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Educating Lucia / TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; directed by Charlotte Metcalf, Kirsten Brathen and Sean Smith.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films) ; 25.
- Life ; [25]
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Women--Education--Africa, Eastern.
- Women.
- Education, Elementary--Africa, Eastern.
- Education, Elementary.
- Education--Economic aspects--Africa, Eastern.
- Education.
- School attendance--Africa, Eastern.
- School attendance.
- Discrimination in education--Africa, Eastern.
- Discrimination in education.
- Sex discrimination against women--Africa, Eastern.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Girls--Africa, Eastern--Social conditions.
- Girls.
- Women--Africa, Eastern--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Education--Economic aspects.
- Women--Education.
- Africa, Eastern--Social conditions.
- Africa, Eastern.
- Zimbabwe--Social conditions.
- Zimbabwe.
- Uganda--Social conditions.
- Uganda.
- Benin--Social conditions.
- Benin.
- Eastern Africa.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (26 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English and African languages with English voiceovers.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Twelve-year old Lucia's dream is to be able to graduate to secondary school, and stay there--to finish the 12th grade and go on to train as a pilot. Her older sister Barita wants to do computer studies. And Portia, the youngest in the family, wants to be a dressmaker. But tragically for these three sisters from one of Zimbabwe's large scale commercial farms, in tobacco country 50 miles outside Harare, they're more likely to end up -- as their mothers before them -- with no formal education, working as seasonal laborers on the farm. The three sisters are AIDS orphans being brought up by their grandmother. She can only afford school fees for one girl, Lucia, to attend primary school. Across Africa, the odds are dramatically against girls getting an education. And even if they do attend primary school, they're often withdrawn before they finish -- to work as unpaid laborers for their extended family, to be married off or to have children.
- Participant:
- Commentary: Hilde F. Johnson, Michael Henderson, Tabu Dennis.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, Jenny Richards ; series producer, Luke Gawin ; series editor, Robert Lamb.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE International, ©2000.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-lsel Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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