http://viewchange.org Videos from ViewChange.org (Filtered by topics: WINNERS: ViewChange Film Contest) en-us Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:27:00 +0000 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/trash-is-cash <p>Wafalme is a hip-hop group formed by Kenyan kids who grew up in the slums around Nairobi. They recorded "Trash Is Cash" in a bid to enlighten humanity about innovative ways to recycle waste. These won't just improve the environment, but also produce wealth and employment.</p> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:27:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/trash-is-cash Cultural Video Foundation, Kenya, Wafalme, Nairobi, Slum Talent Trust, Slum, ViewChange Online Film Contest, Climate change, Recycling, Pollution >> TITLE: Song: Trash is Cash. Artist: Wafalme. Producer: Homeboyz, Slum Talent Trust. Video: Cultural Video Foundation. >> INTRO: Yeah-ee-yeah, no more pollution This my solution Make it clean, make it clean >> VERSE: Millions living here The litter they call dear They weren't born here It's survival for revival Air filled with polluted bubbles Sky's the limit every day hustle Conserving the slum building up muscle Clean up the streets, recycling the trash Save the environment and make some cash People wake up and wander right about outside The narrow dirty streets shanty built muddy shacks Discarded garbage kids playing on filthy paths Within the atmosphere of alcohol, violence, and drugs Education, medication, a distant hope in them >> CHORUS: No more pollution, trash is cash This my solution, trash is cash No more pollution, trash is cash This my solution, trash is cash Make a town a green town, make a town a green town Make a town a green town, make a town a green town Climate change, environment, make a town a green town Climate change, environment, make a town a green town >> SIGN: Kibera Youth Self Help Project: Waste Management Composting Site. >> VERSE: Community groups, micro entrepreneurs Selling to farmers asset compost manure Irrigation from the river Eco sandals, handbags, jewelry made from the trashy granular Mattress, pillow baskets, roof tiles from the trash plastic Sold to local and foreign market Metals sold to scrap dealers in a rampage Cheap cookers made using dumped coffee seeds and paper as fuel Feed the poor, the price not cruel Millions of people trying to save the world While make a living with the strong unemployment And pollution solution, innovative lesson to the world my conclusion Starved women bathing in dirty rivers, planting veggies along rivers Kids forage in waste, drinking water from pipes, covered in garbage Raw sewers overflowing, open sewage, eyes can't bandage Improper sanitation, no latrine variation, garbage mountains, can't manage >> CHORUS: No more pollution, trash is cash This my solution, trash is cash No more pollution, trash is cash This my solution, trash is cash Make a town a green town, make a town a green town Make a town a green town, make a town a green town Climate change, environment, make a town a green town Climate change, environment, make a town a green town >> VERSE: So when I sit back and reminisce about the future Things the way they were, wishing they wouldn't last My thoughts about conservation run inside of me Now I can get the best life I wanted to achieve The ozone layer depletion, mankind threat I mention The planet getting warmer, resource scarcity informer Slums overpopulated, people starving, some don't make it No trees around the slum This can't be a greener ground environment surround Charcoal and biogas production Youth employed for garbage collection, an ideal correction Water purifiers, ceramic material Fine art sculptures made from trash Youth to generate some cash Fire stutter by the roadside, spreading acrid smoke near food kiosks in the air It's pollution here, pollution there, pollution everywhere, beware. >> CHORUS: No more pollution, trash is cash This my solution, trash is cash No more pollution, trash is cash This my solution, trash is cash Make a town a green town, make a town a green town Make a town a green town, make a town a green town Climate change, environment, make a town a green town Climate change, environment, make a town a green town http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-witch-doctor <p>When a Kenyan man discovers he is HIV positive, he turns to a traditional healer for help. But what advice will the witch doctor dispense? This light-hearted film has an important message about the relationship between modern medicine and folk treatments.</p> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/the-witch-doctor HIV, Health education, Witch doctor, HIV positive people, Traditional medicine, Kenya, Sexually transmitted disease, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Health >> TITLE: X Media Kenya presents >> TITLE: The Witch Doctor >> SIGN: Liverpool VCT, Care & Treatment. LVCT. Building Partnerships, Transforming Lives >> SIGN: Please note: All HIV services are free >> WOMAN: Have a seat, please. Mr. Omau, first of all, I'd like to congratulate you for coming in voluntarily, and, like I said, you can still live a normal, healthy, productive life with HIV. Is there anything you'd like to know? >> MR. OMAU: No, there's nothing. Just tell me. >> WOMAN: The results are clear, and you're HIV positive. >> MR. OMAU: What do you mean I'm positive? >> WOMAN: It just means that the virus is active in your body. But