Africa Rising (Foreign Aid Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] [Music] Yugi Muto not Barack Obama Barabbas alyoshina but your name the more time that you metallic uber omnipresent which are number Buddhist which is an average but yet accounts are not literate alone and notice that a lot of time later but not a lot of fun [Music] [Music] [Music] Addis Ababa capital of Ethiopia a mass of humanity gathers for the festival of Epiphany just another face in the watching crowd R waul mayor knows that the vast majority of those celebrating today will return home to their villages facing poverty and hardship he believes that the rich countries of the world have failed Africa and at the time is coming to change I often wonder if the rich countries stop patronizing Africans and realize that given the opportunity its Africans themselves who will take the content out of poverty despite the hundreds of billions of dollars donated and thousands of foreign aid workers the situation has actually got worse he doesn't deny the corruption of African governments but blames the developed world for failing to direct its image of the people who actually need it on the ground I don't know how much of that money has come to European people say billions and millions I think it is fair to calculate how much of that has tickled down the money has been spent in different ways salaries big offices somewhere in Europe highly paid expatriates if that money comes directly to farmers it can change the way they live a well understands the meaning of poverty he lost his father when very young and it was his mother who struggled to find the money to educate him well we had our own small part and she did all what she could to raise me and I know it was difficult for her that's why I say she was wonderful it was not easy at that time to grow without a father because I should have had should have had a model as he grew from boy to man he became increasingly frustrated at the lack of progress in Ethiopia decades passed yet the daily plight of his countrymen appeared stuck in a time warp he's convinced that a good part of the blame lies at the door foreign agencies development agencies have the tendency to tell people was issued to rather than working with the people we have the tendency to impose their own thinking's and their own approach and that has never worked and it will not work he began to ask where was the logic a foreigners building a school in a rural area if there was no health care and the children were too sick or too hungry to attend why give farmers free seeds when the topsoil has washed away if nothing will grow he feels it's time that Outsiders who don't understand the real needs of Africans stop imposing their solutions and start asking Africans themselves what they think is needed virtually unknown to the rest of the world five years ago he began a huge experiment in the soda region of central Ethiopia it lies within the Great Rift Valley and has been frequently blighted by famine his aim to persuade a quarter of a million people living here to stop accepting free handouts and work their own way out of poverty he calls it so help we don't give things free of charge giving things free of charge is creating dependency syndrome but our philosophy is that if people want to be helped they have saved themselves that's really important his initial plan was simple teach 20 men and women new skills on agreement that they each teach 20 more their followers who in turn teach 20 more and so on today those followers already number tens of thousands for the last challenges our cameras have tracked progress of the experiment we follow the stories of people like Emily in Velen Lulu gates a highly and an Irish Doyle desperate to succeed we're past generations had failed and we found others equally determined to destroy the experiment in order to protect their own interests and money lenders used to living off the backs of the poor angry their businesses threatened can a wall melih swayed a community which has become dependent on foreign aid for over half a century to change its ways and can they do it for a fraction of the normal cost without any help on foreign aid workers [Music] contrary to popular image many rural areas of Ethiopia are fertile especially in the wet season [Music] it's a country which should in normal circumstances be able to provide enough food for its population but the lush vegetation and plentiful supply Avenger obscure a harsh reality drought is awesomely just around the corner [Music] when that happens crops are destroyed livestock die and hunger returns just ask the people of Sodor region how many have lost family members to famine or disease the major reason behind the great famines is the reliance on just one crop maize when that fails everyone is vulnerable a Bullock easel is a prime example life is already hard but should a drought to send his family faces months of hunger Madame de Bourgh Ireland Cramton assume again assuming a kindness and omen where do I noggin your cousin up with chasity so which are the now cattle ever column drivability the first thing I will Mela and his team had to do was counter the constant threat of famine the ants alone in just one extraordinary plant Ethiopians call insert the magic plant it's one of the most important plants imaginable every part having a purpose previously it could only grow high up in the mountains but self-help introduced a hybrid for the