Awakening
2006
DVD
"Documents the social and economic empowerment of women in Afghanistan and India whose roles have traditionally been restricted by their cultures. Awakened to new possibilities through education and access to micro-loans these women are redefining their roles in society. In Bihar, India's poorest state, Sister Mary Lobo organizes village women into groups where they learn to save small sums and invest their capital as a group. In Afghanistan, the nation's first woman-led micro-finance institution believes the nation's long-term success is dependent on women's economic freedom. What is emerging in both societies is a new economic system based on alternative values such as sharing and collaboration, where people band together to become more self-sufficient"--Container.
Item Details
ISBN: 1933724056
Edition: Widescreen format.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Other Title:
- Awakening, empowering women through microloans [DVD]
- Subtitle on disc label: Empowering women through microloans
Notes:
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2005.
- Special features: interview with Sister Mary (6 min.); featurette on microloans in other countries (11 min.); photo gallery (16 images); trailer (2 min.).
- Camera, Joel Weber ; editor, Joel Weber ; music by Bhakta ... [et al.].
- Narrated by Julie Nylander.
- DVD-R, region 1; Dolby digital stereo.
- Narration in English; some dialogue in Hindi & Pashto with English subtitles.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 10138043
Control Number: 1150430
UPC: 682086703220
Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Choices, Inc., [2006]Subjects:
- Businesswomen -- Afghanistan.
- Businesswomen -- India.
- Cooperation.
- Microfinance -- Afghanistan.
- Microfinance -- India.
- Women -- Afghanistan -- Economic conditions.
- Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
- Women -- India -- Economic conditions.
- Women -- India -- Social conditions.
- Women in economic development -- Afghanistan.
- Women in economic development -- India.
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