http://viewchange.org Videos from ViewChange.org (Filtered by topics: Gender) 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/where-the-water-meets-the-sky Written by Jordan Roberts (March of the Penguins) and narrated by Academy Award&reg;-winner Morgan Freeman, Where the Water Meets the Sky tells the inspiring story of a group of women in a remote region of Northern Zambia who achieve the unimaginable: they learn how to make a film as a way to speak out about their lives, raising an issue that no one will discuss - the plight of young women orphaned by AIDS. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:23:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/where-the-water-meets-the-sky Zambia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Gender, Samfya, AIDS, Africa, Technology, AIDS orphan, Lake Bangweulu, HIV >> VOICEOVER: In a remote region in northern Zambia, deep in the Congo River Basin, is a lake with a perfect name. In the local language, they call this place "Bangweulu", which means, "Where the water meets the sky." Built along the shores of this lake is the town of Samfya. Home to mostly fishermen and their families, it is one of the poorest places in the country. Abibata Mahama and Dominique Chadwick are filmmakers and teachers, and this is their first time in Zambia. And they're traveling the 300 miles from the capital to find some new students. Their goal is simple - to bring together a group of women and girls and ask them to speak out about their lives. But they won't just be talking with each other. If the project succeeds, a group of women from Samfya will be heard by their entire community. And they'll be sharing their views in an altogether different way, using a tool that most here have never seen before. >> TITLE: Where the Water Meets the Sky >> ABIBATA MAHAMA [Project Co-Director]: When we got to Samfya, in northern Zambia, we decided to get a group of women and girls together from different backgrounds. >> VOICEOVER: The search for their new filmmaking students begins at a local high school. Here, the head teacher has found seven young women keen to join up. Their next stop is the Samfya market, where fresh fish and local produce are sold daily, mostly by women whose average income is less than a dollar a day. Here, they find two young women selling vegetables who agree to take part. Their final stop is a fishing camp on the edge of town, the poorest area in Samfya. The people here live in straw huts without electricity or running water. Very few have ever attended school, and most cannot read or write. At first, the women seem reluctant. But with a little encouragement from Mabel, the project coordinator, here too they have success. >> MAN: They're saying, "We've just come for the women", so we asked, "What about the men?" And they said, "No, no men, it's just for women." So we said, "Things will be difficult for us, looking after the children, washing, cooking for ourselves." But we're allowing them to go ahead and do their work. >> MABEL [Project Coordinator]: This Agnes, this is Anna, this is Lillian, then she is Beatrice, she is Anastasia, this is...I've forgotten your name. Doreen, okay, and this is Royda. So we have about seven from the fishing camp. Don't worry; we'll bring them back later today. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK [Project Co-Director]: I'm Dominique, and I work together with Abibata to run some training for women. We're going to teach you how to use a camera so you can make films that will tell your stories. Once you make a film, produce a film, you can show it to your family, then to your community, to your village, to the other communities in Zambia, and then to the outside world as well. This thing is a microphone, and it takes the sounds, what you hear. >> VOICEOVER: Only half the population of Samfya has electricity, there are no cinemas, and few people own televisions. Although most of the women in the group have never seen a camera or a microphone before, in just three weeks they will produce a film to show the people of Samfya. >> MWELWA [Project Coordinator]: This thing you see here, it records the sound. For example, what I'm saying now, this thing can capture it. >> ABIGAIL [Student]: In the beginning, I was scared of holding these things. I was even scared of getting close to them. But now I have learned they are not difficult to use. And I'm ready to work with them. My life has been like this: I was born in a rich family. But my father wasn't looking after my mother, so we decided to leave our village and went to live with my aunt. I noticed my mother started changing. Every now and again she would go into hospital. So, then in 1995, I think I was in grade two, my mother's illness got worse. So I said, "What are we going to do?" She said, "We'll just leave it alone and God will look after us." My grandfather said, "Daughter, your illness is getting worse. Please bring Abby so she can start living here." So that's how I went to live in Mabumba. One year went by. In 1997, we got a letter saying that my mother had passed away in Lubwe hospital. So I said to myself, "Now that my mother has died, what am I going to do?" And so I left the house and I went to the bush, where I stayed for two days. While I was there, I just cried. >> WOMAN: Through our suffering, we've looked after her. Whatever we had to eat, we shared with her. Whatever we had, we gave her, to make sure she grew up well. I want her to live well and be settled in life, to take care of herself and be independent. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: So you position them and make sure that the camera doesn't face the sun. So put them somewhere, maybe there. >> BRIDGET [Student]: The thing that pleased me the most was how to use the camera for filming. I never knew how to use a camera. I would see people filming and just admire from afar. They would be showing off, not letting anyone touch it. Now I'm happy because I have learned how to use a camera. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Who else wants to take the camera, and what else does the person want to do? >> ANASTASIA: I want someone to go over there and talk. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Okay, so press the red. Ask her to press the red button. Good. You see that is dark, because they are in the shade. >> VOICEOVER: After their first introduction to the cameras, the group must now turn their attention to themselves. The women are encouraged to open up about their lives here in Samfya. >> MWELWA: Let's talk about issues for our film that could make a big impact. After we make the film we'll take it to the villages. It will bring a message and help teach people. Can you see us doing this? >> MWELWA: It was difficult for some of the women in the group, because they had never shared their life stories with anyone. In our Bemba tradition, from the time one is born, it is customary for women not to speak their minds in front of men. Women are not given the opportunity to speak out about their problems, or other things that affect people's lives in the villages, so they're not used to speaking out for themselves. >> MABEL: Ladies, we've come together to talk about the hardships we're going through. The problems that we go through, ladies, are many. We have to talk about them. So now is the time to be open. We don't get opportunities like this everyday. >> LYRIEN [Student]: I really wanted to go to school but my father died early, and there were ten of us, but my mother couldn't look after all of us so we were forced to get married early. All we have found in our marriages is suffering. >> AGNES [Student]: With AIDS you could be a married woman, sitting at home being faithful, while your husband sleeps around and brings you the illness. >> FRIEDA [Student]: What can we do so that this disease goes away? Children are suffering because their parents have brought this disease. What can we do to reduce the impact of parents dying from AIDS? Had it not been for the parents bringing in the illness, they wouldn't need to turn to prostitution and we wouldn't see our communities filled with orphans. >> FRIEDA: Because women here don't talk about the problems we're faced with, we've been held back. But if we spoke out about the problems we're faced with, it would lead to progress for the women in our society. I am happy to be a member of this group of women, because this group is helping us to talk to each other and to share ideas and explain the problems we are facing. It brings me a great deal of concern, this disease of AIDS. The reason I'm talking about this is because it's gripped my heart. If I were to die of AIDS, what would happen to my children? Will they be like those children of other dead parents who have to struggle with all sorts of problems and maybe become street kids because they don't have anyone to help them? All of these are challenges. >> VOICEOVER: It's their second day. The women must now focus on their film and decide which story it will tell. >> MWELWA: Now we should talk and tell each other stories, things that have happened to you, your family, or your friends. From all of these stories, we will choose one story that will suit us best. >> LYRIEN: In grade three, I was only allowed to stay for half the year. Then I was told, "You will no longer be going to school. You always come back late from school and it doesn't leave enough time for you to work at home." >> WOMAN: I left the village and came to my sister's place here in Samfya. I've been trying to earn money by selling fish but it has not been easy. >> VOICEOVER: As the women share stories from their lives, one story emerges which strikes a chord with them all. >> JOSEPHINE [Student]: My friend was born into a very happy and rich family, whereby the parents were able to support her with everything she needs at school. Just as she reached grade five, her parents died of AIDS. >> VOICEOVER: The story of Josephine's friend Penelope brings up an issue familiar to every member of the group: the plight of young women orphaned by AIDS. But in a community where AIDS is rarely spoken about in public, no one knows if Penelope will be willing to talk about her experience, especially in front of a camera. Penelope is a student at a local high school. The group asks Mabel, the project coordinator, to try and find her. >> MABEL: So are you okay with being open and telling your story? >> PENELOPE [Student]: Let me tell my friends to look after my books. >> MABEL: You don't need to be afraid; you can be open with them. You can explain everything. Are you ready? >> PENELOPE: My name is Penelope. I was born into a rich family. My parents died a long time ago, when I was in grade five. When I joined this group, I explained everything that had happened to me. I came from a great family. My father was a miner. He became ill when I was eight years old, and then he died. One year passed, and then my mother died. Before she died, she explained that she too was going to die. She said, "Your father's death certificate says he died of AIDS, so I'm also going to die of AIDS." She died when I was ten. After my mom died, we didn't have a source of food, so my older sister started taking what was left in the house and exchanged it for food. After everything in the house was sold, she started sleeping with men who would provide us with food. After that, my sister also became sick and died. When my sister died, my aunty came to get us to go and live with her in a fishing camp. >> PENELOPE: My uncle would go fishing, and when he came back, we had to take the fish to the market. >> VOICEOVER: With Penelope now a member of the group, filming can soon begin. Their film will raise issues that affect them all. >> FRIEDA: Penelope's story is similar to mine because when she lost her father they grabbed all the property and left them with nothing. That's the same thing that happened to me. >> BRIDGET: I was seven years old when my father died. My father's family came and took everything. Everything. So when I heard what had happened to Penelope, I felt really bad, and I thought, "I'm not the only one this has happened to." >> ABIGAIL: I know that many of us here in this group have lost both parents to AIDS. Both my parents are gone. Victoria lost her parents; Josephine's lost her parents. Bridget lost her father and Exildah lost her parents too. >> MWELWA: The way I see it, it's not easy for Penelope to reveal how her parents died of AIDS. But our friend is courageous enough to stand in front of our group and is prepared to share her story. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: We asked you to think about somebody who is between twelve and thirteen years who looks like Penelope. Can you see their faces? Do they look alike? This is Cindy, and in their drama Cindy is going to act Penelope when Penelope was between twelve and thirteen. >> PENELOPE: So you will act the part when my parents died from AIDS. You take your bags and go live in the fishing camp. There you will catch fish with your aunt. So you will act these parts and I will follow up when I'm older. >> CINDY [Actress]: Now is this a true story? >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: Yes, it's her story. I think you look enough alike. Thank you, that'll be great. >> VOICEOVER: The filming of Penelope's story begins, and they're heading to the fishing camp, home to some of the women from the group. Their camp is a perfect setting for a scene from Penelope's life. After her parents died she went to live with her aunt in a camp much like this one. >> MABEL: Hello, nice to see you again. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: How did you collect this, with your hands? >> PENELOPE: With my hands. You will start throwing them there. After finishing sweeping, she could be throwing them there. >> LYRIEN: Action! >> MABEL: Make sure you don't cut off her head. Point up, point up. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Because the person whose story is being told is around, we make sure that she checks because it is her story. She owns the story, so she checks to make sure that everything that is being said is authentic. >> PENELOPE: I've even explained to my brother that, well, he should look so sad to show that life has changed. You have moved into a community - to a fishing camp - so life has changed. So you have to show sadness. They have done very well, they have done very well. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: So you must tell them. You must say thanks. >> PENELOPE: Thank you, you've done great work. >> TITLE: Agnes >> AGNES: Today was really great because I took my first photograph. I was really happy that I could learn to zoom in and out, what to press, how to open the lens in front, and how to switch it on. That made me really happy. I asked them to show my husband what I had filmed, and they showed him, and he said, "Wow, did she do that?" And they told him, "Yes". He said, "She has learned," and I felt really good. Penelope's story is similar to mine. The death of her parents reminded me of when my dad died. I really wanted to go to school, but my mother was alone and couldn't send me. For Penelope as well, she didn't have support to go to school, so her story touched me. There are lots of problems here, like buying clothes and blankets for my children, and now one should be in school, but she can't and this hurts me. We had her registered and she wants to start school, but we can't afford a uniform. At school they don't take children unless they have a uniform. I wish all the children here could go to school. It would be good if they could work in offices. We won't have the chance, but they should. They should progress in life. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: So what do you do when the camera is not straight? You just undo that and you hold the camera. >> MAKUKA: Oh baby! She doesn't want her mommy off having fun. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: Is that your baby? >> MAKUKA: Yeah, yeah. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: You go and feed him, feed her. Who wants to do camera? >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: People settle on different things. Some people will automatically say that, "I want to be on the camera." Somebody will say, "I want to be the sound person"; "I want to be the director." So they don't all go for one thing. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: When you think it's ready, you say, "Action," quite loud. >> MAKUKA: Action! >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Take control. >> ELIZABETH [Student]: No! >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Director, take control. Find out whether your sound is okay, your camera's okay. >> MAKUKA: Are we recording? >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Please go back. Then you ask your cameraperson to roll before you say "Action". >> MAKUKA: Oh, I thought it was just a try. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: No, no. We are going for a take now. >> MAKUKA: We are recording. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Okay, okay. So ask everybody to stand by. >> MAKUKA: Be on standby, please! Action! >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: I can see that they are progressing, and they are happy, and they are eager. They are using technology to tell their own story, and they're really happy about it. I'm very optimistic that at the end of the day they will have a very good story that they will be proud of. And we will also be proud of them. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: Shout, "Cut!" >> MAKUKA: Cut! >> ELIZABETH: That's what we want! >> VOICEOVER: The next location is the Samfya market, a challenging place for filmmakers, especially for those with only a few days' experience. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: Directors, once the camera is recording, you people shouldn't be talking. When you go back and you play, you see that all your noise will be there. And when you are actually filming, you don't need that. So once she says, "Sound ready. Camera ready. The actor is ready" and you say, "Record. Action", all the crewmembers should stop talking. And the one controlling the crowd, if there's somebody making unnecessary noise, you go and drive those people away. >> VOICEOVER: After moving in with her aunt, Penelope had no choice but to leave school and sell fish in the market. But she would earn very little money. By this time, her situation had become desperate. >> PENELOPE: At the market, I would bump into my friends who were also orphans. They said, "You are wasting your time here at the market." I saw how well they looked and I thought I could join them. I thought maybe if I go into the same work as my friends it might help me. But my friends hadn't told me what work they were doing. That's when they showed me the house and said, "This is where you should come." I became a prostitute when I was 14 years old. What made me become a prostitute was hunger at home. I didn't want to be a prostitute, but the hardship had become extreme so I did what my friends were doing. The men didn't treat me very well. When I said, "Let's use a condom," they would be very difficult. They would say, "What makes you think you're so special?" When I saw that I wasn't earning enough money with the condoms I could have started doing it without using them, like my friends. Maybe now I would be sick, like my friends. Prostitution is a big problem here in Samfya because there are so many orphans. There's so much AIDS here, it's as if it was born here. When AIDS takes the parents then their children suffer, then they become prostitutes, and if they have children, it will just continue. When people see this film they will see the truth. This gives me the strength to continue with this work. Sometimes I want to stop because what I am acting is difficult, but then I think, "I'm not the only one that this has happened to." There are others who are going through the same situation. Let this film teach them. >> VOICEOVER: With help from Benjamin Chama, the headmaster of a local school, Penelope's ordeal came to an end. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: I've seen so many girls fall into this trap of trying to get money. They go into bars, they will stay in the bars with their friends, they will be abused so much, and they will end up maybe getting HIV/AIDS and it will result in death, most of the time. When I first met Penelope, she was in a group of friends. I think those friends did not really want to have anything to do with me because they knew I was headmaster of a school. But Penelope stopped, I could see that she was quite a polite child and maybe she had just gone wayward because of the influence of the friends. So I offered that she should come back into school, and I could see the radiance in her face. This is a child that was very, very happy! I have in the school, a school of about 1,700 pupils, about 500 orphaned children here. And most of these, you know, it's as a result of HIV and AIDS. As the school head, I have now become a counselor to these children, because I think they need to be given encouragement that they can continue, despite losing their parents. My greatest hope is that every child in this school will finish their education. That will be, I think, I will die a happy man. >> STUDENTS: [Singing] Stand and sing of Zambia, proud and free, land of work and joy in unity. Victors in the struggle for their rights. We've won freedom's fight. All one, strong and free. >> VOICEOVER: With only a few days left before they show their film to the people of Samfya, the women double their efforts to finish on time. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: It's really amazing - you see that in the first place, they are coming from different backgrounds. They don't know the people they are coming to work with. But once you bring them together, then there's a kind of unity, a kind of force among them. The women we bring together, they have to believe and trust that we can guide them to come out with a film at the end of the day. >> JOSEPHINE: Action! >> PENELOPE: How are you? >> MAN: What are you doing? Don't you know that prostitution can lead to HIV? >> CHRISTINE: Is this one your brother? >> PENELOPE: He's my brother. >> CHRISTINE: I want to tell you that there's nothing like that. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: Okay, what was the sound like? >> FRIEDA: Nice. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: Nice? Okay. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: And we have to believe that no matter where they are coming from, the skills that they are going to be given, they can use it to get their voices heard. >> BRIDGET: I've seen a big change in myself because before this group I didn't know how to find a story, or how to find out about other people's lives, how to ask questions. I've never had this kind of strength, but now that I've been in this group I can stand up and talk in front of people in English or in Bemba. I can talk and they can hear me. Now I can do it and I won't even be shaking. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: The VCT scene is a very, very important scene in the film because it will inform people of the urgency to be tested. >> VOICEOVER: Samfya has one the highest rates of HIV infection in all of Zambia, a country where one in six adults lives with the disease. Life expectancy here is under 40. The group has come to a local clinic to film the last major scene of Penelope?s story. She came here as a 16-year-old to be tested for HIV. >> PENELOPE: I was 16 years old when I realized that it is important for me to go for the test at the VCT Center. Because I know that through my background, I was a prostitute, and I realized that the men I was sleeping with, I couldn't tell just by looking at them. So, in order for me to be free in mind, I should go and have a test. >> DOMINIQUE CHADWICK: Okay. Action! >> NURSE: How are you? >> PENELOPE: I'm okay, how are you? >> NURSE: I'm fine, thank you. So, you've come for the test. There's one thing I want to find out from you. Have you ever been exposed to any risk factors? >> PENELOPE: Yes. >> NURSE: Was there protection or there was no protection? What I mean is, were you using a condom, or were you not using a condom, each time you used to have sexual intercourse? >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: People have gotten to know other people and they are becoming friends, becoming a family, so it's not that she's just acting, but we have feelings attached to it. And people are sharing her pains; people are sharing everything that she went through. Because she is reliving all that she went through, and that is not easy for her to have gone through that and now reliving it for the film to be made. >> NURSE: Okay. Your results are out. Are you ready for your results? >> PENELOPE: Yes. >> NURSE: Okay, here you are. I see that it says "one", that means it is HIV negative. >> PENELOPE: Yes. >> NURSE: So what do you understand about HIV -- >> MAN: There is an event this evening, at 7:00pm tonight, a film made by women from Samfya. For those of you who like joy and learning, at 7:00pm tonight, a film will be shown, made by women here in Samfya. The film is called, "I've Found My Way." >> VOICEOVER: On the day of the film's first showing, the women decide to get the word out on their own. >> PENELOPE: At 7:00pm there will be a film shown tonight. It tells the story of how orphans are mistreated and what our community can do about the problem. >> ABIGAIL: This film is made by the Samfya Women Filmmakers. We are teaching one another, and we're teaching our friends. >> MWELWA: We don't know how people will react after seeing our film, or how they will look at us as a group, and especially how they will respond to our friend whose story we are telling. >> WOMAN: If you have time, we hope you can come and watch it at the high school. >> VOICEOVER: With only a few hours before the screening of their film, Penelope returnS to the village where she lived with her parents, to the place where her family home once stood. >> PENELOPE: When my parents were alive my life was good. I'll never forget how close we were with my father's relatives, but when death came to my parents, my father's family changed. They came and took our beds so we had to sleep on the floor. We used to have a TV and a stereo, and although the house didn't have any electricity, those things made the house look good. The fact that they grabbed everything wasn't easy, but what could we do apart from accept what's been done? I would like my father's family who grabbed our property to see my story. This is my cousin. This is my auntie, the sister to my father. We are going to show a film about what happened to me at the high school at 7:00pm tonight. Will you be able to come and see it? >> WOMAN [Penelope's Aunt]: I can't come because I am too busy. The farmland your father left is a long way off and I don't have time. >> PENELOPE: I just pretend to be happy when I'm near them. If you could get inside my head when I sat with them, then you could have seen what I was thinking. The thought of them grabbing our property still haunts me. When I'm talking to them I can still picture them taking things from our house. That's what's stayed in my mind; I don't know how to get rid of it. >> VOICEOVER: At Penelope's request, their film's premiere will take place at a local school. It will be the first film ever produced in Samfya. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: It's really brave of her. Not everybody in this school knows Penelope's story. But today, after the screening, everybody will leave knowing that, "Oh, this is what she's gone through." >> ABIGAIL: When I think about how Penelope has shown us all her suffering, I want to urge people to give her the respect she wants and deserves. It has been difficult for her to tell her story. It is not easy to tell people what you've been through, but I'm hopeful that people will respect her for it. >> PENELOPE: I'm Penelope and I'm from Samfya in northern Zambia. My parents were very supportive and loving. But one day, my father died of AIDS and that's when my mother disclosed to us, me and my brother, that she is also going to die. It is so difficult to believe that your beloved one has died. Then, our auntie came and she offered to take me in her fishing community, but my aunt didn't have enough income to support me to school, so I had to start selling fish at the market. My friends, who are also orphans, they've engaged themselves in prostitution. When those friends came, they passed through the market and they started saying that, "We are making a lot of money". So I was eventually convinced to join them in prostitution. I was in prostitution for three months, but I wasn't a happy prostitute. My auntie wanted me to stop prostitution so she went to see the head teacher. So one day, I met him in town. He said that if I'm ready to stop prostitution, he could help me in school. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: I met your aunt yesterday. She came to see me at the office. She's very, you know, worried about you. Are you willing to come back to school, Penelope? >> PENELOPE: "I'm very much willing, sir. If that could happen, I could be the happiest person in the world!" Because I engaged myself in prostitution, I was worried that I might be infected with AIDS. So I decided to go to the VCT Center to be tested. >> NURSE: So what do you understand about HIV negative result? >> PENELOPE: In my body, you have not found the germ [virus] that causes AIDS. >> PENELOPE: So now I'm back at school. I'm now a changed person. It was because of poverty that I left school and engaged in prostitution. I'm now very happy because I have a future. My story needs to be told to show people how vulnerable orphans are, and nobody should take advantage of them. >> VOICEOVER: As the film draws to an end, the women sense an opportunity. Without prompting, they take to the stage one by one. >> FRIEDA: All the people who made the film are here, and you can start asking questions. >> WOMAN 1: From what I've heard, when you have HIV/AIDS your life is very short. Is it true? >> PENELOPE: Yes, this is true, but the problem is us young people are scared of the VCT Center. We think it's just for adults. But as the film showed, young people like us can go there too. >> WOMAN 2: This shows us that leaving the house and going into prostitution is a very bad thing. Prostitution involves some real dangers. You can get all kinds of sickness and it can end in death. >> ABIBATA MAHAMA: I don't think most of them will ever forget today. Most of them spoke so confidently, and it's all part of what the whole filmmaking and advocacy is all about. Build their confidence up so that their confidently talk about contributing to change attitudes. And I think it's really working. >> FRIEDA: We appreciate your comments; we'd like to hear more. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: That was very nice, you know, that film that we watched. I want to thank you for being very brave. Thank you for a job well done. Thank you. >> VOICEOVER: With the success of their premiere, other screenings soon follow across Samfya. >> PENELOPE: At the end, people were passing some comments and I was happy that the comments they were passing, they were good. They didn't know that in Samfya, there would be a group like this. >> BENJAMIN CHAMA: The things you've seen do happen in our village, right? Especially to orphans, when property is grabbed from them. >> MAN: This film is very good. Next time, I would like even more information. >> PENELOPE: I'm proud because we want to make a difference. So even my fellow friends, they are proud. >> WOMAN: Stop making noise! We're really thankful for being shown this film. We never expected to see a film like this in Samfya and we really want to thank the people who made it. >> VOICEOVER: After their screenings in town, the women have one important audience left to face. They bring their film back to the people of the fishing camp, to the husbands and children of their fellow filmmakers. >> PENELOPE: Making a film about your life story is not easy, but if you really put your heart into it you can explain everything, because if you keep something to yourself it becomes a burden on your heart. But if you share it with people it becomes lighter. Because of our film, by telling my story, and showing the film to people, my heart has slowly, slowly started to open up. Because of this, I started forgiving my father's relatives. People say, you never forget, but I'm putting the past behind me. >> AGNES: I want to thank those people who picked us up. We never imagined that we would do what we have done, and for that we are on our knees. >> MAN 1: This group has been really good, and they've enlightened us. We've seen firsthand what happens when you leave a child and the child is suffering. I want to say thank you. You who have come to visit us have brought us happiness; you've left us with joy. >> MAN 2: Orphans like me used to shed tears when we saw other kids with their parents, seeing them happy together. This used to bring us misery thinking back to those times when we were with our parents who we've lost. I really want to thank this group, and I'm left speechless. And I ask this group, are we going to see you again? >> SIGN: Sweet After Sweat Shopping Center >> AGNES: This project has brought joy to us women in Samfya, especially us women in the Samfya Women Filmmakers. People in other areas who are not in this group are really envious, and they say they want to join us. Others came to us and said, "It's great what you're doing. You should make more films, you shouldn't stop." I'm hoping this group will continue. Just like a fire, when it's burning, it should keep on burning. >> TITLE: Abigail graduated from high school. She hopes to study business in Zambia's capital, Lusaka. Cindy is finishing primary school. She wants to be a lawyer one day. Frieda cares for three young relatives and her five-year-old daughter. She wants to be a teacher and hopes to begin training soon. Agnes has started her own small business selling vegetables. She is now in school taking literacy classes. Bridget cares for her sister's three young children and her own daughter. She has been elected secretary of the group and is studying social work. Penelope graduated from high school. She has started her own small business and hopes to start teacher training soon. >> TITLE: The Samfya Women Filmmakers went on to show their film to over 3,000 people across their community. The group is already at work on their next film, a documentary about child marriage. This project was made possible by The Campaign for Female Education. For more information about how you can help educate and empower girls and women in rural Africa, visit www.camfed.org. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/with-my-own-two-wheels As a tool for development, a simple bicycle can mean transportation, employment, even access to education and healthcare. With My Own Two Wheels weaves together the experiences of five individuals into a single story about how the bicycle can change the world, one pedal stroke at a time. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/with-my-own-two-wheels Bicycle, Economic development, India, Ghana, Koforidua, World Bicycle Relief, Zambia, Disability, Health, Environment >> TITLE: Look for solutions, not problems. - Dan Eldon >> TITLE: Hubub Films Presents >> TITLE: With My Own Two Wheels >> TITLE: 5:30 AM, Chapola, Zambia >> FRED HANYINDE: My name is Fred Hanyinde. I was born here in Chapola in 1975. I am 35 years old. I got married in 1997. My wife's name is Emelda Chulu. She was born in 1983. We have four children. >> FRED HANYINDE: I am a farmer. The soil here is fertile. I grow many types of crops. I grow potatoes, corn, sunflowers, cotton, groundnuts, and peas. I also have a garden where I grow vegetables like tomatoes and cabbage. The most important things in my life are going to church, then being a caregiver, then football! These are things I love. >> TITLE: Zambia is roughly the size of Texas. It has an estimated population of 12 million. 1.1 million are infected with HIV/AIDS. Many of these HIV/AIDS patients live far from the nearest clinic. Their only regular care comes from volunteer caregivers, like Fred. >> FRED HANYINDE: I decided to become a community health caregiver because of my brother, who suffered from HIV/AIDS. The issue was very close to my heart. The Bible says that, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, so you do unto Me." As a caregiver, my job is to visit and take care of the sick. The main problem with our clients around here is how they are kept in their homes. They are stigmatized. Most of them say, "The people around here don't want me." Their families tell them, "We are not the ones who gave you that disease. That is of your own doing." Sometimes families give patients their own plates, because the family is afraid that they will be infected as well. Because of this, patients are normally happy when we caregivers come along. We shake hands and do all sorts of things together. They become very free with us, and they tell us problems that they wouldn't tell their own families. >> TITLE: 7:15 AM, Koforidua, Ghana >> MIRRIAM ODURO: My name is Mirriam Oduro. I am 27 years old. >> MIRRIAM'S FATHER: She wants to explore. She is something like -- she is adventurous. Sometimes, when she wants to do something, I will even try to discourage her. But, she will have the courage to pursue. >> TITLE: In Ghana, people with disabilities are often stigmatized. Many find it difficult to fit in, let alone find a job. >> MIRRIAM ODURO: I was a kid, and I had a dream that a dog bit me. Then my mom told me that I started shouting, "A dog has bitten my leg there." The next day, I couldn't even stand on my feet. I was paralyzed. >> MIRRIAM'S FATHER: I found it very difficult to get even school for her. Because at the normal -- or at the regular school -- they didn't want to mingle up with people with crutches. >> MIRRIAM ODURO: When I was a kid, I found life difficult. At that time, I didn't want to come out. I didn't want many people [around]. I didn't want people to see me walking. >> MIRRIAM'S FATHER: Some people, when they see them, they admire them, they have sympathy for them. But some people too, when they see them, they just shun them. >> TITLE: 8:00 AM, Sone Sangvi, India >> BHARATI PHAKAD DATE: My name is Bharati Phakad Date. I am 14 years old. I live in Sone Sangvi. My favorite actor is Mithun Chakraborthy because he always plays a humanitarian, someone who helps other people. There are a lot of people who live on the streets. I will help them. There are so many people in this world who do not even get one meal a day. I will help them. >> TITLE: In India, 81 percent of girls attend primary school. Only 49 percent of girls attend high school. 