it does not automatically mean that you have AIDS. >> WOMAN: Let me advise that you go to a hospital and have your T-cell count taken so that we can immediately start you on ARVs. This is our brochure. It has everything that you need to know about how to live positively with HIV. >> SIGN: An astrologer: Dr. Salim from Mombasa, astrologer for health problems, bad omen, a lost person, finances, broken marriage, impotence, 0711555555 >> DR. SALIM: Come in, my son. Tell me what ails you. >> MR. OMAU: I want you to help me. I've been unwell for quite some time now. I had this persistent cold, and, after that, I developed some swellings. Now, they want me to take this T-count test for HIV. I'm sure there's another way of doing this. >> DR. SALIM: Definitely. Yes, most definitely. >> MR. OMAU: We can do it traditionally or spiritually, but please, just tell me what you want me to do, and I'm going to do it. >> DR. SALIM: We shall consult the ancestors. >> MR. OMAU: What do I have to do? I hear if I sleep with a virgin, I can cleanse myself. Oh my god! >> DR. SALIM: Give me your right hand. Connect with your ancestors. Yes! >> MR. OMAU: No, I won't do some of these sacrifices. Stop it, please! There are some things I can't do. I won't cut anybody's genitals, and I won't drink any albino's blood. >> DR. SALIM: But you might have to! What then? You cannot back out now. Please will you hold this with you left hand. This is how you will connect with your ancestors, from your head to your heart right down to your feet. Clean! It is now too late to go back. The ancestors have spoken. Your answer is right here. Yes, young man. Let us go, let us move now. Ancestors. Do not worry, young man. You see, as the pamphlet says, you can still live a fully productive life even if you are HIV positive. http://www.viewchange.org/videos/vital-voices-kakenya <p>Kakenya Ntaiya had a dream: to become a teacher. On the way to achieving it, she has had to overcome obstacles and make tough compromises. But, after becoming the first girl from her Maasai village to attend college, she has opened a path for other young girls achieve their dreams.</p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:24:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/vital-voices-kakenya Vital Voices, Kakenya Ntaiya, Kenya, Women's rights, Primary school, Education, Gender, Marriage, International Women's Day, ViewChange Online Film Contest >> TITLE: Kakenya >> KAKENYA NTAIYA: I was engaged to be married when I was five years old. My parents arranged it. In my community, when a girl is old enough to walk, she's taught how to sweep the house, how to collect water from the river, and how to cook for the family. A girl is trained to become a mother, and a boy is trained to become a warrior. My mother's life was very hard. I knew that I wanted something different. If my chores were done, I could go to school. Every child -- it doesn't matter where they are -- every child has a dream. I dreamed of becoming a teacher because teachers looked nice. Teachers didn't have to work on the farm. >> KAKENYA NTAIYA: When a girl becomes 12 or 13 years old, there is a ceremony. We are told that this ceremony will make you a woman, and once you're a woman you can get married. You're not supposed to cry. I knew that if I were married, I could no longer go to school. I would not become a teacher. So, I went to my father. I asked him not to force me to be married. I agreed to go through the ceremony if he promised to delay my marriage, if he allowed me to finish school. He agreed, and we made a deal. >> KAKENYA NTAIYA: When I finished high school, I had to make another deal. My father was sick so, according to our custom, all the men his age were now my fathers. There is a tradition among my people that someone who comes to you before the sunrise will bring good news, and you must not tell them "no." So I went to them one by one. When all the elders agreed, the whole village came together and combined their money. For the first time ever, a girl from our village would go to college. >> KAKENYA NTAIYA: Today, I am finishing my PhD. I did get married, but it was to a man that I chose. My dream of becoming a teacher has grown. I have built the first primary school for girls in my village. A place where girls can be free, a place where they can dream, a place that lets them know that their dreams are possible. I am Kakenya Ntaiya. This is my Vital Voice. Now raise yours. >> TITLE: Vital Voices Global Partnership www.vitalvoices.org http://www.viewchange.org/videos/rising-to-the-top <p>When you think of Nairobi's slums, performance art probably isn't the first thing that comes to your mind. But the Sarakasi Trust isn't a normal organization. It's working with impoverished Kenyan youths to train them as dancers and acrobats, a process which gives young people self-belief and helps them fulfill their potential both on the stage and off it.