lowland Plains it needs very little water and can produce bread and dumplings with the residue used for porridge even its leaves can be stripped to make ropes but its most important feature is its longevity people here can vary the plant for up to seven years without any spoiling just one of these parcels can feed a family of six for a month in times of drought they simply dig it up and it's as good to eat as the day it was buried this was one of the first groups of followers taught in said cultivation to ward off the threat of starvation they then took their forms and today the plant can be found in form stretching across the region [Laughter] survival is one thing but if the local economy was ever going to change the farmers had to stop growing just enough food for their own families and start producing cash crops others wanted to buy imaginary abilitynet the article touching man Kawakawa in Ankara nah boast a is some minor that's illogical the xunzi whatever deal I would have come a strong ethical question my kabak about the member cazza macca quiet a NASA in surah Keith Moon our guinea and oh yeah cool this wind is a cassava feet my letter yes amar that was a real China remember ah Munakata Hailu was one of the first to be taught how to develop a nursery creating a mixture of seedlings including peppers onions and coffee he now sells to neighbors on in desolate thanku Unova chatter that come in the year for moody geta sharing his knowledge has become just another part of the business there's a simple logic the more farmers he teaches the more by his seedlings plastic huzzah Mahalo another gallon on the air for watching yeongja marina the bud cascade ban wanna become watching that come on a station master Marcelo G yeah badwin gonna para nada that's all changing but in a way that no one here ever expected until very recently SoDo region was like virtually everywhere else entirely dominated by men but in a role reversal the likes of which the continent has never seen its woman who now controls family income a savings and credit scheme just like micro banking has been set up and only women are allowed to borrow money apparently men could no longer be trusted ha ha ha Lois sit - Leba - no Vienna got a nose won't acquiesce occurrence yummy-yum you're Duggan Shannon Madame Morrible drawcircle so yesterday after Gaza was so sad this gentleman mr. mckeon Merkel sir how they do Chi master man when who knew that his wife a pre hedge came up with the idea of building a restaurant in the middle of the countryside many thought she was mad but while local incomes rise as the experiment gathers pace it seems to be working on authority shall endure fondue two guns of their mass sit with to shine garden but Rosco very miserable go behind and they died in the garden at least in the surrounding me go Bastian but I'm bigger and good I stood by them surround housands of women have joined the scheme they borrow money at low interest rates to buy sheep or cattle or even seeds for their farmer husbands to grow from those they make a profit to pay back their loan and can then borrow more to expand their business but there's one man who wishes they never started today leafy Cardew the local moneylender muhammara and in volume sebastian moon seviche the moon by the judge on telephones it give a mr. Shetty catch a little water see the Stars us see there's that you catch one now amateurish as he said castle in Saturnian concert we removed everything alone Kasab hi Alma come and everything man perfect Manju very Medano young person Tomoe Tomoe to love but was insulting me I lived in a burrow a [Music] marriage toil is one of the first to join the experiment now she teaches her own fallenness how to stand up for themselves with cello it's a cinema which I know major Maria left EMF touching an anaconda but I cut away jumper and some salami below Cayenne while I'm of teittleman island owner yo our canal cone which to my knowledge Ana and Ana burkas determined italic like an utter Allah reciting and they that commonly occur through bathtub buzu nagar come to each other closer when I got to the region dag a new door which despite no formal education it's a March who now travels to the local town to negotiate new funds for the women's cooperative something which would have been unheard of just a few years ago our marriage is a great personality she's really extraordinary at the beginning when we came here most of the women we see were shy but I think slowly the shyness has disappeared America should be proud because of her hard work she has given opportunity to her children and there is no better reason than this but amber visit believe it here at Angola snitch possible abandon a man in your [ __ ] Maserati mckubre Nagar and its Arab Tepeyac but a macabre snitch did you join the mass tomorrow did your talk with family planning a key part of the experiment for the first time in living memory the birthrate in this region is beginning to fall but if America's children are to get the chance to fulfill their aspirations they'll be forced to leave the region [Music] the nearest high school is 30 kilometers away and only a very few bands can afford to send their children by the motor people can reason to build one but it's still dispute dream an area of land has been set aside for the project but the school will have to wait [Music] through the morning mist on a mountaintop high above the Great Rift Valley worship has gathered to pray [Music] as the mist cleaners one of the most devastated regions of Ethiopia emerges below this is the area of Sodor region known as the water ship when the wet season arrives vast amounts of precious rain would rush off the mountainside ripping the topsoil from the land before pouring a uselessly into a distant River [Music] an area which used to be lush with vegetation has become almost a desert over 10,000 people rely on just one well and the nearest water has to be pumped from almost 300 meters below the surface once that area was densely forested but as time passes on the trees were gone the topsoil which is important to grow crops was exposed to erosion and farmers in that area were not able to grow food something has to change but our old male is determined that the farmers must do it themselves from all over the watershed area they've come together to block the water rushing off the mountain forcing them to seep into the ground only that way can they begin to raise the water table to a level where they can get to it easily we talk with Yakov Aviator aqua 1009 acaba beam when the Sundiata millimetric year and a new roots of the Southwest Finnegan was you mathuroth the Richland vajrasana Sasha net german-occupied to see Salama touch with yamaraja bottom notch one [Applause] [Music] caddy a kebab you erosion Wenham core phonetic castle Ohana Yamaha cadet Alya throws no Misurata and Daniel yeah physical conservation measure Amy butter Wynnum yeah Hetal are you a bad guy core phonemic a la calzada cha Lu train cha-cha Lou Lenart remove pond yet ago Farah how a furrow not what and I hit him a kallikantzaroi kisser Raju Leonardo mercury yeah a furnace ROH areum Kalani at another Amanda you know Etta you check in which an orthotic revolute and Nazim offer laminotomy Jamuna yeah offer by Gortat Wanda here Michael Akita you sir audience is aroun a route but the Kyocera let the committee know and I know in the past work was rewarded with free food from other agencies in return but a ball is determined to get them out of their dependency syndrome behind the scenes they're some of the farmers leaders are far from happy 'no gergan you see Azkaban and inordinate action and a mess and a Birgit mm - ominous old merkulov onion Sunday Dominion I'll set up this Iran Lanka color send a whatever linen the measurement things aren't going well either for a marriage Doyle and her fellow committee members on the savings and credit scheme some women have failed to pay back the money they owed the committee will have to decide either to give them more time or send them to court if they take no action others will think they can get away with it to Mazama said at demo when we had little better now than a bastard thing even on a master Murano beach when I like beautiful pink yeah yes her own Hawaii media couple could I in a media can ask much humor we see does a bindi - yeah yeah thank Asaka so bad sulphate villain Angie miss Roberta buildin a little touching and ended type-r a certain maturity Lenore Quillin ng Baroness tanni Alec could be through battle and Silesia Hoon yegorovna talilo medicine is a - in Vienna knee and then in my nervous Madrigal an email get out in the confessional box yeah she been a little commercial conflation as the adults keep their business for no employment and for time he's Bakura Hooters her arms the cufflinks katomina Burkle come Hollister Melissa Thomas jeffer am carla del agua Tahiti Alta Buttercup mayor but they are lorisha Latinos with a ledger it's decision time gotta watch o indica loose tonight William so much inkodye ether the result of tender filters until the end the brain drank caffeine lemon wrists and the mat over Lamar guru endemic on saga shamrock Inc of London Synod by Jeff you'll match it and I regard the Garnett they've been given three months longer to pay should they fail they'll face court action and they all have to sign their agreement to this keeping a tight rein on the little money they have is important for lots of reasons not least because of the need to raise funds to the high school and other vital projects Solomon / Bailey has recently been made head of the new health clinic in the town of Kenna catering for up to 40,000 people it's the first of its kind in Soto region previously these patients would have to eat 20 kilometres to get proper medical care as far as water quality not so many someone destiny our dominance at Matata Croton yah-yah-yah-yah believe it in the Scimitar eurozone oh man negative equality boom [Music] before the clinic local people were at the mercy of drug centers charging up to ten times what the drugs were actually worth now through their own in pharmacy they get them virtually at cost it's a similar story at the Regional Hospital which again the people themselves built when self-help first came to solder they struck a deal with local government if the people gather money and help build schools and hospitals the authorities will pay staff and maintenance costs due to the absence of a hospital around the people were obliged to go to either to a DS 150 kilometer or to Hosanna from Patara hundred kilometers you can imagine how serious was health problem in this area over a million people including many outside the self health area we can now use its facilities major disease of the region are mainly of that disparity like TV pneumonia malaria malaria also is prevalent in most of the lowland areas it is the community's commitment that was giving