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The Peace Diaries Radio Program was broadcast during the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 through September 4, 2002. It was broadcast to Africa, Middle East and Europe. |
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SHOW 5: NGOs & GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS |
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SCRIPT, SHOW 5 00:01 – 01:08 SHOW OPEN, KIT ID, KIDS’ QUOTES, QUOTE FROM J. TSHABALALA 00:44 - 01:08 (Joseph Tshabalala, founder and lead singer, Ladysmith Black Mambazo) I will take care of you, I will feed you, wash you, I will dress you, I will tell you stories... I will sing you a song... I will always love you. 01:08 - 01:36 (Narrated introduction, TvS) From food gardens in Cape Town to self-built classrooms outside Nairobi, non-governmental organizations help thousands across the globe to improve their lives and the future of their communities. Residents of Mzamayethu, an informal settlement in Hout Bay, South Africa, have established a skills training center with the assistance of local NGOs and community leaders. Resident Kenny explains… 01:37 – 02:20 (Kenny, Community Triabal Leader of Mandela Psrk, Capetown, South Africa) Many problems face us... one of the major problems was unemployment ... unemployment was...too high. How to deal with unemployment… church leaders, together with community leaders sat together to find ways to address poverty; so skills training was the option in people’s minds: let’s arm our people with skills so that have an opportunity of having jobs to fight poverty. Automatically, we approached many companies... like BP, BPC Cement and all those big companies and individuals. They became positive to support our community. We now have a skill training center where we are arming our people with skills… like sewing skills, cooking courses, pottery making... in order for our people to have some kind of income... so they can eat and educate their children. 02:21- 02:48 (Narr, TvS) In developing nations, where governments often lack the resources to meet the needs of increase in populations, NGO's perform many roles. Some teach basic skills, like sewing and cooking, while others provide health care services or training for educators. Derek Jourbert, the educational director of the South African Institute for Race Relations, has developed several educational projects aimed at challenging youth, including a life skills program 02:48 - 03:16 (Derek Joubert, South African Institute of Race Relations) We then introduced a life skills program it covered a range of things, but certainly one of them was learning skills and study skills. You might be tempted to think that everybody has that naturally, but of course people don’t; not everybody knows how to study, so we developed a curriculum for that. 03:21 - 03:53 (Derek Joubert continued) When we introduced the life skills program, a lot of the learners thought 'you're wasting time' because we come to this program because we must be taught the syllabus, it must be exam oriented. But, I’m very happy to tell you that at the end of the year, we had a student evaluation of the program, and we said what was your favorite period, 80% of them said the Life Skills Program. 03:53 - 04:22 (Narr, TvS) South Africa's Institute of Race Relations also implemented a 2-year project that ran in 20 different primary schools across Cape Town. Called the Celebrating Diversity Program, Jourbert says pupils were encouraged to communicate and increase their awareness through practical exercises, including art and drama. In one instance, a class was asked to list their likes and dislikes in a collage, and it caused quite a stir, as Jourbert recalls… 04:22 - 05:31 (Derek Joubert continued) The boy had put, under likes, a Dgga plant - that is a marijuana leaf - and of course he couldn't find a picture of one, so he had actually drawn one, and put it under ‘likes’.The kids gathered around and said, is that a dagga leaf? He said, "Yes, it is." He, by the way, had delicate bone structure and dreadlocks. They (the other students) said, you can't put that under 'likes'. They were quite shocked. And he said, "Why not?" And they said, "It's bad stuff, it's evil!" And the boy said, "Well, I'm a Rastafarian and we use that leaf (dagga plant) to make tea." 05:33 – 05:56 (Joubert continued) The group then said, but it really is evil stuff and if you take it, it will make you do bad and wicked things, and he said, "That's not my experience." And he said, "In any case there are things that other people do, maybe that you do, which we find evil and wicked, like eating meat for example." 05:57 – 06:22 (Derek Joubert continued) A whole debate ensued on this, under very controlled circumstances. This is of course, is the training which the facilitator had been building up over the past 6 months – that when you're in a group, if there is someone you disagree with, what to do is, you listen to them, you give them a chance to talk and they give you a chance to talk. 06:22 - 06:32 (Narr, TvS) South African Member of Parilament, Ela Gandhi, applauds the work done by NGOs, and says even greater emphasis should be placed on training women. 06:33 – 06:47 (Ela Gandhi) It's not just employment, but empowerment - to stand up and be able to say, "Look, to hell with everything, I can live on my own... I can do things." 06:48 - 07:16 (Ela Gandhi continued) Be confident; and that is what women need to have, to be confident, which for some reason they don't – they’ve become dependent, and all that. Over the years it's probably the male-dominated teaching, family life that have had an affect on women, and we now have to turn those things around. 07:17 – 07:31 (Narr, TvS) Agricultural economist Per Andersen agrees. According to Andersen, studies done by the Food Policy Research Institute show that the education of women is vital to sustainable development, partly because women do most of the work in rural economies… 07:32 – 08:02 (Andersen) The research that we've done; field observations indicate that women are responsible for a very large portion of the food production in Africa. In fact, it appears that women are responsible for the agricultural activities without being recognized as such, and there are a whole set of problems associated with this. 08:02 – 08:36 (Andersen continued) Women frequently do not have access to credit; they frequently can not get titles to the land. Of course the two are related - if they don't have title to the land they can't get credit; they frequently don't get access to technical assistance and extension, because the model is assuming that the men are the decision makers in agriculture. And it may well be that the men are decision makers, but the women are the ones actually doing the work. 08:37 - 08:45 (Narr, TvS) Betty Reardon, director and founder of the Intl Institute for Peace and Education, says women’s contribution should not be underestimated… 08:46 - 09:15 (Betty Reardon) If we are to have sustainable development, women and traditional practices must be integrated into whatever plans are made and women must be involved in making the plans. That means women should be in the top level of policy making as well as - literally - on the ground doing the development on an equal basis with men. 09:16 - 09:21 (Narr, TvS) That was Betty Reardon, founder and director of the Intl. Institute for Peace and Education. 09:22 – 10:10 SHOW CLOSE, MUSIC, SPONSORSHIPS, DEDICATION  |
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