Participatory Video for Education In Poverty Alleviation
Date
2009
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Tangaza College
Abstract
Poverty remains a matter of growing concern in many developing countries of
the world. Today, as other continents continue to register sustainable economic growth
and development through the use of media, Africa is not only lagging behind, but is also
trapped in a vicious circle of borrowing and donor dependency syndrome. Some critics
view this technological lag as one of the causes practically sabotaging real development.
Politically, Africa has perpetually failed to marshal its development efforts
towards maximum utilization of the immense natural resources many of its countries are
endowed with. These resources would, if exploited, propel their economies and people
towards high levels of economic and social performance. Consequently, this would
eliminate pervasive poverty.
Africa is amongst the continents where poverty is constantly on the increase.
As a result, millions of people live each day in abject poverty. Many communities find
themselves under extraordinary stress of taking care of one another, educating children,
children going without food, their bodies stunted by widespread malnutrition and caring
for the ill. Assisting people who need a hand is proving difficult. The stresses of
extreme poverty, oppression, environmental injustice, failed educational systems and
diseases such as I-IIV/AIDS make life a daily challenge. The Commission for Africa
finds -the conditions of the lives of the majority of Africans to be deplorable and an
insult to their dignity.
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Poverty, Education