions. Of seeing children who don't graduate, women who are being abused, people with huge addiction problems. That's the hard thing.>> TITLE: In a recent survey, the Nunavut territory in the Arctic had a violent crime rate eight times that of Canada overall. This statistic covers only crimes reported. Ninety percent of the victims were women.>> SIGN: Abuse is wrong in any language.>> SIGN: Stop the violence.>> TITLE: Qimaavik Women's Shelter, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Hi, nice to meet you. >> NAPATCHIE MCRAE [Executive Director, Qimaavik Women's Shelter]: Nice to meet you, too. We home at least 300 to 400 women a year. This is the only shelter in Nunavut that operates 365 days a year, seven days a week, 24 hours.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What is the name of the organization?>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: Qimaavik. It's an Inuktitut name, and it's called, "A place to run to." It's to home the women and children that are fleeing violence, either from their partners or from their family members.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: In Iqaluit, the capital of the recently established Nunavut territory, I met with scholars and scientists who spoke to the issues facing this area. Issues that can manifest in domestic abuse.>> MARY ELLEN THOMAS: Urbanization occurs everywhere in the world. Though it's only 6,500 people, it's still an Arctic urban environment. Iqaluit is where the government is, Iqaluit is where there is some private industry, Iqaluit is where things are happening, so the best and brightest, the most educated, come from some of those communities to take jobs here in our community. So you have those folks who don't have an education here, who aren't getting the jobs, so you have that kind of conflict going on. And so it's like everywhere where there's urbanization.>> RICK ARMSTRONG [Scientific Support Manager, Iqaluit Research Institute]: It's difficult for people to get housing here. There's a limited amount of public housing here, and there are long lists of people trying to get into this public housing. So, where do they go? They move in with relatives and, before long, there are problems resulting from too many people living in a house. That's probably one of the areas that really, really needs attention here.>> ELISAPEE SHEUTIAPIK [Mayor of Iqaluit]: There's a huge impact when it comes to overcrowding. Social problems, usually families are overcrowded, sometimes two to three generations live in a home. For me, the biggest challenge is bringing the spirit up. >> TITLE: Iqaluit visitors seminar.>> ELISAPEE SHEUTIAPIK: I think there was a high expectation when we became a territory. The common folk thought they were going to really benefit and they haven't. Trying to build up their self-esteem, confidence. And it's ... In Iqaluit, for instance, a lot of them are feeling kinda left out, because they don't have the education.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What is the relationship of drugs and alcohol with domestic violence?>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: Seventy per cent of abuse is related to alcohol and drugs. Thirty per cent will be like due to lack of employment being available, and the other one would be the abuser was either abused when they were growing up, or they have seen the abuse. It is a cycle. This is where we want to be able to help the children to break that link, to break that cycle.>> SIGN: What you see here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay here.>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: Some of these women that come here don't have self-esteem anymore. They don't know where to begin anymore. It's not just physical anymore, it's emotional.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What does the center do to help people heal?>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: We have two peer counselors who'll be seeing clients at least twice a week.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Do you counsel the abusers?>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: That's the problem with the shelters, is that that's not part of our mandate, to be talking with the abuser. For several reasons -- one of our issues here is that we don't have a male counselor here, we don't have the funding to help the abuser to heal at the same time. I think if they make the healing a mandatory thing, I think the men would seek more help.>> TITLE: Most abusers in Nunavut receive one day in jail or less.>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: The biggest challenge running this shelter is dealing with children that have witnessed violence. For one thing, we don't have a child psychologist here, or a person to work with children only, because of the funding.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: How does this center receive its funding?>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: We get our contribution from the government of Nunavut, from the Department of Health and Social Services. But it's a very limited contribution we get from them, and a lot of stuff that we need to purchase, we have to do some fundraising or depend on donations we receive. A lot of this stuff that we have in here is donated. My dream for this center is to help all these women to get their self-esteem back and to be able to seek employment, to be able to talk to their partners to seek help for themselves too.>> ELISAPEE SHEUTIAPIK: I went to speak to the Ministers of the Status of Women. We went through a process of naming the road to Qimaavik "Angel Street.">> TITLE: Iqaluit singer Lucie Idlout wrote "Angel Street" in honor of her friend Irene, a victim of domestic violence. Mayor Sheutiapik is now asking all Canadian provinces to recognize the victims of domestic abuse by naming a local road Angel Street.>> LUCIE IDLOUT: Broken down on Angel Street / He pushed you down / Made you unseen / Irene / High heels on a gravel road / Irene>> NAPATCHIE MCRAE: I've seen several women move ahead with their life. Some have gotten jobs as social workers, they go to their education. Some have gone through nursing programs, and some have said, "Okay, I'm a strong person, I'm going to go and live by myself, and find myself a job." Us woman suffer the same things, regardless of who we are.>> SIGN: Nunavummiut are working together ... to end violence against women.>> TITLE: explore.org -- never stop learning ...>> TITLE: With the support of the Annenberg Foundation, explore has made funding possible to: The City of Iqaluit Qimaavik Women's Shelter.>> TITLE: To learn more: www.city.iqaluit.nu.ca>> 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. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-yangtze <p>One mile long and 600 feet high, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is an enormous feat of engineering, with huge controversies to match. Completed in 2008, the dam created a vast reservoir extending 370 miles. It provides drinking water and electricity, but it has also displaced some two million people and caused widespread flooding, destroying rural villages and cultural treasures. In this film, we meet some of the people whose lives have been affected.</p> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:32:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-yangtze Three Gorges Dam, China, Yangtze River, Shen Nong Stream, Hydropower, Sichuan, Fengdu County, Annenberg Foundation, Charles Annenberg Weingarten, Environmentalism >> TITLE: explore>> CAPTAIN LI JUNPING: I love this river. The Yangtze is the mother river of the Chinese people. There's been a great change. Before, the river was very narrow and turbulent. Now the river is much wider, more calm, and easier to navigate.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN [Founder, explore]: Technology versus nature. China is trying to shift away from being a coal-burning society, into using hydropower, a more efficient, cleaner source of energy.>> TITLE: explore CHINA>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: I'm right now in Fengdu with Yang Xin, photographer and environmentalist. Yang Xin has taken over 50,000 photographs of the Yangtze River, and he's turned it into an environmental cause here in China. I've talked to many environmentalists on this trip. And I seem to get a common theme that China needs to progress, but at what point is this going to become a problem?>> YANG XIN [Founder, Green River Foundation]: China has already reached a crucial juncture, not in five or 10 years, but now. For example, the Yangtze River, if you look at the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the river, the more developed an area is, the more polluted the water becomes. Every year, 28 billion tons of polluted water are washed down the Yangtze River. Here in Sichuan Province, at the upper stream of the river, you can still see some clear water. But downstream at the middle and lower parts of the river, you can hardly see any clear water. The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia, supporting a population of 400 million. Now, we are building a channel from the Yangtze River to Beijing. This will alleviate the serious water shortage in the northern part of the country. Once that project is completed, the Yangtze water will reach 700 million people.