us energy to achieve this hospital construction and give service to the community itself but while the hospital is running smoothly elsewhere in Sordo not everything is going to plan [Music] the watershed project is an imminent danger of collapse just 18 months before the water table lay almost 300 meters below the ground they dug dams and trenches burleigh rain water to seep into the ground and the table to rise the water table increased to 30 meters as time goes on still the water table will increase and probably to 10 meters and 15 meters so that farmers will be able to access water very easily before the project began farmers were getting free food from America and Canada for any work they did the majority of partners have accepted it and they have worked quite a lot some farmers who are trying to bring problems so that the others should not do this without food aid a meeting of the farmers committee has been called and a world has brought his own team with us certain certain yet from Sanada so chaotic um salata vomit america's ET pour cela Silurian language encourages Kaltura's a normed rigid sender was car certain dress when i am anna marie nominally unserem the main rebel Djemba are Danny hasn't even bothered to turn up at the meeting legged it was to come Galatea service rats elaborate inland Guinea at home you could make up for nagar selling them on it it's easy to see why he's reluctant no matter how much our walls people tell him the water table is rising we can see no evidence on the wasteland that surrounds his home Kochi limitation by j0l damage are ye botta who defeated Baraka me on you tried to come each a guru Caju new kazakh Adam in a burrow Yair terrain no matter what material eponymous lenient Celtic and the cow but Iona so mean Sam's often but I didn't some farmers begin speaking out in support of my pending a memo tighten my little sue yet a bug me yes yet uh but now answer ami yellow lemon masala but who latinum the meeting breaks [Music] if Djemba adonys protests get wider support the entire project could be in jeopardy [Music] the man who spoke in favor of working without free food is a meanie in Delhi yo son de la Mer de salsa Lorna young Yamane Matalin album Allatoona la mama de cello new Coleman didn't know whether to hear Nagar Cybermen no nearest a number could see a Korean number in a burqa to Edessa the cancer on Inhumans are a number Birkin sauce where mr. allenbury Sirona the Ocoee Lucas all nampara in turn number [ __ ] owner param no feet on dr. Solomon got malappuram walk along Captain America via ferrata table acaba kala Mandir no orders ago Popo Buffett naka Bobby manna nom nom Nagari Tecate yeah Nicole Nicole Donna's anger mi pana garbage wanna burn zero if the farmers at the watershed could work together a bull knows that they could have the same success as others all over the region workers cooperatives have sprung up this land was burned for for self health introduced an irrigation system [Music] no we're good tryna borough but it's member ronamoon or oh I own him watchin yet Ajala garage garage yah yah yah shall garden little article to it Danita madam shun good yeah actually you're caught up cotton legged robot internal and he shattered gentleman Sara Deever videos at finale so doe project come Aguada what it eunbong quarter by battalion documentation for Annabelle mr. Edano bonus Otakon and I appointed self and firm a dragon that we are back at the self-help regional office the team have hardly had time to focus on dealing with the watershed rebellion when another crisis arises well we got a problem farmers are stealing water from other farmers and we have to go and fix it right now there is a big problem down there and unless we solve it it will get more problems and it will serve the irrigation system had been introduced to help a large group of farmers maximize their growing even in dry periods it's changed not only the landscape but the lives of those living there but apparently one of the cooperatives members has been sneaking out at night to divert extra water to his own plot what may seem to outsiders a small local issue is a matter of survival once again has getting out of the way Maggie the other farmers want to throw the thief off the irrigated land this cooperative has brought life to the people here and if the man is thrown out is going to lose all the privilege as a committee member and he will go back to poverty again he's the worst kind of penalties they will put on him and this is what it's all about the entire region has been transformed by individual entrepreneurs and farmers working in cooperatives average incomes have quadrupled and everywhere exotic produce rarely seen on this part of the world the sword is for sale even the government's own taxman has come down to collect but those outside the project can only dream of such things they say whether our remember amenities or who grows only main and whose family exists on bread alone that's because they live on the wrong side of the road literally on the other side haptic Argyll's farm falls just within the self-help borders me to once lived on nothing but bread but now grows onions peppers potatoes and a whole mixture of cash crops he sells to the market through the profit he made he just had a water hole dug in his field ensuring that even a severe drought won't destroy his crops his family lived well and his children go to school like millions of Africans boules simply wants the same