46.4 percent of women are illiterate. Many women in Bharati's mother's generation were married by the time they were Bharati's age. >> TITLE: Bharati's Mother, Bharati's Father >> BHARATI'S MOTHER: My life, my generation, was full of darkness. If you are uneducated, then it is as if you only have one eye. >> TITLE: In 1998, Armene Modi founded Ashta No Kai to empower women in Bharati's community. >> ARMENE MODI [Founder, Ashta No Kai]: For about a couple of years, we only focused on adult women and literacy for them. And I noticed that many of the girls who came to the class were very, very young girls, with a mangalsutra, which is a gold and black beaded necklace that they wear around their necks, which in India is a symbol of matrimony. And they had babies on their hips, and I started to ask, "What's going on, and why are such young girls married off already?" And there's a famous Indian saying, "Why water a plant that is going to grow in a neighbor's garden?" >> TITLE: 9:00 AM, San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala >> CARLOS MACHIN: My name is Carlos Enrique Marroquin Machin. I am a native of San Andres Itzapa. I am 41 years old. My farm is three kilometers from here. We call it El Chibul, because it is much higher up than the town. Now, in the month of September, we grow beans, ejoteros, that is, green [unripe] beans to sell to the market. I also just planted huicoy, carrots, lettuce, corn, piligua. Also radishes and beets. We grow it all. They say I have the hand of God, because I have five children. My eldest daughter is 18 years old, Carlos is 17, Antonio is 14, Jenny and Carolinia are 11, and Christian is almost six. >> TITLE: Guatemala is still recovering from a long and brutal civil war. >> CARLOS MACHIN: When the armed conflict started, I was a child. I had a very painful experience. I was tortured, because I was accused of hanging out with the paramilitaries. After that, after growing up, I did not have the chance to have a childhood as my children do now. It was lost. >> TITLE: The civil war wreaked havoc on the indigenous Maya community. In the rush to rebuild, the residents of San Andres have paid a steep price. The air quality in the region is now so bad that many farmers can no longer work in their fields after 9 AM. Some, like Carlos, are looking for a new way forward. >> TITLE: 10:00 AM, Chapola, Zambia >> FRED HANYINDE: I used to walk. Whether the patient was near or far, I used to walk. Rain or shine, I used to walk. I asked the caregiver program for a bicycle, but they never gave me one. They said, "You are only using it for useless programs." But we needed to help sick people in the community, so we used to walk. >> TITLE: Caregivers like Fred often walk 15 to 20 kilometers to visit a patient. They must visit these patients two to three times every week. In 2005, World Bicycle Relief partnered with Rapids, one of the largest caregiver programs in Zambia. Their goal: To increase the effectiveness of caregivers by giving them bicycles. >> JOHAN BRUYNEEL [Board Member, World Bicycle Relief]: What I find so particular about it is that it's so simple. It's measurable, something that we take for granted, and that in other areas of the world is something that changes lives. One bike, it is 134 dollars per bike. And I know that that bike is going to go somewhere and it's going to change the life of not only one person, but probably of a whole family. >> TITLE: Fred is one of 19,000 caregivers who now make their rounds by bicycle. >> FRED HANYINDE: The bicycle helps me reach patients in good time. For example, if I go by bicycle to visit a patient at 7:00 AM, I can reach the patient early and come back early. The bicycle makes visiting patients easier. Now I can visit a patient as late as 4:00 PM and still make it home by sunset. >> TITLE: 12:00 PM, Sone Sangvi, India >> ARMENE MODI: In many villages, there were only schools until seventh grade. There were no high schools. So we worked in ten villages at that point of time, and there were only three high schools. So then I asked the parents, the mothers, "Well, what happens to the boys, how do you send the boys to school?" And they said, "Well, we give them bicycles." And I said, "Well, what about the girls," and they said, "Oh no, it's a waste of money to give a bicycle to a girl, she's going to turn around and get married. So I thought, my god, if it's only a bicycle that's keeping girls from going to school, let's go ahead and give it to them. >> TITLE: Thanks to Ashta No Kai's Bicycle Bank program, Bharati and her friends are now able to get to high school by bicycle. >> BHARATI PHAKAD DATE: I am going to Nimgaon Bhogi High School. I am learning in the ninth standard [grade]. I like mathematics because I like solving mathematical puzzles. The bike has been really useful. Now, the time that I save commuting to school can be used to study. Also, now I can ride to school with my friends. It is a lot of fun. >> BHARATI'S MOTHER: She now feels very motivated and enthusiastic to attend school. I have to make sure that my daughters get a good education. It is our duty. >> BHARATI PHAKAD DATE: I want to become a district supervisor, because then I can make big decisions, and also have the power to implement them. I would be able to make decisions regarding the welfare of the poor and downtrodden. I would be able to help transform society. I want to eradicate poverty from this country. >> TITLE: 2:00 PM, Koforidua, Ghana >> MIRRIAM ODURO: This is my bench, yes. I have all the tools that I need at my bench. >> TITLE: Mirriam is now a mechanic at Ability Bikes, a bicycle shop cooperative established by Boston-based Bikes Not Bombs and staffed entirely by disabled Ghanaians. >> DAVID BRANIGAN [International Programs Director, Bikes Not Bombs]: The first day, there was one young woman named Mirriam Oduro. They came up to me and said, "David, I want to be a part of this project." And I said, "Okay, that's great, you want to learn how to fix bikes." And she said, "Yes. David, I'm serious. I want to learn how to fix bikes." >> MIRRIAM ODURO: That day, they [the other mechanics] were laughing at me because I bent my [wheel]. So, when David taught me and I started doing it, I finished mine, and David came and checked it. He said, "Oh wow, you have done well!" They are sitting there [saying], "Mirriam, can you help me with my rim?" I said, "You are sitting there laughing at me. You want me to help you? I won't do that!" Then David told me, "Mirriam, you can help them." So I helped them. >> MIRRIAM'S FATHER: She is always adventurous. She wants to go beyond what everyone expects of her. She doesn't seem to be handicapped. She doesn't seem to be worried about her problem at all. >> DAVID BRANIGAN: It's a pretty amazing thing to have this aggressive male come with his bike and say, "Hey, my bike needs to be repaired. My wheel is going like this," right? And then everyone looks at him and they say, "Okay, we'll fix it for you." And then they take the wheel off and give it to Mirriam. And the guy's expression is like, "What? This woman, this disabled woman is going to true my wheel?" And what ends up happening is that she trues his wheel for him. And sometimes there are men sitting there, just watching, as Mirriam is repairing their wheel, something that they can't do themselves, and there's this female, physically disabled, mechanic fixing their wheel for this person. >> DAVID BRANIGAN: I know that her life is changed by it. I know that she now sees herself in the world as an influential person. She sees herself as having skills that other people don't have, that are valuable to her community, and even to the world. She sees herself as now representing other physically disabled people who were in her position before, without work, and in a position now to advocate for them, and for recognition of the enormous amount of unemployed disabled people in Ghana. >> DAVID BRANIGAN: She is a woman working in a field that is generally dominated by men. So she's even expanding the boundaries of women, and other women who are able-bodied look up to her as an example of how women can be in the world. >> MIRRIAM ODURO: It makes me happy. It helps me to achieve something. And I feel proud. My name is Mirriam Oduro. I am a mechanic. >> TITLE: 4:00 PM, San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala >> TITLE: In 1997, Carlos helped start Maya Pedal, an organization dedicated to creating environmentally friendly tools to empower rural Mayans. Their invention: the bicimaquina. >> CARLOS MACHIN: First of all, the bicimaquina is all recycled. We start from the bicycle. The bicycle is the fundamental part. To this we attach the old machines that used to be powered by other sources, like gasoline. With the bicimaquina we try to join together elements that have been discarded [bicycles] with elements that used to pollute. >> CARLOS MACHIN: First, the bicimaquina does not pollute the environment. Second, it fills the gap between the artisanal and the industrial. It is a middle ground, because it is going to allow the user to complete tasks faster. Third, it helps the economy quite a bit, because it reduces expenditures on fuel and energy. It helps to minimize the costs of both running and maintaining the machine. It is simple. >> TITLE: The community of Cruz Nueva has two bicimaquinas: a bicimolino (corn grinder) and a bicipulpar (coffee depulper). >> WOMAN 1: Oh God! It used to be a lot of work. We only ground at night, and could only grind a little at a time using our old tools. This is what we used before. But now that we have the bicimaquina, we don't use that one anymore. Now it is different. Yes, it has helped us a lot. With it I can strip corn very quickly to make my tamales. I can now grind my corn very quickly. Now grinding corn is a communal activity. The bicimaquina helps all of us. >> CARLOS MACHIN: It also helps the family to learn to use the resources that are at their disposal, that surround them. It helps them learn how to do things in new ways that don't pollute. They learn how to do things in a better way. >> MAN 1: We export coffee to the United States and, in another year, maybe Japan. The bicimaquina has helped facilitate this. Those two bicimaquinas help us to use less diesel or gasoline or electricity. It is a little better, no? Really, there's a lot of pollution. Those two help us pollute less. >> CARLOS MACHIN: For someone who hasn't seen a bicimaquina, the concept is impressive because they are astounded by what it can do. If someone has a heart attack, we are going to try to revive him or her. That is what we are trying to do with these bicycles. >> TITLE: 5:30 PM >> TITLE: 8:00 AM, Santa Barbara, CA, United States >> TITLE: Sharkey Esquives >> SHARKEY ESQUIVES: You feel the fresh air. You can feel how fast you are going. You feel like you're going a hundred, you're going, like, only ten, fifteen! You can feel all that wind coming to your face; you're feeling all fresh and everything. It feels good, better than a car. >> SHARKEY ESQUIVES: It all depends, the day and the mood. If I feel like riding my bike somewhere far, with my headphones, I go to my racing bike. It has blue tires, blue frame with some chrome on it. With the beach cruiser, if I feel like riding with my friends, with my homies, anywhere, I take my beach cruiser or my mountain bike, whichever one comes in handy. >> TITLE: Sharkey is a volunteer bike mechanic at Bici Centro, a community-run bike shop that sells refurbished bicycles and teaches patrons how to repair their own bicycles. >> ED FRANCE [Director, Bici Centro]: You have recreational road riders, who can generally afford bikes up to two, three thousand dollars, more. You have recreational mountain bikers, same deal, and those folks will tend to replace bikes every few years, even. You have the die-hard enviro bike commuters, but that group is not just the classic image we have of a bicycle commuter, the white, well-educated cyclist who's decided to simplify their life and to live environmentally, and thus they're going to bike. In Santa Barbara, at least half of that five percent of people getting around by bike are working-class folks who rely on that bike, probably not necessarily out of choice, because people ride whatever they can, you know? And again, that's half of our active bike commuting population. And so, our feeling at Bici Centro, as the group of founders, was that that group wasn't being served. >> ED FRANCE: I feel a lot of sympathy for people in Shark's position, because out of high school, the possibilities are really bleak. What do you do? Continue hanging out with the gang? He probably has some hard job prospects. >> SHARKEY ESQUIVES: It has kept me from the streets, from kicking it with my homies, kicking it with everyone, not knowing. Getting busted, getting locked up every time. Bici Centro has helped me in stopping it. I could be here, I could come here, and it?s kind of like a job. Come here, throw all my stress in here, and go home and just chill, and just pass out. It?s like a regular day, doing a regular job like a regular person. I've always been proud of working in here. Been helping a lot of people from different spots, people from a different world, different states, different age. You get the smallest kid to the biggest, oldest, like, "O.G." -- old man -- whatever! You could get anyone in here who doesn?t know anything about bikes, we teach them. >> SHARKEY ESQUIVES: My life has changed plenty. A lot of people know me better from working at Bici Centro. They'll be like, "Aren?t you that person who helped me fix up my bike?" I?m like, "Yes, I'm the one who fixed it." They'll be telling me, "Thanks for fixing it, it's running good." My name is Sharkey, I'm from Santa Barbara. I'm from Bici Centro, I'm a volunteer, and I?m 21 years old. >> ED FRANCE: This is just the same story over and over: people with enormous potential that are overlooked throughout the world. But we need our solutions that are intermediate. We have all these overpowering solutions. We want to have electricity! Well, we'll just dig up that mountain and we'll just make electricity, and we'll just run railroad cars and trucks. All we do is overpower things or neglect things. >> CARLOS MACHIN: We as human beings need to take care of the world, not the world take care of us. Because we have been given wisdom, understanding, and all this. >> DAVID BRANIGAN: The majority of trips that people need to take in their lives -- if you're in Guatemala, or Ghana, or in Boston -- are bikeable. >> JOHAN BRUYNEEL: If we have a problem with transportation, we wake up in the morning, we look at the sky, and we say, if it's cloudy, do we go by car, or do we take the bike? The transportation story or transportation problem in Africa is totally different. They don't have the choice. They either have to walk-- kids have to walk two to three hours to school and from school, or caregivers have to walk all day long, in the best circumstances they can see maybe two or three patients. It's a completely different view on what a bike can do. We don't see the use of a bike other than, we have the choice. >> ARMENE MODI: Having a bicycle and being able to access education can have such a huge impact on aspiration levels, on educational levels, on quality of life. >> DAVID BRANIGAN: That bicycle is increasing their mobility. It's increasing their ability to go places. It's broadening their scope of their life, of what resources they can access. >> JOHAN BRUYNEEL: Bikes have been part of my life, naturally, for always, and I've never thought about not having a bike. What a bike can do, to me, just made too much sense, and I couldn't afford myself to say, "I'm not part of this." >> ED FRANCE: It is a comprehensive development tool. Development that happens for an entire country starts with one person. And if every single person in that country begins to become empowered, and begins to have access to resources, the entire country's going to develop. >> CARLOS MACHIN: We know that we don't have to speak for the machine. The machine speaks for itself. >> FRED HANYINDE: You can go and see a patient and still make it home. The bike makes the work of a caregiver lighter. >> SHARKEY ESQUIVES: You fix that one up; he's going to tell his friend. His friend is going tell another friend. >> MIRRIAM ODURO: It gives you mobility to do something. >> BHARATI PHAKAD DATE: I was very happy when I got the bicycle. I felt really good riding my bike. >> CARLOS MACHIN: The machine speaks for itself. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/women-master-the-art-of-farming Varsha Jawalgekar reports on a group of inspiring women in Patna who have mastered the art of traditional farming and are collectively doing everything that was once done by men only. Now, they can sell their produce and make money for their families. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:59:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/women-master-the-art-of-farming India, Agriculture & Food, Gender, Agriculture, Patriarchy, Gender equality, Farmer, Collective farming, Patna district, Bihar >> VARSHA JAWALGEKAR [IndiaUnheard, Bihar]: From history, it is apparent that women discovered agriculture. But, neither in India nor elsewhere are women recognized as farmers. They don't have access to agriculture. In farming, the hardest process is controlling the plough. And in most places in India, women are prohibited from holding the plough. In Bihar, women have never been recognized as farmers. Social organizations based in Bihar's capital city Patna, namely Ekta Parishad and Praxis, conducted a piece of participatory action research where it was found that only one percent of women in Bihar have ownership of land. >> PRADEEP [NGO Worker]: The practice of giving women a low status in a patriarchal society should be abolished. The image of women as farmers needs to be established in the society so that women have access to land and are able to sell their crops in markets. >> VARSHA JAWALGEKAR: Coming from a background with such disparities, Munnadevi seems a ray of hope. She is a woman farmer. She is from Bara village in Patna district. >> VARSHA JAWALGEKAR: How did you start collective farming?>> MUNNADEVI [Bara Village]: I organized a meeting of all the women in this village and collected two rupees from each one. I thought of using this money for the benefit of the women. I also took some help from my brother (an activist from the Ekta Parishad NGO) and decided to start farming for a living. So we got seeds and started sowing them. Since there is not much rain here, we started irrigating our land by renting a water motor. >> VARSHA JAWALGEKAR: What is your opinion about women taking up farming in your village?>> RAGHUNI MANJHI [Bara Village]: Good to see every girl and woman from this village being part of this collective effort. >> DHORA CHOWDHARY [Bara Village]: There are always gains and benefits. >> VARSHA JAWALGEKAR: How do you feel about this initiative?>> DHORA CHOWDHARY: I feel nice. This collective farming will definitely yield fruits in the future. >> MUNNADEVI: These women like to work hard to earn money for food. >> VARSHA JAWALGEKAR: What do you have to say when men laugh at you?>> MUNNADEVI: They should continue laughing while we will continue farming. >> SUBHASH: In Bara village, women started collective farming in 2008. Taking inspiration from this, women from neighboring villages have taken up collective farming.>> VARSHA JAWALGEKAR: Munnadevi has decided to farm. Once again, there are changes afoot in Bihar. I'm Varsha, reporting for IndiaUnheard from Bihar. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/beyond-belief From the ruins of the World Trade Center to those of Kabul, Susan Retik and Patti Quigley embark on a journey of personal strength and international reconciliation. Through empowering Afghan widows whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty and oppression, they believe that peace can be forged one woman at a time. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:35:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/beyond-belief Afghanistan, Gender, Kabul, Widow, Women in Afghanistan, Women's rights in Afghanistan, CARE, Cycle of poverty, Beyond the 11th, Poverty >> TITLE: There are 500,000 widows living in Afghanistan -- a result of 23 years of war. Only eight percent know how to read or write, and their average income is USD$16 per month, compared to USD$46 for male-headed households. >> PATTI QUIGLEY [9/11 widow]: Susan came to me with the idea of helping a widow. That was the original idea, helping a widow. If we can connect with two widows, that Susan and I could each help, that was the original idea. >> SUSAN RETIK [9/11 widow]: We realized very quickly that the amount of money that we were talking about could clearly help many more than just one woman, because the cost of living over there is so low compared to the United States. >> CLEMENTINA CANTONI [CARE Afghanistan]: It's been estimated that in Kabul alone, there are between thirty and fifty thousand widows. These women and their children are trapped in a cycle of poverty, because if children don't go to school, they have no future either. It's a vicious circle that keeps repeating itself. >> PATTI QUIGLEY: Clementina was the first person that we met that had actually been working in Afghanistan. >> CLEMENTINA CANTONI: What we propose to do with your grant is there are a number of women who've been participating in our poultry project and have received incubators. This has yielded really good results; the incubators are working, they are able to make healthy chicks that they can then sell or keep to make eggs. >> SUSAN RETIK: I would love to go to Afghanistan and really get a sense of these people and their culture. Right now, we're learning through reading books or newspaper articles, or speaking to people who have been there, or talking to people from Afghanistan. But until you can see it and feel it and smell it and taste it, I don't feel like we'll truly have a sense of the plight of these women. >> CLEMENTINA CANTONI: It's very difficult to give the flavor or a real picture of what it's like for a woman living in Afghanistan, whereas just one day touring our project would, I think, answer all the questions they could have. >> SIGN: Welcome to Kabul >> SIGN: CARE International in Afghanistan, Poultry Project, District 5 >> SUSAN RETIK: Thank you all for having us here. It's an honor and a privilege to finally meet you. I live in the United States, in Boston, which is near New York. >> WOMAN: You are Susan. We know you. You are like us. They describe to me, they're the people that gave us 15 chicks. We already know this. Thank you for coming here. >> SUSAN RETIK: That gives me chills. >> SUSAN RETIK: Most of the time, it feels to me like we raise a chunk of money, we give it to different organizations, who then help these women. >> PATTI QUIGLEY: How are they doing taking care of the chickens? >> SUSAN RETIK: But in fact, it is very specific what it is that we are giving to. Four hundred widows, to receive fifteen chicks, a certain amount of chicken feed. And those four hundred women are really four hundred women, which sounds so ridiculous, but part of me feels like it wasn't just "Oh, we're helping women in Afghanistan." We are helping these people in Afghanistan. >> SUSAN RETIK: Before we met you, we wanted to help you. Now that we've met you, we really want to help you. We will tell your stories when we go home, and we will let people know, and we will continue to help support you. We'll continue to work hard. >> SUSAN RETIK: It's not just a story; it's not just words. It's these people. Putting a face to the words is what makes it so powerful. >> PATTI QUIGLEY: A lot of what we've talked about with the media this week and with the women is about 9/11, and I don't want to be there anymore. I want to talk about the women, and what they need. That also has become clear to me, I can still get that message across, that these women need a lot of help, and it doesn't really matter what happened to me. 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/overcoming-domestic-violence "Overcoming Domestic Violence" presents four reports about individuals and organizations in working in South Asia to protect women who have been abused and to educate the whole community about prevention:<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/sosans-story" target="_blank"><strong>Sosan&rsquo;s Story</strong></a> Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, targeted violence against women in Afghanistan is back at an alarming level. Women of all ages are enduring brutal physical and sexual abuse in their own homes. A few lucky ones find their way to one of only six shelters in the country. <br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/breakthrough-bell-bajao" target="_blank"><strong>Breakthrough</strong></a> Studies show that more than 35 percent of Indian women have experienced physical violence at the hands of her boyfriend, husband or her in-laws. The Breakthrough organization&rsquo;s Bell Bajau (Ring The Bell) campaign inspires abused women and their friends, neighbours, and colleagues to break through the taboo and do something.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/gulabi-gang" target="_blank"><strong>Gulabi Gang</strong></a> 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, Sampat Pal and her thousands of followers in pink saris believe that patriarchy, abuse of women, and corruption demand a new style of justice.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/amra-shakti" target="_blank"><strong>Amra Shakti: We Are All Powerful</strong></a> The Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee educates women about their rights and empowers them to take control of their destinies. See what happens when a group of women come together to seek equality. <br /> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/overcoming-domestic-violence India, Gender, South Asia, Domestic violence, Violence against women, Gender equality, Link TV Presents the World, NDTV Profit Studies show that 35 percent of Indian women have experienced physical violence at the hands of a man. In these documentaries, South Asian women find ways to stop domestic violence. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/viewchange-hiv-prevention-looking-back-moving-forward Since the first official confirmed cases of HIV 30 years ago, millions have died, particularly in developing nations. But now there's hope in treatment and innovative prevention strategies. Take a journey to find out what's working in HIV prevention -- and providing hope for the future -- in this new half-hour documentary produced by ViewChange in partnership with PSI (Population Services International). Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:08:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/viewchange-hiv-prevention-looking-back-moving-forward HIV, Health, AIDS, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zimbabwe, Africa, AIDS pandemic, Reproductive health, Population Services International, Kenya >> DEBRA MESSING [Ambassador, Population Services International]: Next up: It?s the pandemic that has touched millions -- AIDS. Thirty years after the first confirmed cases appeared, where are we now? And what?s working in HIV prevention? Find out in this special report from PSI and ViewChange.org.>> 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: HIV Prevention - Looking Back & Moving Forward.>> DEBRA MESSING: I'm Debra Messing, Ambassador for PSI. It?s been 30 years since the Centers for Disease Control confirmed the first cases of HIV in the United States. Since 1981, more than 30 million people around the world have died of AIDS-related causes -- particularly in the developing world, where the disease has devastated entire families, communities and generations. But thanks to the medical advancement of antiretroviral therapy and progress in prevention, saving lives is now possible. Aid groups and governments have been working hard to bring innovative HIV prevention methods and tools to scale -- and it?s working. In Mozambique, one young relationship counselor is getting creative. Working with a local radio show, she is finding ways to make condoms exciting -- and even sexy. >> TITLE: Reclaim the Condom>> TITLE: Reclaim the Condom, tve, Mozambique>> VOICEOVER: Like all countries in southern Africa, Mozambique suffers from HIV/AIDS. Every year, millions of dollars are spent on prevention campaigns, including promoting condoms. But the battle is far from won, and one person thinks she knows why.>> SHEILA MANJATE [Sexual Health Counselor, North East Secondary School]: I don't know how many students there are, maybe eight thousand. To pick up condoms? I have the records here. Maybe a hundred per month. >> VOICEOVER: At the North East Secondary School in the capital Maputo, 22-year-old Sheila is a trained sexual health counselor. In her office, young people come to her with their intimate problems.>> BOY 1: I'm having a problem with my girlfriend. >> SHEILA MANJATE: And you did not use a condom?>> BOY 1: Often we didn't use it.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Because you trusted her?>> BOY 1: I risked it because I trusted her, but I mistrust her at the same time.>> VOICEOVER: The message is clear -- selling condoms as barriers against HIV can suggest couples don?t trust each other. So Sheila?s convinced it?s easier to sell condoms as contraceptives. Today in her office, she?s tearing down the public health posters. For Sheila, condoms are the main weapons against HIV/AIDS, but they must have the right image. The unbranded "white" condoms are the ones distributed in schools and clinics. Much better, she says, those more sexy, branded ones. >> VOICEOVER: Sheila lives at her grandma?s. A churchgoing Christian, she wants to train as a lawyer. She says what some in the big health agencies think privately.>> SHEILA MANJATE: The condom is too associated with HIV and so it has become stigmatized in the people's minds.>> VOICEOVER: She?s backed by market research, which shows trust in relationships is the main reason for not using condoms. Sheila knows sex and romance sell, so why not use them to promote condoms? She is working on a radio program to try her message on a wider audience. It's for 99FM, a popular national radio station. Today is the big sell. >> SHEILA MANJATE: I'm very nervous. I'm in the hands of God.>> VOICEOVER: Sheila?s off to see the head of the station. But will he buy her maverick message?>> SHEILA MANJATE: Our idea is to make a pilot program.>> NELSON CAMAL [Station head, SNYC 99 FM]: Yesterday I attended a Millennium Village ceremony in Chibuto. They had a box of condoms like this one. I didn't want to take any.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Exactly.>> NELSON CAMAL: But what are we going to say in the program? No to the AIDS condom, or are we going to say AIDS condom, yes?>> SHEILA MANJATE: No, our objective is to say yes to the condom.>> VOICEOVER: Not only have they given her airtime, 99FM has given Sheila her own team. Their slogan: "For Your Up Moments!" Public health campaigns find it difficult to link condoms with pleasure. But can you really sell condoms better branding them with sex than with illness? Early morning, and time to take the show on the road. Today to Xinavane, 100 kilometers north of Maputo. For her program, Sheila wants people to talk openly about their sex lives. She hopes their stories will reveal why they should use condoms. She's taking the message to the local school, to see how it plays. >> SHEILA MANJATE: Our mothers fell pregnant at the age of 14, 15, 16, 17; they lived their sexuality at the moment they felt the time had come. I want you to tell me: What do you do to live your sexuality, without having the same problems our mothers had? What did you say?>> MALE STUDENT 1: I use the condom.>> SHEILA MANJATE: You used the condom. Thank you. Ping pong, another one. What do you do?>> FEMALE STUDENT 1: Condom.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Condom. Who else?>> FEMALE STUDENT 2: Fidelity.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Fidelity. Who else?>> FEMALE STUDENT 3: Condom.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Condom. Who else?>> MALE STUDENT 2: Fidelity.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Fidelity. Who else?>> FEMALE STUDENT 4: Condom.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Condom. Who else?>> FEMALE STUDENT 5: Be faithful to my boyfriend.>> SHEILA MANJATE: Be faithful to your boyfriend? I have to be faithful to my boyfriend, but I also have to be faithful to the condom, because the day my boyfriend drops me, the condom will stay with me.>> TITLE: Sheila continues to encourage a change in the perception of condoms with young people in Mozambique. >> TITLE: ViewChange>> DEBRA MESSING: In India, where millions are living with HIV, reaching at-risk populations through peer education is crucial. And as this story shows, the most powerful messengers for HIV awareness come from unlikely places.>> TITLE: ViewChange>> TITLE: Peer education is a powerful tool in the prevention of HIV, but also in creating awareness and supporting those receiving care. >> MADAN KOIRALA: First I'm going to play soccer. I'm going to shoot two goals. Obviously we will win! I have many qualities. I am handsome. I am a role model for the people watching. >> TITLE: Madan>> TITLE: Element: Madan, Element, India>> MADAN KOIRALA: I was a drug user before. My ambition was to use drugs, and die. I am from Nepal. I came to Delhi just to use drugs. One of my friends sent me a message saying the drugs were good in India. I said, "Okay, let's go." I spent all my money. I was totally broke. I thought, "I'm going to die, I can't live any longer." Suddenly, I changed my mind. >> TITLE: New Delhi, India>> MADAN KOIRALA: I got a message that there is a rehab center where we can get treatment, and I said, "Okay," because I am a drug user and I needed treatment. I changed my lifestyle, and in the meantime I met my girlfriend, who is really cute! Life is not only for using drugs, eating food, and sleeping. >> TITLE: Millennium Development Goal #6: Stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and other major diseases>> MADAN KOIRALA: Now I am employed at Michael's Care Home, and I have to take care of HIV positive people who need treatment and help. Whether they're HIV positive or not, I always see them as a human being and in need of care and treatment. In India, people think that if you're HIV positive, you've got AIDS and you're going to die soon. Actually they're quite different. "AIDS" means you're sick, but being "HIV positive" just means you have the virus. Still people are very scared. They think that if someone's infected with HIV, we'll get infected too. No, we can't get it through the air, we can't get it from mosquito bites, we can't get it from kissing, and yet still there's all this discrimination. They're made jobless, homeless, and they're kicked out of society. Let them live! There are lots of examples of people who are very sick, and then they take the ARV medicine and live normally. This is anti-retroviral medicine, "ARV" medicine. >> MAN 1: It reduces the multiplication of the virus. >> MADAN KOIRALA: In India, only around twelve thousand people are getting this medicine. But there are over five million people infected with HIV. They should fight for them to get ARV medicine too. We need ARV medicine to be available free to everyone who needs it. Finish! There's something inside me that I can expose to the whole world. I am Madan Koirala, and I am HIV positive. >> TITLE: HIV+>> MADAN KOIRALA: If you look at me, can you make it out that I'm HIV positive? No, no one can tell. >> MADAN KOIRALA: The message for the new generation is: positive living, positive thinking. No discrimination and stigma. There is hope. Now clap your hands!>> DEBRA MESSING: Operating in 67 countries around the world, PSI is one global health organization at the forefront of HIV prevention. PSI believes that health services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by robust communications, which ensure that people are widely accepting and using prevention methods. And they?ve found that some of the best communicators about safer sex and HIV prevention are not necessarily the typical experts. For example, hairdressers in Zimbabwe are chipping in with their own straight-talk to patrons -- and have helped Zimbabwe cut its HIV infection rate by half. Last year, I traveled with PSI to visit one special salon in Zimbabwe where women are sharing life-saving information with one another -- truly unforgettable.