</p> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:56:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/rising-to-the-top Sarakasi, Nairobi, Acrobatics, ViewChange Online Film Contest, Kenya, Poverty, Africa, Performing arts, Change Makers, Arts >> TITLE: Nairobi, Kenya >> MOSES MBAJAH [Sarakasi Acrobat]: My full name is Moses Mbajah, and I'm an acrobat in the circus. Back at my mum's place, they didn't have nothing at all, nothing to eat ... everything. And then the group which I was with, they had this idea of, like, it was easy to get access to people's houses and get a stereo, get a TV, and then go and sell it. And that's what I had to do and bring to my mum, and then at least they had something, something to eat. They just didn't care, even if I was just going to be caught, or what. At that time, I thought it could have been, even in a way, better, because I didn't have food to eat, and, if I'm being taken to the police, at least I could get something to eat. >> PELEGIAH NDIRANGU [Sarakasi Dancer]: I've lost so many friends along the way, some are prostitutes. When I actually go home to visit, back at my place, I find so many of my schoolmates with kids. They look two times older than I am, and, when I look at them like this, I'm like, "God." >> MOSES MBAJAH: The person who owned the house, we just passed each other, like [whistles], and, then, we heard the footsteps, that is, someone is coming, running, and when he came out, he was yelling, you know? Like, at that moment, if you are being yelled at, "You're a criminal," people will stone you and burn you. Stone you to death and then put a tire on you, and ... From a distance, I could see. I stopped, and I could see back, what was happening, and there were a lot of people in that place, and if one of my friends could have been caught there, he could have been killed. That was the day that I decided, like, this is not going to be happening anymore. >> RUDY VAN DIJCK [Founder, Sarakasi Trust]: We started in Kenya some 20-plus years ago, and like, I think everybody who comes to this beautiful country, went on safaris and appreciated beautiful landscape and animals, of course, and then we also started to have an eye for the people and the culture, and we felt we should do something and try to help. So we started with street children rehabilitation work, and we realized that there was a need for finding something, a tool, that would keep those street kids, girls, boys, with very bad backgrounds, in the homes. >> MOSES MBAJAH: What I saw first is the people who came and introduced acrobatics and [inaudible] and started recruiting. I was being taken to the performance and I was like, "What?" These people, the ones who do this and they're doing ... they are so huge, big ... if they can do it ... they really rocked me. Because they are things which I'd never seen in my life and I saw that at that time and I was like "Wow! I'd like to do that." >> RAHIM OTIENO [Sarakasi Staff]: The most special thing about Sarakasi is the outlook towards these people, how they view the artists, what they're recognizing, probably in a situation other people would deem hopeless. They try and reach out and get whatever bit of hope there is in these people, kind of like ignite it again and have them believing in themselves again. That, to me, is special. >> MOSES MBAJAH: Working in Sarakasi has made me have my own room, where I sleep. The fruits of it is, like, I'm getting paid and I'm able to sustain myself with my family. I can just provide what I have, and we can share it. Not a lot of boys of my age can do that. But I'm just proud of myself at this moment, that I'm able to do something like that. >> PELEGIAH NDIRANGU: Sarakasi has helped a lot of people, you know? There are so many people who have passed through Sarakasi and out. And out there when you meet with them, they live way better than they used to live before they came to Sarakasi. I think I've grown to be confident, to be outspoken, and self dependent. And this is really a great deal, you know? But, yeah, I really mostly thank Sarakasi for that. >> MOSES MBAJAH: If we give all those people in the slums an opportunity, there wouldn't be all that poverty around here. If you're born an Einstein, and you never have the chance to read a proper book, if you're in fact a Bill Gates in your mind, but you never get a dollar to invest in anything, you're never going to make it. There's so much talent out there. >> MOSES MBAJAH: My acrobatics, I like it. It's something good. It has made me a positive man. >> TITLE: From "Endeleza," a documentary film by Ana Cetina www.endelezafilm.com http://www.viewchange.org/videos/burning-in-the-sun <p>When there are chores to be done during the day and it's dark in the evening, children find it difficult to learn. But Malian entrepreneur Daniele Dembele is bringing electricity to remote rural areas, so local schools can light their classrooms long into the night.</p> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:06:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/burning-in-the-sun Solar energy, Africa, West Africa, Mali, Skyheat, Daniele Dembele, Developing country, Alternative energy, Renewable energy, Afriq-Power >> TITLE: Banko Village, Mali >> AMADOU COULIBALY [School Principal]: I have 300 students, and the graduation rate is close to 20 percent. >> JENEBOU [Student]: When we go to school, our parents have no one to help with chores. They pull us out because there's no one to work in the house. >> AMADOU COULIBALY: We are now approaching the exam period. In the nighttime, we give classes. And, with one or two lamps, it is difficult to see the blackboard. >> DANIELE DEMBELE [Owner, Afriq-Power]: Over here in Mali, 80 percent of the villages, they don't have ... they have no light. It's even not 80 percent, it's 99 percent. Here, we're talking about natural selection. The environment you are living in is really tough. So, to survive we've got to be tough. My name is Daniel Dembele. This project is about building some solar