HU OSA 392-2-1:6/1

[Bensege Futi Children’s Detention Center, Seminar in Zaire] [2/2]

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1 hour 14 minutes

French (Original)

Not Restricted

raw material

This video documents the assistance that ASADHO provides to Bensege Futi, a children's detention center located one and a half hours away from Kinshasa, in the Bas Zaire region. Children between the ages of 10 and 21 have been sentenced for committing petty crimes. Abandoned or disowned by their families, most children depend on the Center for all aspects of their survival. Sadly, no funds exist in order for personnel to feed and care for the young detainees. The director of the Center, who appears on the tape, has not been paid in months; some of the children in the video are not in detention but are the children of personnel, and are just as hungry as the detainees. ASADHO regularly provides the Center with medicine for the children. On this particular occasion, ASADHO brings food, soap and plastic utensils for each child, as well as some clothes. The children are seen singing a song which welcomes and blesses the visitors. Footage includes women in alley preparing food for day of the African Child / CUs fish being prepared / VS groups of boys outside sitting, singing, distribution of food, kids eating, kids and adults play soccer / interiors of center with AZADHO inspecting conditions, rooms are decrepit, food being prepared, children in groups outside, interiors which look like cavernous barracks, dingy medical office / interview described situation of detained children / AZADHO distributing clothes to kids // Exteriors Church Fatima, site of "Colloque" (seminar) / Interior VS seminar, incl Kisimba Ngoy, Guillaume Ngefa of ASADHO, Tokunbo Ige.