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: One of the things that makes the Three Gorges Dam project so controversial is that over a million people have been removed. We're in the historic town of Fengdu. Or what -- I should say -- is left of it, for the rubble you see was once a city. But it's now all been torn down. These towns scatter the Yangtze River. Old towns, being replaced with new ones. But talking to people what I've learned is that new people, the younger people, are actually not so against the Three Gorges project. They're looking forward to living in modern cities. It's the old people, who are losing their way and their culture, that are concerned. We're now entering Lock One of the Three Gorges Dam. The Three Gorges Dam is a modern-day version of the Great Wall of China. Built with over 40,000 employees, it is the largest project since the Great Wall of China. And, to many, this Three Gorges Dam is a symbol of China's reemergence as a world power. What can you say, but "I'm in awe." What a technological marvel. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: We're in Shen Nong Stream, a tributary to the Yangtze. An interesting point that the captain told me was that before the Three Gorges Dam, all this beauty was inaccessible. But because of the dam this water rose from one meter to 40 meters, allowing people to come up here and enjoy all this beauty. These are some of the gentlemen who've been moved from their old, rural farms to the new cities that you've seen. Hopefully, when we take a pause, we'll be able to ask them how they feel about the move. How do you feel about the move, from the old place to the new homes?>> BOATMAN: The dam is great. Before, there was no electricity here or it was very spotty. Now there is electricity all the time. >> BOATMAN 2: I like my new house. My new house is much better, it's much more comfortable. The water level is higher now, so there are more economic opportunities.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Are there any drawbacks to the move?>> BOATMAN 2: Those people who had money before are still able to succeed. However, those people who didn't have much money, like many older people, were forced to move to a smaller piece of land, so their situation has worsened.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: The sturgeon here, a 140-million-year-old species, almost went extinct. To the Chinese, what the panda is to the woods, they [sturgeon] are to the sea, so they're very sacred. One of the drawbacks of the Three Gorges Dam project has been just the environmental protection of animals. The migratory path of the sturgeon has been cut off. The sturgeon can no longer come in from the ocean and go up the Yangtze to reproduce, so the Chinese government is trying to artificially inseminate the sturgeon and bring back the population. But the sturgeon is genetically modified; this is not natural reproduction. So how this will affect it, we don't know. How they will react out at sea is another big issue. The results are still to be determined. Is the government doing a good job in handling the environmental situation, yes or no?>> STUDENT 1: Good, but not enough. >> STUDENT 2: Yes. >> STUDENT 3: Not good.>> STUDENT 4: I think we should not answer the question so simply. Our country is a developing country. Our economy is developing. We must, on one hand, develop our economy. On the other hand, we should solve the environmental problems. Though there are many problems now, but our government is trying their best to solve the problems. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore_02_earthuni <p>Drawing students from around the world, EARTH University in Costa Rica teaches future leaders how to implement agricultural techniques that drive economic progress while respecting and preserving resources. Its mission is to promote sustainable development and eco-sensitive agriculture in the developing world.</p> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:35:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore_02_earthuni EARTH University, Costa Rica, Sustainable development, Agriculture & Food, Agricultural science, Sustainability, Charles Annenberg Weingarten, Annenberg Foundation, explore, Agriculture >> TITLE: explore >> TITLE: Costa Rica >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN [Founder, explore]: In the heart of Costa Rica is EARTH University, one of the most unique campuses I've ever visited. >> TITLE: EARTH University, Guacimo, Limón, Costa Rica >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: EARTH stands for Escuela de Agricultura para la Región Tropical Húmeda or, for those who don't speak Spanish, the School of Agriculture for the Region of the Humid Tropics. EARTH is a private, non-profit university, offering an education in agricultural sciences and natural resources. Its goal is to contribute to sustainable development in humid tropics. EARTH's curriculum is based on four pillars: social commitment, environmental awareness, an entrepreneurial mentality, and the development of human values. Sustainability is achieved when balancing these four ideals. Each year, EARTH selects 100 students from Latin America, Spain, and Uganda. EARTH's students are motivated to make a difference in their own countries and, consequently, the world, through social and economic development. We met with a few students from EARTH University. >> GLADYS ANDIRU [student, EARTH University]: This is really a university where one changes a lot in the course of the four years. >> FELIPE BERMUDEZ [student, EARTH University]: You can find people from almost everywhere in Latin America, and also from Uganda, and United States, Europe. >> JULIUS MBUGA [student, EARTH University]: My first impressions about this university is that they are very practical. >> GLADYS ANDIRU: We also, we've developed so much, we love to get our hands on the work. Like, some of us, I think, we're interested ... we'd feel very uncomfortable to just sit there in the office, you know, managing things. Me, I have these guts and this zeal to work with the people. >> JULIUS MBUGA: I thought that they gave more practice to students and I looked at that as an opportunity to learn, very well, agriculture skills. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: EARTH seeks to nurture a new generation of agricultural leaders with an emphasis on environmental and social conscience. Probably the most fun part of my job is finding young leaders. Today, I met Juan Pinto, our guide, who'd walk us through the rainforest. Juan wants to become a conservationist and promote eco-tourism in his native country of Costa Rica. >> JUAN PINTO [student, EARTH University]: Even before I started at EARTH, I was very interested in biology and wildlife. And what better place than EARTH, with 2,500 acres of protected forest, to study all of this. This tree is called Naked Indian, and it has several medicinal uses. And at EARTH, they are using it in a chemical compound with the aim of finding a cure for Chagas disease. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Juan is a future leader. You can feel his passion, especially when he talks about conservation. >> JUAN PINTO: Yes, wildlife is the most interesting to me: the conservation and protection of wildlife. That's why I'm at EARTH: not to become an agronomist, but I think the skills I learn at EARTH will help me to integrate conservation with community development. Because many biologists know what the problems are, but not the causes. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: After graduation, he will dedicate his life to an eco-tourism project that integrates conservation, education, and community development. >> JUAN PINTO: I am going to dedicate my life to conservation, definitely. And I am sure that having all of this knowledge will really help me to be able to connect with people. Without people, you will never have successful conservation. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: EARTH teaches students how to farm in a way that is in harmony with nature. My favorite project at EARTH University was the Animal Compassion Project. What is today's current practice and what does EARTH University do that distinguishes that practice? >> DR. RICHARD TAYLOR [EARTH University]: Okay, current practice is that everybody yells, uses sticks, uses electrical probes to move animals. We are trying to teach the people to understand the animal, rather than to try to force him to do something that he doesn't want to do. You should have been here nine years ago. You couldn't open your mouth. Flies would go into your mouth. I mean, we were desperate with the problem of flies. For that, we can use EM, which is effective micro-organisms. Well, this is what decomposes the wood, everything that falls from the tropical rainforest. We spray this on the floor. What we do is we put a layer of about two inches of sawdust and then we let the cows come in for a month and they accumulate the manure there on top of the sawdust. And so, these micro-organisms go and act directly on the organic matter and they transform that organic matter. This process actually avoids having the composition of the organic matter. You don't have smell. If you don't have smell, you have fewer flies coming in. This solved the problem 100 percent. It doesn't smell like manure. Smell it. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: It looks like brownie mix. >> DR. RICHARD TAYLOR: It looks like dirt, like soil, black soil. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What an experience: the Animal Compassion Project. So, here I am, sitting on a two-ton bull. This bull was more docile than my golden retriever, and I just laid on him and took a siesta. The students at EARTH are aware that one of the great challenges in the world today is the preservation of the rainforest, with the balance of agricultural development. The sustainable farming practices taught by EARTH support entrepreneurship and eco-sensitive agriculture in the developing world. I was introduced to EARTH University through a friend of mine named Michael, who was one of the original founders of Whole Foods. During our visit, we learned about the unique partnership between EARTH University and Whole Foods Market in the U.S. Many students plan to start their own businesses, creating jobs for people in their native countries. >> GLADYS ANDIRU: I am not alone on this Earth. I have to help the people who are down here. I have to help my people so that they become better. Because here, we learn that things are done in a group. As one person, you cannot really stand. You need the others to be around you, to be able to make a better world. >> FELIPE BERMUDEZ: To be successful with the people who are around you. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Part of the agreement is that after graduation, the students will go home and make a difference in their own communities. >> GLADYS ANDIRU: That's why some of us we are thinking, okay, there are very few jobs. Instead of scrambling for those few jobs, we should go out and then you create more jobs where many people can benefit, even the poor because the idea is to treat them well. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: And that's what makes EARTH University so unique: it's that not only do students learn agricultural practices, but they have to develop their own business plan. >> GLADYS ANDIRU: I want to set up a business back home. The idea is to do three months post-internship in South America -- that would be, like, in a rose farm, where I could learn about the production. Then, I move to the U.S. where I can learn about the business part. Then I go to Holland where I can learn the market. >> FELIPE BERMUDEZ: For the next five years, I would like to study ... to keep studying and working. That could be a very good option. And then, probably after five, seven years, I would like to start my own business. >> JULIUS MBUGA: Right after graduation, I'm going to work with a conservation organization. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: So upon graduation, they have a dream in their hand to go back to their respective countries and they now try to implement it. >> GLADYS ANDIRU: EARTH University is a place where dreams come true. >> TITLE: With the support of the Annenberg Foundation, explore has made funding possible to: EARTH University. To learn more: www.earth.ac.cr >> TITLE: explore.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-art-of-healing-violence <p>Taught how to express their feelings with shapes and colors, the children at the Queen Rania Family and Child Center in Jordan use paint, brushes, and paper to build confidence in their emotions and discover their dignity and identity. The art program, along with other activities such as group yoga and drama class, teaches the children to trust themselves, and builds the self-confidence necessary to deal with traumatic experiences like child abuse and domestic violence.&nbsp;</p> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:20:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-art-of-healing-violence Jordan River Foundation, explore, Queen Rania Family and Child Center, Annenberg Foundation, Charles Annenberg Weingarten, Child Safety Program, Jordan, Amman, Education, Child >> TITLE: explore >> TITLE: The mission of explore is to champion the selfless acts of others >> TITLE: explore went on a philanthropic fact-finding mission to Amman, Jordan to discover the healing power of self-expression. >> TITLE: The Art of Healing Violence >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Amman, Jordan. A place of intriguing contrasts. A place where ancient Roman ruins rest alongside the bustle of a modern Arab city. It's a cosmopolitan hybrid that embraces both the old and the new. Today, we are going to visit the Queen Rania Family and Child Center, a community center that synthesizes ideas from around the world, to help the children of Jordan transcend abuse, build identity, and find their inner voice. >> SAMIA BISHARA [Director, The Queen Rania Family and Child Center]: The Queen Rania Family and Child Center: it started in 2005. This center was opened to prevent child abuse, through empowering children and their families. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Is child abuse a big issue here in the community? >> SAMIA BISHARA: It is an issue that we have to face, and we have to work to prevent it. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: I've seen some beautiful paintings around your center. What's the connection between art and the child? How do you use art to help children? >> SAMIA BISHARA: It is another language. It is a global language. Every child can paint and can draw. When he draws, he expresses his feelings. And no one can come and say, "These are not your feelings." Through working on their self-esteem, we believe that they can protect themselves more. How we face this social problem is through an Arab model that depends on the international theories in psychology and social work. But we take from these theories what suits us here. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What do you teach here at the school? >> TAROUB MALHAS: I do, I'm in charge of the interactive library. It's a dynamic place. I like to say colorful. Because they get really bored if you just stand there and lecture. So it has to be a little bit of acting, a little bit of drawing, a little bit of, you know, just pictures and asking and ... it's so much more exciting when you ask them and they come up with the answer. >> TAROUB MALHAS & CHILDREN: When you are threatened, what feelings do you experience? / Fear. / Yes! Fear. / And danger! / Yes, and danger. Exactly. Bravo. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Today you were teaching a bullying class? >> TAROUB MALHAS: Yes, this is one of the programs. It's called No More Bullying in Schools. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: How does it work? >> TAROUB MALHAS: I showed them a picture of a boy trying to convince a girl to smoke. And they were interacting with me. OK, what can this girl do in this situation? >> CHILD: She can tell the other students that he has a problem with smoking. >> TAROUB MALHAS: Great answer. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Peer pressure is a challenge for teenagers everywhere. I did a little role-playing with Taroub to get the gist of her interactive teaching. >> TAROUB MALHAS: Be very sure of yourself. Don't think twice about saying no, because if you say yes once, you'll probably be very easy to convince afterwards. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Want a cigarette? >> TAROUB MALHAS: No, thank you. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: You sure? Come on, it's cool, smoke one with me. >> TAROUB MALHAS: I wouldn't want to, but you should know that it's very bad for your health and you should quit. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Come on, all our friends are smoking. Just one. >> TAROUB MALHAS: Well, no. Thank you. And if you're a good friend, you would know that it's bad for you, and it's bad for me. So there you go. >> SAMIA BISHARA: We have a special program, it is in the drama workshop. It is called Who Am I? >> ADEEBA HEJAZI: My name is Adeeba. I'm a drama trainer in the Queen Rania Center. We teach the children how they can reflect their feelings through their bodies, how they can move. >> ADEEBA HEJAZI & CHILDREN: When I count to three, you will speak in what kind of voice? / Loud. / One, two, three. [shouting] >> ADEEBA HEJAZI: They jump, they dance, they have space here to talk and share their stories, their feelings, their sadness, their happiness. >> ADEEBA HEJAZI & CHILDREN: I asked you to draw something ... with what? / Two hands. / Yes, your two hands. What did you imagine? / I drew a baby carrying a flower. / And you? / I drew a girl that is lost in the woods, in which there are wild animals. >> ADEEBA HEJAZI: They feel comfortable about themselves. They trust themselves more. They believe in themselves. They start knowing themselves more. They're proud of themselves. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: As my tour of the center continued, I discovered another group of kids, practicing something that I knew I really needed. Meditation. I need a meditation. Can I join? >> TEACHER: Take a deeper breath ... breathe. OK, again ... breathe. Let's breathe for our souls. Now sit on the floor cross-legged. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: We in the West could learn a lot from this place. We teach our children history, math, science. But when was the last time we sat with them and helped them to be calm? Just taught them how to breathe. >> SAMIA BISHARA: We think that art, it has a power. It has a very important power in expressing ourselves. Especially children. We want children to express themselves freely. Free. We want them to have this skill, because skilled children can protect themselves more. So we try to use tools, friendly tools and creative tools, with children, to express themselves. And our main objective is to prevent child abuse through activating each Jordanian citizen's role. This way we can create a common culture of child safety. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: The Queen Rania Family and Child Center is a remarkable place. I saw influences from all over the world put into practice here. All embedded in a proud Jordanian culture. >> TITLE: explore >> TITLE: Never stop learning ... >> TITLE: With the support of the Annenberg Foundation, explore has made funding possible to: The Queen Rania Family and Child Center >> TITLE: To learn more: Jordan River Foundation www.jordanriver.jo >> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-rescue-foundation <p>In Mumbai, thousands of young girls are forced into the sex trade against their will after being kidnapped or sold by their families. This film documents the work of the Rescue Foundation, which searches out imprisoned girls, and provides a refuge for them after their escape.