Lured to the big city by the promise of work, Juanita was just 14 when she found herself trapped into prostitution. This film explores the difficulties of eradicating the illegal, but highly lucrative sexual exploitation of young girls…
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Kavita is a professional barber. Suhag Khemlani cleans the windows of skyscrapers in Mumbai, dangling from a harness thirty floors above ground level. Filmmaker Poojita Chowdhury travels to India to discover women who, despite prejudice, won’t let society…
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One in four babies in Brazil are born to teenagers. Many young mothers face an uncertain future of poverty, ignorance and an often volatile family life. A nineteen year old Indaia once lived on the streets, pregnant and…
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In Jamaica, 12% of 15 to 19 year olds are on their second and third pregnancies. As young mothers, their future prospects are bleak. But one organization is helping pregnant teens and young mothers to continue their studies…
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Elly is HIV positive. His wife is not. Knowing the high risks of contracting HIV, Jane encouraged her husband to get tested early on in their relationship. Together, they took the necessary steps to stay healthy.
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Motor mechanic Sandra Aguebor is teaching disadvantaged women her trade- and the new lady mechanics are gaining the respect of the community. One community elder says, “Women mechanics in Nigeria- it amounts to civilization!”
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Before the civil war in Sierra Leone, one in four girls attended school- today, it’s one in two. If more people had been educated maybe the conflict wouldn’t have happened, says Fatima, a former sex slave who returned…
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This film shows that girls are often not valued within their families and this leads to a vicious cycle of abuse and vulnerability in their adult lives. Now teenagers have a new role model- Olympic hopeful Christal Skeete,…
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Five thousand Fijians are thought to be infected with HIV but, because of the strong taboo against speaking against sex, these people go undiagnosed. Apikali braved the shame to tell Fiji that she and her husband only learned…
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Globalization has hit the Western Cape’s textile industry hard. Over 100,000 textile workers, mainly black women, have been laid off in the past five years. One of them, Rochelle Julies tells the story of her struggle to feed…
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