panels in Mali, with local material. To make it as cheap as we possibly can. And we can try to make it possible for villagers to buy it. My final purpose would be to have a business in this field. Why should I not make money helping my people also? This we can make in Mali. This also. The back you can assemble, if I teach you how to do it manually. >> RICHARD KOMP [Director, Skyheat Associates]: So, we will make a 30-watt panel out of these. >> DANIELE DEMBELE: First panel made in Mali? >> RICHARD KOMP: These are the very first PV [photovoltaic] modules ever made in West Africa, as far as we know. >> CAROLINA BARRETO-CAJINA [Fulbright Scholar]: Electricity was invented more than a century ago. And, for me, it's just inconceivable to think that there are still places in the world that they are not able to have electricity. I think that it's becoming a right. >> DANIELE DEMBELE: Look over there, what is happening over there. You're going to see the difference. Over there they've got the fire. You can see, there's a kind of light over there. That's the old way to get light. That's the new way. >> JENEBOU: If you're educated, you can do things an uneducated person cannot. If you're educated, you could help develop your village. >> DANIELE DEMBELE: I count on helping thousands of people, not just 10 or 20 villages. If God's willing I live long enough, I would like to make a lot of villages every year, so I'm talking about thousands of people every year. Maybe at the end of my life I could tell you I've been helping over 100,000 people in this country: building wells, building solar power installations, solar cookers, and all the stuff. My main goal is help them and make my life. >> TITLE: Before Banko's school had electricity, every year 20 percent of students passed their national exams. After Daniel installed lights, 97 percent passed. Today, Daniel's business, Afriq-Power, continues to electrify schools and health centers in rural Mali. >> TITLE: From the documentary film "Burning in the Sun" http://www.viewchange.org/videos/chocolate-country <p>In the backcountry of the Dominican Republic, poor cacao farmers have been fighting a losing battle with the global economy for as long as anyone can remember. But the thriving Loma Guaconejo cooperative has found a way to turn the system on its head.</p> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:48:00 +0000 http://www.viewchange.org/videos/chocolate-country Fair trade, Latin America, Cooperative Farming, Organic farming, Dominican Republic, Agriculture, Chocolate, Caribbean, Agriculture & Food, Cacao >> TITLE: Namshub Films presents Chocolate Country >> LUDOVINA SILVERIO SANTOS [Farmer]: Chocolate. Here in the Dominican Republic, there are few who eat chocolate. We drink chocolate. Not the store-bought kind. And at least we're drinking chocolate from quality cacao. Vitamins to drink! >> VICTORIANA PAULINO MERCEDES [Farmer]: We felt like the last of the communities, alone and backwards. For us, the marketing cooperative was like electricity entering the community. Like sparks, like striking sparks that motivate a person. >> HILARIO ROSARIO QUEZODA [Farmer]: The cooperative was born out of the nature reserve. If we destroy the reserve, it'll become a desert without water, and water is life. We make more profit from organic cacao because it's worth more than the "conventional," as they call it. >> LUDOVINA SILVERIO SANTOS: We are separating the black pods, the ones marred by disease, like this here. Who's going to eat this cacao? But a good cacao, it's delicious. The family shares the profits it brings. It's not just for the husband to pocket. No, for everyone: for children, for illnesses, for everything. Now we put it in clean plastic sacks to take it to the fermentation center. If we don't have better quality, we have nothing. >> RAMON REYNOSO [Farmer]: The businessman, the middleman pockets all the profits, and each year, his wealth and capital increases, while the farmers get poorer and poorer. We know institutions in the United States. They can buy cacao directly from the farmlands. >> EMELERIO JIMENEZ [Farmer]: The middlemen, they'll destroy you. >> LUDOVINA SILVERIO SANTOS: But not us, not the cooperative. In the cooperative, we are one united body. >> MEN AND WOMEN: A man is only one and life is hard. Walking together, we'll go further. >> VICTORIANA PAULINO MERCEDES: We made this project happen. Man, woman, and child. You couldn't say that anyone sat around at home. >> CARLITO ALEJO DE CONCEPCION [Farmer]: The man of the farmlands is my brother. The blood of the campo runs in my veins. Without the farmlands, I cannot live. >> RAMON REYNOSO: If we have quality, if we have more effort from the men and women in the countryside, it's to improve the lives of every one of them, so they can have more resources for nutrition, health, education. >> LUDOVINA SILVERIO SANTOS: I am a buyer of cacao for the cooperative, and I'm in charge of the gender training program. >> LOUISA SANTOS SUAREZ [Homemaker]: It's true that I have to work hard, taking care of the kids and the house, but for me to see her running here and there -- never, never in my life, did I think she could have a role like this. >> LUDOVINA SILVERIO SANTOS: And I'm not going to let this opportunity pass, because we're moving forward. I'll continue as long as God grants me life and health. >> TITLE: The Loma Guaconejo Cooperative has united over 200 cacao farmers. >> TITLE: www.chocolatecountryfilm.com