Canvas zaterdag 26 feb 20.10 uur

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Op Canvas komt zaterdag 26 feb (aanvang 20.10) Vranx met een uitzending over: Manilla..een stad met te veel mensen...

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Canvas | reportage | 26-02-2011, 20u10 - 20u40
reportagemagazine. Presentatie: Rudi Vranckx

Overvol Manilla


De wereldbevolking blijft groeien, we zijn bijna met 7 miljard. Die explosieve groei is bijzonder goed voelbaar in de Filipijnse hoofdstad Manilla. Scholen barsten uit hun voegen, families hokken samen in veel te kleine huizen en op het kerkhof is zelfs voor de doden geen plaats meer. De reis van reporter Jenny Kleeman begint in een kraamkliniek die meer weg heeft van een fabriek. Vier moeders en hun pasgeboren baby's in één bed is hier eerder regel dan uitzondering. Sommige vrouwen hebben acht kinderen. Dat is vaak meer dan ze zelf willen. De overheid promoot geen anticonceptiemiddelen uit vrees om de steun van de katholieken te verliezen. In het noorden van de stad wordt één van de talrijke sloppenwijken opgeruimd omdat ze op privéterrein ligt. De tweeduizend families die er leven, hebben plots geen dak meer boven het hoofd. 'Geen idee waar ik met mijn kinderen nu weer naartoe moet', zucht Ludivina. Zolang het probleem niet grondig aangepakt wordt, blijven families van de ene illegale sloppenwijk naar de andere verhuizen. Zelfs de doden hebben geen plaats. Kleeman trekt naar een kerkhof waar 80 doden per dag begraven worden. Graven worden gehuurd en als families niet meer kunnen betalen, wordt er gewoon een nieuwe dode in het graf gestopt. Bovendien moeten de overledenen het kerkhof delen met families die in geïmproviseerde hutten bovenop de graven wonen. De eeuwige rust is ver zoek.

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das eentje met ballen aan haar lijf als je ziet in welke sloppenwijken ze loopt...

[Dreamer1975]

Da's wat ik ook dacht,maar eigenlijk loopt er nog een gans team mee en is ze eigenlijk niet alleen.Cameraman,geluidstechnicus en er was blijkbaar een tolk mee ook.Zou me trouwens ook niet verwonderen dat ze voor de veiligheid nog enkele agenten of bewakers hebben ingehuurd om mee te gaan.

[gosternokke]

Canvas zegt me niks ? Is dat een belgisch of Ned. tv station ?  heb geen flauw idee,want ik kijk behalve journaal nooit t.v    Maar op welk kanaal is dit in Nederland te zien ?

[jiggy]

Ik heb de reportage gezien en... toch nog wel voor mij ongekende aspecten van de Filipijnen gezien.
Ik was al in Manila, maar.. hoe men daar opeengestouwd woont, in "kartonnen" huizen, op de meest onmogelijke plekken...

De wil om te overleven van de mens is groot blijkbaar...

Tegelijk, en dat is iets wat me overal opvalt, is het gebrek aan verantwoordelijkheid of burgerzin (vanuit westers oogpunt bekeken dan...) :

De Filipijnen zijn de ergste "nestbevuilers" die ik ooit zag : men woont en leeft er temidden van eigen afval.
Wat men niet nodig heeft, gooit men zo maar weg, naast of achter zich.

Met als gevolg : vuile straten, verstroppende rioleringen, beken en rivieren vol plastic en ander afval, dat dan naar zee stroomt
met als resutaat : stranden of drijvende eilanden vol plastic.

Zo ver is men daar nog niet gevorderd in het algemeen bewustzijn blijkbaar , dat om de kwaliteit van het milieu en eigen leefomgeving te verbeteren, men niet zomaar achteloos weggooit wat niet meer bruikbaar is...

doch.. ik kan het hen niet kwalijk nemen : de overheid blijft op dat vlak ook wellicht tekortschieten , en zelf zijn de meesten gewoon bezig met "overleven"...

ons milieubewustzijn is ook pas van recente datum : wat 10 tot 20 jaar geleden nog als "extreem groen" werd beschouwd is nu vaak maatschappelijk aanvaard om een leefbare wereld te kunnen doorgeven aan onze kinderen...

[yepyep]

Is deze uitzending op internet terug te zien?

[Mawibata]

Even een beetje opzoekingswerk gedaan  :



Over het programma :        http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/episode-guide/series-2010/episode-13



Manila is one of the world's most overpopulated cities.

Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Richard Cookson find the Philippine capital stretched to breaking point, with mothers four to a bed in maternity wards, primary schools with a thousand children in each year, and graveyards with no more room to bury the dead.

As the world faces an overpopulation crisis, Manila provides a vision of what might become ordinary in the not too distant future.

The team begin their trip at the biggest maternity hospital in the city. It operates on an industrial scale, with four mothers and their babies sharing each bed. The ward is at double capacity when the team arrive, and it's so overcrowded that the nurses have to patrol it to make sure no one is sleeping on their babies and suffocating them.

Kleeman learns that women often have eight children or more here, and some of the mothers say it's hard to make ends meet with such large families. But the Filipino government doesn't promote contraception as it fears losing the Catholic vote.

Kleeman spends the night with a family of nine in Baseco, a shanty town where 90,000 people share just half a square kilometre. A third of Manila's 20 million residents live in squatter settlements like this. New homes are being built every day; wherever there's space another family will fill it. There is no sanitation and the children grow up surrounded by rubbish.

Like everything else in Manila, the water supply can't meet the demand of the number of people who want to use it, and contagious diseases spread fast. Jennifer, the mother of the family, has tuberculosis. She tells Kleeman her children have persistent rashes but she can't afford to take them to a doctor for treatment.

