Generation rescue / SW Pictures.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

SW Pictures Ltd., film distributor.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Burundi.

Poverty.

International relief--Burundi.

International relief.

Women--Burundi--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Burundi--Economic conditions.

Poor women--Burundi.

Poor women.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (47 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : SW Pictures, [2014]

Language Note:

In English and French with English subtitles.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Generation Rescue follows the stories of four women who are taking part in a pioneering project to lift them out of extreme poverty. 2015 marks the deadline for the UN's ambitious plans to end extreme poverty around the world. The eight "Millennium Development Goals" were launched in 2000 including targets to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty, empower women and combat HIV AIDS. While significant progress has been made on some goals there is still a long way to go. The women in this film live in Burundi - central Africa - one of the poorest countries in the world. The women will receive help with food, housing, healthcare, education and crucially business skills. But the support is only temporary. As they start to earn their own money, financial aid is gradually withdrawn. In three years they must become self-sufficient. After a lifetime living on the breadline, little education and poor health have they got what it take to turn their lives around? At the start of the film we meet Grace, a businesswoman in Kigali, Rwanda. In 2006 she was penniless, malnourished and starving. Now she is a successful retailer running a furniture business employing eleven people. In an astonishingly short space of time Grace has gone from rags to riches, all thanks to the help she received from an international charity. Every year the charity chooses 100 desperately poor people to take part in its Village Programme. Combining help with food, health, hygiene, education and most important of all, an income generating occupation - it aims to give young families a secure start in life. But the help lasts for just three years. After that the families are expected to be self sufficient. Will the latest recruits to the scheme be able to match Grace's success? 100 miles from Kigali, on the outskirts of Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, 34-year-old Dorothy has just been taken onto the Village Programme. She's spent most of her adult life scavenging on a rubbish dump and hates the stench, filth and the flies, but needs to feed her five children. Scavenging on the dump is the only way she knows how, but Dorothy's days on the dump are numbered. Since joining the programme she has been given food, has been taught how to keep her house clean (3 months ago it stank) and is about to set up her own business - selling vegetables in the village market. But Dorothy cannot read or write.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed December 13, 2021).

OCLC:

1292093777