Life After Debt

Synopsis: A series of three 5-minute films made to be shown in the run-up to the G8 summit in Genoa on third world debt. The first programme shows how the cancellation of some of Uganda’s debts has helped transform the lives of the country’s poor, including pupils at Naisangra Primary School. Teachers now have classes of over 200 as children have flocked to school since debt relief enabled the government to abolish primry school fees. The second programme focuses on Rose Lukungu, a single mother and peasant farmer, who could barely feed her children until a farming adviser, paid from debt relief money, showed her how to transform her vegetable parch into a profit-making business. The third programme shows how debt relief has meant that Bugono Health Centre has been able to employ its first doctor, so patients now no longer die from preventable diseases.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col 15 min.
Year of production: 2001
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Notes: Broadcast as 3 individual programmes daily on C4 from 10-12/7/01. Also showing on the IBT website www.ibt.org.uk.
Subjects: Development studies; Politics & government
Keywords: international debt; Third World

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