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Child poverty refers to the state of children living in poverty and applies to children from poor families or orphans being raised with limited or, in some cases absent, state resources.
Children that fail to meet the minimum acceptable standard of the nation where that child lives are said to be poor. Wikipedia
21 mrt. 2012
Idea
Two students came to Santa Cruz, Bolivia with the dream of making a documentary film about street children. After 4 months of working with the children they got the opportunity to start planning the film. Inspired by their own experience, they got an idea:
If people can get to see that there is hope for street children, then maybe bad attitudes can be changed and people can be inspired to help.
Shooting
The film was shot under bridges, in parks and water canals. It was shot on hot middays and cold midnights, at the break of dawn and in the pouring rain.
The children were always explained the purpose of the film before any recordings were made. Some of them pulled away from the camera and made it clear that they were not to be filmed. That was respected. Others were very enthusiastic about getting filmed and interviewed.
After a while the situation became more natural to both the children and the film makers. The camera was not a threat, nor a toy anymore.
Approach
The film does not try to persuade people into doing something. It is simply an eye opener, made to wake reflections in people. It shows the dreadful hopelessness of living on the street. It paints a picture of the evil circles of poverty.
It speaks about how drugs, abuse and violence is brought upon innocent children. But it also shows how a small child can keep up hope in the middle of it all. It shows that children can pull themselves through it, and even leave the street for good. It is possible!
This is what inspired two students to work with street children, and that is what they hope will inspire you who watch Barefoot Children -the documentary.
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11 Stealing Africa ⎜ WHY POVERTY? ⎜(Documentary)
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Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident – Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, STEALING AFRICA is an investigative story of global trade and political corruption where money and natural resources only flow one way, and in the meantime poverty becomes harder to escape.
Filmmaker: Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Producer: Henrik Veileborg
Produced by Guldbrandsen Film
Released: 2012
This film was originally released as part of THE WHY series WHY POVERTY?. Learn more about the project: https://www.thewhy.dk/projects/why-po…
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