Kleeman and Cookson walk to school with Jennifer's son, Mark Anthony. He's one of 6000 pupils at the local primary, with 1000 children in his school year alone. The numbers are so high that children have to be taught in shifts throughout the day, with some classes starting at 6am.

The team gets word that a slum is being cleared in Quezon City, in the north of Manila. Two thousand families live here, and this isn't the first time they've been evicted from this patch of land: it's privately owned and they've been staying here illegally. The demolition men fight with the residents, who are trying to keep hold of their building materials so they can rebuild their homes elsewhere.

One resident, Ludivina, tells Kleeman she has ten children and no idea where they will now live. Evictions like this happen all the time in Manila but they don't solve the city's squatter problem: they simply move it from one location to another.

Most Filipinos choose to be buried rather than cremated, which creates its own problems for the city. The team visits a cemetery where as many as 80 funerals take place every day. Most people can't afford their own tombs, so they rent them. And if their families fail to keep up the rent payments after they're buried, their bodies are exhumed and another coffin is placed in their grave. Kleeman finds hundreds of families living in makeshift homes among the tombs, jostling for space with the dead.

Manila's problems may appear extraordinary. But as global population grows, the city provides a vision of what might become ordinary around the world as the rest of the planet runs out of space.








Over de maker :            http://www.jennykleeman.com/





Jenny Kleeman is a multimedia journalist who tells thought-provoking stories you won't have heard from anyone else.


Her documentaries and feature articles come from original journalism, and she's travelled the world finding unusual characters and challenging subjects to turn into film and print.


Jenny's first reporting job was for Channel 4's Dispatches: Undercover in New Labour. Since then, she's become a regular face on Unreported World, Channel 4's award-winning foreign affairs documentary strand. It's a job that's taken her from the depths of the Amazon rainforest to the streets of Liberia's slums. She's also appeared on BBC Two's Explore series, and writes regular features for the Guardian, the Times and Marie Claire magazine.


When she's at home, she's often reviewing the newspapers on the BBC News Channel, and she's been a commentator on BBC Breakfast and Al Jazeera English.





Jenny op facebook :        http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=157283&id=89624074157





 







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Philippines: Reporter's Blog


Jenny Kleeman

Jenny Kleeman reports on her stay with a family of 11 who live in a tiny shack.

Making a film about what it means to live in a place where there's simply too many people raises an unexpected ethical dilemma: we wanted to experience first-hand what life is like for those who have run out of space, but is it fair to ask a family already living in seriously overcrowded conditions if they could make room for a foreign film crew to stay over with them?

Director Richard Cookson and I felt it was important that our approach was as immersive as possible. If you've lived your entire life in crammed conditions, the most extraordinary circumstances can seem unremarkable to you. The only way to capture how the extreme consequences of overpopulation have become normal in the Philippines was to live in the same conditions ourselves.

Before we left for Manila we planned to spend as much time with a family as possible without inconveniencing them. If we felt there wasn't room for us in their home, we'd leave as they went to bed and return to see them wake up in the morning. But as soon as we met the Parapina family it was clear they wanted to extend as much hospitality to us as they could.

They live in Baseco, a slum that's home to 90,000 people over half a square kilometer. Jennifer and Manuel Parapina have seven children aged eight to seventeen, and all nine of them live in a single shack, sharing about ten square metres. There's not enough space for a mattress, so when night falls the family lie side by side together on the floor. Even so, they said we were welcome to stay with them.

We decided there was only enough floor space for one more person in Parapina's home. Richard and Girlie, our local fixer, slept outside while I bedded down nearest the door and next to the stove, in the place usually occupied by the family's three cats, who jostled for space under my feet. Fifteen-year-old Princess Parapina lay next to me, occasionally throwing an arm or leg across me in her sleep.

I couldn't sleep, of course. It gave me plenty of time to think about how precious privacy is. I'd always assumed I had the right to get changed, wash and go to the toilet in private, and to sleep without anyone else knowing I was in bed. Lying on the floor of the Parapina's home, I realized these are not rights - they are luxuries that have to be bought. Luxuries I'd taken for granted, until now that I was experiencing life without them for myself.

We spent three days in Baseco with the Parapinas, following every aspect of their daily lives. Never once did they make us feel it was an imposition. When we returned to the slum at the end of our shoot to say goodbye, they gave us letters thanking us for choosing their family to film. It seemed absurd to me that they would thank us when we were so much in their debt. But that's what the people we met in Manila were like: resilient, generous and hospitable, even when there's so little space to share.






Philippines - Useful Links : 


Likhaan
A charity that provides Filipina women with free healthcare and advice on contraception and family planning.
http://likhaan.net
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The Philippine Community Fund
An NGO that works with some of the poorest communities in Manila, providing education, housing and heath care, including free vaccinations against the contagious diseases that are endemic in Manila's overcrowded slums.
www.p-c-f.org/
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Presentation by Architect Jun Palafox
The leading Filipino architect outlines the current problems of overpopulation and urban sprawl in Manila - and suggests some solutions.
www.ctbuh.org
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Save Pasig River Movement
An environmental campaign group working to clean up the Pasig River, Manila's major waterway. Overpopulation means raw sewage flows directly into the water, and the river has been declared biologically dead for the past 20 years.
http://sagipasigmovement.wordpress.com
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The Optimum Population Trust
A UK-based environmental charity concerned with the impact of global population growth on the environment.
http://www.optimumpopulation.org
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Dank je wel MawiBata 

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kan het filmpje helaas niet bekijken