>> TITLE: ViewChange>> TITLE: Braids Not AIDS, DFID, Zimbabwe>> VOICEOVER: As the economy in Zimbabwe begins to recover after years of chronic mismanagement and hyperinflation, there are also encouraging signs of a decrease in HIV prevalence. In a country where over one million children have been orphaned by AIDS, now an innovative HIV prevention program is showing remarkable success by using hairdressers to teach their female customers the facts about HIV and AIDS. But in a country with a collapsed medical infrastructure, the burden of HIV and AIDS is massive. There are around 60,000 deaths from AIDS each year, and an estimated 1,200 new infections each week. Experts in Zimbabwe say prevention through behavior change is the key to managing the spread of the disease. >> KUMBIRAI CHATORA [PSI Zimbabwe Deputy Country Director]: When we talk about behavior change, the key word there is changing. Changing from what you used to do to a new behavior. We want people to adopt safer sexual behaviors. It could be condom use, it could be knowing your status, it could be having fewer partners. All that for us is behavior change, anything that you do to protect yourself from HIV infection. >> VOICEOVER: But in a male-dominated society like Zimbabwe, reaching women with the correct information and empowering them to make decisions can be difficult. >> WENDY TAKUNDWA-BANDA [DFID Zimbabwe HIV Program Manager]: Generally women are the more vulnerable sex, and when it comes to making decisions related to sexual health, men are the dominant character. So women don't have much say. >> VOICEOVER: As a result, 60 percent of all people living with HIV in Zimbabwe are women. Dorothy Nyamukapa is a hairdresser in Kuwadzana, a low-income high-density suburb of the capitol Harare. Dorothy is one of 1,500 hairdressers that have been trained as an HIV peer educator in a program run by Population Services International and funded by the UK's Department for International Development. >> DOROTHY NYAMUKAPA: Because I am a woman it is very simple for me to approach them. I ask her which family planning she uses. When she told me, I started to introduce them to "Care.">> VOICEOVER: In this way, hairdressers like Dorothy have sold over three million female condoms in the last six years, preventing thousands of new HIV infections. Barbra Nyandika, a regular at the salon, began using the female condom with her husband Obit two years ago. >> BARBRA NYANDIKA: I went to my husband and told him about female condoms. Then he said I have to bring it so that he can see it. Then I have to introduce it to him and he said that it is very nice, that we have to continue using it. >> VOICEOVER: This initiative is spreading across Zimbabwe. Sylvester Nzaras runs a barbershop from his backyard in the commuter town of Chitungwiza, south of Harare. Here, men are also being exposed to the prevention message and the benefits of condom use. While huge challenges remain in Zimbabwe, the success of programs like this has contributed to a significant decline in HIV prevalence, a drop from over 24 percent to less than 14 percent over the last six years. >> TITLE: ViewChange>> DEBRA MESSING: But how will we really achieve large-scale change? One of the ways is by promoting HIV prevention methods that are easily affordable, highly effective and are able to show results now. Methods like voluntary male circumcision, which can reduce heterosexual HIV transmission by 60 percent. But first, grown men must be convinced to overcome their fears, as we see in this story.>> TITLE: ViewChange>> TITLE: PSI Botswana's Male Circumcision Campaign - TV Spot>> TITLE: Scaling Up Male Circumcision, PSI, Sub-Saharan Africa>> VOICEOVER: All right team: remember that we have to work at winning this match as a team. Circumcision cannot win this match alone. He needs the help of all of the defenders to keep HIV from scoring. >> TITLE: Men in Sub-Saharan Africa are choosing male circumcision (MC), a cost-effective method that reduces the risk of HIV infection in men by 60 percent. Beginning in 2007, PSI launched an unprecedented MC campaign supporting service delivery, communications, and advocacy efforts in Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These are the stories of men and families being impacted by male circumcision. >> FUNGAI CHIBAYA [MC Client, Zimbabwe]: My name is Fungai. Near where I stay, there is a very big billboard encouraging male circumcision, so I just decided one day that I should do it. I'm shaking a little bit, like goosebumps. I think the procedure is going to go well.>> TITLE: PSI provides pre- and post-procedure counseling in countries where male circumcision is offered. >> FUNGAI CHIBAYA: I've learned a lot about male circumcision. They say it has a 60 percent chance of HIV reduction. >> TAKAVINGWA KOMBONI [MC Client, Zimbabwe]: My name is Takavingwa Komboni. My wife encouraged me to come to MC because she actually thought it would be good for me to be circumcised. Some of my friends said, "You can go at your own risk." I'm curious to know what's going to happen after I'm circumcised. >> SYMPATHY MPOFU [Clinical MC Nurse, Swaziland]: The local anesthesia is given to assist him in reducing pain during the surgical procedure. The procedure starts with the doctor cutting and removing the foreskin. Afterwards we dress the patient with gauze. Then the patient is escorted to the recovery room to recover for 30 minutes. >> TAKAVINGWA KOMBONI: As you can see, I am now coming out of the theater room. The circumcision is over, and I feel like a man. It has been very good, and it is not as painful as I thought.>> FUNGAI CHIBAYA: The whole procedure was just fine. >> TITLE: Changing perceptions, one person at a time. >> JABULANI NCUBE [MC Client, Zimbabwe]: One of the best benefits is the reduction of the HIV/AIDS transmission rate. That gave me the zeal to go for it. I felt it would be the best opportunity for me to prevent myself, and the person that I love, from contracting such infections. >> STEVEN CHIKOMBERO [MC Client, Zimbabwe]: I've since introduced some of my team members to be circumcised. Everyone now knows that I'm proud to be circumcised. >> TITLE: Women are important partners in this process.>> KUDZAISHE CHIFAMBA [MC Client, Zimbabwe]; It opens up dialogue within the relationship, which is not common in our environment. >> MOLEBOGENG MADISHA [South Africa]: So this is both of our decision, and I decided to accompany him as a support system. I also heard about the importance of male circumcision. >> TITLE: Communication is key to male circumcision scale up. >> JABULANI NCUBE: What I learned is that people are not well educated. They have a belief that it's cultural.>> KUDZAISHE CHIFAMBA: Dialogue needs to spread further than just young couples. >> TITLE: By bringing services to scale within the next 10 to 20 years, male circumcision could significantly reduce the number of new HIV infections. >> JABULANI NCUBE: It is the right channel to reduce the HIV/AIDS pandemic in our nation.>> TITLE: Effective communication. High quality service delivery. Thirty-eight million by 2015: scale up male circumcision now, impact the future of HIV. >> STEVEN CHIKOMBERO: A lot of things have changed in my life. Besides the confidence that I have, I also feel much more secure.>> TITLE: ViewChange>> DEBRA MESSING: Targeting behavior is also crucial in HIV prevention. In Kenya, people are talking about Mpango wa Kando -- roughly translated into "having a long-term relationship on the side." It?s an all-too-common arrangement that also happens to be one of the riskiest behaviors for HIV transmission. But the government of Kenya, together with USAID and other groups, is using mass media to change this behavior and turn the tide of HIV transmission.>> TITLE: ViewChange>> JIMMI GATHU ["Mpango wa Kando" Spokesperson]: Are you married? So you're sitting with your husband, right? Do you know if he has a girlfriend?>> TITLE: Roughly 33 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, twenty million plus in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, one behavior is playing a major role in transmission: concurrent sexual partnerships. >> JIMMI GATHU: There is only one way to stop HIV from destroying your marriage. It's simple. Guys, leave your side arrangement. Avoid HIV. >> HIV and Concurrent Relationships, PSI, Kenya>> TITLE: PSI and the government of Kenya address this issue head-on through a groundbreaking communications campaign: "Mpango wa Kando." >> DR. NICHOLAS MURAGURI [Director, National AIDS/STD Control Program]: Forty-four percent of new HIV infections are attributed to people who are either married or are in partnerships. These people in partnerships also have other partners, who also have other partners, who are not using condoms. And therefore, the chance that in that network somebody has HIV -- it spreads like bushfire to the rest of the families.>> TITLE: Your spare wheel could have a spare wheel who has a spare wheel who has a spare wheel who has HIV. HIV now spreads fastest in marriages. Here's the reason why. >> JIMMI GATHU: I must admit that one of the things that surprised me was the aspect of also women playing a part in it. >> DR. NICHOLAS MURAGURI: We got a strong voice, people said, "No, no, no, you are condemning men only. Women also do that." So we made some TV spots for women as well. >> JIMMI GATHU: Mama, how are you? So you are in an outing of your woman self help group? So that man standing next to you is definitely not your husband, right? Do you know research shows nearly half of all new HIV infections are happening in marriages like yours?>> ERICK WAGA [Research Consultant for PSI]: Concurrent partnership really is a great factor in the spread of HIV because you find that these people, when they have these partners, trust comes in. So you find that these partners stop using condoms throughout all the partners. >> LUCY MAIKWEKI [HIV Deputy Director, PSI]: PSI Kenya started to take on the campaign boldly, because primarily there are very few organizations that do national level mass media communications.>> TITLE: Giving Kenya something to talk about. >> TONY NJUGUNA [Creative Director, SCANAD]: For this particular brief it became quite an interesting angle for social marketing. We?ve got a social responsibility to improve the lives of the people that we are trying to talk to.>> TITLE: Social marketing (so shel mar kit ing) n. 1. The application of marketing concepts and techniques to influence behavior among a target audience in order to benefit themselves and society. >> LUCY MAIKWEKI: We pre-tested various concepts, various taglines, various names and eventually we came up with Mpango wa Kando, which was what people felt describes this loving, long-term side relationship.>> JIMMI GATHU: Somebody needed to say something. And so we did. Shock transmits, then, to how important this campaign is. >> TONY NJUGUNA It makes sense, it's logical, and I think that's what really made the campaign work: that it's real; it's a social message. >> TITLE: Sparking conversations in the community. >> DR. NICHOLAS MURAGURI: The Mpango wa Kando campaign is obviously achieving its goal. Part of the goal was to start a debate, so you'll hear people discuss it in pubs, in family outings, in the church. These things were never discussed. >> TOM NGARAGARI [Behavior Change Communication Coordinator]: They identify with the campaign, and then now the discussion starts. The good thing is that they are coming together and talking about it and finding solutions to it. >> TITLE: Moving forward...>> LUCY MAIKWEKI: Looking at what will motivate people now to move from awareness to actual behavior change. >> TITLE: ...to prevent HIV/AIDS. >> DR. NICHOLAS MURAGURI: If you look around, all families, all Kenyans, don't want HIV. You cannot talk about the issue of HIV and not talk about concurrent partnerships. >> LUCY MAIKWEKI: For me, success in the long term for this campaign would be lower HIV prevalence amongst people in married, co-habiting relationships.>> DR. NICHOLAS MURAGURI: It's something that cannot be done overnight, it's something that we need to work on until it becomes a social norm change that discourages people from having concurrent multiple partnerships.>> TITLE: ViewChange>> DEBRA MESSING: Thanks to prevention and treatment, the global rate of new HIV infections has dropped by 25 percent between 2001 and 2009. Around the world, we?re learning lessons from innovators in every sector. We?re learning to adopt messages that equate change with something everyone wants -- a happier life. We?re learning to invest in local talent, because they know how to reach their neighbors and what motivates them to change. And on the soccer field -- or at the hair salon -- we learn that reinforcing the right messages about HIV/AIDS is making a difference. >> VOICEOVER: Want to learn more about HIV treatment, prevention, or anything else you saw here? Head over to ViewChange.org/TV, where you can watch, read, and get involved in projects that are making a real difference. Watch the films you just saw, and over 350 more from around the world, at ViewChange.org/TV.>> TITLE: [End Credits]>> TITLE: A co-production of Population Services International and Link TV. To read about PSI's HIV prevention programs around the world, visit www.psi.org. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/element-monica Monica Carrillo is furiously blazing a trail for young Afro-Peruvian women in Lima. As a poet, performer, activist, and teacher, she is teaching the next generation to fight racism through self-confidence and knowledge. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:24:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/element-monica Peru, Gender, Afro-Peruvian, Millennium Development Goals, Education, Health, Lima, Gender equality, tve, Element: Action on Earth >> TITLE: Element>> TITLE: Lima, Peru>> MONICA CARRILLO: I am going to guess what is in your mind. Do you want to see me, to touch me, to f*** me? You want me to be your queen for one day, and your slave for the rest of my life? It?s a lie, only a lie, just a lie. >> TITLE: Millennium Development Goal #3: Promote gender equality and empower women>> MONICA CARRILLO: When I am in the street, people say that my vagina is like rubber. People say, ?black?, ?f***ing n*****?, or ?monkey.? I want to show another point of view about Afro-descendant people. >> RADIO PRESENTER: I am proud to present one of our representatives of the fusion of different rhythms and cultures. How are you Monica? Good morning and welcome. >> MONICA CARRILLO: Thanks very much for the invitation. >> RADIO PRESENTER: Do you think there is still a lot to do in distinguishing between racism and sexism? >> MONICA CARRILLO: Actually sexism towards women is related to racism. >> MONICA CARRILLO: I think it is important for women to have the opportunity to know other women who are working, who are studying, who are fighting. Because if you are living in poor conditions, you don?t have other points of view on life. This is one of the most dangerous places in Lima. People have guns, people sell drugs. Girls are getting married or pregnant very young, maybe aged thirteen or fourteen, because they think that having sex is their unique possibility to get a better life. If we enter their lives now, we can stop the process. >> TITLE: Afro-Peruvian kids? workshop>> MONICA CARRILLO: They are going to use the mask to express their feelings that maybe they don?t have the possibility of expressing in other situations. >> GIRL 1: My name is Carina and I would like to be a model. >> MONICA CARRILLO: Girls express that they are not happy with their body, with their race, with their face. >> GIRL 1: When I look at myself in the mirror I tell myself I am not very pretty or very ugly but I am fat. >> MONICA CARRILLO: They are suffering a lot because they are not white.>> MONICA CARRILLO: And you eyes? What color are your eyes? >> GIRL 2: My eyes are blue, I have short hair and I like to dance. >> GIRL 3: When I look in the mirror I feel sad that I am not able to do the things I want to do. >> MONICA CARRILLO: Through the masks they can express a life that maybe they?re not living at this moment. >> GIRL 3: When I am older I want to be a lawyer and I want to be more cool because my self esteem is -- I am very boring. >> MONICA CARRILLO: With masks they can recognize their face, their big lips and start to love themselves. >> MONICA CARRILLO: What we want is for the masks to become our own face so that we don?t need the mask anymore to be happy and have the life we want. >> MONICA CARRILLO: This is a process. This is a long process. But if you can find one indicator that they are hoping for another kind of life, that?s a good point. If children and teenagers have more self-confidence, that means we have better health conditions and fewer girls will get pregnant very young. >> TITLE: Millennium Development Goal #5: Improve maternal health>> TITLE: Millennium Development Goal #4: Reduce child mortality>> MONICA CARRILLO: I think a woman can dance, can show her body, but with power. I have the power to show my body because I am using it as a way to express myself. I am Monica. I have two, or three, or six identities. I can?t decide on any one identity, I can only decide to promote human rights. >> 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-china-geng-liufens-new-world Geng Liufen met her husband in the large city of Kunming. But after witnessing how isolated women in his home village of Zuji were, Liufen decided it was up to her to change the status quo and help Zuji's women get the education, training and health information they needed to transform their lives. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-china-geng-liufens-new-world China, Gender, Education, Rural area, Guizhou, Childbirth, Southwest China, Village, Literacy, International Women's Day >> TITLE: Why Women Count >> TITLE: Geng Liufen's New World>> VOICEOVER: Zuji is located deep in the mountainous region of Guizhou, a remote province in southwest China. The women living here had never left the mountains, and hardly anyone had ever visited the village. But in 1998 everything changed. Geng Liufen met Zhou Yingzue, a young man from Zuji. They met when she was working in Kungming, a large city. Zhou took Geng back to his small village during the spring festival. The journey there involved taking the train, then a bus, and finally on foot since there is no road access into the village. It took them a week to get to Zuji. The couple got married and had a family. But they were so poor that Geng ran away from the small village several times.>> ZHANG YUE [Journalist]: You left your husband just like that? You ran away, you didn't care about him anymore? How could you?>> GENG LIUFEN: You are right. I really felt bad about it. My child, my elder daughter, was only a year old when I left the first time.>> VOICEOVER: Geng Liufen did care about her husband and her children. She decided that she had to accept her life in the village and instead she wondered how she could improve the situation.>> GENG LIUFEN: The women in the village are illiterate. They can't even read numbers.>> ZHANG YUE: Can't they? >> GENG LIUFEN: No they can't. I work during the daytime and I get them to come here and learn in the evenings.>> ZHANG YUE: So you convinced each family to study just in your small hut without electric light? How did they manage in the evening?>> GENG LIUFEN: We use the pot to fill the lamp with oil brought from outside, and then we light the lamp for their study. They have shown a tremendous interest in learning.>> ZHANG YUE: Yesterday when I was in the mountains I wondered how the village copes with people who are sick. How do women cope with pregnancy and childbirth? I guess they can't leave the village and it's impossible to find a hospital.>> GENG LIUFEN: I suffered a lot when I gave birth to my eldest daughter. The labor took three or four days. I nearly died when I eventually gave birth.>> VOICEOVER: Geng Liufen now leaves the village every two weeks, trekking over the hills to get vital medicines from the outside world. She has also attended a course in a hospital so she can help other women when they go into labor.>> GENG LIUFEN: And after giving birth to a baby, everyone should be careful. You should not have sex until after 42 days, otherwise it may cause vaginal bleeding and can even cause a massive hemorrhage due to the womb failing to constrict. This can be fatal. Are you taking notice of what I'm saying? Okay, you are listening now!>> ZHANG YUE: Besides literacy and health problems it seems the most critical thing is poverty, the lack of money. How can you help them? >> GENG LIUFEN: They worry about being given forged notes and it's a problem for them to bargain when they are trying to sell their eggs and chickens. >> GENG LIUFEN: Please note! All members of our community! Please come to the Public Activity Room at 12:30pm. I can show you from experience that if you think the note is forged you can put a little saliva on it and rub it. If the note produces layers when you rub it, don't accept it. When it is a new note, if it doesn't make a crisp sound when you shake it, the note is also a forged one.>> VOICEOVER: Geng Liufen hopes the women of the village can make some money for themselves. With some economic independence they will gain more confidence. In March 2004, for the first time, Geng Liufen and some other women left their homes and arrived at the market at midday after walking over two mountains. In the past women always needed help from their fathers or husbands to get to the market. Now they are here and they can sell their goods. They are surprised that they can earn money by themselves. Farm Women, a non-governmental organization, is also helping. Since it began in 1998 it has helped nearly 4,000 rural women. Geng Liufen also got the opportunity to learn more.>> GENG LIUFEN: Last December I went to Bejing for a training course organized by Farm Women. They helped me apply for a World Bank loan to set up the Women's Development Association in Shimen to help attract investment to the area.>> ZHANG YUE: Not do you have a broad international outlook, but you also know how apply for a World Bank loan to develop the Rural Women's Association!>> GENG LIUFEN: If we want to improve things, then access is a big problem for us. We still think that we are neglected because there is no road to our village, and so there is no chance for us to make any progress.>> VOICEOVER: Sometimes people rely on external forces to change things. Geng Liufen, however, with just a junior high school diploma, is leading the women of Zuji in gradually changing their destinies and improving their lives.>> TITLE: [End credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-fiji-determined-women In the rural, cane-growing region of Fiji, a new enterprise is revolutionizing the lives of the local community by providing an income for women who previously relied on their husbands, helping them scale up production and save money, and financing the country's only senior citizens center. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-fiji-determined-women Fiji, Microfinance, Gender, Agriculture & Food, Poverty, Poverty threshold, LinkTV Picks, tve, Why Women Count, Chutney >> TITLE: Why Women Count>> TITLE: Determined Women>> VOICEOVER: In the rural cane farming communities of Fiji, women have always been the homemakers and not the breadwinners. But the role is slowly reversing. Until a year ago, Anshu Mala took care of her home and two daughters while her husband farmed their cane land. When they started to struggle financially, Anshu used what knowledge she had of the traditional task of chutney-making to help to earn their living.>> ANSHU MALA: We weigh the mangoes and wash it. After washing it, we peel and grate it. And then we weigh the grated mangoes, put it in the pot, mix it with sugar and cook it for about one hour.>> VOICEOVER: She plays a leading role in the area's chutney production, an enterprise initiated by the NGO FRIEND.>> ANSHU MALA: Before we had land, we had a sugarcane field. But when our lease expired it was taken over by the native mataqali, so it was very hard for my husband to support the family. I have two daughters and my mother-in-law to look after. So it's very helpful when I work too. I support my husband.>> VOICEOVER: Vijay Latchmi's chutney recipes are used to fill these jars, now ready for sale at local stores and in the near future for export.>> VIJAY LATCHMI: I made some pickles and sweet mango chutney. These were tested at the FRIEND office and then they asked me to work with them.>> VOICEOVER: While FRIEND provides the kitchen, Vijay employs staff and secures a mango supplier. And with the income she gets for each jar of chutney, she is able to pay her workers.>> VIJAY LATCHMI: I came here and got work so I could earn money. When I wasn't working I didn't have any money. Now I can save money and buy the things that I want. I don't have to ask anyone for money.>> VOICEOVER: Tamarind chutney sales have financed the country's only senior citizens center. In this cane-farming town, everyone in this kitchen and this center plays a role in the chutney-making process and reaps the rewards.>> SASHI KIRAN [Co-founder, FRIEND]: Older people are able to take out the tamarind, so the center is able to buy from them. These women are earning money out of that, at the first level. And the center employs women and they are making money. And eventually all the proceeds are then [put back into the center]. That money is used to provide services to the older persons, and it may be a whole range: community outreach, wheelchairs, to just a cup of tea for the seniors.>> VOICEOVER: But the challenges remain.>> SASHI KIRAN: If you you're not monitoring, the quality drops. If you're not monitoring or supporting them or encouraging them throughout then the production may not be there. Because our reality is that the people we are dealing with are extremely poor or have been battered most of their life, and to build their esteem and to get them to a stage will take time. It's a process.>> VOICEOVER: At home, but making a difference, the villagers of a cane farming community are learning to save what little they have for a rainy day.>> KASANITA BOLOULUTU [Group Leader, Save Scheme]: The source of income is just catching crab in the mangroves. Some are cane farmers but majority don't have land, they are just cane cutters.>> SASHI KIRAN: In Fiji, we have a culture of borrowing, and for the first time we wanted to set them up to save on their own.>> VOICEOVER: These women don't do paid work; they are the homemakers. But they put aside a dollar or two each week from their husbands' earnings as savings for their future.>> KASANITA BOLOULUTU: I think they save only one or two dollars but for us that's something. We can save at least one dollar a week. >> SASHI KIRAN: We identify the skills needed when we help them get started and when they continuously keep coming back and telling us how they've used their money. They go through our budgeting lessons and then they start putting money away, and it's wonderful to see. We may not be reaching the entire country right now because of lack of resources, but we see hundreds of people every week where this has made an impact in terms of their income.>> TITLE: [End credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-latvia-born-to-be-in-business Vija Ancane runs her own bakery, shop, and bread museum in the rural village of Aglona, south of Latvia's capital Riga. It's one of 300 small and medium sized businesses to benefit from a new loan scheme started by Latvia's Land and Mortgage Bank to encourage more women to go into business. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-latvia-born-to-be-in-business Latvia, Microfinance, Gender, Aglona, Glass ceiling, Baltic states, Riga, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, LinkTV Picks, tve >> TITLE: Why Women Count>> TITLE: Born to be in Business>> VOICEOVER: The latest research in Latvia shows that in many walks of life, men and women are still not equal. The president of Latvia, Vaira-Vike Freiberga, tried to break the glass ceiling at an international level, when she stood for the post of UN secretary general in 2006. Forty-four percent of women here find it difficult to start up businesses. So, the Land and Mortgage Bank of Latvia had recently targeted support of businesses owned by women. This has been seen as a welcome opportunity.>> JURIS CEBULIS [Mortgage and Land Bank of Latvia]: The total amount of money we have given out in loans is around 40 million Euros. More than 15 million of it has gone to businesses run by women -- around 300 projects altogether. For example, we find this is very important in the rural areas, where people are no longer working in agriculture and there are no jobs. Therefore this support has a social aspect as it provides new jobs. But it is clear as well that a person who has a natural talent for business must be given the opportunity to be in business, and there are a lot of women who should be in business. And, as it is sometimes harder for women to start their own businesses, we are very pleased to be able to help them.>> VOICEOVER: People are leaving small towns and villages. They move to bigger cities or go abroad to earn more money. All this prevents rural development and harms the countryside. But with a loan from the Land and Mortgage bank, Vija Ancane has managed to start her own business in the quiet village of Aglona, 200 kilometers from the capital, Riga. She runs a bakery, a shop and a bread museum, which attracts a steady stream of tourists.>> VIJA ANCANE: Please, come in. Sit down, please! Sit down, please! The Aglona bakery, which had existed for 30 years, was closed in 2000. I lost my job too. At that time, I had two teenage children. My eldest son was finishing school, but the youngest had just started. I had separated from my husband and I had to find a way to earn money. Besides, I felt that I wanted to have a business of my own. And now, now we have got this big loan from the bank. We are developing. We'll be able to have a hotel upstairs for the tourists. It will be a very traditional one; the only luxuries will be a shower and a toilet. The rest will be a straw mattress and some bedding and pillows filled with aromatic herbs. We started with a bakery. Then we opened the shop as well. This is our Latvian black bread, made of rye, prepared in the way our ancestors did, without any chemical additives. When I started my business, I had a lot of questions. And I have to say that it's the governmental departments and bureaucracy that can kill anyone. If you approach them with a simple question, "Please, explain this to me," they act as though they are superior. "Who are you? How dare you ask us?" I have experienced this. I have been in tears. And now I keep repeating that women should come together and solve their problems together. This is why we also set up a women's club, "Forget-me-nots" in Aglona. >> VIJA ANCANE: When I have guests from abroad or from Riga they are never concerned by the price of my bread -- it costs 70 cents. But when the local people come, they say that they can afford to buy it only once a week, just after payday -- after they get their salary, the pension or their child benefit. We don't have large salaries. I know that my workers deserve much higher salaries, but life is tough. I have to count each and every cent now. My biggest dream is that one day I will become the real owner of this house. And I am sure that one day, this will happen. >> VOICEOVER: Vija's eldest son is at present working in Denmark. But next year he will be ready to come home to work with his mother. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-kosovo-women-of-krusha Nineteen-year-old Ardiana Shehu has worked on her family's farm in the village of Krusha e Vogel, in southwest Kosovo, since she was 12. She, her mother, and her sisters do all the farm jobs that were traditionally men's work. Why? Almost 70 percent of Krusha's male population is still missing after the 1999 Serbian military offensive in Kosovo. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-kosovo-women-of-krusha Kosovo, Balkans, Agriculture & Food, Ethnic conflict, Agriculture, Pristina, Gender, Genocide, LinkTV Picks, tve >> TITLE: Why Women Count>> TITLE: Women of Krusha>> VOICEOVER: In rural Kosovo, farming is still regarded as a man?s job -- and it?s not just pepper farming. Almost all other work outside the house is seen as men?s work. But Ardiana Shehu, from the village of Krusha e Vogel in southwest Kosovo, has been doing this job since she was 12. She is now 19. Ardiana and her sisters do all the outside work that only a few years ago was considered something a woman could never do.>> ARDIANA SHEHU: This work is very difficult because we are all woman. And as there is no one else to do this work, we have to do it. In my family, my father and my two brothers are missing and there are no other men who can take care of these things, so we women have to do them.>> VOICEOVER: It was in the spring of 1999 in the nearby mountains that Ardiana saw her father and two brothers for the last time. The men were separated from the women of the village by Serbian military forces and were taken to an unknown destination, while the women fled to neighboring Albania. She never saw them again. Since the end of the war seven years ago, when Ardiana, her mother and her sisters returned to their houses, they have had to take on all the work that their father and brothers used to do. But in Krusha e Vogel, Ardiana?s situation is not exceptional. Around 120 men, almost 70 percent of the total male population of the village, are considered missing. So far only six bodies have been found. Witnesses claim that all of them were slaughtered, leaving the village inhabited almost only by women and children. Ardiana?s cousin, Bedri Shehu is one the few men from Krusha e Vogel to survive. At the time of the massacre, he was studying in the capital, Pristina.>> BEDRI SHEHU: They have a lot of courage, because in the beginning it was very difficult for them to adapt to the work that had been done exclusively by men. Women?s work was in the house -- that has been the custom for generations. But as time passed they realized that they could not survive without working, and so they committed themselves to it and found the courage to carry on.>> VOICEOVER: The women now make a modest living growing peppers to sell at the market. They didn?t know anything about this business until after the war. But thanks to a Kosovan Non Governmental Organization, Sisters Qiriazi, the women received training in farming and learned to drive the tractor. After the war ended, the coordinator, Marta Prekpalaj, started working in Krusha e Vogel.>> MARTA PREKPALAJ [Regional Coordinator, Qiriazi Sisters]: First I went from house to house with all my staff. We stayed with the women and ate with them too. Then we started organizing meetings in the school building, and talked with the women and girls who they gave us their ideas. We renovated a private house and opened the Qiriazi Sisters Center. Then the women gave us more suggestions and we publicized what had happened in Krusha e Vogel through the media and the Internet. Through this exposure a lot of donors came. It was the women themselves who came up with the ideas for the training courses.>> VOICEOVER: The Qiriazi Sisters didn?t just teach the women of Krusha about farming and how to drive -- they also taught them other professions. Lavdije Shehu also lost her husband, and now she is the sole breadwinner for herself and her two sons who are at primary school. >> LAVDIJE SHEHU: If I hadn?t learned how to be a tailor I wouldn?t have been able to survive, I wouldn?t have been able to support my family. My children wanted to go to school and I would?ve let them down.>> VOICEOVER: In Kosovo today, around 60 percent of the population are women, but only 30 percent of them are part of the general work force. On average, they are paid four times less than men.>> MARTA PREKPALAJ: Very often those of us who are working towards gender equality and on gender issues are seen as feminists and only working for women. We work for both genders. Without prosperity for men and women alike, Kosovo cannot develop.>> VOICEOVER: Despite this huge tragedy, and all the difficulties that they?ve been through, the children in the village look happy. This would not have been achieved without the love, courage and hard work of their mothers, the women of Krusha.>> TITLE: [End credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-uganda-enterprising-women Grace Lwemamu is manager of the family business Mulya Maize in Uganda. Mary Kaddu runs her own supermarket business. But both felt their lack of management expertise was holding them back. Now they have taken part in a new national mentoring scheme, pairing experienced businesswomen with would-be entrepreneurs in Uganda, equipping them with new confidence and negotiating skills. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-uganda-enterprising-women Uganda, Gender, Technology, Education, Business, Microfinance, LinkTV Picks, tve, Why Women Count >> TITLE: Why Women Count>> TITLE: Enterprising Women>> VOICEOVER: In Uganda successful professional and businesswomen are often put on a pedestal, celebrated yet isolated from the women beneath them. This situation makes it difficult for younger women to see them as role models. Women make up 40 percent of university graduates, yet only half of them find formal employment within two years of graduating. And now with the formal job market shrinking, many women are turning to the enterprise economy, setting up small and medium-sized businesses on their own or with their families. Grace graduated in design, but she is now working in the family maize-milling business. She needs to learn some essential skills to help her succeed. >> GRACE LWEMAMU [Manager, Mulya Maize Millers and Traders]: The people I work with -- the workers, mainly -- didn't ever recognize me as their manager. I don't know whether it was because I'm a woman or because I was young at that time. I don't know exactly. You tell them to do something, they first hesitate then you have to contact the director to see that something gets done.