</p> Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:02:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-rescue-foundation Human trafficking, India, Rescue Foundation, Triveni Balkrishna Acharya, Mahesh Ruparelia, Mumbai, Prostitution, Vocational education, Bangladesh, Annenberg Foundation >> BHAVANI [aged 14]: I took my sister's child to school and dropped him off. I was going back home to do my chores, when a man I didn't know approached me, and took me away with him. He took me to his house and locked me in a room upstairs. Later, he tried to get me to have sex with him. I told him I don't do work like that.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN [Founder, explore]: The explore team visited the Rescue Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping rescue and rehabilitate girls who've been trafficked into Mumbai.>> MAHESH RUPARELIA [Program Executive, Rescue Foundation]: There must at least be 25,000 trafficked girls in Mumbai. These girls get trafficked from Nepal and Bangladesh, and other states of India, for forced prostitution.>> VERANA [aged 16]: I awoke at night to find my father on top of me. My mother was mentally ill. She would try to fight him, but she was always beaten by my father. I ran away to Delhi with a boy I loved. But my father came and found me. He took me by train to Mumbai, and sold me in the red light district for 10,000 rupees [about USD$250].>> SIMA [aged 16]: He gave me a tea that hypnotized me. I wasn't unconscious, but I had to do whatever he wanted.>> MAHESH RUPARELIA: There are so many ways in which they bring the girls to India. One is they give a lot of money to the father, who cannot return the money, so he takes the daughter. These are very poor people, in the villages. Second way is to lure them to come to Mumbai for better jobs. The family likes it because the family is hard of money. Third is they get married to the girl, bring her to Mumbai, and sell her to the brothels.>> TRIVENI BALKRISHNA ACHARYA [President, Rescue Foundation]: There is also the Hindu concept of devadasi that allows the fourth daughter to be given to the temple. Sometimes, in very poor families, the second girl will be taken to a brothel and left there.>> MAHESH RUPARELIA: All the girls that we have here, they are brought to Mumbai and sold straight away to the brothels. They are put up in dark rooms. They are beaten, they are starved. All the physical torture happens. At the same time, there is a lot of mental torture. The girls are made to believe that they don't have any recourse to anything in life except working in a brothel. They lose all faith in mankind.>> SWILDA DECUNA [Probation Officer]: The brainwashing is very good. They are feeling that "my brothel keeper is my mother. She is giving me good food, good clothes. Whatever she is doing, she is giving me a customer, but they are paying me. So, that is good for me. My need is money. I need money and that brothel keeper is giving me money. That's why she is good." And here we are keeping them. We are giving good thoughts, we are giving good manners, but they do not want that. Their need is money.>> TRIVENI BALKRISHNA ACHARYA: The girls are led to believe they will make 50,000 rupees [about USD$1,200]. But unless she gets a tip, she does not in any way benefit. She will be given clothes and makeup, and a little food, and that's it.>> MAN 1: The moment we receive a missing persons complaint, we start looking for the girl. In most cases, missing girls end up in brothels. >> MAN 2: At present, we are working on three missing girls, but we are always looking for new girls. Even if we rescue 90 percent of the girls, we still have a constant flow of new cases. We are always on cases.>> TRIVENI BALKRISHNA ACHARYA: They look for the girls who appear scared and worried.>> MAN 1: You can tell by the furtive look on the girl's face, that she is being forced into prostitution. >> MAN 2: You can tell by a girl's makeup that she's newly arrived from the village. You can tell by the way they walk, that they are not used to high heels.>> TRIVENI BALKRISHNA ACHARYA: They first visit the girl and just sit with her, give her money, but say they don't want anything from her. This is how the girls begin to trust them.>> MAN: Then we show identification, and counsel the girls and prepare them to leave. >> MAHESH RUPARELIA: When we counsel one girl, when we go to rescue her, we end up rescuing 15 to 18 girls. We can't refuse them. Anybody who wants to be rescued has to be rescued.>> SIMA: There was a murder and I saw the murderer. When the police came, I asked to be rescued.>> VERANA: I ran from the brothel to the police station. I went at six in the morning.>> BHAVANI: When the police used to pass by the brothel, they would put me in a crate to hide me. We waited six months for someone to help us.>> WOMAN: I was part of an undercover raid. We knew the names of the girls we were looking for and we were sure they were hidden in this brothel. We were calling the girls' names, but no one answered. Finally, one of the girls cried out to us and we took the crate apart and found them.>> MAHESH RUPARELIA: They're very young. They are totally underprivileged. We have to counsel them at every stage of rehabilitation. We even call parents here and counsel the parents also, if need be. Parents are willing to accept in most of the cases. Once they are here, we give them all affection and love. Madam is mummy to all of them. They come here and talk to her, anytime. She gives full preference to the girls.>> SIMA: I feel like I'm at home. The staff feels like family.>> MAHESH RUPARELIA: We give them full healthcare for whatever is necessary, including operations, abortions, including deliveries. We give them free medicine and free consultation, everything is free here. We give them a lot of training, vocational training in life-sustaining trades. So, once we repatriate them, they can at least do some work, somewhere and sustain themselves. That's very important. We give them legal aid for prosecuting the traffickers and the brothel keepers. >> SIGN: Let's prevent trafficking: have a safe life>> BHAVANI: I want to catch the man who did this. He has ruined many girls, and I want to help them.>> TRIVENI BALKRISHNA ACHARYA: It can take three to five years for the cases to be brought to court. It's hard for them to come back to testify after escaping that life.>> SIMA: I feel like I am strong. A lot of other girls were afraid of going to the police. But I went, so I know I am strong.>> MAHESH RUPARELIA: We arranged for weddings last month for these girls. We got these boys from Gujarat, we saw their houses, we saw what they were doing, we were satisfied that the boys can sustain themselves and their wives. The family was told about their past, the family did not have any objection, and they were married, happily. >> BHAVANI: I am constantly aware of how to be happy. You need to move forward and keep yourself in a happy frame of mind. Hopefully, I'll see my parents again soon. That's all.>> TITLE: The Rescue Foundation ww.rescuefoundation.net>> TITLE: www.explore.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-ramana-s-garden <p>Former Hollywood actor Dr. Prabhavati Dwabha came to India to find herself; instead, she found people in need and a new purpose in life. At Ramana's Garden, Dr. Dwabha is working to give a future to children who would otherwise be without one.</p> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:38:19 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-ramana-s-garden India, Education, Ramana's Garden, Prabhavati Dwabha, Rishikesh, Untouchability, Annenberg Foundation, Change Makers, Ramana Maharshi, explore >> TITLE: explore>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: I met this woman the other day, and when I asked her how to describe India, she called it the land of magic. But she said she felt like India was also losing its magic. >> TITLE: Ramana's Garden, Rishikesh, India>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: You had this inspiration to start a school.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA [Founder, Ramana's Garden]: I met these kids and I realized that this is what I wanted to do with my life.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Is the school K through fifth grade?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: K through 10.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: And what do the kids study?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: Everything.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What's the background of the children here?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: You have to either have no parents, or one parent who couldn't in any way take care of you, to live-in. And to come into the school, you have to have parents who earn less than 1,000 rupees justifiably, means through a disability, or you're a beggar, or you're a sweeper, or you're an unskilled laborer.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: So does that kind of parlay into the whole Indian caste system.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: They're all Untouchable.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What is an Untouchable?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: My concept of it is that it was set up originally to make India work. There were teachers, who were the prasads. You had the priests, who were the pandits. And they needed somebody to do the dirty work. So they created a caste called the Untouchables, and it's their born birthright and duty to clean the shit of other people. And, for example, when I started working, I immediately wanted to put lunch in all the schools, I wanted to feed the children. And the villagers opposed me and they said, "We will not let our children eat with those children." And I said, "Why?" And they said, "Because they're Untouchable. They can't eat in the same place, they can't drink from the same tap." I put in water lines to the school, and at night they broke them, because an Untouchable had taken water from it, so it was desecrated.