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In the capital of Ghana more than ten thousand girls work as real-life basket workers. On their heads they carry trays full of groceries and fruit. They are the ones known as Kayayo , which in the Ga language means carrier girl.
The Kayayo are women and girls who have left their homes too soon. They do it to find a job and help their families; although in the end, the job fails to dignify his life. Exploitation and mistreatment is the only work scheme they come to know; and school is not part of their daily reality.
Six years of age are enough for the Kayayo to settle in the markets of Accra , the capital of Ghana. There, adults hire the little ones to carry the heavy trays on their heads. They load groceries, but also mistreatment. The practice is so common that it has become normalized.
Watch Film Fest: Kayayo, The Living Shopping Baskets
Cinema is an excellent tool to bring people closer to the various social problems that afflict the population in other parts of the world. It helps provide a close perspective on something that may be happening far away.
All these film stories with social impact are commonly taken up at festivals. There attendees can not only delight in the images on the screen, but also open their minds to a reality they did not know existed. That is exactly what Mira Film Fest, Consciousness in Cinema , promoted by the Cinépolis Foundation, has achieved.
Kayayo, The Living Shopping Baskets, is one of the 25 documentaries with social impact that are part of the sample and are available on Cinépolis Klic since August 16, 2019.
The film, which lasts just over 30 minutes, tells the story of Bamunu in the markets of the city of Accra.
Bamunu is eight years old. She has been in the markets since she was six and left home forced by her family to work and help with expenses. She wants to return home soon to her mother and her siblings, whom she has not seen in all this time, but her family says she must stay.
Like other girls her age, Bamunu works ten long hours a day for one or two dollars. She has been told that when she has earned enough money, she will return to her family; But she doesn't know when it will be enough.
The Kayayo rarely know how much they have earned. Many times, the people who take care of them in the markets fill their own pockets, without paying them what they deserve.
In addition to the loss of a childhood that will never return, the weight of the baskets on their heads means terrible problems for their health and physical integrity for the Kayayo. However, the few opportunities in Africa for women and girls make it almost impossible to earn any money in any other way.
Surrendering to child exploitation represents for many the only hope of escaping marginalization. Although said exit never really arrives.
What relationship does the film have with the SDGs?
Released in 2017, this documentary offers the viewer a look at the reality suffered by thousands of girls and women in Ghana.
This film reflects the way in which the most deeply rooted traditions of a town can endanger the integrity of its inhabitants; and how girls, without knowing it, carry on their shoulders a destiny that does not belong to them.
What SDG is it related to?
In order to promote the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , Fundación Cinépolis aligned the documentaries in this exhibition with the global goals defined by the UN.
In this particular film, you will be able to clearly perceive the fight against poverty, the lack of access to education and the tremendous need to offer better opportunities to the girls of the world.
Goal 1: End poverty
Poverty is one of the risk factors that force families to deny girls and boys access to education.
It is from this condition that men and women of all ages can hardly access quality medical services, adequate nutrition and a better quality of life. It is a systematic problem that affects the healthy development of people and the opportunities they can access throughout their lives.
Through Bemunu's story, Kayayo addresses poverty as the risk factor it poses for girls in Ghana; and how it is this condition that determines their destiny and takes away their options.
Objective 4: Quality education
Although they paint it as a universal right for girls and boys, the reality is that thousands of minors lack access to quality education. It is not a choice; They do not give it up, the opportunity seems to have been taken from them from birth.
The lack of access to education for the most vulnerable is a systematic problem that must be addressed from all possible fronts. Government, companies and organizations must get to work so that girls like Bamunu do not have to leave their homes, if not temporarily to attend school.
Goal 5: Gender equality
Problems such as poverty and lack of access to education primarily affect women and girls around the world. This in turn deprives humanity of half its potential and denies it the opportunity to move more steadily towards progress.
The Kayayo are women and girls who have left their homes too soon. They do it to find a job and help their families; although in the end, the job fails to dignify his life. Exploitation and mistreatment is the only work scheme they come to know; and school is not part of their daily reality.
Six years of age are enough for the Kayayo to settle in the markets of Accra , the capital of Ghana. There, adults hire the little ones to carry the heavy trays on their heads. They load groceries, but also mistreatment. The practice is so common that it has become normalized.
Watch Film Fest: Kayayo, The Living Shopping Baskets
Cinema is an excellent tool to bring people closer to the various social problems that afflict the population in other parts of the world. It helps provide a close perspective on something that may be happening far away.
All these film stories with social impact are commonly taken up at festivals. There attendees can not only delight in the images on the screen, but also open their minds to a reality they did not know existed. That is exactly what Mira Film Fest, Consciousness in Cinema , promoted by the Cinépolis Foundation, has achieved.
Kayayo, The Living Shopping Baskets, is one of the 25 documentaries with social impact that are part of the sample and are available on Cinépolis Klic since August 16, 2019.
The film, which lasts just over 30 minutes, tells the story of Bamunu in the markets of the city of Accra.
Bamunu is eight years old. She has been in the markets since she was six and left home forced by her family to work and help with expenses. She wants to return home soon to her mother and her siblings, whom she has not seen in all this time, but her family says she must stay.
Like other girls her age, Bamunu works ten long hours a day for one or two dollars. She has been told that when she has earned enough money, she will return to her family; But she doesn't know when it will be enough.
The Kayayo rarely know how much they have earned. Many times, the people who take care of them in the markets fill their own pockets, without paying them what they deserve.
In addition to the loss of a childhood that will never return, the weight of the baskets on their heads means terrible problems for their health and physical integrity for the Kayayo. However, the few opportunities in Africa for women and girls make it almost impossible to earn any money in any other way.
Surrendering to child exploitation represents for many the only hope of escaping marginalization. Although said exit never really arrives.
What relationship does the film have with the SDGs?
Released in 2017, this documentary offers the viewer a look at the reality suffered by thousands of girls and women in Ghana.
This film reflects the way in which the most deeply rooted traditions of a town can endanger the integrity of its inhabitants; and how girls, without knowing it, carry on their shoulders a destiny that does not belong to them.
What SDG is it related to?
In order to promote the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , Fundación Cinépolis aligned the documentaries in this exhibition with the global goals defined by the UN.
In this particular film, you will be able to clearly perceive the fight against poverty, the lack of access to education and the tremendous need to offer better opportunities to the girls of the world.
Goal 1: End poverty
Poverty is one of the risk factors that force families to deny girls and boys access to education.
It is from this condition that men and women of all ages can hardly access quality medical services, adequate nutrition and a better quality of life. It is a systematic problem that affects the healthy development of people and the opportunities they can access throughout their lives.
Through Bemunu's story, Kayayo addresses poverty as the risk factor it poses for girls in Ghana; and how it is this condition that determines their destiny and takes away their options.
Objective 4: Quality education
Although they paint it as a universal right for girls and boys, the reality is that thousands of minors lack access to quality education. It is not a choice; They do not give it up, the opportunity seems to have been taken from them from birth.
The lack of access to education for the most vulnerable is a systematic problem that must be addressed from all possible fronts. Government, companies and organizations must get to work so that girls like Bamunu do not have to leave their homes, if not temporarily to attend school.
Goal 5: Gender equality
Problems such as poverty and lack of access to education primarily affect women and girls around the world. This in turn deprives humanity of half its potential and denies it the opportunity to move more steadily towards progress.
