Give me a shilling : phenomenon of the street children / Ukweli Video Productions ; producers/directors, Richard J. Quinn, Martin Kivuva.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Quinn, Richard J., 1926- director, producer.

Kivuva, Martin, director, producer.

Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga, producer.

Ukweli Video Productions, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street children--Kenya--Nairobi.

Street children.

Street children--Services for--Kenya--Nairobi.

Children--Kenya--Nairobi--Social conditions.

Children.

Boys--Services for--Kenya--Nairobi.

Boys.

Social work with children--Kenya--Nairobi.

Social work with children.

Watoto wa Lwanga Project.

Boys--Services for.

Social conditions.

Street children--Services for.

Kenya--Nairobi.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (45 min.) : color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Nairobi : Ukweli Video Productions, [1996]

System Details:

VHS - PAL.

analog

magnetic

VHS

PAL

Summary:

Surveys the Watoto wa Lwanga project, the efforts by the Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga not only to educate and rehabilitate Nairobi's street children, but to prevent slum children from ending up in the streets. Features life in the slums, the situation of the street children, the efforts of the social workers to involve the children's parents, the various reception centers, the vocational school, the Boy's Town Ruai Residential School, the community of the Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga as well as interviews with former street children and with various directors and benefactors of the project.

Participant:

Narrators, Ann Ofula, Allan Kamau.

Credits:

Script, Richard J. Quinn ; camera, Dickson Gitau, Carole Gikandi, Macho-Slovakia ; editors, Carole Gikandi, Dickson Gitau ; sound, Amos Ochieng, Cosmas Ekuwam, Martin Kivuva ; production assistant, Mary G. Otuka.

OCLC:

39649279