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Is there anything to compare to in the West, this kind of caste system?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: Prejudice. But here it's religiously acceptable. They were branded. And they're no longer branded; what they are is they're denied education. They wind up being the ones that fall through the crack of education, so they become the scab labor. Like this boy: this boy's father works for 40 rupees a day. He has five children. He sold this boy when he was nine years old. We managed to get him back. He sold him because he couldn't feed the others. If you were taught, like these children were, when they were born, that they must be very careful, they must never take water from certain taps, they must never do anything that would make someone else's life or place dirty -- then if no one told you that it wasn't true, you would believe it. And the whole idea of Ramana's Garden is that it's not telling them that it's not true, it's giving them a life that makes them know it's not true. It's giving them a future. Look. This is going to be a multimillion-dollar resort. If we walk over there right now, there are 500 Bihari laborers building that. They're laboring for 40 rupees a day. They're doing that because they're hungry. They're doing that because they don't have an education. Never. Not one of these kids will every carry a brick on their head, they won't have to. Our kids are so well educated, and they speak perfect English. And when they come out of our school, no one would ever dare to believe they're Untouchable. That's what Ramana's is all about: making sure that every one of these kids will be able to go to university, every one of them. This little girl, living under a piece of plastic on the bridge, you know? She lives under plastic. Several of these kids do. They come here and go to school, and so from us they get their lunch every day, they get their clothes, they get their books. They get everything free, otherwise they would be in the street, begging. And if you beg in the street from this age, what are you going to do when you grow up? You'll either be a thief or a beggar. But she won't have to do that. None of them will. Anrak, what do you want to do?>> ANRAK: I'll be a teacher.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: He wants to be a teacher. His mother breaks rocks, and his father carries them on his head, they build roads.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What do you want to do?>> GIRL: I want to be a doctor.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: You want to be a doctor?>> CHILDREN: Teacher. Pilot.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: So when I ask them, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and they actually are saying their dream -- that's almost unheard of.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: An architect, an artist, a painter, a pilot. A pilot with a difference. If they become a teacher, they'll be a teacher that makes a difference. If they become a doctor, they'll make a difference. It's not about just having a job, it's understanding that we all have to make a difference, in our own little ways, our own little pond. This is our pond.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: We want to feed you.>> CHILDREN: Welcome to Ramana's Garden.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: They will have a future where they can create their own future. Right here and now, they can say, I want to be an engineer, I want to be a doctor, I want to be a teacher, I want to make a difference.>> CHILDREN: This is our kitchen. Where we can get food. >> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: We have our own bakery. The kids bake cookies, croissants. They're learning to make a difference. They're learning that this food makes a difference. They know that people eat here and not in the other restaurants because we make a difference.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: So it's all organic and vegetarian?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: It's all organic, it's all grown by the kids. There's a benefit to grow your food healthy. So we now collaborate with a group that are trying to spread green awareness. They're called Navadania, and they have got over 1,800 farmers that are now willingly growing organic. So we support them. Down in the café right now, you'll find people down there that are saying, "We eat here every day because it's different.">> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Do you have any success stories you can share?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: We have 13 teachers that are Untouchable and are teaching in schools in Delhi, in the high private schools of Dehradun, which is the capital of education of all north India. We have 16 boys that are electricians; two of them have their own electrician company, to do wiring, and bring light into Brahman houses. I like that. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: That must make you feel good.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: Yeah, don't you feel good when your kids do good?>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Yeah. It's really rewarding.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: Yeah. It's nice.>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: It's great.>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: I like it. I love beating the system. I was an actress, living and working in Hollywood. I came to Pune, as a seeker. >> TITLE: Ganga (Ganges) River>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: I lived in an ashram for 18 years, and wound up in Lucknow, with the oldest and strongest disciple of Ramana Maharshi, which is why this is called Ramana's Garden. And he brought me here to Ganga, on a pilgrimage, and took me to a place that's seven kilometers upriver, which was a broken, decaying, the roof-falling-in old ashram, and there was a cave there where he'd spent a lot of time, and he told me that I needed to stay there in silence and [meditate]. And I started meeting kids, and basically kids were just coming because they were curious -- this crazy white lady in a cave by the bank of the Ganga. And you know, they didn't have any buttons. That was the first thing that struck me: none of them had a button on their shirt, and a lot of them would have the whole sleeve hanging off. So we started sewing buttons. And then we started making numbers, and then we started learning to write our name, and first there were five and then there were 10 and then there were 20. It's not like I came here and said I'm going to be a social worker and I'm going to change anything. I was trying to change myself. I started to feel totally helpless. Like, so many kids came, and so many villages needed help. And I had very little money left, and so I decided I had to leave. It was too big for me. I can't do this. And if I can't make a difference, I don't want to be here. I've seen something living here, these kids have touched me. If I can't make something change, then I shouldn't be here. I should do something else. So I was actually going to leave, and had come down from the cave to make those arrangements to leave. And Ganga rose; she rose double or triple her height. And while I was away, she rose and she took everything I owned in the world. The cave was gone when I came home. And I came back and all the kids were there to meet me, and they were so excited. And they were jumping up and down and shouting, "Ghate! Ghate!" ["Loss! Loss!"] And I started saying, "Ghate, ghate," because I thought it was some new greeting. And then all of a sudden I see that where my whole life, where my whole identity, where everything I thought I was, is a wave of water. It's gone. And in that moment, villagers start arriving, and they keep telling me, "Chinta mat karo," and I don't know what that means either, and it's, "Don't worry. Everything's going to be fine." And they build me a little structure. And they brought food, they brought a string bed, they brought a mattress, they brought carpets, they brought buttermilk. And there's 70 of us in there in a space this big. I looked at these people, and I realized: I'm not going to leave. They're giving everything they have, and asking zero in return. Their only concern that night was that it wasn't enough. It was all they had and they wanted to give more, and I'm going to pack and run?>> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: What is the message of the Ganga?>> DR. PRABHAVATI DWABHA: Every moment will be new. Embrace it. If you hang onto anything, you'll suffer. The essence is with the river. The essence is in the eyes of the kids. That essence, it's still here. Magic is still here.>> TITLE: With the support of the Annenberg Foundation, explore has made funding possible to: Ramana's Garden. To learn more: www.sayyesnow.org www.friendsramanasgarden.org>> TITLE: explore.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-fighting-hiv <p>The battle against HIV presents unique challenges in different cultures around the world. In India, Dr. Suniti Solomon and her team at the YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education are working hard to change attitudes and slow the spread of the disease.