chance lamella demolition Suellen discerned in asuka the selling in a mulatto naman Denisova thalamus erotic thing self-help is about to expand their project and a boule is desperate to be included it's not just about survival it's about pride issues are not only helpful in a barren head of solution Cerrano beta watching lives reversal on hulu nagar we're watching Marsabit aerosol mira doing agar-agar through trauma gamma black McHargue our latest compare his fight to a marriage Doyle with the Prophet she's made from selling her farm produce she's paid for a well to be installed in her garden now she shows it off to her these are exciting times - at the Hailu family restaurant a new roof is in place new furniture on order and highly unusual in our part of the country the traditional mud floor is being replaced by a solid one made of cement [Music] for ugly head and her husband mullah better life today has changed beyond recognition but this is a couple who have made a virtue of waiting for great things to have merit older cousin Islamist amath oh yes husbands and wives let me tell you and they're the shining star for that community and the committee has seen them coming out of poverty and they are a good example as long as people work out they can come out of poverty and the children of the region have something else to look forward to themselves today is a proud day for people something thousands have come together because at last enough money has been raised to lay the foundations of a very special building the new high school is about to take shape for over three years they've been raising funds through selling food from their farms making clothes and even collecting door-to-door they did it in science and now at last they're about to see the reward for their efforts my goodness it's a great day for all of us I am really delighted to have such number of people to come here but not everyone is celebrating three months have passed and two of the six women who had failed to pay back their loans to the Women's cooperative couldn't meet the new deadline wine shared MSE used the money she borrowed to open a restaurant to provide for her two children one of them disabled under mommy oh you disgust me hi oh by the way Tim now let's beat home well let's get normal let's get to master that dirty all she could sit on up but no Sylvia you're balancing sneak on every return yet previously bear token molar was doing well selling goods at the market until her husband threw her and her children out of their home after an argument under methylamine I'm no DJ which are could yo did you see any malice of certain animals array just but J eleganza Wanda you mean them you sir are lesser our Lord your change in Islamorada to achieve new condominium to achieve national agenda I'm good yeah able to commit even nice Rasmussen College a selasa look of London a little bit deceptive munawwara de Ferran adrià dr. Carlo ice before a marriage Dolan is concerned that others may fail to pay unless the committee takes a tough stance open design of blue like a fistula guru-guru not a funeral and a lecture by laura chomp in Kawasaki autoresponders it looks as though both women will face legal action their children may be forced to leave school and end up on the streets then a final compromise is found in a chamber on psychologically anything it's like you live in my house Lola [Music] back at the watershed the progress of the work done before the rebellion can be seen as green vegetation begins sprouting again over the plains a world mailer has been working desperately to bring the farmers back as he looks around he notices that the ringleaders have not turned up but those who have not seemed determined to continue getting Oliver Queen oh yeah yeah yo I learn from bein mad town yesterday you de su lugar y a liberal la me but I'm the sironia crisis harm his problem at the future Ananta Kaltura borracho the Angela's mobile beta to Bogota to kelabra to touch a Loomer it touch a low offer you calculate amor a bowtie Barnum you know but I cannot ever Manitou million or although there's still no sign of the ringleaders hundreds have turned up to dig the next barriers to the sliding waters then without warning djembe Eridani and the other would be rebellion leaders come walking up the hill digging tools in hand yes Rona Nicotiana nuts in any jagged days alone with the defendants are enforced a cattle owner and a witch a yellow gnome Iacobucci [Music] without a foreign aid worker in sight and for 30 times less than the cost of a similar project of this magnitude almost a quarter of a million African people are grabbing the opportunity to get themselves out of extreme poverty the markets are full of new products and a new generation of entrepreneurs is building for the future your schools are rising from the earth to raise the aspirations of the young along with hospitals and clinics dramatically improving the health of the region even the threat of famine has been greatly reduced with the introduction of an almost magical plant Afridi's helping Africans neighbors pollinators immense pride returning to a people who are changing their own destinies yet not far outside the self-help borders poverty is there for all to see these people are asking why not us nobody knows the problem better than Africa you

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Length: 51min 18sec (3078 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 31 2018