>> VOICEOVER: Breaking into the business world has been hard for many women in Uganda because women have far fewer role models. Now a new scheme set up by the British Council is giving young women the opportunity to be matched with experienced business and professional women. >> BOB GARVEY [Trainer, Mentoring Program]: Women in particular are very good at this because they tend to have a lot of motivation, are very creative, innovative, tend to be very determined to make these things succeed. And also something that women are very good at is relating to other people, persuading other people and so on, which are all important business skills in today's economy.>> VOICEOVER: At the Mothers of Hope Mentoring Club for HIV positive women, older members share their experiences with new members. Through this process, Jennifer and her friend have been able to set up a shop selling handicrafts and second-hand clothing.>> JENNIFER NAMUGERWA [Mothers of Hope, African Mentoring Institute]: When we came here to learn they taught us how to save money. I never knew how to save money, but now I can save. They even taught us the tactics of how to persuade a customer to buy and to like your product, and to buy it even when they would not have bought it. >> VOICEOVER: Already the course is yielding results, helping both new and existing entrepreneurs. As Commissioner in the Prison Services, Mary Kaddu is used to giving orders, but in her private supermarket business she had to develop new ways of communicating. >> MARY KADDU [Commissioner, Uganda Prisons Services]: Before I went on the course, I used to use the parent to child approach whereby I was just commanding and giving orders to my workers, but now I am using the adult to adult approach. We sit together with my workers, we discuss, and we look at challenges. At the end of the day we come out with solutions to make the business better.>> VOICEOVER: During the four-day course, 30 experienced business and professional women are trained in business skills: to listen, to question, to spot and to negotiate business opportunities. These mentors are matched with three or four young women entrepreneurs. The perception the older and younger women have of one another has started to change. >> MARY KADDU: The problem is not only with the experienced ladies, but also with the young girls. Sometimes they are very arrogant and they don't want to take orders from the experienced ladies.>> VOICEOVER: Mary is now able to help former female prisoners set up their own business ventures.>> MARY KADDU: After my mentoring I went to the women who have passed out, who have some businesses, and I talked to them about negotiation skills and communication skills. Then we talk to them about how to make plans, how to decide which is the best program or the best business for them. At the end of the day when they are financially stable, then I know their men won't leave them.>> TITLE: [End credits] 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/why-women-count-nigeria-love-of-indigo Nike Okundaye is an internationally renowned artist specializing in Adire, the traditional Yoruba indigo art from western Nigeria. She has used her craft to overcome a difficult past, and now trains disenfranchised young Nigerian women, including former sex workers in Italy. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-nigeria-love-of-indigo Nigeria, Education, Adire (textile art), Women's rights, Gender, Ogidi, Kogi State, Gender equality, Abuja, African art, UNIFEM >> TITLE: Why Women Count>> TITLE: Love of Indigo>> VOICEOVER: Nike Okundaye is an acclaimed, versatile artist of international repute, specializing in indigo art called Adire. Adire, also called "tie and dye," is traditional Yoruba textile art, originating in western Nigeria. Nike's art is celebrated far beyond Nigeria's borders. Her work is displayed in many museums including the Museum of African Art in New York. But Nike's strength and success comes from a hard life. She lost her mother at six, escaped a forced marriage at 13, and eventually triumphed over a polygamous marriage, physical abuse, and poverty. This hardship inspired her to train other women.>> NIKE OKUNDAYE [Artist]: I suffered when I was growing up. I did bricklaying, and farming. There is nothing I did not do. >> SIGN: Batik Studio>> NIKE OKUNDAYE: Why I started that training school is because a lot of women who have been thrown out of their husband's house, they cannot get a job and nobody is allowed to accommodate them. That is why I started the training center. I provided accommodation for them to be able to live there, eat, and also do some work with their hands.>> VOICEOVER: Nike's training center started in 1983 with 10 disenfranchised women. Today, she has trained over 4,000 men and women, and set up three training schools in Oshogbo, Abuja, and Ogidi Ijumu. She provides students with free tuition, art materials, and housing, and trains them in Adire, weaving, and quilting, as well as pottery, painting, music, and dance.>> NIKE OKUNDAYE: I used to do a lot of workshops overseas. Any money I earned I would divide it into three: one for myself, one for my center, and one for the family and my artwork. >> VOICEOVER: Currently there are 40 women doing Adire and weaving in Nike's center in Ogidi Ijumu in western Nigeria.>> AGNES UMECHE [Weaving Teacher]: Before, the proceeds from farming and processing cassava were not enough for me to take care of my children with. I was only just getting by. But when I started doing this weaving I achieved something because now, in a month, if I calculate all the work that I do and the profit I make, I can earn more than USD$120. I use this profit to pay for my kids' schooling, to take care of myself and also to support my mother.>> VOICEOVER: In Nigeria, where yearly earnings are barely USD$700, these women earn more than double the income of the average citizen. >> TOLUPE LEWIS-TAMOKA [UNIFEM Program Specialist]: There is no doubt that when a woman can stand on her own and do things on her own she becomes empowered, she has a voice; she can make choices; she can make decisions about herself, about her reproductive rights; she can support her children to get an education, and she can also have an influence on her community because it's all the political process.>> VOICEOVER: In a country where barely six percent of elected officials are women, well below the international affirmative action goal of 30 percent, Nike's empowerment is giving women the confidence to vote, especially during an election year.>> AGNES UMECHE: I don't normally take bribes from anybody because tomorrow, if the elected official is there, I have a right to challenge him or her and tell them that I voted for you for a specific purpose and why haven't you fulfilled your election promises?>> VOICEOVER: Nike's training has also helped illegal Nigerian immigrants in Europe. By invitation of the Italian government, Nike trained and mentored over 1,000 commercial sex workers in textile art. >> NIKE OKUNDAYE: Five thousands Nigerian girls are in Italy, in Torino. A lot of them are victims. They don't know that they are going there to become a prostitute. I was teaching 120 in a day and they saw that they could make more money with this textile than the sex.>> VOICEOVER: As a result of the training, many women left the streets, and the Italian authorities adopted the training program permanently. They also gave Nike a national honor. Nike's lessons in artistic enterprise have provided a voice, renewed hope, and a livelihood for marginalized women across Nigeria and the world.>> TITLE: [end credits] http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-ghana-picking-up-the-pieces Thirty-two year old Comfort Adongo is back in school in Bolgatanga, northern Ghana. Comfort was just 14 when a stranger kidnapped and sexually abused her. Abduction and forced marriage of young girls is a growing phenomenon in this part of Ghana. Now back home with her parents, she is determined to finish her schooling and rebuild her life. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/why-women-count-ghana-picking-up-the-pieces Ghana, Gender, Education, Gender equality, Forced marriage, Domestic violence, Upper East Region, LinkTV Picks, tve, Why Women Count >> TITLE: Why Women Count>> VOICEOVER: Bolgatanga is the capital of the Upper East Region in northern Ghana. Poverty is prevalent in this part of the country, and this makes poor families readily give their young daughters in marriage just to receive the bride price. But a worrying trend is the kidnapping of young girls by their admirers. These girls are later forced to marry their admirers. In the next few minutes we'll follow the story of one woman, Comfort Adongo, who in spite of being forced into marriage while still in Class Five, is determined to make it in life no matter the odds. >> TITLE: Picking up the Pieces >> VOICEOVER: This is Comfort Adongo, a 32 year-old woman from Bolga. She is in the first year of the junior secondary school -- a class for pupils between the ages of 13 and 15 years. Comfort's education was disrupted at the age of 14 when a man she doesn't know kidnapped and sexually abused her.>> COMFORT ADONGO [Victim of forced marriage]: When they kidnapped me, I wept and wept for four days.>> VOICEOVER: Later, her kidnapper contacted her family to perform the traditional marriage rites. The family initially rejected the bride price and demanded that Comfort be returned to them. But later they could no longer resist the offer of four cows, valued at 4 million cedis, or USD$400. A report by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in Ghana, has described forced marriage as the major human rights abuse issue in the North. Forcing girls below the age of eighteen to marry is a criminal offence in Ghana, yet very few cases have been reported, let alone for the perpetrators to be prosecuted. The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit in Bolga explains.>> JEROME KANYOG [Assistant Superintendent, Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit]: Because they see it as normal usually there is a bit of hesitation on the part of the victim in going to the police. That's the main reason why we haven't received cases like these. It's a common practice. Because this year when we went to the Builsa district for the People's Assembly, the people who were there -- the public, their contributions -- one of them just came and stated categorically that the practice of marrying of children as young as eight, ten, and nine is still rampant.>> VOICEOVER: When Comfort's daughter was less than two years old, her husband deserted her for another woman. When life became very tough, Comfort moved back to her parent's home. But when her absentee husband heard that she had found another man, he followed her back to her family home and beat her up when he heard that she had found another lover. Local non-governmental organizations have taken the lead to sensitize the people, especially traditional and opinion leaders as well as women's groups, about the dangers of forced marriage. One such organization is the Anglican Diocesan Development Organization.>> COMFORT KANCO-ACKEP [Anglican Diocesan Development Organization]: I think that somebody has to start from somewhere. You can imagine the psychological trauma that lady will go through. Someone who you do not love, and you are just kidnapped. I mean, you are treated as an animal and your human dignity is taken away completely. And I think that it is very bad. I come from this part of the country and I don't agree with it.>> VOICEOVER: The Widows and Orphans Ministry, another NGO led by Madame Betsy Ayagiba is the organization that pays for Comfort's school fees and buys her uniform. She weaves hats for a living. >> COMFORT ADONGO: I want to be a nurse in future. If God helps me, I should be somebody in the future.>> 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/to-educate-a-girl What does it take to educate a girl? Framed by the United Nations global initiative to provide equal access to education for girls by 2015, To Educate a Girl takes a ground-up and visually stunning view of that effort through the eyes of girls in Nepal and Uganda who are out of school, starting school, or fighting against the odds to stay in school. Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/to-educate-a-girl Female education, UN Girls' Education Initiative, Gender equality, Millennium Development Goals, Uganda, Girls' Education Movement, Nepal, Queen Rania of Jordan, Saathi Sanga Manka Kura, Gulu >> HER MAJESTY QUEEN RANIA AL ABDULLAH [Global Chair, United Nations Girls' Education Initiative]: What does it take to educate a girl? Probably not a question you ask yourself every day. Today, millions of girls around the world never see the inside of a classroom. They are shut out of school through no fault of their own. Why? Because girls are more affected by poverty, disease, and violence than boys. They are more likely to do housework than schoolwork. And, even if they do get the chance to attend classes, they're first to drop out, long before their brothers. But these girls want to go to school, these girls are ready to go to school, and today they're more likely than ever to succeed. Because 10 years ago the United Nations called for equal access for girls and boys to primary education by 2015. That same year, the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative was launched, and many countries around the world declared their support. Governments, grass roots organizations, volunteers, teachers, parents, and children are all part of our movement working toward this ambitious goal. In "To Educate a Girl," you will meet girls -- and those that are helping them -- from Nepal and Uganda: two countries that are emerging from conflict, challenged by poverty, yet striving to give every girl a better future. So, what does it take to educate a girl? Watch and find out.>> TITLE: A film by Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky>> KOFI ANNAN [United Nations Secretary-General, 1997-2006]: As we open the 21st century, more than 110 million school-aged children are not attending school. Two thirds are girls. >> TITLE: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: World Education Forum, Dakar Senegal, 26 April, 2000>> KOFI ANNAN: The key to all the locks that are keeping girls out of school, from poverty to inequality to conflict, lies in basic education for all. We need all those with power to change things to come together in a global alliance for girls' education. That is why the United Nations is launching a new global initiative to educate girls. To ensure that by 2015 boys and girls will have equal access to all levels of education. That is a test we must pass. And we shall pass it only if children all over the world can pass the test of basic education, and go on to pass the test of life. >> TITLE: To Educate a Girl>> TITLE: 2010. Bara District, Nepal. Near the India Border>> MANISHA: My father carries bricks. My mother works in the landlord's fields. I dig potatoes. >> TITLE: Manisha, age unknown>> MANISHA: Because of my work I can't go to school. I did study for five months in Class 1. At that time my brother went to Punjab to work and got lost there. My mother cried and cried and became ill. Then my father went to Punjab, too. He called us and he cried a lot too. He had searched a lot for my brother. My mother couldn't do any work, and my father wasn't letting us know what was going on. I even asked, should I earn or study? My mom told me, if you're not going to study, then go and earn. Then I went to work.>> BHUKIYA [Manisha's Mother]: At that time we had a lot of problems. I was pregnant then. Manisha would bring the rice and went to earn money as well. She managed everything. >> UPENDRA: The Dalit caste here are very underprivileged. In the old days we didn't eat anything that Dalits touched. We didn't go to the places they went. So I decided to work here for their development and to raise their awareness. This is my medicine shop.>> WOMAN: He has a cold. >> UPENDRA: You need to break this into three parts and let him take one. Here children from the Dalit caste do not enroll in school. That's why Young Champions, like me, are given training so that we can take them to school and admit them and I follow up on their attendance. There are 35 girls like Manisha who aren't in school in this village. I've known Manisha's family for a long time since I'm from the same neighborhood. When I went to her home, her parents said we can't afford to educate all the kids. Then I said three of their daughters can study and leave one daughter at home. And then they agreed.>> TITLE: Manisha's Sisters>> MANISHA: My sisters started studying. >> TEACHER: What does this say? >> MANISHA: I'm not like them. They are better than me. They study and I don't. They are more confident than me. How do you think I feel? I feel like a servant. I thought it's better to earn than study. If I bring home my earnings everyone eats.>> TITLE: Northern Uganda >> TITLE: Mercy, age six>> MERCY: I will go to school. I will take my notebook and a pen. The most important thing in school will be to learn how to write in my notebook. But I'm afraid. I'm afraid of the other kids. They might beat me. I will go with my friends Adol and Kabila. >> GRACE [Mercy's Grandmother]: I stopped my schooling in Primary 3, I didn't even learn how to read. When I got married I already had four children.>> TITLE: Sarah, Mercy's mother>> GRACE: Sarah would've continued schooling, but then she had a baby. >> SARAH: A boy got me pregnant with Mercy when I was 15. After he did this to me, he disappeared. The problem with girls' education is that one has to have money. If there's no money a girl will not go to school.>> MERCY: Sarah should've gone to Senior 3 this year but we couldn't afford the school fees, so she's at home now. It is easy to educate a girl if you have the resources. But if there's poverty in your hands a child can't complete her education. >> SARAH: Let's pray.>> MERCY: I want God to open her ears and make her clever, to continue her education and get a job. After she gets a job she can get married to a person who also works. >> TITLE: Kathmandu, Nepal >> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA [Radio Host]: Well I must say that I'm quite lucky to get a very supportive family. Both of my parents are university teachers. Mom! I'm leaving now. So, like, they understand how important, you know, it is for everyone to be educated. I have been one among the privileged group who've got the chance of education and all the modern facilities and all. I love my job. Each day, each week I'm learning so many new things.>> AYUSH: Hello friends! What's up? Welcome to your favorite program, "Chatting with My Best Friend." And I'm your very dear friend, Ayush. And with me is ...>> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: Your dear friend Swarnima. I'm perfectly able to welcome my dear friends myself. Friends, for my part, I welcome you all to the program as well ...>> APSARA: I started listening to the radio when I was 10 years old. I listened to "Chatting with My Best Friend" a lot because it broadcast stories and dramas about our problems. >> PRENUM: Whenever I listen to "Chatting with My Best Friend," I make sure I have paper and pen with me so I don't miss anything important. >> SANJU: In "Chatting with My Best Friend" everything's shared. They're sharing problems that people are going through, and I like that. They say people who are suffering can also do something. I like that the most.>> TITLE: In Nepal, "Chatting with My Best Friend" attracts 6 million listeners every week.>> TITLE: Letter Discussion Session >> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: We receive hundreds of letters each week. One very major factor which leads us to the content of the show is the letter themselves. The letter discussion session, we have those meetings every week. We have to discuss which letters are we going to air and, like, what can be said to those letters. Reading each letter is like meeting a new person you know. The letter has everything about the person, it's like meeting each one of them individually. We sit and we read them out and we discuss them sometimes for hours. Sometimes we even like fight.>> MAN 1: But you have to keep your skills up to date.>> WOMAN: Obviously.>> MAN 2: Because everyone is not lucky.>> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: They're writing about their lives, the most sacred of their problems, and they're sharing, thinking that, like, we are their best friend.>> TITLE: Kavre District, Nepal. The Foothills of the Himalayas>> SANJU [age 14]: I haven't written a letter yet. If I write, first I want to write about my pain, my parents troubles and what we've gone through up till now, and what my sister's gone through. That's what I would love to write. People used to say many things about my sister, like why is she going to school when she's supposed to get married? I used to feel hurt. I used to feel, I wish my sister would do something in this village, show them that a girl can do something, too. Then nobody would point to her and gossip. Some people still tell me even now that my sister should get married. But I tell them that my sister has a different destiny. So everyone shuts their mouth. >> SUJANI [Sanju's Sister]: People have this negative thought about sending girls to school. If they educate the boys, they will be successful and will look after their parents later, whereas a girl will get married and go live in someone else's house. The parents think, what are we going to gain from that? I'm a girl and I'm doing something for my family.>> SANJU: My big sister pays for my computer class and exam fees. Now my parents understand. Now that my big sister has proved herself, they say, why talk to the younger ones about marriage? Me? I'm 14. I'm studying in Class 8. Today the forest is open so we are going to collect dry leaves for the fire. I've always liked science. I've read about the lives of great scientists. Sometimes I wish I could do something like that. That I could be a scientist, too. But because I'm poor it's probably a dream. If I were rich I'm sure I would become a scientist. >> TITLE: In Uganda, the Girls' Education Movement has over 1,000 clubs. GEM is also active throughout East Africa.>> TITLE: Abim, Uganda>> JOEL OKIDI [Inspector of Schools, Abim]: In our district, here, we have our local GEM chapter, known as "Adige." That is, Abim District Initiative for Girls' Education movement. This day, that we are organizing, the "go back to school" walk, it is the Adige members who are so much on the ground mobilizing. >> MARGARET OUMA ARIOKOT [Abim School Headmistress]: The school walk is good. When these girls move, they're smart. And they're herding other children who have not gone to school to come to? School. >> CHILDREN: Teachers had to go to school, so concentrate until you finish. Nurses had to go to school, so concentrate until you finish. The time has come to go back to school! These days take your education seriously. Father and mother! Listen to me. I don't have any clothes and yet you're drinking alcohol. I have no books but still you're drinking alcohol. I have no pen but still you're drinking alcohol. >> SIGN: Both boys and girls have equal opportunity towards education. When you educate a girl, you are educating the whole nation. Give us good guidance and counseling. Back to school, stay in school and complete your studies. Give us time to stay at school. Girls who are outside come back to school.>> MAN: Can we now line up and we'll start our school walk?>> VOICES: Left, right.>> JOEL OKIDI: They will have a bit of marching within the area to inform the people that we are now in school.>> CHILDREN: Our day. Our day. Our, our, our, our day. Our day. Our, our day. Our, our, our back to school. Our day. Our day. Our, our, our, our day. >> MARGARET OUMA ARIOKOT: They have the songs. That helps them to educate. And then helps other children when they stage it. And the children say, "Aaah. It is good to go to school.">> MATHEW OMAR [District Education Office, Abim]: Before we started this type of strategy the enrollment was low. >> JOEL OKIDI: Since we started it has helped to improve enrollment and even the retention has improved greatly. >> SIGN: Give the girl a second change to go to school.>> JOEL OKIDI: The number of girls that are entering the school and completing have also improved.>> CHILDREN: Parents, parents! Please take your children back to school.>> WOMAN: Please give me your attention. Thank you for coming. We're here at the marketplace to encourage you to take your children back to school on Monday. Take your children to schools so that they can start Primary 1. If your daughter dropped out of school because she gave birth, if the baby is weaned, let her come back to school. When your daughter is educated, when your daughter is educated, her bride price equals three dowries. >> ACIENG IRENE: Okay! My name is Acieng Irene. I left school for two years but now I have gone back and I am beginning to see the value of education. When you educate your daughters it's like you are educating the whole world. Thank you parents, take your children back to school starting Monday. Thank you so much. >> WOMAN: While you are here, buy books and pens. Buy uniforms and let your children go back on Monday. Thank you so much.>> SARAH: Try that one on. We came to buy a uniform for Mercy. On Monday I will take her to school. This will be the first time Mercy goes to school. She'll start P1.>> TITLE: In both Uganda and Nepal, enrollment numbers for girls and boys are steadily rising due to the efforts of groups like GEM and Young Champions. High drop-out rates remain an issue.>> TITLE: Bara District, Nepal>> TITLE: Manisha>> UPENDRA: It's my job to get girls to go to school. I'd talk with Manisha, and she would tell me that she feels ashamed to go to school >> MANISHA: If I get the chance I'd go to school. But if I go, people will make fun of me for being too old. >> UPENDRA: For girls like Manisha what we do is we accompany them to school for a few days and it helps make them less hesitant to go.>> TITLE: The Young Champions movement is active throughout South Asia. There are 500 Young Champions in Nepal alone.>> UPENDRA: Who's houses are there? >> VOICE 1: Mine here and his there.>> MAN: This is a river. This road goes straight to school from there.>> UPENDRA: Where's Raju's house?>> VOICE 2: Over here.>> UPENDRA: We are mapping this village. How many girls go to school and how many stay at home. Look, this is the stamp for a house. How many children are in houses are written in this one. How many sons and daughters go to school is shown here. How many sons or daughters don't go, it's shown here. I'm marking a house here. We are Young Champions. We go to parents and try to convince them to send their children to school.>> WOMAN 1 [Young Champion]: Do you want to go to school?>> GIRL: But I'm not enrolled.>> WOMAN 1: If you go to school, you'll be enrolled.>> UPENDRA: Why didn't you send this child to school? What were you thinking?>> MOTHER: The kids say the teacher hits them and they're scared to go.>> WOMAN 1: Why don't you go to school and talk to the teacher?>> MOTHER: The teacher says why send kids so young to school? They don't pay attention.>> UPENDRA: These children are not too young to study.>> WOMAN 2 [Young Champion]: If you teach them from a young age, they'll learn.>> UPENDRA: So will you send her?>> MOTHER: Okay, I'll send her. >> UPENDRA: We went to meet the principal and talked to him about how the children are disciplined. Children shouldn't be given corporal punishment, because they run away. They should be taught with care and not with hitting. So things are improved now. When I go to the village and tell them to educate children and people say, "No, it's time for marriage, I will get her married," I use myself as an example. I got married at 13. At the time I was a child. I just did whatever my parents told me. So I tell people, look I got married and could only study so far. If I hadn't gotten married, I would be in a better position. >> WOMAN 2: From birth, rather than sending girls to study they're told to look after the kitchen. It's still the custom to discriminate between a girl child and a boy child >> UPENDRA: Doesn't your mother say to go to school?>> GIRL: Yes, she does.>> WOMAN 2: Why don't you go, then? Your mother asks you to go?>> GIRL: Yes. >> WOMAN 2: Then why don't you go?>> UPENDRA: Please send her to school every day. Once a month doesn't do anything.>> MOTHER: Whenever there's school, the child goes.>> WOMAN 2: School is open every day, we're coming from there. You should send her now.>> MOTHER: Okay, take her.>> UPENDRA: Go, get your books. Let's go to school. Come walk with us. This way. So the new madam teaches very well?>> GIRL: Yes.>> UPENDRA: Let's go to new teacher's place. We'll take you there. Sit near the teacher. Erase this and start again.>> WOMAN 2: Write it again and read it. Read it aloud. Now write it again. Try again. If you practice you'll get better at it.>> KOFI ANNAN: From issues of morality to issues of mortality, the denial of girls' rights begins early in childhood. When a choice has to be made between educating a boy or a girl, girls are more likely to be kept at home. When the family needs income to be supplemented, girls are more likely to be sent to work. Even when girls do go to school, they will often have to do housework at the expense of homework. When they become pregnant school policies force them to drop out. When parents consider their daughter's future, they often see education as a hindrance to successful marriage and motherhood. Girls are more likely than boys to care for a sick family member and keep the household running. Nothing illustrates this burden more amply than the impact of HIV/AIDS. When catastrophe strikes, whether in the form of illness or conflict, displacement or hardship, women and girls from 65 to five years old are more likely to shoulder the burden of keeping family and household together.>> TITLE: Mercy's First Day of School>> SARAH: Do you have the uniform?>> WOMAN: Where is Mercy's uniform?>> SARAH: Where did you put the uniform?>> WOMAN: Let's check and see if it's here.>> SARAH: Maybe Mercy put it here.>> WOMAN: Where could the uniform be?>> SARAH: Mercy, come out!>> WOMAN: The uniform is not here.>> MERCY: My uniform was lost and that's why I was upset. Some lady accidentally took it. On the way to school somebody was sent to check, found it, and brought it to us.>> MARGARET OUMA ARIOKOT: What's your name?>> MERCY: Alimo Mercy.>> MARGARET OUMA ARIOKOT: Alimo Mercy. She looks a bright girl. The way she moves, the way she looks. You see when someone looks you direct, then that's a bright person.>> SIGN: GEM Slogan. Girls on the lead. Boys as allies. Adults provider of wisdom>> MARGARET OUMA ARIOKOT: Poverty level is high. That is the state of the children in this school. Come and see the classrooms. If you go around all these classes you will realize that its only P7 class that have benches. The rest are on the floor. And to make it worse it is a bare floor with dirt, dust. That even affects the handwriting. That even affects the concentration of a child. If the teachers come, you get up, clap your hands, and sing. One, two, three ... The lazy one just sits, the lazy one just eats. But then the lazy one opens his eyes. ... Good. Let's sit down. Thank you, now your teacher will come. Wait for your teacher, she will come. Sit and wait for the teacher. I'm supposed to have 14 teachers. But yesterday there were only three. My hope for the child, truly my hope for the child would be that they would all, first of all, complete primary 7.>> TEACHER: After you ask the teacher and go to the latrine, what do you do?>> MERCY: You open the door.>> TEACHER: Then you open the door without knocking?>> MERCY: We knock on the door.>> TEACHER: Before you get back to class, what do you do? What do you do?>> MERCY: I wash my hands.>> TEACHER: Good, sit down. Put your hands together for her!>> TITLE: Radio drama rehearsal>> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: Every week we select like a certain issue, then make a radio drama based on that issue and also air a letter, which is related.>> MAN [Actor]: Now listen to me. Starting tomorrow you are not going to school anymore. You can read the alphabet, there's no need for a girl to study further.>> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: This week we are, like, focusing on girl-child education, the issue of empowerment related to a girl-child education.>> TITLE: Kavre District, Nepal>> APSARA [age 17]: When I was in Class 8 I thought the radio hosts would solve my problem, so I wrote a letter to them. "Dear respected brother and sisters. Greetings. There is talk of marriage going on in my house. But I don't want to get married now. How can I stop my marriage and how can I improve my studies. Please, friends, what can I do to solve my problem?" I remember how I felt then. I felt tortured mentally. I simply could not concentrate on my studies. And I could not talk to my parents or anyone else about it. In return for my letter I got some life skills booklets and a letter. I showed the booklet to my parents and read the letter to my family. I developed my self-confidence and managed to convince them.>> FATHER: She wrote a letter to this "Chatting with My Best Friend," and they wrote her back saying that it's not the right time to get married, so we decided not to proceed further. They say it on the radio all the time that boys and girls are equal. If you cut a daughter's hand it will bleed just like the son's. There's no difference right?>> APSARA: My future would've been dark. If I can afford it in the future, I want to become a doctor, a heart specialist.>> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: Sometimes we find one letter that it's so touching it has the whole story in it and then, like, we feel like we must work on this.>> WOMAN: Okay. I'll read this letter. It's even highlighted. "Friends, as you know our society is a male-dominated one." >> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: A girl is writing to us saying that, so that her brother can go to school, she has to sacrifice. They're prioritizing the son not the daughter.>> PRENUM [age 20]: I guess I was 15 years old. My brother and I used to study in the same class. Both of our school fees were due but we weren't in the position to pay both of them. My parents decided to pay only my brother's fees and not mine. After that I left school for two years. What I wrote in that letter was that I dropped out of school in Class 7 but then continued school thanks to the information I got from the show. >> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: But now she's facing the same problem. She's writing us, and, you know, you've helped me the first time, you can help me this time as well.>> WOMAN: "Friends, what can be done about my problem? I feel if you don't solve my problems, I can't do anything in life.">> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: We receive those kinds of letters all the time. >> VOICES: Dear friends I don't know if this is right but one of my teachers acts in a very unusual way. One day he kissed me. I was utterly shocked and kept silent. / Dear friends, due to our low economic condition I am frequently pressured to leave my studies. I want to continue with school so that I can do something in life and be independent. / Dear friends, my parents are pressuring me not to go to school. I don't have time to study because of my household chores. / But it's hard for me to travel two hours to reach school. / I am 15 years old. / I studied to Class 5 but I was married off when I was 16 years old. / Dear friends, our country was in conflict. No matter how hard I try, I simply can't forget. I'm mentally traumatized and this has also affected my education. I hardly can concentrate on my studies. The picture of conflict is still fresh in my eyes.>> TITLE: Nepal and Uganda are both emerging from years of civil war.>> TITLE: The war in Uganda -- as in Nepal -- affected not only students who feared kidnapping at school, but teachers who were often intimidated or killed by combatants.>> TITLE: Gulu, Uganda>> SIGN: Title: Pillar of peace. Artist: Kigozi David>> VOICES SINGING: Oh Uganda, may God uphold thee. We lay our future in thy hands. United, free, for liberty together we'll always stand.>> TITLE: Sarah, age 17>> ISAIAH [Sarah's Grandfather]: Sarah's parents were shot by the LRA rebels. She'd just started her studies when her parents were killed.>> HEADMASTER: Good morning colleagues. I would like to sincerely welcome you back to Gulu high school 2010 term one. I would also like to congratulate ourselves for coming back in one piece. This will be a year of hard work. A year of seriousness. >> SARAH: I remember. The rebels came from behind the house. My father was inside. It was mid-afternoon. They said: Get out! I thought the neighbors were calling him. Then they seized him and tied his hands with a rope behind his back. Then my mother ... they called her out, too. They gave her a very heavy bag of peanuts to carry. She couldn't manage. They said if she could not carry it, they would kill her. Then she struggled to carry it. My mother and father were both killed.>> ISAIAH: She was going crazy. We started counseling her slowly and now she's okay.>> ELVIRA LALOCH [Sarah's Primary School Headmistress]: Gulu District have lost lives of so many of their relatives. They've lost even their homes and properties. They've also lost the thread of life. And even education was so low because they had lost hope, as they would say, in life. That is the time when Sarah dropped out. >> TITLE: Coo-Pe IDP Camp. Gulgu, Uganda>> ELVIRA LALOCH: This is the camp where Sarah lived when she was in primary.