</p> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:38:19 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-fighting-hiv HIV, India, Dr. Suniti Solomon, HIV positive people, YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Antiretroviral drug, Sexual intercourse, Annenberg Foundation, Global Fund, explore >> TITLE: explore >> DR. SUNITI SOLOMON [Founder and Director, YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education]: I was working for the government for 22 years, and I couldn't do what I wanted. I used to see young people coming up to me for counseling. I said, "I need to talk." And the government said, "Your job is in the laboratory." So I quit, and I started the center with three people, two little rooms, and a kitchen for my laboratory. At one point of time, I think it was '97, I didn't have money to pay salaries for my staff. So I said, "We need to close down now." So I called my staff and I said, "I don't have money. You want to stay, stay with me; leave if you want." They said, "Pay us when you get money, but we are staying." I haven't had that same problem again; we are managing to run the show. Today, I have 200 people working for me; I have this building with three floors; I have a laboratory, which is 4,000 square feet. I used to see one new patient a week, today I see minimum 15 new patients a day. It's mostly word of mouth. One patient comes here; they go back and tell the others, "Look, I went there. I got the best of treatment. They've got good attitudes, they tell you what to do, they spend a lot of time with you. The doctors are good." And then when we started prevention, people said, "I need to go for a test, where do I go?" So we started a counseling center. "Where do I go for care?" We didn't have a place, except the government center where the attitudes were very bad. So I started day care. And then I need to admit, because people were getting sick, so I took two rooms in a lodge. And put "please do not disturb" outside, and we used to treat the patient inside. Then a lady who was going away to Canada gave me her house, which had three bedrooms. So we put six beds in there. And then I found this block, which was used for patients with leprosy, and was locked for the last 10 years. So then I asked the management, "Can I take this building?" and they said, "No, it's dilapidated, it'll fall." And then I beg, borrow, steal money to make this floor for administration. Today, more than 11,000 patients have been taken care of here. We have 20 beds, we have an intensive care unit, because the President of the Indian Network of Positive People, Ashok Pillai, was a patient. >> TITLE: Ashok Pillai (1968-2002)>> DR. SUNITI SOLOMON: He died in front of my eyes, with fits for four hours. And I needed a ventilator, and nobody would give me one. We couldn't sedate him more, and he died. And that day we decided, and within six months I got an ICU up here, with two beds. And we are able to save a number of lives. So it's been a struggle, but I think it's very rewarding. At the end of the day, you can sleep well. Martin has been with me from 1987. He's been with me for now 20 years. And here we draw blood. I don't think you find this anywhere else in India. You know, all these Vacutainers. We use only Vacutainers. India is a country with culture, religion, and so we thought we are quite safe. But, unfortunately, 85 percent of infections in India is spread through sex. Unprotected, penetrative sex. Because in India, men can do what they want. They have the freedom to have multiple partners, nobody will ask. Today I see software engineers, doctors, chartered accountants, industrialists, businessmen -- it has cut across all these -- because they feel, "I didn't go to a sex worker, so how will I pick up the virus? I went to my friends, or my secretary, or my classmates. So they are safe." Eighty percent of women we are taking care of -- roughly about 4,000 women -- 80 percent have a single partner that's their husband. We need to change behavior, and we know it's so difficult to change behavior. Now we are going down to the outpatient level. This is our Global Fund place, right? And that's Sangita and Pahal. Okay, and this is our outpatient: there are no patients here now, but ... okay, come. These are two of our counselors. They've finished the job for the day, right? That's Mobeen and ...>> ARCHANA [Counselor]: Archana.>> DR. SUNITI SOLOMON: Archana. Now tell them, whom did you counsel?>> MOBEEN: We just saw a male who came in for testing. But he was very much scared about his status. But after he got his report -- it was ... he was tested negative -- he was more worried about what others would have thought about him than actual the result itself.>> DR. SUNITI SOLOMON: Now, we have started doing testing free for everybody, because I think unless you really do free testing, people will not come in. And we find our walk-in is just doubling because of free testing. Now we also have a number of projects which are helping. For example, AIDS Project Los Angeles gives three drugs to 100 families, free testing for them, free monitoring for them. We have at least seven major projects. So I think we are trying to do what Robin Hood did. We steal from the rich and give it to the poor. This is Narayan, very well-trained pharmacist. And this is our pharmacy. This is three-in-one tablets: 840 rupees. This is one month's supply. It's about USD$800 in U.S.; it costs us 840 rupees, or USD$20. When we started treating people we had to give about 20 tablets a day. This is a new one, which has just come into India. It's just one tablet a day. So it's easier for compliance, or adherence. In U.S., this will cost you USD$700. Today, the whole scene is different. When somebody comes up, I say, "We have drugs today." Today, HIV is like a chronic disease. We can treat you. You will have a good quality of life for the next 10-15 years. But, unfortunately, in India, there's not even 100,000 people on antiretroviral drugs today. And we are talking of about 5 million who may need the drug, out of the 10 million who are infected. When we started, it was, I would say, 90 percent men, 10 percent women. Because women in India are getting the infection much later than the men. I mean, the ones whom we see here. So ... but today, there's roughly about 60 percent men, 40 percent women. So there are a lot of problems. So the girls don't get all the treatment the boys get. And she's the one who gets all the pressure, all the blows, if you want to call [it], in the family. But still, she has to keep a smiling face, and manage the show. In our center, when women come, either it's the man who comes and gets tested, and then he says, "I'm married." So we tell them, "Bring your wife." "No, no, no, she doesn't need." "She needs as much care as you need. Bring her, otherwise we are not going to treat you." So we literally push the man to bring his wife in. That's how we test the woman, and then do couple counseling. We did a trial for HIV phase-one vaccine here, and to get 32 volunteers, we had to talk to more than 3,000 people to come forward. That's because of the stigma attached to HIV; they don't want even to participate in a vaccine against HIV. If the priest, a Hindu priest, comes and says, "It's okay, that's alright, there's no problem being HIV positive," you know, the stigma attached to HIV will disappear in India. When the virus was first detected in the U.S., it was among gay community, among drug-users, and sex workers. So we knew that it was among a marginalized community. When we detected it in India, it was sex workers. So, naturally, all the stigma to this disease is because it was in this group of people. I always tell people who participate in my programs: If only we had detected HIV for the first time in a baby, things may have been different. There may not have been today the stigma we have for this disease.>> TITLE: To learn more: www.yrgcare.org>> TITLE: explore.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-oasis-of-peace <p>Problems arise when people simply do not understand one another. At the community school in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam&mdash;named in both Hebrew and Arabic&mdash;children learn both languages at a very young age, thus cultivating a spirit of communication and mutual understanding. The village is a true rarity, as Jews and Palestinian Arabs live together in cooperation and respect.</p> Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:31:54 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-oasis-of-peace Education, Israel, Primary school, Neve Shalom – Wāħat as-Salām, Arabic language, Middle East, Annenberg Foundation, explore, Hebrew, Arab people >> TITLE: explore.org >> TITLE: explore went on a philanthropic fact-finding mission to Israel and found an oasis where language is a bridge between Arabs and Jews. >> TITLE: Oasis of Peace >> SIGN: Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam Guest House >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN [Founder, explore]: What a great opportunity to be here at this school, where the whole concept is to bring people together in the name of peace. The Arab, the Jew, together as children, where they can work alongside one another, and create the roots for a future. So it'll be interesting -- be interesting to see if the school works. I began my tour with Ety Edlund, a teacher and co-founder of the school of Neve Shalom. She explained the importance of communication and dialogue between cultures. What are they doing right now, anyways? Is this like ... ? >> ETY EDLUND [teacher and co-founder, Neve Shalom school]: They are a group learning more to communicate, to understand. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: So, is this ... ? >> ETY EDLUND: This is Arabic. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: This is Arabic. >> ETY EDLUND: They learn, the first grade learns how to read and write. So they learn both Hebrew and Arabic. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Okay. So the Hebrew and the Arabic, and then they learn both. >> ETY EDLUND: Yes, they learn both. They learn the two languages from the beginning. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: That's interesting, that's great. That makes so much sense. So simple, you know? Because it helps build bridges, people just communicate. It's so important, the fundamental building blocks of dialogue to create relationship and understanding. >> ETY EDLUND: I think that behind language, you have mentality, you have culture, you have tradition. These are the important issues, because if you get to learn the other side, you get to learn and to be less suspecting, less with prejudice, less ... more receptible of things. Because when you are in a Jewish school or in an Arab school, they learn only the side of the Jewish or the side of the Arab. They don't learn about the other side. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: So what is the side of the Jewish? If you're at a Jewish school, what is the side? What would they teach you? >> ETY EDLUND: "I'm Jewish, I have the right to live here, this is my promised land." But in my school, in my teachings, when I am teaching about Abraham, that he received a promise from God to have this place, I ask the children, "Who are Abraham's children?" And he has two, Isaac and Ishmael. >> TITLE: Ishmael and Isaac are half brothers. >> ETY EDLUND: The Arabs think that it is a promised land for them also. I don't tell them, "No, think Isaac, he is the important," or, "Think Ishmael is the important." I just expose questions. >> TITLE: Ishmael was conceived by Hagar, and Isaac by Sarah. >> TITLE: Ishmael and Isaac would both become the fathers of great nations. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: I had the opportunity to see the outcome of this remarkable program when I met a graduate, Noam Shuster, a living testament to the transformative power of learning and understanding. So, do you feel like the school is really helping build bridges, that people are learning to understand how they're all the same at the end of the day? >> NOAM SHUSTER [Neve Shalom graduate]: Yeah, you know, the first thing is it is equal and it's bilingual and I think a language is a bridge. There isn't one dominant language; everything is equal. When I opened my notebook in the primary school, I wrote the date in Hebrew and in Arabic, and it was the most natural thing. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: I was raised in a generation where languages weren't really emphasized. But, as you travel, it's such a big issue just in California, you know, being bilingual, at least speaking Spanish. And a lot of people are like, "No, no, no, you must speak English," and that issue is going to be so prevalent in America's future, the ability to communicate. Because that's how you understand one another, it's opening the gates. The fact that they're emphasizing the bilingual, suddenly by being able to talk, you're like, "Hey, we're the same." It's so simple. >> NOAM SHUSTER: Yeah, and Neve Shalom is a very good example of it. >> WEINGARTEN VOICEOVER: We ended our day at this oasis of peace, speaking the universal language of football. >> TITLE: explore.org: never stop learning >> TITLE: With the support of the Annenberg Foundation, explore has made funding possible to: Neve Shalom - Wahat al-Salam. To learn more: www.nwas.org >> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-hebron <p>In Hebron, human rights organization B'Tselem is giving children video cameras to document their daily lives, hoping that it will lessen violence between Palestinians and Jews.</p> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:06 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-hebron B'Tselem, Oren Yakobovich, West Bank, Israeli-occupied territories, Hebron, Israeli settlement, Israel, Second Intifada, Israel Defense Forces, Charles Annenberg Weingarten >> TITLE: explore >> TITLE: explore went on a philanthropic fact-finding mission to Hebron to observe the state of human rights in this contentious city. >> TITLE: Hebron >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN [Founder, explore]: We were invited to tour the city of Hebron, in the West Bank, by a human rights organization known as B'Tselem. Our guide in Hebron was Oren Yakobovich. Once an officer in the Israeli army, Oren was so affected by the situation in the West Bank that he joined B'Tselem. He brought us to Hebron to show us just how bad things have gotten. Following the Second Intifada, which started in 2000, the Israeli army had kept a constant force here, and restricted movement of Arab residents. >> TITLE: Intifada is an Arabic word for "uprising." It literally means "shaking off." >> OREN YAKOBOVICH [Director of Video, B'Tselem]: All right, you see we're walking now where the Palestinians can walk. Here, the Palestinians can walk. And then they have to take a left. And they have a certain gate. And it's not that it's open from here out. It's just one certain point that they go through and go back to H1, to where the rest of the Palestinians are living. >> TITLE: Hebron has been divided into two areas: H1 and H2. >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: You see all these houses around? You see how everything is closed? So you can see easily that there is hardly any life here. >> TITLE: The restriction of movement is so great that most Palestinians have left the H2 area. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: The abandoned area is now being settled by what many call extremist Jews, who claim the land was stolen from them after the horrific massacre of 67 Jews in 1929. >> SIGN: These buildings were constructed on land purchased by the Hebron Jewish community in 1807. This land was stolen by Arabs following the murder of 67 Hebron Jews in 1929. We demand justice! Return our property to us! -- The Jewish Community of Hebron. >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: You see the same system running all over the West Bank. You see separation of the population, you see restriction of movement. >> TITLE: You must be at least 13 years old to be charged with a criminal act in Israel. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: It's so weird. >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: And they're running free! >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: I know, it's so bizarre. These kids are going through like it's just normal, you know? >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: You know, the kids here are part of the game and part of the war. Because if you are a child and you're below 13, you cannot, they cannot charge you with a criminal act. So what they're doing, the father and the mother will say, "Go!" And they send them. The children will attack me. >> MAN: They attack you? >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: Yeah. But the kids, you cannot do anything about them. So, you know you're filming and suddenly you're getting hit on the ass or on the leg or on the stomach, and you see kids. That's who are hitting you. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: The sad part is what you realize is ... so the kids already at such a young age are being bred into believing this is the way of life. The situation has grown particularly difficult in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron, where a Jewish settlement lies across the street from the last Muslim home in the area. Notice the caged house. The Abu 'Ayesha family lives caged in their own home to protect themselves from the frequent harassment from the settlers across the street. We were fortunate enough to be invited in for tea, to hear the Abu 'Ayesha story, and about the program developed by B'Tselem to help the situation. >> MAN: God and our beloved prophet Muhammad taught us to accommodate our neighbors. He did not ask the neighbor if they were Muslim or Jewish or Christian. He made room for his neighbors and helped them. We are supposed to help the neighbors and generally take care of them. I have grapes, peaches, and cucumbers in my orchards and I used to bring them home and would always share some with them. With these settlers, other Jews would refuse to live with them. They would refuse. An official once asked me: "If there is peace, would you live with the settlers?" And I told him that not even other Jews would live with these settlers. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Tell me, how did you come up with this program, "Shooting Back"? >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: At B'Tselem, a vision, or the idea that we are trying to create, we're trying to bring stories from the West Bank, from human rights violations to the media. To evoke for the improvement of human rights. And one day me and Karim were driving here, and Karim told me, this family here, they've got to have a camera, because they are getting so much hassle here. Because they're just, you know, a few meters from the settlement and they're getting so much problems, and stones been thrown on them, and they cannot walk in the streets. They had no proof. They had no proof. They know I have to prove it because everybody's saying, "No, no, no, it's not possible, it's not happening," and nobody saw it. And then we gave a camera to the family here, taught them how to film with the camera -- a very simple digital camera, it's not that expensive anymore. You know, you can give them away, you don't have to be a professional, you're getting a good shot. We gave the children the camera and I told them, "Just shoot your life. Just shoot what's happening with you," you know? And then once in a while we come here and we see what they're shooting, and we get a massive footage, documenting what's happening with them. One of the famous ones was a clip, a one-minute clip, a girl from the family, she's 16, was filming, when settlers from here tried to lock her in the room here. >> WOMAN: Close the door. >> VOICE: Stay out of this! >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: She's come here and tried to close the door, and they're shouting at her that she's a whore, she's a whore. >> WOMAN: Whore! Whore! >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: And I got back this footage by mistake. I came a few days after because of something else, I got the footage, I saw it, and sometimes the family even don't realize how extreme their life is. People who are living at these checkpoints near the wall, near ... in refugee camps, they're suffering from the invasion of the army on a daily basis, not realizing how difficult their life is. And people never saw how they're living, because usually when the filming crew comes, or when the news channels will come, it will never be the same. Things will change. Everybody will act and behave differently. And with the camera, when they have the camera, and they have their own life and they can document ... we have footage at night where soldiers are shouting and singing to them from here, we have footage of stones being thrown at the family, cursing at the family. It's something that only the family can feel. >> MAN: And it's very interesting to know that since we bring the cameras to the family, the violence of the neighbors, the settlers, became down. >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: Reduced. Went down. >> MAN: Because they are afraid from these cameras and the things which they produce, the children of the family. >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: Well, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, you know, children are innocent. That's what's so sad about this whole thing, actually. It's like sweet kids right here. It's unbelievable. And they'll be fueled with hatred, in no time. But when you hand a child a camera, he's not going to try to manipulate anyone. It's just, like you said, he's just playing, and showing his life. I mean, there's no angle. I'm not trying to say anything's right or wrong, it's just what is. And so, wow, so you've been using a video camera, basically, as a first line of defense. >> OREN YAKOBOVICH: Exactly. We called this project Shooting Back, because there is only weapons. The Palestinians can fight, and in the end, I think, we'll achieve something. >> TITLE: explore.org >> TITLE: With the support of the Annenberg Foundation, explore has made funding possible to: B'Tselem. For more information: www.btselem.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-talking-hands <p>Thanks to Brother Andrew de Carpentier, deaf children in Jordan have a place of their own to learn. In addition to academic and vocational training, the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf matches up younger children with older mentors to foster a spirit of self-assurance that helps them grow into confident and independent adults.&nbsp;</p> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:56:26 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-talking-hands Middle East, Education, Brother Andrew de Carpentier, Hearing impairment, Holy Land Institute for the Deaf, Annenberg Foundation, explore, Vocational education, Jordan, Change Makers >> TITLE: explore went on a philanthropic fact-finding mission to Jordan to visit a remarkable home for deaf children. >> TITLE: Talking Hands >> SIGN: The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf >> TITLE: In a world of silence, how would you communicate? How would you connect? >> CHARLES ANNENBERG WEINGARTEN: In Salt, Jordan, we visited the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf, where we met Brother Andrew de Carpentier: a humble man who has dedicated his life to enriching, educating, and enabling the lives of deaf children. >> BROTHER ANDREW DE CARPENTIER [Director, Holy Land Institute for the Deaf]: As Helen Keller said, blindness separates you from things, but deafness separates you from people. In the Middle East, the main reason for the prevalence of disability is still intermarriage. We know for example from Jordan that more than 50 percent of marriages are still within the family, within the extended family. And this perpetuates genetic problems if they are there within the family. >> BROTHER ANDREW DE CARPENTIER [translating for girl]: I am studying for my exams. Because tomorrow my exams start. >> BROTHER ANDREW DE CARPENTIER: These are the formal exams for 10th ... which grade are you in? In 8th grade. This is Vadir. Her name in sign language is Vadir, and she is studying for the 12th grade exams. She hopes next year to continue and go to university, right? Inshallah. >> BROTHER ANDREW DE CARPENTIER: The two young ladies we have just now met are sisters. And they are a typical example of the genetic problem that perpetuates itself in the family. If they were to marry within the family, within the tribe, it would be perpetuated. So, for people like them, the advice is: don't marry within that family. Go get new blood, as we say in sign language. We have two full-time staff on 120 children, which is totally impossible if it were not for the senior students. We have a buddy system, so all the older girls -- also upstairs the older boys -- they have a young one to look after. It gives a sense of responsibility to the young people themselves. This responsibility will grow over time so that they will be ready for the outside world. The lack of resources that are available, in a way, compel us to run the place like this, but on the other hand, we have seen enormous intrinsic value because people do learn to take responsibility. And in that sense the deafness, the disadvantage of deafness, has become an advantage in terms of development and learning. And perhaps this is something that the deaf world can contribute to the hearing world around them. So all the students do vocational training from 7th grade until 10th grade. And both boys and girls, I always say, if ... certificates you can't eat. So, if you get stuck in life, you can go back to a trade and work with your hands, then this is gain. So they pick a certain trade; we have seven or eight trades here. And then they take that training, take it with them in life. This is the woodwork. Eighty percent or more of the work goes to the market. And to us as vocational training, as students who learn the skill, to sell the work gives them the dignity of doing real work, and discovering that people appreciate their work, like it, and want to pay for it. We all should have a mission. There is a mission for all of us in this world, and that is to make a contribution. To make it more livable. To learn to respect its message of understanding and reconciliation and love and care and being here together for a purpose, put here by the almighty. >> TITLE: explore.org >> VOICEOVER: Never stop learning. >> TITLE: With the support of the Annenberg Foundation, explore has made funding possible to: The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf. >> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-dr-dog <p>Education and personal growth can come in many forms. The Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation brings dogs into schools to help children break through their shyness, especially the developmentally challenged. Children with ADD, autism, and other developmental disabilities improve their speaking and social skills with the help of the program.&nbsp;</p> Sat, 29 May 2010 00:34:28 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/explore-dr-dog C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, Animals Asia Foundation, Nanditha Krishna, Animal-assisted therapy, Learning disability, Annenberg Foundation, India, Charles Annenberg Weingarten, Doctor Dog, Chennai >> DR. NANDITHA KRISHNA [Director, C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation]: I'm Nanditha Krishna. I'm the director of the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation. The Foundation has set up many institutes, such as the C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre, the C.P.R. Institute of Hindulogical Research, C.P. Art Centre, and the Saraswathi Kendra Learning Centre for Children with dyslexia, autism, learning disabilities, ADD, and so on. Dr. Dog is a program that was really started in Hong Kong by Animals Asia Foundation. In Chennai there are about 20 dogs in the program. They go to different schools. Some of the schools are for the retarded children with Down's syndrome and so on. We found that it was very good at making children speak. >> YOUTH: His name is Mikey. Yes, Mi-key. M-I-K-E-Y. >> YOUTH: I have a dog. It's a boxer. Its name is Bruno. Very friendly. Loves to play with people. My pastime is, you know, spending time with them. >> DR. NANDITHA KRISHNA: Dogs are not threatening. The child feels superior, and there's no pressure on the child, whereas when the parents say "do this," or the teacher tries to teach -- in the kindest way possible -- that is still too much pressure on the child. Talk to Jawal. Ask her, ask her what she ate for breakfast. >> YOUTH: What did you eat? Jawal, what did you eat? >> DR. NANDITHA KRISHNA: Whereas here he's talking to another being who cannot talk at all. >> YOUTH: Yeah, dogs are so friendly. >> YOUTH: It's a golden retriever, what I've got at home. >> DR. NANDITA KRISHNA: It is so much easier when there is a dog and they are able to talk. >> YOUTH: If you love to be with dogs, it's not hard at all. >> YOUTH: I take him for walks every day. >> DR. NANDITA KRISHNA: We just saw a case of a young boy who could barely speak, and who brought out one sentence, to tell the dog to give him a kiss. >> YOUTH: Good to have a dog. It's fun. >> TITLE: www.bluecross.org.in >> TITLE: www.explore.org