{"id":4959,"date":"2013-03-04T16:48:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2013-07-03T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T23:27:23","slug":"giving-a-voice-to-young-rwandan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/giving-a-voice-to-young-rwandan-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving a Voice to Young Rwandan Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guest post from photographer, Michele Zousmer<\/a>. Michele attended our 2012 Social Documentary Workshop in San Diego and shares her recent experience teaching storytelling to young women in Rwanda.<\/em><\/p>\n

Four years ago I visited Rwanda with Aegis Trust, a Genocide Foundation to document testimonies of women survivors of the 1994 Genocide; a genocide that slaughtered 1 million people in 100 days.\u00a0 With every interview I was taken by how these women were so traumatized and would never tell their story if their children were around.<\/p>\n

During my time in Rwanda I also met and photographed a young girl named, Dydine.<\/p>\n

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Dydine<\/p><\/div>\n

Dydine is a child of a survivor, 1 of 4 siblings, who returned to Kigali from a Ugandan refugee camp after the genocide. She is an amazing young lady who has big dreams and feels very strongly about helping to create peace and change in her country. She started an NGO \u201cUmbrella Cinema Promoters<\/a>” because of her love of filmmaking.\u00a0 Her mission is to locate and identify women who are isolated and need to use cinema to share their experiences, talents and feelings on how to overcome gender discrimination.<\/p>\n

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Workshop Participants<\/p><\/div>\n

Dydine and I have kept in touch over the years and I was invited to return to Rwanda to be a special mentor in a workshop called \u201cWomen’s Potential in Cinema.” Dydine selected 15 young women to be in this workshop. I was assisted by some wonderful local filmmakers and acting coaches. We taught about the importance of filmmaking, storytelling, videography, sound and acting. I learned that these young women had never even been in a movie theater before, as there are none in Kigali yet. I actually used the 2 films that were made in my San Diego workshop on microfinance as demonstrations. They especially loved the one of Nancy<\/a> and her bakery.\u00a0 I was able to point how the camera told the story of where she lived, what she did and how she wanted to further her business.\u00a0 Since women in the workplace is a new reality for women in Rwanda this hit home.<\/p>\n

One of the most interesting things I observed in this workshop was that these women walked in with lots of walls up. In Rwanda people are not open and do not allow strangers to get close to them. This is an affect of the genocide where neighbors turned on each other. This feeling pervades the entire country.\u00a0 After 2 days in the classroom these walls were broken down. There was sharing and laughing and new friendships formed.\u00a0\u00a0 For me this was a wonderful addition to the workshop and one that I shared at the closing ceremonies of WPC\u2019s 1st workshop. If more workshops were offered to the young people in Rwanda I believe that change and peace can happen.\u00a0 Dydine and I are already planning to do another workshop next year.<\/p>\n

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