>> SARAH: Life in the camp was difficult because when you stay in the camp you see how people live. Some do not want to be educated, and they do bad, useless things. >> ELVIRA LALOCH: The culture was not followed. There was nothing to do. They could not even go to the village to dig because there was insecurity. Especially the children who are just looking at those bad things like drinking, fighting, early marriages, forced marriages also. In 2005 there was a club called "Girls' Education Movement" club. Their main objectives of the Girls' Education Movement club is to promote quality education for both boys and girls. For girls to exercise their rights in solving issues concerning them. Promote sense of leadership in girl child. Promote education of girls. So this GEM club came to the camp. For girls who are in difficulties they could bring them here, talk to them and so on. We are talking about girls' education through talk shows, drama, songs.>> GIRLS: GEM has brought education, free education. It makes me very happy. Take advantage of education. >> ELVIRA LALOCH: Sarah took interest.>> GIRLS: So you can grow and become sophisticated.>> ELVIRA LALOCH: And she told us that she had liked the GEMs club. She wanted to resume. She has taken education as a priority.>> TEACHER: Divided by nine. So you have three equals five F, minus one-sixty, all over nine.>> SARAH: School and making friends takes your mind off of things. It helps you forget. Also, when you're reading a book, you concentrate on other things.>> TEACHER: One point six times ten to what power?>> ISAIAH: The way I see it, she should become a doctor. But if that fails, she should be teaching, but at a higher level. Not primary. >> SARAH: I know my future will be good because all my thoughts are focused on education. In the future, I'll have my own family.>> TITLE: Kavre District, Nepal>> SANJU: Pucchi is my niece. At home she's a troublemaker so she's staying with us. She goes to the same school as we do.>> SANUMAYA: I haven't studied at all. When I was small my brothers were sent to school because they would look after the family later. I didn't even know where the school's gate was.>> JAGAT: I haven't studied. I can write my name and sign. But my children are doing well in school. >> SANUMAYA: During our days as the tradition went, we did exactly as told by our parents. We married who they chose and were always suppressed by our husbands.>> SANJU: Don't be naughty in class.>> SANUMAYA: I used to think that this was how life was for girls. But then I took some adult training and realized that I could do something. And then I understood that even girls should be sent to school, so that they too could do something. After realizing this I decided that even if become like a blind buffalo, I'll educate my daughters and build their futures.>> SANJU: May I come in, sir? In science no one could get better marks than me.>> TEACHER: The first planet is ... ?>> CLASS: Mercury!>> TEACHER: The last one ... ?>> CLASS: Pluto!>> TEACHER: There's more to learn about them.>> SANJU: But as I got older I started to worry and now I'm down to fourth position.>> TEACHER: Okay, Sanju, stand up.>> SANJU: When the teacher makes me stand alone, I feel tense inside. Even if I know the answer, it can be hard to say it aloud.>> TEACHER: What is the temperature of an orange star?>> SANJU: Four thousand degrees Celsius. Now that I'm in higher class, it's getting difficult.>> RAM PRASAD ADHIKARI [Sanju's Principal]: She's extremely hardworking and enthusiastic. And she's inquisitive about science. She's disciplined and has a wonderful learning nature. But, given her financial situation, she will face many obstacles. School isn't in a position to support her, either. >> SUJANI: Sanju is my youngest sister. She's the most studious of us all. We don't have to help her with her schoolwork. We'll have to get her into a good high school.>> SANJU: To educate a girl, you have to have the support of the family.>> CLASS: Eleven thousand degrees Celsius.>> TEACHER: And a yellow star?>> SANJU: Six thousand degrees Celsius.>> TITLE: End of Mercy's first day of school >> SARAH: Welcome back, how are you? What did they teach you?>> MERCY: We wrote today.>> SARAH: What did you write?>> MERCY: We wrote our names twice.>> SARAH: Twice? What is this?>> MERCY: This is where I tried to write.>> SARAH: But there's nothing written here.>> MERCY: Everything's not written.>> SARAH: It's not correct. >> MERCY: I was just trying. But I wrote nothing.>> MERCY'S SISTER: Why didn't you start from here?>> SARAH: You should start writing from here then continue on other pages, just like this, till you finish. Take her books inside. Go and sit on the mat.>> MERCY: You brought me water, even though I didn't even ask for it.>> SARAH: Wash your hands. Did you play today at school?>> MERCY: No, we didn't.>> SARAH: You didn't? You didn't even have PE? Let's pray.>> MERCY: Kabila, bring your food and eat here.>> SARAH: Who took you to class?>> MERCY: Madam showed us all the classrooms, even the latrines for girls.>> SARAH: Did she show you the one for boys too? Do you know now which one you have to go?>> MERCY: Yes. Teacher told me to squat on the latrine and I did.>> KABILA: She sat on the boy's latrine.>> SARAH: You didn't understand?>> MERCY: I did understand, but she told me to squat there!>> SARAH: So now you can show your friends where to go?>> MERCY: No, it smells bad there.>> SARAH: Listen Mercy! You take your friend but you stay away. Then you show them, this is your latrine.>> MERCY: But it stinks!>> SARAH: You have to stand far away, you hear me?>> MERCY: Kabila, can't you tell some stories? I'm finished with mine.>> SARAH: Mercy did you fight with somebody at class?>> MERCY: I didn't want to. A boy tried to beat me. It was Adolo who was fighting with some boy. Adolo can't lose, you know how she fights.>> SARAH: Did you try to separate them?>> MERCY: No, her brother was there, he would've hit me bad.>> SARAH: You shouldn't fight in school, do you hear? >> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: Morning. The show has made quite an impact you know. Because you feel that the show is talking to you about your issue. Then certainly that is going to motivate you. >> TITLE: Day of recording session>> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: I'm just finalizing the script, you know. The retouching and everything so that we'll have final refined script. It'll be from the line, "What's wrong with you today?" and then you say, "There's one free," and then I'll get more irritated, and then, "There's not one but two dramas today.">> AYUSH: Hello, what's up Sadi? >> VOICE: Hey listeners, I have a letter for the show, It's here! It's here!>> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: Ayush, I have a letter in my hand. "Friends, I have a big problem right now. My financial situation at home is not good, so I don't know how I'll be able to continue my studies. Friend, how can I solve my problem? >> PRENUM: When I heard my name aired along with my letter I was so happy. >> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: Before you were only in the seventh grade. Now you've passed your middle school exam. And based on that our friend can do some work.>> AYUSH: Friend, we used to have a hard time, too. Because my family didn't have money, either. But then my neighbors told me that I could teach their children. So I started tutoring them. >> SWARNIMA SHRESTHA: We have full faith that you'll be able to solve this problem, too.>> PRENUM: As I'm a student of education, I have to know about the ways to teach. I'm in Class 11 right now, and I can teach the lower grades. Thank you, sit down. >> CHILDREN: Thank you miss.>> PRENUM: Right now I'm working as a volunteer teacher in the school where I used to study. "Once upon a time, all the animals gathered in one place." In the future, after completing my education, my goal is to work in my community. I think I'll be a teacher later on. I'll be a very good teacher, a sincere teacher. Okay, we'll finish the chapter tomorrow. Please be good.>> KOFI ANNAN: It is often said that education empowers girls by building up their confidence and enabling them to make informed decisions about their lives. For most of the world's girls it is about escaping the trap of child labor or the perils of going into labor of childbirth while still a child yourself. About ensuring that your children in their turn are guaranteed the right to education. It is about being able to earn an income when women before you earned none. About protecting yourself against violence and enjoying rights which women before you never knew they had. About taking part in economic and political decision-making. Finally, it is about educating your children to do the same and their children after them. It is about ending the spiral of poverty, which previously seemed to have no end.>> BHUKIYA: Manisha is good at everything. Though she left her studies she still remembers what she learned. If I give her something now, she can even read it properly.>> UPENDRA: If Manisha goes to study, she won't have to work. She will learn many things in school, and tell all the girls of her neighborhood to go to school.>> FATHER: Upendra says that we need to educate our children. He often comes to our place. He's the one who told us to take the children to school. Now I'm encouraging her to study.>> TITLE: After missing several years, Manisha returned to school, joining her younger sisters. She now attends Class 3.>> TITLE: The number of children out of school worldwide has decreased from 110 million in 2000 to 72 million today. Now just slightly more than half of them are girls.>> TITLE: [end credits]>> HER MAJESTY QUEEN RANIA AL ABDULLAH: What does it take to educate a girl? The support of families, the cooperation of governments, and the tireless work of educators, volunteers, and nonprofit organizations. Some of the efforts you've seen in this film are having a dramatic impact. The Young Champions volunteer movement in Nepal is active throughout South Asia. And GEM, the Girls' Education Movement, now has nearly a thousand clubs in Uganda alone. It has expanded to include boys who work towards gender equality in their communities. The radio show "Chatting with My Best Friend" reaches an astonishing six million listeners every week. Though there is still much to be done, awareness is expanding, enrollment is up, and more women around the world are taking control of their lives. Why is this massive effort so necessary? Because the rewards are real. Girls' education lifts lives. A girl in school means her family in better health. A rise in girls' education means a fall in population growth and infant mortality. As educated women, they send their children to school more, earn more, survive and thrive more, amidst poverty, disease, and conflict. I'd like to leave you with this proverb: If you educate a boy, you educate an individual. If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/child-survival-reaching-the-poorest-women-and-children-in-bangladesh Concern Worldwide's Child Survival Program has revolutionized maternal and child health by utilizing established local leaders to spread knowledge throughout the communities about how to access hospitals and healthcare. It has laid a foundation within the community and with local actors that is saving lives on a grassroots level. Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:42:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/child-survival-reaching-the-poorest-women-and-children-in-bangladesh Bangladesh, Health, Gender, Concern Worldwide, Pregnancy, Education, Maternal health, Saidpur, Rajshahi Division, Healthcare, Public health >> VOICEOVER: In the backstreet of a slum in the north of Bangladesh, children play the chicken game. They hop and kick a stone for as long as they can without falling over. Nothing unusual here, except if it wasn't for a groundbreaking health program from Concern Worldwide these children wouldn't be alive. In Bangladesh, one in every dozen children dies before school age. But the odds against surviving are even worse in the most deprived areas of the overcrowded cities. Here almost one in seven young children die because health care just doesn't reach the majority of those living in absolute poverty. That's what Concern Worldwide is changing. Ten years has been spent developing the Child Survival Program, and it's transforming healthcare for some of the world's poorest people.>> TITLE: Concern Worldwide (U.S.) INC. Child Survival: Reaching the poorest women and children >> VOICEOVER: Saving the lives of children means aiming the program at pregnant women, mothers, and babies too. And in the areas where the project is working it's significantly reducing what had been a very high death rate in childbirth and the first five years of life. >> DR. YEASMIN CHANDANA [Maternity Unit]: I've been working for 22 years, and fewer children are dying. The number of neo-natal deaths and the infant mortality rate has decreased from previously. >> VOICEOVER: So how's it being done? Remarkably Concern isn't actually treating anyone, or providing the medicines and equipment in the way that most development projects work. New ground is being broken with a completely new approach: investing time, expertise and encouragement to persuade communities in this part of Bangladesh to improve healthcare for themselves. >> MICHELLE KOULETIO [Health Advisor, Concern Worldwide US]: When the program first started, we looked at where the poorest people were going for advice related to health services. They weren't going to the doctors; they weren't going to nurses. They were going to homeopaths, local pharmacists, and mother in laws. So the program really starts by working with them. >> VOICEOVER: Concern is working with leaders in religion and politics. This is Friday Prayers, and the Imam is about to give health advice, passing on what Concern has encouraged him to learn. The project has reached into the very heart of the life of the region.>> MOHAMMED ZOBAYER [Imam]: Before I got training from the program, the lives of mothers and babies were very much at risk. They often died. In those days, when they came to me for help I would simply give them Holy Water. They would drink it and we believed it would be enough. Now we're all aware of what needs to be done. >> VOICEOVER: The project has taught those who've traditionally been the first port of call for the sick what medical help is available and how to send people to get it.>> DR. ALI AHMED KHAN [Homeopath]: Concern in Bangladesh gave me three days training. They invited all the homeopaths when they started the program here. They covered things like vaccinations, pneumonia, and diarrhea in babies. It has really helped a lot. Now when people come to me with diarrhea or pneumonia I treat them, but if they aren't better quickly I send them to hospital with a letter. They are admitted swiftly and lives are saved. >> VOICEOVER: Here's another life saved. Facilities in this hospital are limited but this boy is getting treatment for pneumonia, which has been one of the biggest killers. And he's getting help because a homeopath sent him here. The community has been mobilized with an army of health volunteers, a network of people like Jasmine who go from home to home offering advice. They've been given training by instructors who were trained by Concern, and it means mothers are being reached too. >> JASMINE AKHTAR [Health Volunteer]: I've been given a lot of training. How to care for mothers and babies better, how to treat the conditions that mothers and babies suffer from, basic health messages for the mothers, such as keeping the baby safe and keeping them and their things clean. We were also given training on diarrhea, cholera, birth control and vaccinations. >> RAHENA BEGUM [Mother]: Two days before my baby was due I was bleeding and in pain. I rang Jasmine on her mobile and asked her for help. It was midnight, but she came. Jasmine arranged everything, and within an hour I was in hospital. I needed blood and I had the baby at half past one. If it hadn't been for the program I would have been in serious trouble. My life was in danger. But because of the program I got the help I needed. >> JASMINE AKHTAR: Before the program began a lot of mothers and babies died in pregnancies like this. Before this, people didn't go to hospital to get help. The death rate has fallen since we started work. People are more aware about children and mothers' health. >> VOICEOVER: The youth have been engaged too. This play about polio encourages vaccinations against preventable diseases, promotes healthy and safe pregnancies, and gives advice on good hygiene. The local Ward Health Committee organizes them, groups of the great and the good set up throughout the cities. They are the champions of the Child Survival Program, pushing for more and better healthcare.>> SHAHEEN AKHTAR [Councilor, Saidpur]: This is our commitment to the community. It's now in my manifesto that the healthcare system must be improved. I promised that if they gave me the opportunity I would be a good leader. The budget for healthcare is now more than it was before the project began, but it's still not enough. We need to spend more. >> VOICEOVER: That growing commitment to providing free or affordable healthcare to the poorest people brings clinics like this, providing tests, medicines and supplements to pregnant women and helping mothers-to-be and unborn children alike. It's a direct result of Concern Worldwide's work here without actually being provided by Concern. And that's the beauty of this bold new approach -- it increases the number of people Concern's work can reach with limited resources. >> MICHELLE KOULETIO: Twenty years ago, Concern was basically running a clinic right here in this building, it was a clinic designed for the slum population. Our staff was nurses, doctors, and educated people who were out doing outreach work. Basically Concern closed this clinic and said, "Aren't there other ways to help the poorest people access health services? It's great we're working here in this one city but there's over three hundred cities in Bangladesh so what kind of impact are we having, how long is it going to last?" So our staff, who were very used to providing services themselves, all of a sudden were in a position where they had to encourage political leaders, teachers, pharmacists, homeopaths, health volunteers, and get them to come together and talk about health, get them to advocate to the mayor's office to allocate more resources. So that was a major change. >> IZAZ RASUL [Program Manager, Concern Worldwide]: A lot of talking, a lot of explaining, and a lot of time spent on talking to these people to help them understand why they would invest their time for health, how their investment would bear fruit in the future, what they can expect from this project, what would be their role. So we had to spend a lot of time explaining all these aspects. >> DEWAN KAMAL AHMED [Mayor, Nilphameri]: Back them I wasn't concerned about providing healthcare, it wasn't my headache. But when I saw what they were doing in Saidpur, the next municipality to us, where they were already running the program, the idea came to me too. Now my heart and soul are in this program. >> VOICEOVER: The idea began here, in the bustling town of Saidpur in the north of Bangladesh in 1998. There were trials here and in Parbatipur for five years and was such a success that Concern wanted to see if it could be used elsewhere. So for five more years it's been tried in another seven urban areas. But before handing them over entirely to the people involved, Concern has carried out research to see how well it all worked and how to transfer the idea right across this country and into others too. The results are just what Concern dreamed it would see.>> TITLE: Child Survival Program Achievements: Reached one million people, antenatal care dramatically improved, increased child protection against illness, health gap between rich and poor halved, thousands of lives saved. >> VOICEOVER: In five years it's reached a million people, increased the number of women getting healthcare after giving birth to one and a half times what it was, and it had the same big increase in the number of children getting vitamin supplements to protect against illness. It means the gap between rich and poor in access to healthcare has been halved, saving thousands of lives and improving countless more. >> SUSAN ROSS [Independent Evaluator]: A lot has been accomplished in a pretty short period of time. We've seen a dramatic increase in knowledge. They're very willing, and now very able, to go ahead and do these things on their own. >> RUNA LAILA [Councilor, Joypurhat]: We've learned a lot from Concern, so we know how to handle the program alone. >> SHAHEEN AKHTAR: Saidpur was a test case for this program, because we achieved so much here it was introduced to another seven municipalities. Now seven more is not enough, we need to introduce this across Bangladesh. So all the municipalities are working for good healthcare for mothers and babies. >> VOICEOVER: And it's spreading further than that. Child Survival Programs have now begun in the countries of Haiti, Burundi, and Rwanda. >> MICHELLE KOULETIO: It's exciting. Who would have believed that an organization that was running a slum clinic themselves could become a leader in defining a model that actually works to help the urban poor and could be replicated not only at a national level but also has implications for urban areas around the world. I'm really proud of what's been accomplished here in Bangladesh. >> TITLE: Concern Worldwide would like to thank its partners in the Rajshahi region of Bangladesh. This project was made possible thanks to generous donations from the general public, and the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Concern Worldwide (U.S.) INC, www.concernusa.org. 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/sex-workers-confront-hiv Confronted with the horrific realities of HIV/AIDS, sex workers in the Dominican Republic have banded together to create a united women's movement. They help increase awareness of prevention techniques, resources and safety, as well as serving as volunteers in a revolutionary HIV vaccine trial. Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:42:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/sex-workers-confront-hiv Dominican Republic, HIV, Health, AIDS pandemic, Sex worker, Prostitution, Education, Gender, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, LinkTV Picks >> TITLE: At least 70,000 of the Dominican Republic?s 9 million people are HIV positive. Female sex workers here are reported to number as many as 130,000. The HIV rates among sex workers here runs three to 10 times higher than in the general population. Some 80 percent of sex workers work in bars, discos, and brothels, and 20 percent work the streets, tourist beaches, and ports. >> JULIANA [Founder, MODEMU]: Of all the towns, it has the fourth most sex workers. I don?t have a real estimate of the number of sex workers in Haina. There must be at least a thousand sex workers here, because La Haina is a town with income. We have a port, where tourist ships dock. There?s a manufacturing area -- a lot of industry. So, there?s money, and where there?s money, there?s sex work. Well, in this country it is very difficult for a woman to get a job. The only options available are being a housekeeper, working in a factory, or live with a man (cook and clean for him in exchange for food and housing), or sex work. >> JOCELYN [Sex Worker]: I?ve been doing this for 10 years. I gave birth to my child, Rosy, the one who?s 11. When I saw I had nothing -- she had no milk, her dad left and abandoned me -- a friend of mine said, ?Come with me to the port.? When I went, a Honduran sailor fell for me and gave me $100. Here we have a port, where ships and sailors come through. That?s who we work with. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn?t. I?m tired of doing this work; I want to leave this life, because I don?t want to keep doing this anymore. It?s not something you choose to do, but out of necessity. Seven people live in my two-bedroom house: my three kids, my sister and her child, and my niece. Around here, there is a lot of crime, a lot of drugs. My kids are here, but I want to move. My children can?t grow up in this environment. >> JULIANA: I?m not doing sex work now. I work on behalf of sex work. I started MODEMU [Movimiento De Mujueres Unidas] 14 years ago. People were saying all sex workers infected people with HIV. So we got together, and seeing the problems that the women had, we came up with the idea to form a united women?s movement. And we went to the streets to work with our fellow sex workers. Sex workers working with sex workers. It was the same language. >> DR. ELLEN KOENIG [Instituto Dominicano de Estudios Virologicos]: MODEMU does get money on certain programs. They apply for grants and USAID has not helped very much because the American government doesn?t want to work with sex workers. But the European community, the Canadian equivalent of AID, other groups will fund studies or work for them. So in that way they have gotten money to finance some of their programs that they have under way. >> JOCELYN: Can I get a ride? I?m a member of MODEMU, so I go give speeches to girls in the business. I go out three days a week to talk to girls about HIV/AIDS prevention. When we went to Semana Santa, I went to the El Sifon Bar to teach the girls the correct use of the condoms. There are many men who don?t like to use a condom. Many will offer you $100 to have sex without a condom. We say no. No condom, no sex. >> DR. ELLEN KOENIG: A female sex worker cannot protect herself unless the man wants to protect himself. There is a female condom, but it is very uncomfortable and it?s about five to ten times more expensive than the male condom. So the woman is really at a disadvantage in this game. They realize that with this disease, they have to work to help solve. >> SIGN: Laboratorio>> JULIANA: There was a test of a (HIV) vaccine for sex workers. Because it targeted high-risk people, they called MODEMU to provide sex workers. So Ellen called MODEMU, MODEMU sent six representatives. I was one of them. I was also part of the study. >> DR. ELLEN KOENIG: In the Dominican Republic, our first study showed the highest levels in men who have sex with men and the Haitians, and this probably continues on today. So when we were picking people, the idea that the Haitians might be good, but they were doing vaccine trials in Haiti. The men who have sex with men, I believe they can find easily in places like the United States and these men in the United States are very dedicated to helping this. They felt that the female prostitute here would probably be a good candidate, and when they saw the number who had other sexually transmitted diseases they figured that this was a very susceptible population and one that would be adequate and might give us some good results as far as the HIV vaccine goes. >> JULIANA: The vaccine -- it?s a trial for the vaccine, but it?s the most promising so far. But if the vaccine turns out to work, it won?t be for our benefit. We are taking a chance for the sake of science, for our grandchildren, for future generations. >> DR. ELLEN KOENIG: These women are the real heroines of the AIDS epidemic because they are giving their bodies and their time to help us try to solve this problem. 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-sorie-k-and-the-mdgs Musician Sorie Kondi, the Stevie Wonder of Sierra Leone, is trying to make it as a world musician in part because he needs to pay his daughter's school fees. He's hitting the road to investigate what's happening with girls' education ten years after the civil war. Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:40:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-sorie-k-and-the-mdgs Sierra Leone, Education, Millennium Development Goals, Freetown, Mateboi, Life on the Edge, Gender, Female education, West Africa, tve >> TITLE: Sorie K and the MDGs>> VOICEOVER: Sorie Kondi, Sierra Leone's Stevie Wonder. He's on iTunes and YouTube, but still struggling to make it. Foreign acclaim does not pay his bills. Sorie pays his eight dollars a month rent by busking the streets of the capital, Freetown. His wife Sally is also blind. She makes and sells soap to help out. >> SORIE KONDI [Musician]: London, America, UK...one day, sometime, we'll go there. >> VOICEOVER: Busking the streets also helps keep his daughter in school. Getting 14-year-old Zeinab through school is a big struggle for Sorie. Primary education is free in Sierra Leone, but there are extra fees demanded by poorly paid teachers and other costs. Somehow Sorie always finds the money. But keeping Zeinab out of trouble is more difficult. >> COUSIN 1: When did you get pregnant? >> COUSIN 2: Form Two. >> VOICEOVER: Zeinab lives with her cousins who have all left school early because of pregnancy. >> SORIE KONDI: Zeinab's not safe. Look at what's happening in this house. Her cousins only made it up to Form Two and got pregnant. So I do worry that someday it will happen to her, you see?>> VOICEOVER: We asked Sorie Kondi to help us make a road movie looking at what's happening with girls' education around the country ten years after civil war. Sorie's trusted aid is 23-year-old Foday P, who helped with production on Sorie's first album. Sorie Kondi's barely ventured out of Freetown since the civil war started 18 years ago. It's a two-week trip around the country. Just Sorie, Foday P -- now "Foday the Roadie" -- and whoever else they pick up on the way. Theophilus needs a lift to Makene. He's a primary school teacher. What's making him angry? Ghost teachers. It's estimated the government has been paying the salaries of thirty thousand phantom teachers who don't exist, the money going who knows where. Ghost teachers are a drain on the budget. But the government's now started a roll call of teachers to make sure the money's spent properly. Theophilus says it's an urgent problem. >> THEOPHILUS [Primary School Teacher]: Teachers do retire, some die. But heads of schools and principles, they still maintain their names in the register. The money goes in their pockets, forgetting the fact that they need to delete those names from the register. So there are ghost teachers all over. >> VOICEOVER: Sierra Leone spends almost four percent of its GDP on education. Sorie is beginning to wonder how much of it finds its way to the children. One of the problems for girls in rural areas is the long walk to school. But they're lucky. Over a quarter of a million children don't go to primary school at all. And most of them are girls. >> TITLE: Mangay Loko Village>> VOICEOVER: Sorie Kondi's village is Mangay Loko. Back home, Sorie's a success story. His old friend Hassan used to be a small time trader. Hassan did pass his school exams, but no more. Now he's a "UU", an unqualified, untrained teacher. The villagers pay him what they can when they can, and it's often not much. Almost half of Sierra Leone's teachers are UUs and often have second jobs to survive. We've heard stories of schools down the road. Sorie's off to learn more. They're all on their way to Mateboi. The school here has an impressive list of former pupils, including some major public figures. Sorie Kondi wants to put on a performance, but the kids get there first. >> TITLE: Mateboi Village>> VOICEOVER: Free primary education has seen a huge increase in pupils here -- it's up by half. Now the school has 425 students but only five teachers and three classrooms. >> FODAY P. FOFANAH [Music Producer]: If you could see them, you would see that the children are having difficulties. They have no desks, and have to put the books on their laps to write. >> VOICEOVER: Half the classes are under mango trees. There just aren't enough buildings. >> SORIE KONDI: So, no benches then? >> FODAY P. FOFANAH: They do have benches to sit on but they haven't got anything to write on. >> VOICEOVER: When the rains come, the problems really start. Children from the mango tree classrooms pile into the school building classrooms and the entire school comes to a halt. For nine-year-old Fatima, that means losing up to forty days a year of school. >> FATIMA [Student]: When I come to school in the morning and it rains heavily, my books and uniform get completely soaked. >> VOICEOVER: As Sorie leaves -- burnt out ruins of buildings. A reminder of civil war; over twelve hundred schools were destroyed. And in contrast, the new roads of reconstruction that take us to Koidu, the center for blood diamonds. There is money around here. And money can be a problem, as Sorie's next encounter shows. Sia Elizabeth Tongu belongs to a women's group that campaigns against teenage marriage. >> SIA ELIZABETH TONGU: Our young girls face a lot of challenges. We're concerned about teenage marriages, "early marriages" we call them out here. People with money will lure them out of school. It still happens. >> VOICEOVER: Mariama didn't get a chance to finish her schooling. At sixteen her parents wanted to marry her off to an older man. She ran away, but in the end she did marry him and had three kids. Like many girls in Sierra Leone, Mariama was married before she was eighteen, which is illegal here. Now, ten years on, she's being divorced and her husband has claimed back the bride money and expenses from her family. >> SORIE KONDI: Seeing as your father, your parents, were the ones who arranged your marriage, they should have helped you out, not left you to sort it out alone. Why, when bad things happen, do they leave you to fend for yourself? Why? >> MARIAMA: I don't know. >> TITLE: Kenema>> VOICEOVER: Kenema, the economic heart of eastern Sierra Leone, the country's diamond trading center. Juliette is a primary school teacher, volunteer radio journalist, and a single mother. Juliette runs a youth program and opens the phone lines every Saturday morning. >> JULIETTE YUKIE [Eastern Radio Presenter]: I most of the time try an open phone line, I ask people to contribute. But they ask questions about teenage pregnancy. And most questions that used to come to our studio whenever I'm presenting this program, people say the teenagers themselves are responsible for the problems they usually face. I'll blame the parents, the guardians, I'll blame the teenagers themselves. And I'll blame also the schools that these teenagers are attending. >> VOICEOVER: Back to Freetown, where Foday will be helping Sorie record his new album. >> FODAY P. FOFANAH: I think education is very, very important, because if it hadn't been for education I would not have been what I am today. >> VOICEOVER: There's a lot riding on Sorie Kondi's new album: his career, and Zeinab's future. >> SORIE KONDI: Zeinab's my child, but she has a mind of her own. Even though I really hope she finishes her studies, it's up to her. I am praying to God that she finishes her education because I believe it will be good for her. If I get money I will send her to college. If I get money, I believe God will provide. >> TITLE: For more information, please visit: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-scent-of-the-streets Nigeria has had some success in getting more women into government and business. But what about those in the crowded and often violent slums of Lagos? Meet three girls from one of the city's poorest and toughest neighborhoods, all looking for their chance to escape. Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:40:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-scent-of-the-streets Nigeria, Slum, Lagos, Area boys, Gender, Poverty, Millennium Development Goals, West Africa, Gender equality, Life on the Edge >> TITLE: Bisayo (Age 25), Onyinye (Age 18), Gift (Age 22)>> VOICEOVER: Bisayo, Onyinye, and Gift are "area girls" in Lagos, Nigeria. Area boys, well they play rough and dirty, though some do make it good. But what is an area girl? Something cool, or just a girl without a job? And in a difficult world can they "make it good" too? There?s evidence everywhere if you know where to look.>> TITLE: Scent of the Street>> VOICEOVER: In the commercial capital of oil-rich Nigeria, Ajegunle is one of the poorest and toughest neighbourhoods; like many big city slums still struggling to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Neighborhoods here are called "areas" and some girls are called "area girls." Including Onyinye. >> ONYINYE: My name is Onyinye. My friends have this funny name they call me, Shenkes. I?m an area girl -- for now. And, well, I?m not an area girl because I choose to but -- An area girl, you can't actually classify it into one person. It?s different ways. You have some girls that are area girls but not because they do anything, but because they?re just rough. They are just rough and tough. They like trouble. They like, you know, anything trouble. >> VOICEOVER: Onyinye left school at twelve. No qualifications. What she does have: brothers and sisters. >> TITLE: The family>> ONYINYE: I have ten siblings altogether, from the same mom but from different dads. My growing up wasn't nice, it wasn't nice. My mum has to carry almost all the responsibilities alone: school fees, feeding, clothing and all that. So I?m growing up and I can?t just be depending on my mum for almost everything when I know she doesn?t have. This area that I stay, it?s kind of common, it?s almost what we do here. We, you know, we date men. So it?s basically what I do for now. That?s what I do for now. My sisters, my family, they know about it, they know everything about me actually. So, it?s not like they are comfortable with it, but I have to do it because I don?t want any of them to do it. >> VOICEOVER: Instead of relying on boyfriends, Onyinye wants to work.>> ONYINYE: When you are in your house, you can be free. You can do whatever. But when you are on the streets you have to give them this mean impression like you?re scary, because if you act like one "botty" they climb you.>> TITLE: "Botty" = softy. "Climb you" = rip you off. >> ONYINYE: We are headed to the cafe where I do most of my research. It?s just a stone throw from this place.