Surviving in the Informal Economy
On Media Voices this week, we have a blog from Jina Krause-Vilmar, Senior Program Officer for Livelihoods with the Women’s Refugee Commission, on the difficulties and challenges faced by women and girls attempting to support their families in refugee camps. Food rations are often inadequate, and the women must supplement their family’s nutrition by working. [...]
Struggling to Make a Living in Ethiopia
Food is scarce in Ethiopia, where most of the population lives in rural, drought-prone areas in a state of chronic poverty. In 2010, the Government of Ethiopia identified 5.2 million people in need of emergency food aid. Not surprisingly, this hunger crisis also impacts the thousands of refugees living just within Ethiopia’s borders.
Breaking Rocks – Child labor in Mines and Quarries
Child labor is the primary focus this week at Media Voices. In March, we posted ¿Soy Niño?, graphic footage of children working in the mining sector in the mountains of Peru. Now the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, IRIN, has produced a film about children working in quarries in Sierra [...]
Cristina’s Story
Several years ago, during the editing of a documentary on child labor, I screened an interview with a 19-year-old girl, Cristina. She had been working as a nanny in various wealthy families in Salvador since the age of fourteen. The interview was in Portuguese, and I was lining up the English translation track to [...]
Cristina’s Story
Nineteen-year-old Cristina talks about working as a nanny for various wealthy families in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil since the age of fourteen.
The interviewer is Patricia Nascimento.