>> VOICEOVER: Onyinye?s off to the neighborhood cybercafé. Some are looking for jobs; some are looking for the training and self-help courses that are on offer around here. Onyinye is looking for a modeling agency. >> ONYINYE: I search for modeling agencies. So I try to send emails. If they reply to my email then I go, and if I get the phone numbers I call. >> VOICEOVER: What sets the tone for area girls? Area boys. >> ONYINYE: The area boys come out in the evening, that?s when they come out. That?s when they pick their pockets. If you are nice to them, if you are free with them, they can be nice with you. If you get into their wrong hands, they?ll beat you. They?ll beat you very well. >> VOICEOVER: So are area girls all under the sway of area boys? Well, not quite. Meet Bisayo, an area girl who's graduated. Not cum laude, not to be a CEO. This natural born leader's become Onyinye's "area mother." >> TITLE: The area mother>> ONYINYE: When you have an area mother, definitely an area mother has to be somebody whose legs are very strong. >> VOICEOVER: Protection? She?ll stand in front of you. Bisayo will settle arguments, win games, could have been a diplomat. Instead she is an area mother.>> BISAYO: When you are the area mama for your house or for you territory, people will respect you and they will respect you persona? My guy, am I lying? >> MAN 1: It's true mama. >> VOICEOVER: What marks Bisayo out here, she says, she?s literally graduated.>> BISAYO: I studied history and international relations -- a diplomat. >> TITLE: A diplomat>> BISAYO: I come from a wealthy home so my parents assisted me to go to school, but for the fact that I just want to be an area girl. I see myself as a star in my area. >> BISAYO: Do you feel me? >> MAN 2: Mama, mama, mama!>> BISAYO: I protect my territory. >> TITLE: I protect my territory>> BISAYO: Maybe if I should see any outsiders who want to come and obtain my territory, in my cabal, I will overtake. When I graduated I searched for a job but I couldn't get work. So I play lotto to meet my daily needs. I win, I don't win, it's okay by me. >> VOICEOVER: Bisayo is a leader, the kind you might want in the boardroom. Today she?s greeted as hero in the medicinal bar. >> BISAYO: This is where I make my happy day, this is my "shepe joint" and these are my guys. >> TITLE: "Shepe joint" = my hang out>> BISAYO: This is where I enjoy my life. All my life! Shepe for life! And this is our mama, mama gangan. Come to this cabal. Everyone is welcome. You'll get everything. Even palm wine for life! Everything goes on my fingertips, because if I tell them to do something they will do it. So with that I believe I am being respected in the society and I can become a leader in the future. My destiny is to help the society. >> TITLE: Become a leader>> TITLE: Boundary market>> VOICEOVER: So can a hardworking girl with more modest ambitions be an area girl too? Gift only went to primary school. Today she's buying ingredients for the "akara", or bean cakes, she sells. Work worth having. >> GIFT: My name is Gift. In this area I'm an area girl, but I don't care what people think. I don?t get involved with the others. From my understanding, what makes me an area girl is the way I live. I don?t have time for trouble but if you want to find my trouble I?ll give it to you. I'm the one that brings in the money for the family. I help my family. I used to hawk, walking around selling stuff but I didn?t want to meet boys because they?d say, "Come sleep with me!" I don?t need that, and if you don?t do what they say -- Sometimes I?d go to the market at four, I?d walk to Apapa, come back after eight, they?d meet you on the road and rape you, all those kind of things. That?s why I stopped hawking and found a place to sell my akara.>> VOICEOVER: This area girl is working a 16-hour day to help make money for her family. And she's running her family too. >> GIFT: I go to the market, buy everything, come back and cook my food. I go out anywhere I like but when it?s time I return. You feeling me? It's not easy!>> VOICEOVER: Gift has moved from selling goods from literally the top of her head to the street corner. Now she wants to move on to the next stage -- her own stall. >> GIFT: If I get the opportunity, I?ll use the skills I learned from hawking and I?d go the market where I bought things to hawk. Sell them in a stall. I can't be an area girl forever. If I see a chance I will change, just leave all those things. >> TITLE: I will change>> VOICEOVER: It's true area girls are what some girls choose to be, but most don't want to remain forever. Our area girls stay on the right side of the law. Some don't. All have the talent and appetite for a decent day's work -- one of the Millennium Development Goals that remains elusive. Of course paid work could mean being an area girl no longer.>> ONYINYE: The only thing you should know is that it's not funny; it's not nice at all. Most of us go through a lot of things in here that we are not proud of, so if we are given the chance, the opportunity, to change, we will chance. >> TITLE: Since we filmed, all three area girls have completed courses in Life Skills, IT and Leadership. Onyinye is enrolling with a fashion school, Gift is finding the backing for a stall and Bisayo is learning Leadership Skills. >> For more information please visit: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com http://www.viewchange.org/videos/smile-pinki Winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Smile Pinki tells the uplifting story of two young children in India born with cleft lips. Thanks to the efforts of Smile Train, an organization that pays for surgeries to fix clefts, thousands of children around the world are given a second lease on life every single day. Fri, 27 May 2011 08:02:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/smile-pinki India, Health, Cleft lip and palate, Poverty, South Asia, Smile Pinki, Smile Train, Varanasi, Education, Megan Mylan >> TITLE: The Smile Train created this film to raise awareness about the plight of millions of children who are suffering with clefts. Every year, we provide free cleft surgery for hundreds of thousands of these children. This is the story of two of our kids. Smile Train: Changing the World One Smile at a Time.>> TITLE: Principe Productions presents a film by Megan Mylan>> TITLE: Uttar Pradesh, India>> DOCTOR: We are offering surgery for children who have a cleft lip or palate. It's a free operation. If you know anyone -->> MAN 1: There is a boy in our village. He has a cut lip.>> DOCTOR: Has he had surgery?>> MAN 1: No.>> DOCTOR: That's why we're doing this. Please send him.>> MAN 2: Is the fee waived only for the check-up?>> DOCTOR: For the operation, medicine, everything.>> MAN 1: Everything is free?>> DOCTOR: Yes.>> MAN 3: Is the hospital here in Banaras? >> DOCTOR: Yes.>> MAN 4: Is it just one day?>> DOCTOR: Registration is one day, free surgery happens every day.>> TITLE: Smile Pinki>> DOCTOR: This picture you are seeing shows a child born with a cleft lip. I'll leave some flyers. If any of you find out there is someone like this, go tell their parents that they can get free treatment. It's nothing to feel shame about and the surgery is very simple. You will tell them?>> CHILDREN: Yes.>> WOMAN: There is a little girl.>> MAN: Close by, there is a girl with a cleft lip.>> WOMAN: Anjulata's little sister, right? What is her name?>> GIRL: Pinka.>> DOCTOR: Pinki? Okay, thank you. >> DOCTOR: Which one is Mr. Rajendra's house? >> YOUTH: Rajendra who?>> DOCTOR: Whose daughter has a cleft lip.>> BOY: Over there. >> DOCTOR: Are you Rajendra?>> RAJENDRA [Father]: Yes.>> DOCTOR: Is this your child?>> RAJENDRA: She got it because of the eclipse.>> WOMAN: While she was in the womb, there was an eclipse.>> RAJENDRA: It was God's will.>> DOCTOR: It will all be fixed. Why don't we sit down? See, I am affiliated with GS Memorial Plastic Surgery Hospital. On March 18th, we are setting up a registration day for kids who have a cleft lip or palate. We would like you to come on the 18th. We'll get her registered, do a diagnosis, and set a date for the operation. So, will you come?>> RAJENDRA: What can I say? I barely have enough to feed them. If I had money, it would already be done.>> WOMAN: That's it. They said when her teeth come in, we should get the surgery done.>> DOCTOR: But you can't?>> WOMAN: Of course not.>> DOCTOR: It's completely free. We operate all year long on as many kids as we can find. Okay? Does that sound good? You will go? So, how will you get there?>> RAJENDRA: We will walk to Araura.>> MAN: It takes three hours to walk to Araura. The rest, we'll have to find transport. We will make it one way or another. After the operation, when can we come home?>> DOCTOR: You need to stay in the hospital for seven days. >> MAN: Seven days?>> DOCTOR: What do you think about her future now? >> WOMAN: It will lift a huge burden from my head.>> DOCTOR: While you're there, you'll need to make arrangements for food.>> WOMAN: Yes, we will.>> MAN: Do we have to pay them any money?>> DOCTOR: No! You don't pay anything to the hospital. You just need to bring food. Hello. Yes, speaking. Yes, go ahead. Bring him in on the 18th. Please call me back in an hour or so. People donate money, that money comes to our hospital, and then we provide treatment to you.>> RAJENDRA: Since this is in Banaras, it should be quite clean.>> DOCTOR: Yes, it is a private hospital.>> RAJENDRA: Had I known, I would have brought her to you soon as she came into this world. But, I did not know. If it's done, she will be able to live a decent life and get married one day. >> MAN: There is a boy like that.>> DOCTOR: Where is he?>> MAN: Over there.>> DOCTOR: How old is he?>> MAN: About nine.>> MOTHER: Doctors in Banaras saw him once. We didn't get it fixed because he said it was dangerous.>> DOCTOR: Who said?>> MOTHER: His father. We were afraid of the surgery, so we ran from there. >> DOCTOR: There is no big danger. What danger there is in any little operation, this has that same danger. >> MOTHER: I am afraid for him. He is my son.>> DOCTOR: We do about twelve of these surgeries each day. There is nothing to worry about. When you go, you'll see. He's not the only one like this. Everyone is coming from far off on the 18th. We would like you to come sign-up too. >> WOMAN: There is nothing to be afraid of.>> DOCTOR: We do these operations daily. Every day of the year.>> MOTHER: My hands are tied. My husband is not here.>> GRANDFATHER: I am Ghutaru's grandfather. If she won't go with us, what can we do?>> MOTHER: I have a five-day-old baby. You tell me, how can I go?>> DOCTOR: Can we do this, take your baby with you, we'll make arrangements. If your baby stays with you, can you go?>> WOMAN: Don't be crazy. Get it fixed. His whole life will be better. >> MAN: They are not charging anything. You just need money for travel. It will help him get married too.>> MAN 2: You'll go?>> GHUTARU: Yes. >> MAN 2: Your grandpa will take you. Look, once it's fixed, look how it will be. This is your face, look how it's changed. SEGMENT 2 @ 10:26>> RAJENDRA: So, we'll go tomorrow?>> PINKI: Yes.>> RAJENDRA: You won't cry there, right?>> PINKI: Are they going to put stitches?>> RAJENDRA: Without money, how will I take you on the train?>> PINKI: I'll go on foot. >> RAJENDRA: If you walk you'll get tired. It's a long way. If your feet start hurting, I'll carry you in my arms. >> PINKI: I want to go with you.>> RAJENDRA: Yes. You'll go with me. >> PINKI: Will mummy go too?>> RAJENDRA: No, she can't go.>> MAN: So will you go?>> MOTHER: Yes, I am going to take the baby and go.>> MAN: With whom?>> MOTHER: Ghutaru, his grandfather. I need 500 rupees. When I come back, I'll return it.>> MAN: Who will give you 500?>> MOTHER: Mina's father.>> MAN: Okay, I'll go meet him. >> MOTHER: Tell him I'm giving the guarantee.>> DOCTOR: Remember this number, 165. That's for food. Two hundred and twenty two, remember 222.>> MAN 1: These numbers are the order in which the doctor will see you. What's her name?>> MAN 2: What town or village?>> MAN 3: Mirzapur.>> MAN 1: Do you have a phone number? Maybe a neighbor?>> MAN 2: No, this is an amount of money.>> MAN 3: Is that it?>> MAN 2: Remember your number. I am writing it down here. Your number is 416. Make sure you listen for your number, okay?>> MAN 1: How did you find out about this?>> MAN 2: From the newspaper. I had someone read it to me.>> MOTHER: It happened inside me, during an eclipse.>> MAN 1: When I found out that it was a boy, I was happy. But when I saw that he had a cleft, I felt sad.>> WOMAN: They just started crying when they saw her.>> MAN 3: I wished God had not given birth to him; that would have been better.>> MAN 1: The main issue is marriage?>> WOMAN 2: Where are we going to find a decent boy?>> WOMAN 3: I feel better now. I thought I was the only one who had a child like this.>> MAN 4: It feels strange; there are so many people like this.>> DOCTOR: What happened to her hands?>> FATHER: She works around the house, cooks and all. Her mother is dead. I am her father.>> DOCTOR: Have you married again?>> FATHER: No. I have four girls and two boys. If I marry, who will look after them?>> MOTHER: What can I say? When this child was born, my husband told me to leave.>> DOCTOR: Has anyone come with you? Is there someone here to help out?>> DOCTOR: The best age for surgery is three months. As they grow older it does not go as well. Three hundred patients have already come; we can't possibly operate on everyone right away. We'll give you as early a date as possible.>> DOCTOR: You have been given six months time, so that your child can gain weight. And a medication has also been written here, okay? You can get it from the hospital when you go outside.>> MAN: Seeing this makes me feel bad, but what you all are doing makes me feel very proud. SEGMENT 3 @ 20:11>> DOCTOR: Attention please! 416 Pinki, father Rajendra, please come to the counter.>> MAN: Go, go, go. Get your ticket, quickly.>> DOCTOR: How old is he?>> MAN: Eleven years. >> DOCTOR: Does he go to school?>> MAN: No, he used to go to school, but not any more.>> DOCTOR: Why doesn't he go?>> MAN: He can't speak properly so he doesn't go.>> DOCTOR: What is your name?>> MAN: Say your name.>> GHUTARU: Ghurtaru.>> DOCTOR: Can you hear properly? Can you count up to ten? You don't know? Pankaj! An earlier date will be better. Pankaj, try to admit him now. So once it's fixed, will you go to school? Okay, he'll go. Admit him.>> MAN: She's five years old? >> RAJENDRA: Yes.>> MAN: Was she the full nine months? >> RAJENDRA: Yes.>> MAN: Did her mother have any problems while carrying her?>> RAJENDRA: No. >> MAN: Does anyone else in the family have this?>> RAJENDRA: No. >> DOCTOR: How are you feeling? Any problems? You don't go to school?>> MOTHER: When he opens his mouth, he scares the kids.>> DOCTOR: You open your mouth and people get scared? Why do you run away? You should stay there and scare people. Do you go to school? Or are you off playing marbles? What do you play? What is he saying?>> MOTHER: To play the match.>> DOCTOR: You go to play the match? You know how to play cricket? Okay. Which player do you like? Sachin Tendulkar? And who else do you like?>> GHUTARU: That's it.>> DOCTOR: Nobody else? Once your lip is fixed, you need to either study or learn a trade at your aunt's. You won't play all day, right? Okay, his operation will be in a little while. Don't worry at all. Okay Ghutaru? Shall I go? Shake my hand?>> WOMAN: First of all, he will get lip surgery. Then in a few days, his nose will be operated upon. Have you eaten anything yet this morning? Not even water? Can you show me your stomach? Okay, it's completely flat. Are you all worried about his surgery today?>> MAN: We have faith.>> WOMAN: No fears? None?>> MAN: No fear. We're happy he's going to have it.>> WOMAN: Has it been difficult having a cleft lip? Do you ever look in the mirror? Once your lip is fixed, you'll look in the mirror and you will feel so good. Won't you? Why are you crying? Come on. Don't cry. Let's laugh. >> MOTHER: When she was born, I lost consciousness. I woke up and my sister said, "What did you do that this happened? Your other child is so beautiful, what have you done?" So I said, it looks like a monster's been born.>> DOCTOR 1: A monster's been born? Why did you think that?>> MOTHER: I used to get scared when I looked at her.>> DOCTOR 1: And what about your family? What was their reaction when the saw the baby?>> MOTHER: His family has never seen her.>> DOCTOR 1: They haven't?>> MOTHER: When she was born, they were unhappy. They said, your child's come out like this, you must leave. >> DOCTOR 2: So they hold you responsible as well?>> MOTHER: Yes.>> DOCTOR 1: Do you believe that too, that it was the mother's fault?>> FATHER: No.>> DOCTOR 1: The operation will take about an hour. Does she know what's going to happen?>> RAJENDRA: My daughter? At home, she said, "Let's go get my lip fixed.">> DOCTOR 1: Now that you're here, are you afraid? You feel fine? Not afraid? She's laughing. Who's this?>> PINKI: My daddy. >> DOCTOR 1: What is his name?>> PINKI: It's Rajendra.>> DOCTOR 1: And who's this?>> PINKI: Uncle.>> DOCTOR 1: And what's your name? Pinka or Pinki?>> PINKI: Pinki. >> DOCTOR 1: And what about you?>> RAJENDRA: I feel good. I'm happy, thank God, my daughter's face will be fixed. She used to ask to go to school, she'd grab her book bag, but then the kids started calling her cut-lip. >> DOCTOR 1: They call you cut-lip? What do the boys say? Okay. They call you cut-lip? So you won't go to school?>> DOCTOR 2: Pinki? It's time for her operation. I have to take her downstairs now.>> UNCLE: Right now?>> DOCTOR: You're Pinki's father? Her operation went well. She's absolutely fine. There is nothing to worry about. Her lip was fixed very well. No more worrying, okay? Have you eaten anything?>> RAJENDRA: I will eat after I've seen my child.>> DOCTOR: Okay, you'll eat after you see her. But she's absolutely fine. You can see her soon. >> DOCTOR: Hello, hello? Is this Mr. Ramkesh? What's your name?>> LALCHAND: Lalchand. >> DOCTOR: Talk to Mr. Lalchand.>> LALCHAND: Yes, the operation is over. Call Pinki's mother, will you? No, we did not have any kind of problem. The surgery is done. Everything went well. Yes, we'll call in the morning. Yes, we are all fine.>> MOTHER: You'll be all better in a few days.SEGMENT 4 @ 30:04>> DOCTOR: Which newspapers are you gentlemen with?>> JOURNALIST 1: Pioneer.>> DOCTOR: And you?>> JOURNALIST 2: Times of India.>> DOCTOR: Look at this one. This looks very complicated. In his case, this middle portion was protruding two inches. His lips have been joined from both sides; next we'll push this part down.>> JOURNALIST 1: So how normal will he end up looking?>> DOCTOR: Very. Almost perfect.>> DOCTOR: This is Ghutaru. Can you talk with us? He's had his palate operated, inside. And how are you?>> MOTHER: Good.>> DOCTOR: Was he going to school?>> MOTHER: No. >> DOCTOR: Will he go now?>> MOTHER: Yes, he'll go. He'll talk just fine now.>> JOURNALIST 2: How many patients have you operated?>> DOCTOR: Since 2004, we have operated on 6,000 patients. And now, we operate on 3,000 patients a year.>> JOURNALIST 2: What is the success rate?>> DOCTOR: Success rate is almost 100 percent. Success in terms of giving a good repair is 100 percent. The problem is a backlog. In India, there are a million children with these defects. And each year in India, 35,000 children are born with clefts. Most never get any decent treatment.>> DOCTOR: He's had his palate fixed. Is he feeling okay? Where are you from?>> MOTHER: Vashali district, Bihar.>> JOURNALIST 1: Is this defect as widespread in more advanced countries?>> DOCTOR: They have it there too, but in our region this problem is a lot more widespread. We see it more in poor families. The cause could be a nutritional deficit. What it is exactly, we do not know. What we do know is that it's a problem that occurs between the fourth and twelfth week of development. And it could even be genetic.>> DOCTOR: All the stitches have come off today?>> RAJENDRA: Yes.>> DOCTOR: And you're being discharged today?>> RAJENDRA: Yes. It's looking really good. It looks just fine. First class.>> DOCTOR: Will the other kids make fun of her now?>> RAJENDRA: No.>> DOCTOR: Are you excited to show people at home?>> RAJENDRA: They're not going to believe it.>> DOCTOR: You'll go to school now? Make sure you register her at the school.>> RAJENDRA: Yes I will.>> DOCTOR: Do you want to go home? You'd like to go home, right? Now when you go home, be careful that she doesn't hurt her lip in any way. Keep her safe and indoor for about ten days.>> UNCLE: Ten days or twenty?>> DOCTOR: Just ten, make sure she doesn't get hurt. >> ADMINISTRATOR: It's very important to clean the area regularly. You may call us at anytime, 24 hours a day, if you have questions. Everyone understands what I've said so far? So, since this hospital has helped your children, you have a responsibility to help other such patients. If there is someone among your relatives or friends, send them here immediately. Okay? Give 200 rupees and help them get here. You all come from every corner of this huge country. And if each of you can send five other patients, just imagine how many people can be cured. Without patients, a hospital is useless. You all are our heroes. Don't laugh. That's the truth. Does everyone understand? So will you send us patients?>> MAN: Pinki, smile Pinki.>> RAJENDRA: She's happy to go home.>> MAN: You're going home, right? Then laugh a little.>> RAJENDRA: We're going home, right Pinka?>> TITLE: Five months later>> TITLE: To help a desperate child who is waiting for cleft surgery, please visit www.SmileTrain.org. There are millions of children who need our help. And we need yours. Smile Train: Changing the world one smile at a time. >> DOCTOR: We're having a registration day in September.>> WOMAN: In Banaras?>> DOCTOR: In Banaras. [End credits] 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/life-on-the-edge-silk-ceiling-part-2 Indian TV journalist Ritu Bhardwaj is visiting Bihar to continue her report on the 'Silk Ceiling,' the invisible barrier that holds back so many Asian women. She is documenting a local government initiative called Panchayati Raj that seeks to address gender inequality through economic and political empowerment. Mon, 16 May 2011 10:25:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-silk-ceiling-part-2 India, Panchayati raj, Bihar, Gender, Education, Gender role, Government of India, Life on the Edge, tve, LinkTV Picks >> VOICEOVER: Anand's a man. And so is Shrish. Once a year they make a discovery: what it's like to be a woman. Here in Bihar state, like the rest of India, it's Navratri. Nine days of celebration and fun. But one person's here to work -- national TV journalist Ritu Bhardwaj. She's got something more serious on her mind.>> RITU BHARDWAJ [TV journalist]: Women sometime face a lot of problems, when you are perform as a woman, do you face any?>> ANAND KUMAR [Performer]: A lot!>> RITU BHARDWAJ: What kind?>> ANAND KUMAR: When we perform as women and go on the stage, men start to talk strangely and harass us. Because we are dressed as women, they start talking to us in a vulgar way. They think just because we are in a woman's form they can treat us like women, even knowing we are men. Performing as a woman while being a man is tough, especially with the way the men behave with us. I can only imagine how bad the plight of women must be. >> TITLE: Silk Ceiling>> VOICEOVER: Ritu is making a film about gender inequality, the Silk Ceiling that hangs above so many women in India and its Asian neighbors. >> RITU BHARDWAJ: Although women are sharing the workplace with their male counterparts and are enjoying financial freedom in cities like Delhi, Bombay, and Bangalore, their basic human rights are under siege in the country. Are girls a commodity? What's the basic thinking of the males in the society?>> TITLE: Women who don't own land or a house may be seven times more likely to endure violent marriages (source: Agarwal and Panda -- Kerala)>> RITU BHARDWAJ: So I just want to ask what's our society and our government doing in this direction.>> VOICEOVER: Ritu's come to Raghai, a village where men and women seem locked in old ways. Few women in South Asia own any assets. A new UN report claims it's one of the main reasons they're disempowered. But in Bihar, some villages have transferred land and property to women in return for government help and cash. It's part of a unique Indian experiment in local government called Panchayati Raj.>> SHRI BK SINHA [President, CENCORED]: In Bihar, the men migrate to work in different states, and because of this the women are the ones that actually do the farming. So we started a project where if the land and property holdings were transferred to a woman's name, then we would give the family access to various government schemes. A lot of men agreed to do this, even if some did not. The important thing is that the women felt confident they had ownership of the land they were tilling. It has been a great experiment.>> VOICEOVER: To see how great an experiment, meet Kiran Devi, named by her dad after India's top woman cop. At first glance she is an ordinary housewife, serving tea for friends. But the Panchayati Raj experiment isn't just about land rights, it's about a whole system of devolving government down to villages and at least a third of the posts are reserved for women. Now Kiran's life has been transformed. She's been elected sarpanch, or village head. What's more, supposedly backward Bihar has also established Gram Kacheri or "village courts," and Kiran runs this one. The case Ritu's filming, a woman's three sons are insisting she leaves land to them, not to her daughter. The decision is Kiran's.>> KIRAN DEVI [Village head]: We can only find out the reality on the ground once we investigate in your village.>> MAN 1: Of the land that our family owned, we were only given a third. And her father has given her some land as well.>> KIRAN DEVI: Listen, if her father has given her the land, it is her property. In more the half the cases women are able to file their own cases. The women are ahead on this. >> RITU BHARDWAJ: Do the men Panchayati members support you? >> KIRAN DEVI: Yes, the men do help us.>> VOICEOVER: Over 200 cases successfully resolved. Kiran's helping the whole village, but it's often women who need justice most. Enforcing their rights in big city courts can take up to ten years. And even here, women had to fight -- sometimes literally.>> KIRAN DEVI: After we women came to power, domestic violence increased a lot. The men didn't want the women to be on equal status with them, they didn't want them to stand in front of them, sit on a chair next to them, or talk to them. So this essentially sparked off a lot of domestic violence. But slowly, things started to improve. People started helping each other, especially seeing the women members across all Panchayats doing their work.>> VOICEOVER: Rights enforced by law and persuasion. Back in Delhi, Ritu is checking out some more Indian footage for her report. There are also stories of women valued. Ten-year-old Kavita is already learning her Dad's trade. It'll mean spare cash to help her train as a doctor. Sumalatha collects coconut milk -- girls are supposed to fall off. Suhag Khemlani doesn't need as ladder to climb her way up; she's already close to the top of her family tree. >> SUHAG KHEMLANI: When I got out of college, when I graduated, dad had convinced me that I would give techno-cleaning a six month trial -- and that was it, I just never left. I think I can do a much better job than a lot of the men I know in this industry.>> VOICEOVER: The role model Ritu's off to film today is Shanoo. Shanoo's a widow who supports three kids and her in-laws. She's broken into the male preserve of radio taxis.>> RITU BHARDWAJ: So how do you feel now?>> SHANOO BEGUM [Taxi driver]: It feels great. When a man is driving in front of me, he will point and say, "Wow! See, a woman is driving that car!" It feels great. I'm able to do great things without being a man. I've already decided, when my daughter turns 18, I will make her a driver as well.>> VOICEOVER: Just 19 women, Ritu learns, are learning to break through this silk ceiling. But it's early days. And it's not just driving they learn, but self-defense and language skills -- empowerment through employment.>> MEENU VADERA [Executive Director, Azad Foundation]: I actually believe that the girls who come to us have been through such adversity, they have struggled through so many difficult circumstances completely on their own. >> VOICEOVER: Back in the office, Ritu's widening her report out -- time for the big picture. In India, the Panchayati Raj system has empowered hundreds of thousands of women. But Ritu reckons more needs to be done. She's off to see a woman who has broken through the silk ceiling and is helping to plan India's future.>> DR. SAYEDA HAMEED [Planning Commission, Government of India]: See, the most important thing is the representation of women. Traditionally, we have had the Panchayati Raj, which has made over a million women become immediately enter the Panchayats. So politically, that has actually happened. But the next step is to get women into the state assemblies and the parliament, so you have women in the most important decision-making.>> RITU BHARDWAJ: Women in India have lesser property rights, so what is the government doing to ensure and increase the property rights of women in India?>> DR. SAYEDA HAMEED: The state is very conscious of the fact that real power will not devolve to women unless the woman becomes an owner of a property. And this is in every government scheme, if the woman has the patta, or the title is in the name of the woman, there are certain concessions.>> VOICEOVER: And for a final word for her report, who better than Ritu herself? A small-town girl from a modest background who is breaking through the silk ceiling.>> RITU BHARDWAJ: When men and women are considered equal, then the economy runs efficiently, and every individual can work for the development of the country. It is therefore important that India should work to improve the condition of women. The difference between men and women needs to be removed. The work that is being done in this area needs to be sped up, and there is greater need for intervention at a policy level. This is Ritu Bhardwaj reporting on India's "Silk Ceiling." http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-silk-ceiling-part-1 Ritu Bhardwaj is a star to the neighborhood kids of New Delhi. Not only does she help with their homework, she's a glamorous TV reporter. Her next big report is a documentary about the "silk ceiling" that hangs over many Indian women, narrowing lives and frustrating talent. Mon, 16 May 2011 09:25:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-silk-ceiling-part-1 India, Gender, HIV, Delhi, Ayu Utami, Life on the Edge, Gender equality, tve, Auto rickshaw, LinkTV Picks >> TITLE: New Delhi>> VOICEOVER: In the apartment she shares with friends, 25-year-old Ritu Bhardwaj is expecting visitors. It's three in the afternoon, the kids are leaving school, but these kids are not going to play. One day Ritu wants to work for UNICEF. She's already helping underprivileged kids. Three days a week, she helps them with their homework. Ritu herself comes from a modest background in Haryana state, but here, she's already a star. >> KIRAN: When I grow up I will be just like you.>> MONIKA: I want to be like you when I grow up.>> VOICEOVER: Why Ritu seems so glamorous? She's made it, and in a country that doesn't always favor ambitious girls, no matter how hard-working. This small town girl is now an up-and-coming journalist on national TV channel News X.>> RITU BHARDWAJ [TV journalist]: This is Ritu Bhardwaj reporting on India's "Silk Ceiling.">> TITLE: Silk Ceiling>> RITU BHARDWAJ: In the smaller cities, like where I am from, the girls are basically facing, like, feticide, infanticide and discrimination, illiteracy. There are many problems they are facing. But in the metro cities like Delhi and Bombay, the basic things they are suffering are the right to survival or right to security. >> VOICEOVER: We gave Ritu a sneak preview of a new UN report about women in Asia: "Power, Voice And Rights." It shows women have a worse deal than men in politics, the law, and jobs, even when economies are booming. We followed Ritu as she made a film about the report for News X. There's plenty more source material in the papers. >> VOICEOVER: She starts by heading for Delhi's red light district. Ritu's chasing the story of "Rekha," as the press are calling her, a woman campaigning on HIV and child abuse who's been revealing the secrets of life in the sex industry, the sex trade where exploitation is most visible and shocking. At 25, Rekha's the same age as Ritu and has her own kids. She was rescued from a brothel in the red light area on GB Road. She became destitute in an earthquake in Latur, 1500 kilometers away. She was effectively held captive for seven years, and now battles with AIDS. Unlike many women here, Rekha has decided to tell her story. >> RITU BHARDWAJ: Where are you from, and how did you get here?>> REKHA [Former sex worker]: Well, I met this woman who told me that I would have to do what they wanted or else they would kill me. I insisted that they should let me go back home to Latur, and then they started to beat up my kids. When they started doing that, I was forced into this work. I was HIV positive, and at the same time I was also suffering from TB.>> RITU BHARDWAJ: Do you think that women are still weak in India and have not got rights in comparison to the men?>> REKHA: It is really tough for uneducated women, and many times there is no support for them from their families, especially if there are three or four children to be fed at home. >> VOICEOVER: Sad stories so far. But Ritu wants to show both victims and role models. So she's here to tell the story of Sunita. There are 40,000 auto rickshaw drivers in Delhi. Former child bride Sunita, who'd fled a violent marriage, was the first female auto rickshaw driver. >> SUNITA [Auto-rickshaw driver]: My whole family is uneducated. I have been driving an auto rickshaw for five years and some of my family does not know this. Society asks many questions. They ask me, "Why do you wear this work dress? Why are you in a man's role?" And, "You should behave like a traditional Indian woman!" I don't care for what society says, I let them say what they want. I am not the old Sunita, who wouldn't dare to leave the four walls of her house. >> VOICEOVER: Reverence for women -- in their right place -- goes back a long way in India. It's the festival of Navratri. For nine days men and women celebrate the incarnations of a female goddess. Warrior, mother of the universe. TV reporter Ritu's back in the office. She wants to widen her film out. Ritu's been talking to fellow filmmakers in Southeast Asia's most populous country: largely Muslim Indonesia. They've been sending her their own stories, the most high profile, a message from Ayu Utami. She's the leading novelist who shocked many Indonesians with the frankness of her language, by mixing political and gender issues and by making this personal declaration.>> AYU UTAMI [Novelist]: I choose not to get married, and I declare outwardly that I will never get married unless the marriage law is revised according to gender equality. >> TITLE: Indonesia's taxation law assumes the husband is the primary income earner. Marriage law assumes women are housewives (source: IFC)>> RITU BHARDWAJ: She's a very confident and very brave girl. Her thinking is really nice. In the society she's been a role model.>> VOICEOVER: Ayu's political message: even when women do have a stake in the economy, lack of political clout means they're easily manipulated. And subject to all kinds of discrimination.>> AYU UTAMI: Without the political power, without even access to decision-making, the woman's strength in economic life becomes vulnerable to being manipulated by others.>> VOICEOVER: Polls show that when women are selected as candidates, people will vote for them. But less than one in five of Indonesia's elected lawmakers are women. Perhaps that's less surprising when you consider one in seven adult Indonesian women still can't read or write. Back in Delhi, TV reporter Ritu knows the problems. Now she wants answers. And she's found some in Gujarat where some women are defying traditional roles. In Jambur village, women used to live -- well, much like women have done for centuries right across Asia.>> RITU BHARDWAJ: What was it like earlier and what happened next?>> NATHI BEN [Villager]: Our life was very tough. We had just one set of clothes; we'd go to wash it by the river. We'd first wash our clothes and after those dried we would wash our under-garments. After this we would head home and arrange for the firewood and then make the chappatis. Our husbands would come home and complain about the food not being ready. >> VOICEOVER: Ritu's here to meet the woman they like to call 'Hirbai Ben Lobhi' -- "Diamond of the Forest." The Forest Diamond and her friends formed a cooperative. Their savings fund businesses -- their businesses. Opposition, yes, but diamonds don't fade away. >> RITU BHARDWAJ: Did the people in the village try and help you or try and stop you?>> HIRBAI BEN LOBHI: Yes, they did try to stop me, but I didn't stop. I asked myself, "What do women need the most?" If women need money, and they don't have any property, the land belongs to the men and the houses also belong to the men. I figured then I need to ensure that the women also own some property. That way they at least have some confidence in themselves.>> VOICEOVER: Now, unusual in South Asia, 900 village women hold assets in their own names.>> HIRBAI BEN LOBHI: Today, through our women's cooperative bank, the women have access to money and the men come and ask their wives if they can borrow some money -- say 1000-1500 rupees. >> VOICEOVER: Jambur, Ritu finds, is a thriving village thanks partly to Heer and the cooperative. Money from the co-op even helps the village school. If more women went to school and got paid jobs, it's been estimated the Asia-Pacific region could be 90 billion US dollars a year better off. >> ZILU BEN: Thank God I am a woman! If I were a man I would have done nothing. It's because I am a woman that I can accomplish so much. I am happy to be a woman; I don't want to be a man! http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-trawler-girl Johanna Kwedhi is Namibia's first female trawler captain. Namibia signed up to the Millennium Development Goals, which include specific targets for women on education, reproductive health and equality. Johanna is an example of targets fulfilled, but what about her friends and relatives in the rural area where she was raised? Fri, 13 May 2011 08:44:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/life-on-the-edge-trawler-girl Namibia, Millennium Development Goals, Gender, Africa, Gender equality, Reproductive health, Maternal death, Namib Desert, Health, Life on the Edge >> VOICEOVER: We?re at the edge of the Namib Desert, on Africa?s southwest coast. A world of drought, danger, shipwreck -- but also, fish. Luderitz Harbor, an old port rebuilt for fishing boats. The industry is one of the pillars of Namibia?s economy. It?s a man?s world. Johanna Kwedhi is going aboard the Kanus, one of the fleet?s largest vessels. Except, Johanna is not coming on board as a guest. Johanna is Namibia?s first female trawler skipper. >> TITLE: Trawler Girl>> JOHANNA KWEDHI [Trawler captain]: At the bridge we are three: me as the Captain, a Chief Mate and a Second Mate. >> VOICEOVER: Men are not used to a woman at the wheel. Women don?t normally chart the course, literally or metaphorically. Or give orders, however pleasantly. And the crew knows their lives are in her hands.>> AARON ALWEENDO [Chief mate]: I have been working with Miss Johanna Kwedhi, who is my captain, for two years. She is the one who gives an order, what has to be done for the day, everything like that. So the orders come from him -- I mean, from her. >> VOICEOVER: For the older fishermen, it is a novelty to have an educated black Namibian as skipper.>> MAN 1: We had never seen a black person in charge of a ship. It has always been a Spanish person. Now that black people are here in command we are very proud. Since we do not know the foreign languages they can now communicate on our behalf. Today, I can just ask Johanna for anything. >> VOICEOVER: Back on land, Johanna is like any other woman -- at least, one with a paid job. But she?s not only shopping for herself, she is taking care of her small family.>> JOHANNA KWEDHI: I have a young boy of 14 months. He is lovely. This is my cousin, Aguste. So she is taking care of my boy when I am out at sea. The attention I get at sea is more than what I get on shore, because they pass by, they say, ?Hi Miss Johanna!? But here on shore when I say ?Hi? it?s just ?Hi.?>> VOICEOVER: Namibia signed up to the Millennium Development Goals, the MDGs, which aim to cut poverty by half by 2015. The goals include specific targets for women -- on education, reproductive health and equality. Johanna?s an example of targets fulfilled. But going back home, how about her friends and her relatives? En route to her aunt, Johanna?s reminded of her humble beginnings when she first came to Luderitz. Most people flock to this coastal town in search of job opportunities. Once here, they are forced to live in shantytowns with no running water or electricity and no proper toilets, at least until they can make a better life for themselves. >> JOHANNA KWEDHI: This is the room, the place where I stayed for six years when I came to Luderitz. For six years I stayed in this house where is no electricity, there is no bathroom and no toilet. We used to go out to the mountains. With peace of mind I was just happy with this. People said to me, ?Wow! An officer living in the shantytown!? But I say, ?No, I am here with peace of mind and I have health.? Life goes on like that.>> VOICEOVER: But Johanna's a child of the villages, not the shantytowns. And her journey home is fifteen hundred kilometers. More than 70 percent of Namibians are subsistence farmers and live close to the land, including Johanna's parents. Her grandmother, who still has a big influence on her, raised Johanna. >> JOHANNA KWEDHI: This is my grandmother, on my mother's side. She taught me many things, traditional things. >> VOICEOVER: Forty-three percent of Namibia's unemployed are considered 'homemakers.' And 70 percent of homemakers are women. Most women remain trapped in the rural poverty cycle. But women like Johanna are quietly breaking the mold, and helping her family back home. >> JOHANNA'S GRANDMOTHER: Now, like they say, a chick also needs to learn how to fend for its mother. Now she is taking care of me.>> JOHANNA KWEDHI: The big challenge in this country for young people is falling pregnant at an early age. So they say, 'No, just try abortion!' Without education your life is meaningless. >> VOICEOVER: Johanna was born at home, but her mother developed complications during birth and had to be brought to Onandjokwe, the local hospital. Many aren?t so lucky: maternal mortality?s proved one of the hardest Millennium Development Goal for Namibia to meet. A recent report suggests maternal deaths actually increased. That may be because of HIV, but many poor women still have problems accessing medical care during pregnancy and childbirth, and the newborn death rate is still one in 50.>> JOHANNA KWEDHI: Here in Namibia the death rate of small children is caused because young people, during their pregnancy, don?t go to the clinic. Some of them do not know the importance of going to the clinic during their pregnancy. Some have financial problems and they can?t go, because the hospital is very far. And some just ignore it. They ask, ?What for? I can even deliver at home. My mom and my grandmother delivered here at home, I can?t waste my money there.? They are not working and they did not plan for that. >> VOICEOVER: The neighbors came out to greet Johanna. So has one of her former teachers.>> HOSEA IPINGE [Johanna's former teacher]: I met Johanna just when she completed her Grade Seven at our school. We also happen to be neighbors too. She was a hard working student and that is why she has managed to achieve so much. >> VOICEOVER: Johanna used to walk 14 kilometers to Onyeka School. She learns there are now more girls enrolling than boys, and there are also more girls completing secondary education. >> HAFENI KAPENDA [Principal, Onyeka School]: How can I help you?>> JOHANNA KWEDHI: So there are more boys than girls at this school. >> VOICEOVER: School enrolment is critical, but the lesson from the captain is that you have to finish too. >> HAFENI KAPENDA: She is the first female captain. Do you know boats? >> VOICEOVER: Most girls here will most likely end up as teachers and nurses. Most boys will probably remain at the cattle post, taking care of the family's animals. For girls and boys, Johanna's a role model. >> BOY: When steering a boat, does your boat have rear view mirrors like in a car to help you look in front and at the back?>> JOHANNA KWEDHI: No. A boat has no rear view mirrors. The bridge has windows on each side to make your view easier, also windows at the back. It is big, just like this room.>> VOICEOVER: Johanna's stories are a reminder of the value of education. Coming home has shown Johanna the problems that still confront other women, even if her story proves they can be overcome. Johanna's time on land has ended. She just wants to catch fish, earn a living, and bring up her child. But in a man's world, she's also making a point not everyone wants to hear. >> JOHANNA KWEDHI: We have to do it. Just do it. Among men, you are there on top operating the wheel, they are down there. Some are saying, ?What, a young lady?? I feel -- yes! It?s a way of showing men that we women are capable of doing something at the end of the day. I enjoy it. 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/viewchange-the-mothers-index Being a new mom is rewarding and challenging. But what extra burdens do mothers in poor and rural communities face? Take a tour of the world's best and worst places to be a mom, in this report from Save the Children and ViewChange.org. Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/viewchange-the-mothers-index Save the Children, Maternal death, Child mortality, Childbirth, Pregnancy, Ashta no Kai, Education, Gender, Nepal, Malawi >> VOICEOVER: Next up: an all-new mother's day special. Being a new mom is rewarding and challenging -- but what extra burdens do mothers in poorer countries face? Come take a tour of the world's best and worst places to be a mom, in this new report from Save the Children and ViewChange.org.>> 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: The Mothers Index.>> VOICEOVER: You've heard the term "lottery of birth." More often than not, children born in rich countries win it, while those in poor countries lose. A child's life expectancy, health, education, and so much more hinges on where he or she happens to enter the world. But there's also a lottery of motherhood, and expectant moms in developing countries are facing the toughest odds. Every year, more than 350,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth -- most, simply because they don't have access to basic delivery care. >>WOMAN: Push hard!>> VOICEOVER: And the ripple effect is dramatic: when a mother dies, her children are more likely to be poor, more likely to die before the age of five, or to drop out of school if they survive. But private aid groups and governments are working hard to change the odds in the lottery of motherhood. In Sierra Leone, a place that Save the Children ranks as one of the very worst places to be a mom, a new government program is trying to turn the tide, as we see in this short film from ViewChange.>> TITLE: Where Every Pregnancy is a Gamble. Lauren Malkani and Ami Vitale, Sierra Leone>> VOICEOVER: After a brutal decade-long conflict, Sierra Leone has the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world.>> FATIMATA KONTE [Expectant mother, Kroo Bay]: My name is Fatimata Konte. I'm 36 years old. We women suffer too much. Women in Sierra Leone suffer too much! I've lived in Kroo Bay for four years. When I wake up at 5am I get out of bed, and the kind of pain that I feel is from my waist bone down to the bottom of my belly. I cough and I'm very sick. I'm really sick but it's like this for all women. From the day a child is born, she must work. Every day I must go to the market. There I have to bargain for fruits. It's a strain to go to the market. I must sell the fruit to have money to buy food to sell for the next day. It's all I can do to survive. I work for my daughter so she can go to school. She is in class four. I want her to learn. Let her learn. I want her to be somebody.>> DR. TAGIE GBAWRU-MANSARAY [Doctor, Princess Christian Maternity Hospital]: When a woman is educated she can take care of herself, she can take care of the children, she can take care of her husband, her home. It benefits the population, the family, and it will help Sierra Leone in the long run. I'm a medical doctor, house officer here at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital. When you're in school and you're studying to become a doctor, you read about all the fanciful techniques, all the wonderful drugs, the magic pills that you give to patients, all the different things that you can do as a doctor. When you come into the real world and you see that even basic things we don't have here -- the basic drugs, simple equipment -- and you are limited. At times you see a particular case and you think to yourself, if only I had this, if only I had that, I would have been able to save a patient's life.>> VOICEOVER: One in five children die before their first birthday, and one in eight women die during pregnancy.>> FATIMATA KONTE: I have two children and I've lost five, so this is the eighth pregnancy. So right now, I am remembering the past. I am worried this one can die too. My biggest fear is that this child will die.>> VOICEOVER: The one referral hospital in the capital of Freetown services a population of over 400,000 people.>> DR. IBRAHAM THORLIE [Doctor, Princess Christian Maternity Hospital]: Hello, good afternoon. My name is Dr. Ibraham Thorlie. In this hospital we have four gynecologists. One doctor can serve over 100,000 people.>> VOICEOVER: Though the hospital is severely understaffed, it is not the only reason so many people are dying.>> DR. IBRAHAM THORLIE: The delay starts from home. If a woman is pregnant, she wants to give birth, and the husband is not around, she cannot be taken anywhere without the husband coming, because he gives the money. If you come too late, we cannot help you.>> VOICEOVER: And, often, those patients who come too late are very close to death.>> DR. IBRAHAM THORLIE: It's a big dilemma. If the patient can pay you, then it's good. But when they cannot pay you, you need to help them.>> VOICEOVER: Rather than watching their patients die, many doctors and nurses like Rebecca pay for the worst cases from their own small salaries.>> REBECCA MASSAQUEI [Nurse, Princess Christian Maternity Hospital]: I'm a poor nurse. I don't have money to take care of this baby. But the baby should have died, because there was nobody to take care of the baby. So that's why I decided to take the baby. He will live to tell this story. So he's the victory child. That why I call his name Victor.>> VOICEOVER: Victor is one of the few lucky survivors in a place where so many die. However, the government has just launched a program providing free healthcare for pregnant women and children under five.>> DR. IBRAHAM THORLIE: Now things are picking up with the pronouncement of the free healthcare system. It's a big incentive and we hope that will surely bring a difference. But to sustain it is not an easy thing.>> FATIMATA KONTE: We women are all very happy that women will finally get treated.>> TITLE: On April 16, 2010 Fatimata Konte gave birth to a healthy baby boy.>> TITLE: [end credits]>> VOICEOVER: So where are the best and worst places to be a mom? For its "State of the World's Mothers" report, Save the Children studied 164 countries, and compiled a "mothers index." At the top of the index, women have what they need to thrive: excellent medical services, plenty of skilled health workers, and opportunities for education and advancement. But the gap between the top- and bottom-ranked countries is stark. At the bottom, one in three children suffers from malnutrition, and one in 30 women will die from pregnancy-related causes. And how does the United States stack up? Number 31. America's maternal mortality is the highest of any industrialized nation. >> VOICEOVER: But the study is also clear about solutions that work. And the very best solution for helping moms and children? More health workers on the front lines. The equation is simple: more doctors, more midwives and community health workers means more mothers and children surviving childbirth and the early years of life. Nowhere is this more clear than a place like Nepal, which is ranked 133rd on the Mothers Index. This ViewChange short film from Living Proof tells the story. >> TITLE: In one of the world's poorest places, the day a woman gives birth is the most dangerous day of her life, and her child's life. Can one woman and her baby beat the odds?>> TITLE: Dangerous Day. Living Proof, Nepal>> TITLE: Western Nepal >> TITLE: People scratch out a living in the Himalayan foothills, and life is hardest for women>> MAHESWORI: My name is Maheswori. I'm 19 years old. My husband went to India to work. Here there is no food, no rice, no nothing. Around here, there's no work. >> TITLE: Maheswori is pregnant and past due.>> MAHESWORI: I am very, very scared. Everyone has been asking about it, and that makes me even more scared. My first child was breech born, and I might just die this time. If I will live, I will live. If I will die, I will die. >> TITLE: The nearest hospital is four hours away. >> MAHESWORI: Some said take her to the hospital, some said drive her down. Everyone had opinions. But how would you get a car without money?>> TITLE: She plans to deliver in the same place she gave birth before.>> MAHESWORI: In November my daughter was born. I had the baby in our cow shed. >> TITLE: By local custom, mother and child are quarantined as "unclean.">> MAHESWORI: For 12 days after the birth, the baby and I were kept in the cow shed. On the 13th day we were allowed out. You can't take a newborn in the house, God gets angry. You're better off in the cow shed. >> TITLE: Because of Maheswori's high-risk pregnancy, an aid worker traveling with the camera crew makes a case to village elders. They consent to having a birth attendant, and she won't give birth in the cow shed. >> MAHESWORI: I am going to die. Oh my mother! I am dying ...>> WOMAN: Get me the gloves, quickly.>> MAHESWORI: I am dying ... am dying. Please ... I can't.>> WOMAN: It's a complete breech situation. Push hard!>> INDUKA KARI [CARE Program Officer]: She was completely unaware of the fact that she would need medical care because her first child was breech born. >> TITLE: She gives birth to another daughter, Seema. >> INDUKA KARI: If she hadn't gotten proper care by a trained birth attendant, she would've died. >> MAHESWORI: I'll rest for seven days, but then it's back to work. I have to pound the rice, carry water, cut grass, and chop wood. Life is tough here. >> TITLE: Living Proof. Real Lives. Real Progress. >> TITLE: In Nepal, 80 percent of births occur at home with no skilled birth attendant like Maheswori had. But support from global partners is helping train Nepal's 45,000 female health volunteers, and they are dramatically improving Nepal's health outcomes. >> VOICEOVER: If there's one overwhelming success story in maternal and child health, it can be found in Malawi, where almost half the county -- 40 percent -- lives in poverty. But, for years, the government has been investing in all sorts of new plans for life-saving care. The result? The number of deaths in children under five has been cut in half over the past 20 years. Malawi's striking results are strongly linked to efforts on the ground, house by house, community to community, to give mothers the support they need. Living Proof has this success story from Malawi>> TITLE: Grandparents Shaping Safe Childbirth. Living Proof, Malawi >> TITLE: Wacapati = Pregnancy>> TITLE: In Malawi, the word for pregnancy also means 50/50. Conventional wisdom says there is just a 50/50 chance a woman will survive childbirth. >> TITLE: Agogo = Grandparent>> TITLE: Agogos are known as the guardians of wisdom and are responsible for passing on tradition.>> TITLE: Can agogos help improve the odds of wacapati? >> TITLE: Ekwendeni, Malawi>> LYTON CHAWINGA: My name is Lyton Chawinga, and I have six grandchildren. I was born at home, in 1948. In previous days, pregnant mothers were using unsafe methods. Some would have their babies in grass huts. After giving birth, they would leave babies on the ground in the cold. We didn't know better. We had a lot of deaths. One day, hospital workers asked us to be a part of the Agogo Program.>> TITLE: The Agogo Program teaches village elders about proper natal care and helps agogos pass along those messages to their communities. >> LYTON CHAWINGA: We go to their house. We talk to both the man and the woman. We are here to chat with you about the importance of going to the hospital when you are pregnant. We show them pictures and tell them what can happen if they give birth at home. That the mother or baby can fall sick or die. >> WOMAN [Agogo]: After three months, start going for checkups. Escort each other. Many husbands refuse to escort their wives, which is not good. >> TITLE: Agogos also use traditional methods to teach modern messages. >> WOMEN: Pregnancy doesn't kill, the hospital is good, and all our children should be taken there.>> LYTON CHAWINGA: Deaths have decreased, diseases have decreased, and life has improved. I am really happy because if the student fails you are not a good teacher. I see fruits of what I teach and I am proud that I am a good teacher.>> TITLE: Living Proof: Real Lives. Real Progress. >> TITLE: With support and funding, 4,000 agogos have been trained in Malawi.>> TITLE: As a result, Ekwendeni Hospital has seen a 60 percent increase in pregnant women seeking antenatal care.>> TITLE: To accommodate them, the hospital is building a new, larger maternal ward.>> VOICEOVER: Access to health care isn't the whole story, of course. Helping women must include an investment in education. In rural Bangladesh, communities are learning the real value of empowering women. This film from Save the Children shows that giving girls a voice can be the most powerful solution of all. >> TITLE: Shilpi's Story. Save the Children, Bangladesh>> TITLE: This is Shilpi's story. Tiler Char, Barishal, Bangladesh.>> VOICEOVER: Shilpi's father died when she was very young. Her mother worked as a maid to support Shilpi and two younger sons. She earned only enough to feed them one meal a day. When Save the Children started the Girls' Voices project nearby, Shilpi joined. She met with other teenage girls to build self-confidence and learn new skills, like making a budget and saving money. Shilpi realized she could help support her family, even without working outside the home. She started her first business weaving mats. >> SHILPI: Later, I thought about how I could use the money I earn from weaving mats to do more. So I bought a small cow. After a year it gave birth. At that time we got 2 to 2.5 liters of milk from the cow every day. I sold that milk and used the money for my family. Later, when I had earned more money from weaving mats, I saved it. Our house was very small. It was awful to live there during the rainy season. So I decided we should build a new house. I sold the calf and used the money from my savings to build this house. If I had not joined "Girls' Voices" I would have been married by now, like all the other girls. Then I would not have been able to build such a big house or buy a cow. Now my plan is to buy a piece of land since we do not have any. The other plan I have is for my brother. Because he is handicapped, I am supporting his studies. That way he can get a job and earn his own living. My mother used to think if I had been a son instead of a daughter our life would have been much easier. But now she thinks "my daughter has done more for our family than a son would ever do.">> VOICEOVER: Around the world, communities are coming together, not only to save the lives of mothers and children, but to improve them. To give women real opportunities to change the courses of their lives. Basic health care can solve the most urgent crises, but a bigger sea change -- one that empowers women to learn, to marry later, and to decide when to have children -- will ultimately close the gaps in the odds that mothers face. Those changes are happening every day, country by country, and girl by girl. Sometimes, in places like India, something as simple as a bicycle can make all the difference.>> TITLE: Hubub Films Presents>> TITLE: Sone Sangvi, India>> TITLE: Pedal=Sight. Jacob Seigel-Boettner, India >> BHARATI PHAKAD DATE: My name is Bharati Phakad Date. I am 14 years old. I live in Sone Sangvi. I am going to Nimgaon Bhogi High School. I am learning in the ninth standard [grade]. My favorite actor is Mithun Chakrabothy because he always plays a humanitarian, someone who helps other people. My favorite actress is Rani Mukherjee. I like her husky voice. There are a lot of people who live on the streets. I will help them. There are so many people in this world who do not even get one meal a day. I will help them. >> TITLE: Pedal = Sight>> ARMENE MODI [Director, Ashta No Kai]: For about a couple of years, we only focused on adult women and literacy for them, and I noticed many of the girls who came to the class were very, very young girls with mangalsutra, which is a gold-and-black beaded necklace, around their necks, which in India is a symbol of matrimony, and they had babies on their hips, and I started to ask, "What's going on?" and, "Why are such young girls married off already?">> BHARATI'S MOTHER: My life, my generation, was full of darkness. I have to make sure that my daughters get a good education. It is our duty. If you are uneducated, then it is as if you only have one eye. >> ARMENE MODI: In many villages, there were only schools until seventh grade. There were no high schools. So we worked in 10 villages at that point of time, and there were only three high schools. So then I asked the parents, the mothers, "Well, what happens to the boys? How do you send the boys to school?" And they said, "Well, we give them bicycles." And I said, "Well, what about the girls?" And they said, "Oh, no. It's a waste of money to give a bicycle to a girl. She's going to turn around and get married." There's a famous Indian saying: Why water a plant that's going to grow in a neighbor's garden? So, I thought, my God, if it's only a bicycle that's keeping girls from going to school, let's go ahead and give it to them. >> BHARATI PHAKAD DATE: The bike has been really useful. Now, the time that I save commuting to school can be used to study. Also, now I can ride to school with my friends. It's a lot of fun. I used to have to walk to school. >> BHARATI'S MOTHER: Initially, she had to walk to school. It took her more than an hour. Now she can ride to school in 15 minutes. She now feels very motivated and enthusiastic to attend school. >> BHARATI PHAKAD DATE: I want to become a District Supervisor, because then I can make big decisions, and also have the power to implement them. I would be able to make decisions regarding the welfare of the poor and downtrodden. I would be able to help transform society. My name is Bharati Phakad Date. I am 14 years old. I live in Sone Sangvi. I want to eradicate poverty from this country. >> TITLE: [end credits]>> VOICEOVER: Like what you saw? Then visit ViewChange.org, Link TV's brand new multimedia website. Watch over 200 stories about new solutions to the developing world's biggest challenges, get involved with the issues, share the stories with friends, and help change the world, all at ViewChange.org>> VOICEOVER: To read the full 2011 "State of the World's Mothers" report, and to learn more about Save the Children, visit savethechildren.org.>> TITLE: [end credits] 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/unicef-mothers-work-to-enroll-girls-in-school-in-cameroon Cameroon's National Network of Mothers' Associations for Girls' Education (RECAMEF) is going into villages around the country to try and convince families and traditional leaders to send girls to school. This initiative is supported by UNICEF and Cameroon's Ministry of Basic Education and is part of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:04:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/unicef-mothers-work-to-enroll-girls-in-school-in-cameroon Cameroon, Education, Gender, UNICEF, Convention on the Rights of the Child, West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa >> VOICEOVER: You're watching UNICEF Television. These women want to see more girls going to school in northern Cameroon, so they've taken the task into their own hands. RECAMEF, an association of mothers, is going into villages to try and convince families and traditional leaders to send girls to school. In some cases they also provide financial help to pay for school fees. With support from UNICEF and the Ministry of Basic Education, the association has grown over the years. The women, all volunteers, have created networks across the northern and eastern regions. They now have 250 branches. The first port of call for RECAMEF in all villages is the community leader. They turn up en masse to make sure their message is heard. It's crucial to get his support in order to be able to meet with parents. >> LAMIDO BOUBA HAMMAN [Community Leader]: Now the girls who are going to school are able to have jobs and we even have women ministers.>> VOICEOVER: It's common here for parents to just send boys to school because they're seen as the breadwinner. Girls are traditionally married off at an early age, so parents are reluctant to invest in their education. In some parts of the north only one in five students is a girl. But here in the village of Perma, girls' attendance has risen almost 50 percent over the last two years. When 12-year-old Hawa was forced to drop out of school two years ago, she was devastated. Her days were spent at home doing domestic chores. Her parents couldn't afford the fees and decided that her brother should go to school instead. Thanks to RECAMEF, Hawa is now going back to school and has the opportunity to pursue her dream.>> HAWA MAMOUDOU [Student]: I love school. I want to study for a long time so that I can become a doctor.>> VOICEOVER: RECAMEF's Assiatou Abdullah says it?s a tough job changing attitudes - but very satisfying.>> ASSIATOU ABDULLAH [RECAMEF]: I feel very happy when I see them going to school and I feel happy when I see them in studying class.>> VOICEOVER: UNICEF is supporting 150 primary schools in the north and east by providing teacher training, books and education kits, which encourage girls to start and continue going to school. >> VIJITHA EYANGO [UNICEF Education Chief, Cameroon]: RECAMEF is making inroads in the north, due to the fact that it's the mothers of girls who are going out into the community identifying the problems and reaching out one by one to families and ensuring that those girls have no excuse not to be in school.>> VOICEOVER: With support from the government and UNICEF, RECAMEF plans to build on their successes in Perma and reach out to another three districts next year - giving girls across Cameroon a brighter future. This is Salma Zulfiqar reporting for UNICEF Television. Unite for children. 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/stepping-out-of-the-shadows-aravanis-in-india There is a long recorded history of transgender people in India, yet they have been harshly discriminated against since the days of British rule. Today, there are a significant number of people born with male bodies but who identify as female. Aunt Noori, undaunted by stigma, has emerged as a leading figure in India's fight against HIV/AIDS. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:38:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/stepping-out-of-the-shadows-aravanis-in-india India, HIV, AIDS orphan, Tamil Nadu, United Nations, Gender role, Transgender, Discrimination, Gender, AIDS >> VOICEOVER: She's known as Aunt Noori, a loving woman to these AIDS orphans, but Noori's life has been marked by years of pain.>> NOORI: In my mind, I know that I'm a woman. But as a transgendered person, I have suffered a lot in society.>> VOICEOVER: Like other transgenders, Noori considers herself female even though she was born with a male body. In southern India, people like her are called "aravanis." Born in a village in southern India, Noori started to display a feminine behavior at the age of ten. >> NOORI: My neighbors made fun of me, telling my father, "Your son is like a girl." He used to beat me badly. >> VOICEOVER: When Noori was 13 years old, her parents, upset by her behavior, stripped her, then poured sugar syrup on her, and left her tied to a tree with an army of ants on her body. A neighbor took pity on her, gave her clothes and told her to leave the village. That was the last time she saw her family. Like many aravanis, Noori was forced to leave home, eventually settling in Chennai, the capital of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. Life was not easy. At one time, transgenders were accepted by society, says Asha Bharathi, a leading activist for aravani rights.>> ASHA BHARATHI: In the ancient days, there were transgenders. I can give you very good proofs from the literature, from the history that we were treated equally in the society. Because of our transgender and sexuality we were not discriminated. The discrimination started only after the British rule.>> VOICEOVER: Under colonial rule, Indian leaders passed a law prohibiting homosexuality. The law is still in effect in India today. Aravanis are often subjected to harassment and discrimination. >> ASHA BHARATHI: Why do we have discrimination? And we are punished for the fault of nature. Why should we be penalized? We are not special creatures come to earth from any other planet. Do we have two horns? We are like you.>> VOICEOVER: There is no official census on transgenders in India. Some conceal their identities and lead a double life. Others live openly. Some aravanis, choose castration as a definitive way to become a woman. Outcast by society, transgenders face lives of poverty and discrimination. To survive, many transgenders turn to commercial sex work. Noori was one of them. In 1987, she became infected with HIV. When she publicly disclosed her health status to a newspaper, she was rejected, once again, this time by her fellow aravanis. >> NOORI: They said, "Why did you go to the media? You're hurting our profession!" They tried to pour gasoline on me and burn me alive.>> VOICEOVER: That was the turning point in Noori's life. Ostracized by other aravanis, she abandoned sex work to become a peer worker to help those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. A country of one billion people, India ­- in its efforts to halt the spread of the AIDS epidemic ­- is reaching out to the communities most affected by HIV/AIDS. Supriya Sahu is the project director of the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society.>> SUPRIYA SAHU: We need to bring them out together, build their capacity, get them trained in some kind of vocational trade, so that they are economically independent.>> VOICEOVER: In 2001, with support from UNAIDS, Noori founded her own organization to provide care, not only to aravanis, but also to anyone struggling with HIV. It now provides care to over 1,700 people living with HIV. Patricia Chan prepared this report for the United Nations. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/community-enterprise-in-india The Gram Mooligai Company Limited in India is owned entirely by rural villagers who gather and cultivate medicinal plants. Their work promotes sustainable harvesting and ensures community benefits. Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:38:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/community-enterprise-in-india India, Agriculture & Food, Tamil Nadu, Herbalism, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations, Bangalore, Gender, Microfinance, South Asia >> VOICEOVER: In rural communities in India, gathering medicinal plants is a common way of making a living for village women who have no land or cattle. They worry about their future. But Kathammal is not worried. Six years ago, she invested USD$1 and bought 50 shares in a local company. Her investment has paid off. >> KATHAMMAL: In the first year, they gave us 1,000 shares. I'm hoping that the company will do well and I'll make more money.>> VOICEOVER: Founded in 2001, the Grama Mooligal Company Limited, or GMCL, procures medicinal plants from dozens of villages in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Most of the goods go to Bangalore to big manufactures such as Himalaya Herbal Healthcare, one of India's leading companies in this field. R. Manjunatha is a representative of the company. >> R. MANJUNATHA: We prefer buying herbs from GMCL because of the quality of the herbs they supply us. Secondly, they have a sustainable harvest, and thirdly, for the rural empowerment of women.>> VOICEOVER: India has over 6,000 species of medicinal plants known to local communities. Grama Mooligal Company Limited was created as part of an effort to conserve these plants by promoting sustainable harvesting and ensuring community benefits. Villagers like Kathammal have learned to avoid picking young plants, and have come to understand the standard of quality required by the market. >> KATHAMMAL: Our customers want us to separate the roots, remove the sand and stones. We sift through them to make sure that all of it is clean. >> VOICEOVER: Kathammal is one of the 800 stockholders of GMCL. This village enterprise, entirely owned by gatherers and cultivators, is an initiative conceived by the Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions and is supported by the United Nations Development Program. The company offers villagers a guaranteed price and comes directly to them to pick up their goods, a great convenience that saves the villagers from exploitations by market agents. The company wants to do more, says one of the directors, Adichi. >> ADICHI: We want to provide good quality medicinal plants and medicines to the world. This is our dream.>> VOICEOVER: The villagers have hired G. Raju, who is based in Bangalore, to manage their business. >> G. RAJU: We find that there is very little money in it. So we ventured into products.>> VOICEOVER: The company now produces seven kinds of medicine. >> G. RAJU: Our medicines are for cold and cough, for fever, for joint pains, which seem to be the set of health conditions that are affecting the poor.>> VOICEOVER: The company sold about USD$200,000 worth of herbal medicine last year, and hopes to sell half a million dollars worth this year. The medicinal products, ranging in price from less than five cents to a little over two dollars, are available in over 300 stores in Bangalore. Profits benefit villagers like Kathammal directly. >> KATHAMMAL: I have no worries about money or food today. If something bad happens, I can go to the company and get my money.>> VOICEOVER: This community-based enterprise has improved the lives of the villagers. Perhaps more importantly, they now have a sense of ownership and financial security with which to face the future. Patricia Chan prepared this report for the United Nations. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/un-supports-clam-cooperatives-in-morocco Women living in rural agricultural areas in Morocco have begun to boost their incomes through clam farming in the country's local lagoons. The Moroccan government and the United Nations Development Program, UNDP, have created a project to teach women essential skills allowing them to manage profitable businesses. Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:08:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/un-supports-clam-cooperatives-in-morocco Morocco, Gender, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme, Cooperative, Agriculture & Food, Millennium Development Goals, Gender equality >> VOICEOVER: In a rural village, framed by the ocean along the peaceful Atlantic coast of Morocco, tensions are flaring. Earning a living is hard in this region, especially for women, who rarely receive an education. But there is something these women are doing that is making them a lot more prosperous, and it certainly has caught the men's attention. Kaboora Moutaki, and her sister Halima, grew up here. >> KABOORA MOUTAKI: We never had a chance to go to school. The only thing for us to do is work with our parents, or in the lagoon. >> VOICEOVER: These sisters, like other women in their village, have few options other than to work long days on the tidal flats, ankle deep in mud, gathering clams at low tide, and selling them at local markets. Their income is an average of less than 50 dollars a year. But now, the government's Ministry of Fisheries and the Rural Women's Development Association created the Women's Clam Association project. Its goal is to teach women to turn clamming into a profitable business. First, women learn the basics of shell fishing. They're taught how to separate out the large clams ready for immediate sale, and how to nurture the small ones into maturity for future sale. To do this, they create beds of mud, place these clams in the dirt, and cover them. After a year, they're ready for sale, and the women are ready to do something most have never done before - enter a classroom. The United Nations Development Program, UNDP, created training programs that help teach women how to market their products and how to negotiate with clients like restaurants and wholesalers. Emmanuel Dierckx de Casterlé is the UNDP representative in Morocco. >> EMMANUEL DIERCKX DE CASTERLÉ: We have to tell them how to organize the commercial products and the commercial marketing of all this. >> VOICEOVER: Women also develop literacy and math skills, useful for pricing and business management. The program has been a big success. Last year, the women more than doubled their usual haul and sold their shellfish at record prices, more than tripling their income. Today, Kaboora is the president of the Women's Clam Association in her community. >> KABOORA MOUTAKI: We share the profits, and then we put aside a certain amount in savings. >> VOICEOVER: For Kaboora and her sister Halima, and the other women in their cooperative, this means having financial independence for the first time in their lives. For the men in the community, it means big changes. Now many men are demanding a piece of the action. They want their own cooperatives and their own training programs. >> MAN: We can earn a living if we have a cooperative. >> VOICEOVER: The UNDP and the Moroccan government are considering expanding their programs to include men. But in the meantime, both sides must learn to adjust to the many changes taking place. Kamil Taha prepared this report for the United Nations. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/small-loans-in-egypt In Egypt, more and more women are heads of household and are seeking new ways to improve their standard of living. The United Nations Development Program, UNDP, has introduced a microcredit project called Microstart for women who are interested in turning unique ideas into business opportunities. Miscrostart is playing a major role in breaking the cycle of poverty and empowering women in Egypt. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:25:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/small-loans-in-egypt Egypt, Gender, Microfinance, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations, Millennium Development Goals, Gender equality >> VOICEOVER: Women in Egypt are searching for new ways to improve their standard of living. Many of them depended on their husbands who were once the sole breadwinners. Seven years ago, Umtouba lost her husband. As a young girl, Umtouba helped her family to produce rope made from palm leaves. This was a family tradition. She continued the craft of rope making after she got married. Now, with the death of her husband, she finds herself working alone to raise her three daughters and three sons. This is not an easy task because her husband did everything for her. >> UMTOUBA: I would never go outside to buy these leaves. He would go to the market and bring everything here. He would bring things in the car. I would sit here and work. He would bring things to me as I sat here.>> VOICEOVER: Women who are the heads of households find themselves in vulnerable situations. Umtouba's neighbor, Sahar, says that there is need for caution when women negotiate with customers. >> SAHAR: She used to sell to the merchants. He might or might not pay her. He could cheat her.>> VOICEOVER: Sahar works for Microstart, a scheme developed by the United Nations Development Program, UNDP. Microstart's main focus is to break the cycle of poverty. It targets female-headed households. Many women have received loans ranging from 80 dollars to 300 dollars. Sahar's job is to build a trusting relationship with the women before their loans are approved. >> SAHAR: If she needs anything, she asks me. I answer her questions. I try to be a friend to her before she receives the loan. I get to know her. I get to know where she's from, everything about her home.>> VOICEOVER: Umtouba finally received a loan of 80 dollars with Sahar's help. She fixed up her house and sent one child to school with the money. The Microstart project has helped over 6,000 people find jobs in Fayoum by approving five thousand loans. The project is tackling two of the Millennium Development Goals established at the United Nations Summit in 2000: empowering women and reducing poverty. Beshir Shousa and Mary Ferreira prepared this report for the United Nations. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/unrwa-helps-palestinian-women-entrepreneurs The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, provides food rations and basic services for some 27,000 Palestinians in Gaza refugee camp in Jordan. A new microcredit project, sponsored by UNRWA, seeks to create financial independence for women and break the cycle of poverty. Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:17:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/unrwa-helps-palestinian-women-entrepreneurs Palestine, Refugee, Palestinian refugee, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Microfinance, Refugee camp, Palestinian people, Jordan, Gender >> VOICEOVER: More than 27,000 Palestinians live here, crowded together in the Gaza refugee camp in Jordan. Life here is not easy. Most refugees are unemployed or work sporadically in low-paying menial jobs. With most of whatever jobs that do exist going to men, women are left with few options to earn a living. Among them, 42-year-old Fatima Abdallah Abu Knar, her sick husband, Jabber and their ten children. To try and support her family, Fatima worked manual labor in nurseries and olive groves, but the work was difficult and inconsistent. She tried peddling nik-naks out of a suitcase but the money was always inadequate. >> FATIMA ABDALLAH ABU KNAR: I needed school expenses, clothes for my daughters and groceries for the house.>> VOICEOVER: Fatima and her family did receive food rations and other basic services provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA. Today more than four million Palestinian refugees are registered with UNRWA. More than one million of them are women. In an effort to help Fatima and thousands of others break out of the cycle of poverty, UNRWA established a small loan or microcredit program. It's an opportunity for people who could otherwise never meet the requirements for a loan to get one and start their own business. And while the program is available to men as well, its primary mission is to help women become financially independent. Fouad Shawa is director of the program. >> FOUAD SHAWA: The small loans given to women helped in the establishment of successful projects which increased the family's income and improved the economic and social conditions of the family.>> VOICEOVER: With a three thousand dollar loan, Fatima opened a small clothing store in the refugee camp. Within a few months, she was turning a profit. Now, she makes enough money to support her family, pay off the loan's monthly one hundred dollar installment and, for the first time in her life, save for the future. Another part of the program is skills training for young refugees. Computer and sewing classes are popular among the women. >> FATIMA ABDALLAH ABU KNAR: My message to them is that poverty is not something shameful and women must be productive.>> VOICEOVER: Encouraged by success stories like Fatima's, others are following in her footsteps, receiving job training and microcredit loans from UNRWA. Until a solution to the Palestinian question is found, many of them will continue to rely on UNRWA one way or the other. Kamil Taha prepared this report for the United Nations. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/feast-and-sacrifice Deya and his large extended family live in a tiny village in Senegal, on the ragged edges of globalization and immigration. Questions of work and ambition arise as the family prepares for Tabaski, the biggest holiday of the year. Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:19:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/feast-and-sacrifice Senegal, Agriculture & Food, LinkTV Picks, Education, Immigration, Gender, Dakar, Women's work, Cattle, Gender equality >> DEYA: This is Saare Muudu, Senegal. I was born here. This is the only place I know. This is the cow pasture. Cows are like money, like cars. Cows are everything. Here, there are lots of problems. After the farming season, no one works. They don't earn money. If you have problems, there's no money. Instead, you sell a cow. If I sell a cow this month, next month I'll have another problem and sell another cow. Before long, I'll be all out of cows. >> VOICEOVER: Deya's household, one of four in the village, includes Deya's two wives, each of Deya's two brothers? two wives, fifteen children, seventy-seven cows, and dozens of sheep, goats, and chickens. Today the family is preparing for the biggest holiday of the year: Tabaski, the Islamic Feast of the Sacrifice. >> TITLE: Feast & Sacrifice >> KANNI: It's a big celebration, the Tabaski holiday. Everyone's happy. People buy clothes, buy shoes. Everyone buys a ram. On Tabaski, they kill it. They go to town, buy bread, buy potatoes, sweet potatoes, seasoning, macaroni, buy everything, lots of pepper. Cook until it's good, the whole family eats. >> VOICEOVER: To see how big Tabaski is in Senegal, you have to go to the capital, Dakar. At Tabaski, it?s a religious, and social, expectation for Muslim households to buy and slaughter a ram. >> MAN: You've got ones for $40, $50, $60, $100, $165, $185, $200, $300, $400, $1000. >> VOICEOVER: In Senegal, where a day?s wages, if you have work, are around three dollars, this is a big deal. And for Deya in Saare Muudu, where paid work is scarce, the Tabaski ram and other holiday foods are major purchases.>> DEYA: This is what's in my bag today. >> INTERVIEWER: How much is that?>> DEYA: $10.50.>> INTERVIEWER: $10.50 is enough to buy food?>> DEYA: Not enough. I'll sell some grain. I'll have more cash here, and then I'll buy food. With this, I can buy oil, two liters, then it's done. This here, this can buy tomato paste. One can, I think, is $1.25. That leaves 60¢. I can buy salt.>> KANNI: I think my sauce will be tasty today, if Allah wills it.>> WOMAN: It better be good, you've got lots of vegetables. >> VOICEOVER: The household relies on money from Deya?s two brothers, Maliki and Alahji, who are working in Spain. >> VOICEOVER: Alahji, Kanni?s husband, was the first of Deya?s brothers to leave. >> ALAHJI: I left Senegal in 1999. I came here seeking something. I?m helping my children until they can live a good life. >> KANNI: My husband?s in Spain. I miss him! If we don?t have grain, they can send money. People can buy rice, buy grain, they?ll eat. >> VOICEOVER: Maliki, Kanni?s brother-in-law, is visiting for Tabaski. He went to Spain in 2003, but returns almost every year to visit the family. >> MALIKI: Look at our household: it?s full of people. But only three people work. Maliki, Alahji, Deya. You know women don't have work. The women, what work do they do?>> INTERVIEWER: They work...>> MALIKI: They don't work at all. >> KANNI: Women's work? Women pound grain. Women cook. Women pull water. Women sweep. Women clean. Women collect firewood. Women pull water. Women wash clothes. Women have a lot of work! >> INTERVIEWER: Men refuse to help the women? >> DEYA: They don't help!>> INTERVIEWER: Why?>> DEYA: That's just how people do it in this country. Senegal, that's just how it is. >> AADAMA: You know the holiday work? We?ll cook sauce. We?ll eat till we?re full! We?ll cook so much sauce! >> GIRL: What about seasoning? You have money?>> AADAMA: We'll buy a box of seasoning. I'll save one packet. That night, we'll buy macaroni. We'll cook sauce with onions. >> MALIKI: We left the country and we went to Spain. We work there, earn a little. We bring it here. But really, farming's better. We know farming's better for us. >> USUMAN: Boys, they don't want to farm! If I go to Europe, Spain, I'll go, go, go, until I get to Spain. In Spain, I?ll get lots of money. I'll take everyone here and build floors way up high! I'll build floors way up! I'll have a house in town, a house in Dakar. I?ll go to Dakar and relax. >> MALIKI: If you say it?s hard [in Spain], they think it?s just talk, but it?s not really hard. If someone says, ?I want to go,? you tell him, ?Stay here and work. Here?s better than there.? He?ll say, ?Why don?t you stay here? If here?s better, you stay here, too!? But you can?t stay! . >> MALIKI: Why are you doing it like that? It's spilling.>> KANNI: So it doesn't spill? You just pick it up.>> MALIKI: Who picks it up? >> KANNI: Everybody does! Every time it spills, I pick it up!>> MALIKI: You know this happens, you're a grown woman. You shouldn't be lazy.>> KANNI: Do you do this work? Can you say what shouldn't spill?>> MALIKI: That's not true. Put a sack down to catch what spills.>> KANNI: I couldn't even find a tiny bag, I looked.>> WOMAN: Usuman, turn it down! He said to turn your radio down!>> MALIKI: All is well there? >> MALIKI: You?re all healthy? Praise Allah. I can?t talk, my phone credit will run out. >> TITLE: Market Day>> VOICEOVER: It is the day before Tabaski, and Kanni?s going to town to buy food for the holiday with the money Deya has set aside. >> DEYA: Abdoulaye, bring me my bag! Go buy what that'll get you. >> VOICEOVER: The cost of the holiday foods, vegetables, macaroni, adds up quickly. >> SHOPKEEPER: This is $6.50. >> KANNI: $6.50? Only $6, Daouda! This here, how much now?>> SHOPKEEPER: All of it? $11.07. >> KANNI: $11.07?>> SHOPKEEPER: Yes.>> VOICEOVER: Usually, village meals are predictable. Millet couscous. Corn couscous. Peanut sauce. More peanut sauce. Very few vegetables. Saare Muudu started a vegetable garden three years ago. It was part of a Peace Corps development project, requested by the village.>> KANNI: We grew a lot there! Mint, okra, hibiscus. But men don't garden. Only women water it, tend it. But last year women couldn't garden. Gardening's hard work, you know? Me, I was pregnant. Bomel was pregnant. Fanta was pregnant. Bamba's household, you see? Bobel, Kumba, all of them. Sambajo's two wives. One gave birth, one was pregnant. Tuuta's household, Juulde, Aljuma, Kaijel. They were all pregnant. You can't do garden work if you're pregnant. Last year I was so sick, I thought I'd die. >> VOICEOVER: In 2008, Kanni?s then16-year-old daughter, Maymuna, left the village to live with her father, Alahji, in Spain. >> TITLE: Cassa de la Selva, Spain>> MAYMUNA: In Saare Muudu, you?re fourteen, or fifteen and they say, ?She?s grown! Give her a husband!? That?s what they told me. I said, ?No. Me, I don?t want a husband. Bring me to Spain, I?ll work. I?ll get a husband there.? Because, you see, in Africa, you get a husband, you get a lot of babies! If little kids have husbands, it?s bad. >> VOICEOVER: But for Aadama, Maymuna?s little sister, these are open questions. >> INTERVIEWER: How old are you now?>> KANNI: No, leave your shirt alone! Say six years old. Say you're six years old. >> AADAMA: Six years!>> KANNI: Six.>> INTERVIEWER: When Aadama is a little older, she'll go to Spain?>> KANNI: Aadama? I don't think she'll go to Spain. Aadama won?t go. >> INTERVIEWER: She'll go to school, or she'll get married?>> KANNI: I think she'll go to school because Deya said she will marry her cousin. I think she'll go to school until she's big. That's good. >> INTERVIEWER: And how old will Aadama be when she gets married?>> KANNI: I think she'll be 18. >> INTERVIEWER: And you, when you were married?>> KANNI: Only 15 years old! Fifteen years old. I had a husband. >> INTERVIEWER: You were a little kid.>> KANNI: Just a little kid! I was just a little kid. Only 15 years old. I had a husband. >> INTERVIEWER: But you agreed to it?>> KANNI: I hadn't studied, I didn't know anything. I'd never gone to school. Back then, if your parents said they gave you to a husband, you said yes. You were afraid to refuse. >> TITLE: The Day of Tabaski>> VOICEOVER: On the morning of Tabaski, Maliki buys bread as a breakfast treat. New clothes are given out as presents. >> MALIKI: Allah requires the ram. A long time ago, a prophet wanted to sacrifice a ram. >> DEYA: He wanted to, but he didn't have a ram. He said he'd use his child. He asked his child, "Do you agree?" The child said, "Yes, I agree. Do it." Allah removed the child and put a ram there instead. Now everyone does this. >> MALIKI: When I was a little kid, there weren't many problems. There were only two concerns: farming and herding. Not a single other problem. There were lots of people, but no lack of grain. Every year, the rains were good. People, their hearts were alive. You understand? Their hearts were alive. Work was all they wanted. They didn't dream of going anywhere. They didn't dream of going overseas. They didn't dream of anything. If the rains just came, everyone dreamed, "If I work, I'll have lots of grain." >> IMAM: Allahu Akbar.>> MALIKI: Now, people want money. To wear good clothes, wear good shoes. They want everything. Everything. There's no work, who can do that?>> DEYA: Sadu! Come on! Stop, Mahamadou. There. >> VOICEOVER: The ram slaughter follows religious guidelines. The ram lies with its neck facing Mecca, and the men say a blessing as the throat is cut.>> MAYMUNA: That's Kanni's field. Senegal's better, to me. >> INTERVIEWER: Why?>> MAYMUNA: Why? Because here, you stay at your house. You don't go out, don?t know many people. I go to school, I come back, I cook, I eat, I sit and watch TV. When that's done, I sleep. But in Senegal you don't sit around. You go to all the households, like one family. >> KANNI: Mamadou, in Dakar. >> AADAMA: That's Mamadou?>> KANNI: That?s Mamadou, that's me. This is Aadama. This is Maymuna, here. That's the only photo, I don't have any others of Maymuna. Here's Alahji on a motorcycle, going to town. I was on the motorcycle! I took the photo! Kids have gone to Spain. If they go to Spain, if they study, they can work some, they can help their father. >> INTERVIEWER: But you aren't going to go? >> KANNI: Me, I won't go. >> INTERVIEWER: Why not?>> KANNI: I can't go! The kids can't take me, their dad says I won't go! I'll only be here. Their dad refuses. He says he'll only take kids. >> INTERVIEWER: Why?>> KANNI: I don't know why. Because I think they only like to take kids. >> WOMAN 1: You put in macaroni?>> WOMAN 2: I already did!>> VOICEOVER: For the Tabaski meal, people eat in groups. All the girls, the boys, the men, and the women travel to each compound to share some of each family?s food. >> WOMAN: Come on, let's go! >> INTERVIEWER: Later on, do you want to live in Spain?>> MAYMUNA: No, I want to go home. >> INTERVIEWER: Tell me about that.>> MAYMUNA: Because if you only live here, it?s no good, because your family is there. My mom had a baby, he won?t know me. He?ll say, ?Who?s Maymuna?? I?ll stay here until I?ve helped my whole family, then I?ll go home. >> INTERVIEWER: Soon, or a long time from now?>> MAYMUNA: A long time from now. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shilpis-story-proving-the-value-of-girls-in-bangladesh Save the Children's "Girls' Voices" project started in Southern Bangladesh in 2006 with the aim of encouraging young women to take control of their lives and their futures. It has touched 42,000 lives since then&mdash;including those of Shilpi and her family. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:25:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shilpis-story-proving-the-value-of-girls-in-bangladesh Bangladesh, Gender, Save the Children, International Women's Day, Education, Female education, Gender equality >> TITLE: In Bangladesh, families prefer sons over daughters. Sons work to take care of the family. They are an asset. Girls are discouraged from working outside the home. They are a burden. What happens when you give a girl a voice? >> TITLE: This is Shilpi's story. Tiler Char, Barishal, Bangladesh.>> VOICEOVER: Shilpi's father died when she was very young. Her mother worked as a maid to support Shilpi and two younger sons. She earned only enough to feed them one meal a day. When Save the Children started the Girls' Voices project nearby, Shilpi joined. She met with other teenage girls to build self-confidence and learn new skills, like making a budget and saving money. Shilpi realized she could help support her family, even without working outside the home. She started her first business weaving mats. >> SHILPI: Later, I thought about how I could use the money I earn from weaving mats to do more. So I bought a small cow. After a year it gave birth. At that time we got 2 to 2.5 liters of milk from the cow every day. I sold that milk and used the money for my family. Later, when I had earned more money from weaving mats, I saved it. Our house was very small. It was awful to live there during the rainy season. So I decided we should build a new house. I sold the calf and used the money from my savings to build this house. If I had not joined "Girls' Voices" I would have been married by now, like all the other girls. Then I would not have been able to build such a big house or buy a cow. Now my plan is to buy a piece of land since we do not have any. The other plan I have is for my brother. Because he is handicapped, I am supporting his studies. That way he can get a job and earn his own living. My mother used to think if I had been a son instead of a daughter our life would have been much easier. But now she thinks "my daughter has done more for our family than a son would ever do.">> TITLE: From 2006-2010 the Kishoree Kontha [Girls' Voices] project touched the lives of more than 42,000 girls in Southern Bangladesh, and changed them forever. >> TITLE: "The girls who participated in Girls' Voices have a confidence that you don't see in other girls. They have learned how to set personal and financial goals for the future and they have the skills to achieve them. They are an example to the rest of the girls in the community." -- Sazia Afrin Rina, Field Trainer. >> TITLE: Add your voice. Save the Children. www.savethechildren.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shathis-story-married-young-and-speaking-out In southern Bangladesh, the average girl is married by age 15, drops out of school, and has her first child by 16. This puts both mother and baby at far greater risk of death in a region where maternal and newborn mortality are already high. She has no voice in these decisions. Her parents, husband, and in-laws decide. What happens when you give a girl a voice? Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/shathis-story-married-young-and-speaking-out Bangladesh, Gender, Gender equality, International Women's Day, Child marriage, Save the Children, Marriage, Education >> TITLE: In southern Bangladesh, the average girl is married by age 15, has her first child by 16, and drops out of school. She has no voice in these decisions. Her parents, husband, and in-laws decide. What happens when you give a girl a voice?>> TITLE: This is Shathi's story. Dwarika, Barisal, Bangladesh.>> VOICEOVER: Shathi is helping her 14-year-old sister-in-law get ready for school. At the age of 14, Shathi was no longer going to school. Her parents gave her away in marriage. Shathi had her first child at the age of 15. When Save the Children started the Girl's Voices project nearby, Shathi joined. The all-girls group met in a neighbor's house six afternoons a week. They learned how to think critically, solve problems, negotiate, and make decisions. They also found a place to share their troubles. When the group learned that one member was threatened with early marriage, Shathi and other girls raised their voices to prevent it. >> SHATHI: There was a very poor girl in our group whose father died. She came to the group saying my mother wants to give me away in marriage. If she does, I can't come here anymore. We asked her, why is she giving you away? She said my mother keeps saying what good is it having you here? We told her, look, you are still an adolescent. Don't make the same mistake some of us made. My parents gave me away when I was very young because we were very poor. You should not go through with it. She was convinced and went home to tell her mother. But her mother didn't listen. The girl came back to the group and told us what happened. The next day we all went and tried to convince her mother. We told her you can't give your daughter away at this age. That would be child marriage. She didn't want to listen to us. She said this is my daughter, what is it to anybody else? We told her you only have only one daughter. If anything happens to her you will feel awful. If she marries now it could happen that during childbirth she and the child could die. Or maybe one of them would die. Then you will be the one who is sorry. You will think if only I had listened to them, none of this would have happened. She was convinced, so we left. She did not give her daughter away. We learned all of this from Girls' Voices. >> VOICEOVER: Shathi has also used her voice to stop early marriage at home. Now her daughter and sister-in-law will have the opportunities she lost. >> JAHANARA BEGUM [Shathi's mother-in-law]: I got married at a very early age. Because of this I had a lot of children and a lot of trouble raising them. I have a daughter. I am not going to give her away in marriage at an early age. I am going to keep her in school. >> MD. SHAHIN PADDA [Shathi's husband]: There is no way I am going to give my daughter away in marriage at an early age. I am trying to make a better future for her. She can get married when she completes her studies. >> SHATHI: I want our future to be much better than this. I want my family to be happy. I am going to make sure my daughter has a good education. I am not going to have her marry at an early age. I have high hopes for my daughter. >> TITLE: From 2006-2010 the Kishoree Kontha [Girls' Voices] project touched the lives of more than 42,000 girls in Southern Bangladesh and changed them forever.>> TITLE: "I see a big change in these girls. After participating in Girls' Voices, they are more aware and more confident. They use what they have learned to improve our families and our community. In the future, I believe they will use it to improve our country as well." -- Abdul Karim Howlader, father of a participant.>> TITLE: Add your voice. Save the Children. savethechildren.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/congo-women-secrets-unveiled Rape is an epidemic in the Congo. Women that are raped do not talk about it for fear of being abandoned by their families and rejected by their villages. These women have kept their secrets for years, some decades. Now they are sharing their stories for all women of the Congo. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:56:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/congo-women-secrets-unveiled DR Congo, Gender, Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Women's rights, ViewChange Online Film Contest, Rape, Gender equality >> FEZA [35 years old, Mother of 8, Widow]: This is the first time to tell my story. I have never talked to anyone before. I hoped to have a place where I could share my story with other women. Today I have this opportunity. >> TITLE: Congo Women: Secrets Unveiled>> VOICEOVER: The Eastern Congo has been attacked by many militia groups. Congo is the rape capital of the world. These women have kept their secrets for years, even decades. With amazing courage and strength, Congo women want to tell the world. Their secrets are being unveiled.>> FEZA: No one in my family or my village knows that I was raped. Only you know. This should be kept a secret from my family. No one was home. He told me if I cried he would kill me. He raped me on my children?s bed. >> SIFA: They raped me. >> WOMAN 1: They took all my clothes. >> WOMAN 2: They raped me again. >> NURU: They raped my older sister. >> PAULINA: My children also act traumatized. >> BINTU: I do not know who fathered my child. >> VANANCIA [39 years old, mother of 6]: The first Interhamwe man that raped me told me to stop crying. He said, ?You are disturbing my work.? He called a second Interhamwe into the house, for his turn to rape me. Then a third Interhamwe came and raped me. My children were near the house while I was being gang raped. >> VOICEOVER: Children witness these attacks of terror. They see their mothers, sisters, raped and tortured. Some of these children are taken into the forests. The boys become child soldiers or slaves. The girls become sex slaves, raped daily by many men.>> SIFA [24 years old, mother of 4, one child died from malaria]: Late one night four Interhamwe entered my house. Two men took my husband into the forest. The other two men stayed and raped me. >> PAULINA [Mother of 7, widow]: The Interhamwe said to my husband, ?Get out! Your women will now become our wife.? My husband told them, ?Please don?t touch my wife. Then they killed him.? After killing my husband, three Interhamwe raped me. >> NABINTU [45 years old, mother of 6]: One night I was cooking food for my family. Three Interhamwe entered my house. He told me to sit there and one of them raped me. They hit me, and I lost my teeth. I didn?t tell my husband I was raped. If I did he would make me leave. As you can see, I am old.>> BINTU [28 years old, mother of 4, one child of rape, father unknown]: Interhamwe entered my village and selected 12 women. We carried logs into the forest, it took three nights. I was raped by seven Interhamwe. Each woman had to support seven Interhamwe. When we arrived at the Interhamwe village, the commander chose me as his wife. He had to give the other seven soldiers a dowry of 12 guns each. The Interhamwe kept me for three months. I became pregnant. The Interhamwe does not like women. They only have sex with them to destroy their bodies. >> VOICEOVER: Many of these women have become pregnant by their perpetrators. Women are not acknowledged as human beings with feelings.Raped daily, and often left to raise a child alone, they live raising a child by the violence of rape, not knowing who the father may be. They are traumatized and lack trauma centers, preventing counseling and recovery. They have no money for healthcare, education for their children. They hold their child as they die of malaria, malnutrition, or other preventable diseases. >> NURU [20 years old, mother of 4, one child deceased, 8.5 months pregnant]: In 2007, eight Interhamwe came into my house. They asked my father to rape me because I was the youngest daughter. ?I cannot do that to my daughter,? he said. They said to me, ?Go and ask your father to show you his penis.? They cut off my father?s genitals. My father died like this. My older sister died because she was traumatized by the death of our father.>> VOICEOVER: Today the woman unveiling their secrets is hope for all women in the Congo. Unveiling their secrets with the help of international organizations, both government, and non-government, these women have the opportunity to have the security and equality they desperately deserve. Sharing their secrets with other women empowers them. These courageous women have made the transition from victims to survivors. Congo Women: Secrets Unveiled. 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/mdg3-empowering-african-women As the second decade of the 21st century dawns, the United Nations Development Programme and the African Union are placing an emphasis on advancing women's rights and gender equality throughout the African continent. Meet some of the women who are leading this push and laying the foundation for the "decade of African women." Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:54:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/mdg3-empowering-african-women Africa, Millennium Development Goals, Gender equality, Gender, TrustAfrica, African Women's Development Fund, Education, ViewChange Online Film Contest, African Union, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf >> TITLE: UN MDG 3: Empowering African Women: A Success Story. >> SANDRA ZERBO [MDG3 Coordinator, TrustAfrica]: Many countries in Africa are going to reach their 50th year anniversary of independence, which means it's been 50 years since they've been nation-states. In a nation-state, we have to consider gender equality. There is no way around it. The African Union has tagged the period 2010 to 2020 as "the decade of African women" to really use this time to put women at the forefront of many of the fights that we carry out. This time is crucial, and it is a time that we can use to really push the MDG3 agenda forward. >> MARIETTA WILLIAMS [Executive Director, UMWAEO]: My name is Marietta M. Williams, Executive Director of the United Muslim Women Advocacy and Empowerment Organization. The problem that we actually have is illiteracy. The illiteracy among our rural women is 95%. >> WOMAN 1: We are learning. We didn't read before, but they came in and taught us how to read and write. To even sit down among two or three people to speak. It was hard on us, but we thank them. They've been teaching us our ABC's and our rights. Your rights in the community, your rights with your husband, rights with property, your rights as a woman. And how to take care of your child to go to school. >> MARIETTA WILLIAMS: Things have improved; women are now talking for themselves, they now know about their rights, their responsibilities. They know they have the right to own property, they have the right to go to school, and they have the right to engage in businesses. They have the right to meet as a group to discuss issues that are affecting them in the communities. >> WOMAN 1: They told us about the group. They said they were going to come to empower the women. They came and helped to open our eyes. >> WOMAN 2: Men can respect women now. >> SANDRA ZERBO: In terms of women's political participation, we are establishing internships to give the opportunity to emerging leaders to participate in the activities of organizations that work on that issue. And then we are also trying to set up exchange trips for women leaders to learn from each other in another environment. There has to first be some sort of political will to move women forward, which is probably what we've seen in Rwanda. There has been a lot of political will to have gender equity in parliament, which they've reached. >> SARAH MUKASA [Director of Programs, African Women's Development Fund]: We would like to see more women in governance and leadership. As presidents, we have Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who's doing a wonderful job in Liberia. We hope to see more of those kinds of examples on the continent.>> SANDRA ZERBO: All in all, I think that the opportunities are there and that these challenges can be overcome. And we've seen so with Liberia, where we have a woman president, and also in Rwanda, where parliament is a 50-50 share. We care about the MDG3 because we care about mothers. In taking care of mothers, we take care of children. It's clear that children are the future of our continent, so if we take good care of their mothers, if a child doesn't see his or her mother beaten up at home, then your child grows up in an environment that makes him a leader for tomorrow. We have international organizations like the UNDP that really help improve the capacity of women. There are a lot of women's groups and women's advocates that lobby not only at the national level but also at the international level to say to the world that, you know, this is not fair and we need the situation to change. Over the years things have improved, and we have to recognize that and acknowledge the fact that there have been a lot of civil society organizations, a lot of women advocates, who have fought for the cause and who have done a great job at it. >> ADHIAMBO ODAGA [Representative, Ford Foundation - West Africa]: Things are moving, you know. Africa is on the move. Everyday, somewhere, people are organizing and making life better for themselves and for their families and their communities.