Life 6 - The Prince
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In Pakistan, a feudal prince's family has been making life hell for local villagers for centuries. Rafeh Malik is a young feudal prince who inherited Ratrian, a village in Northern Punjab, on his 18th birthday. Prince Rafeh had a friend from the city: Dawn TV journalist Shehryrar Mufti. And one day Shehryar told him: 'Look, man, people just don't buy your act anymore. You can't make out you own these folks.' It was apparently a dramatic moment of conversion. The prince claims he now realizes his land-owning caste has been living in the past.
Mufti has told him about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the prince says he's inspired to try and introduce them to his village. But in the process, he risks alienating his family and even the conservative villagers themselves. After all, they all live close to the edge of the troubled North West Frontier and don't necessarily want what the West calls 'development.'
Will the villagers accept the prince's offer? Will his family stop him? And how genuine was his conversion? In the face of self-doubt, selfishness and conservatism, will he decide to go on?
'An effort to implement the UN's Millennium Development Goals produces a collision of cultures. This video offers a crash course in the micro realities of development politics. In rural Pakistan where, change--especially change that has been designed by bureaucrats who live half a world away--threatens to upset the balance in a community that has persevered through good and bad times for millennia.' Dr. Timothy McGettigan, Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University, Pueblo
'Life 6 is a wonderfully educational series that presents the viewers with the dilemmas faced by specific individuals in the socio-historical and economic context of their communities in the midst of an increasingly globalized world. The tremendous value of this series is that, in the brief thirty minutes that each episode lasts, it captures the complexities of the lives of those in it as they face Western influence that force them to reassert, defend, or challenge their local and/or individual identities, cultures, governance, wealth distribution, and practices of achieving justice and reconciliation--to name a few...Life 6 represents these issues in an objective and analytical way that will--without question--lead into a discussion and debate about them by academics and lay audiences alike.' Aniuska Luna, African Peace and Conflict Network
'The problems of development go beyond the shortage of resources or capital or a lack of willpower on the part of developers or local people, as this good short film illustrates. Development is and always will be a ground-level change in the established cultural ways of real human beings...The Prince is a fine introduction to the human side of development...Suitable for high school and college courses in cultural anthropology, development/ applied anthropology, and Asian studies, as well as general audiences.' Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, Anthropology Review Database
Citation
Main credits
Mufti, Shehryar (film producer)
Mufti, Shehryar (film director)
Zossel, Barbara (editor of moving image work)
Bradshaw, Steve (host)
Bradshaw, Steve (editor of moving image work)
Malik, Rafeh (on-screen participant)
Other credits
Editor, Barbara Zossel; series editor, Steve Bradshaw.
Distributor subjects
Anthropology; Asian Studies; Developing World; Environment; Ethics; Geography; Globalization; Health; History; Human Rights; Humanities; India; Islamic Studies; Millennium Development Goals; Rural Studies; Social Justice; Social Psychology; Sociology; United Nations; Women's StudiesKeywords
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[sil.]
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Globalization is making the
rich world, even richer.
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But billions a locked out there living on the
edge between the rich world and the poor.
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They face tough choices if
they want to join the party.
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Since 2000, the United Nations has been trying to make
sure the world makes a set of promises it may(ph),
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call the millennium development goals,
but as one young prince in Asia
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found out turning promises into
reality, can involve political
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and personal dilemmas.
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[music]
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[sil.]
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This is the beginning of a fairy tale
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that might not end like won\'t. The Prince
has come to sell his people a dream.
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[non-English narration]
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A group of the world\'s nations have come together and agreed on aid
basic targets for development that all countries should achieve,
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we can achieve these targets.
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The question is, are they interested?
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[sil.]
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Our Prince is Rafeh Malik
his kingdom is Ratrian,
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a poverty ridden village in the north
of Pakistan. He inherited the village
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from his vast family estate
on his 18th birthday.
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Rafeh is the only sign of a powerful family, both in terms
of the land they own and the political influence they wield,
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any attempt by him to change the status
quo here will lead to a dilemma,
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how to modernize without alienating
his father, his friends,
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maybe even the villages. He spends
most of his days and nights
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about 200 kilometers south in
Islamabad Pakistan\'s capital.
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He\'s an outward looking man, his friends
including T.V journalist Shehryrar Mufti
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In there many evenings
together an idea came up,
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why not try and implement the millennium
development goals, in Rafeh\'s own village.
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The MDG\'s up eight ambitious
development target
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signed by world leaders in
2000 the deadline 2015,
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the prince has some catching up to do. We
asked Shariat to film Rafeh\'s progress.
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So you do think, that you\'re family political
legacy might actually depend on the success.
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Oh yeah. Of this political… Political
legacy entirely will depend on the success.
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So aren\'t you afraid that, this
might not work which scared.
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I\'m scared, but I\'m… willing to take the risk. You
first you got to get past, you\'re done. Yeah…
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How do you think that\'s going to happen?
Well, I was selling the idea,
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tell them (inaudible)
to be quite difficult.
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Why would a plan to help poor
people be a difficult sell,
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a visit to Rafeh\'s family home,
then some inside into his dilemma.
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Life for Rafeh\'s family here has never
really begged for drastic change
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for generations this house has been the headquarters
from which Rafeh\'s family has practiced politics,
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today his father, Malik Atta Mohammed,
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is hosting a meeting of other influential men from nearby
villages. This is also a training session of sorts
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for Rafeh. The though his lack of facial
hair, almost renders him out of uniform.
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The guests are uneasy at the presence
of what they see as a film crew
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representing the Western media, they\'re also
uneasy that development agendas like the MDG\'s
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may reflect a misplaced sense
of superiority in the West.
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What the West is projecting? I do not
know what they have in their mind,
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when they are trying to propagate this policy. Because I
met a lot of NGO\'s, so they say that we have told them
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how to wash hands and how to, In Islam, you see,
we are supposed to wash hands five times a day.
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If you call it (inaudible),
so we do it five times.
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So who the hell are they to tell us how we should keep
ourselves clean? We know how to keep ourselves clean!
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Later that evening Rafeh is
understandably a little apprehensive
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he hopes to explain his MDG\'s
plan for Ratrian to his father.
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Whose political legacy he inherit
discussing a plan to change the status quo
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is unfamiliar ground for both
of them to say the least.
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Malik Atta doesn\'t openly oppose his son\'s plan,
but he does question, how he can make it happen?
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The… villages don\'t have
money, that\'s right.
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I am a landlord, I don\'t have money.
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Well, then again these people are
living below the poverty line.
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Well, there\'s no doubt about… They are living…
They are living, it\'s only if government takes in
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initiative to uplift these people. In a
way for you to take this initiative now,
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would also be an admission of guilt in the
sense that why have you done it earlier,
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do you think that your problem?
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It\'s not a problem that we could have done it earlier,
but over the years things came one who will be other,
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we want able to fully implement then,
new too political repercussions.
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But is…is… isn\'t really your job to implement
these things. The nation building departments
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were funded by the provincial uh…
government there are too execute this
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uh… Projects, on our requests.
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If uh… the… political government
is favor, they\'ll be (inaudible),
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but if… the governments are not in favor,
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uh… probably they\'ll
(inaudible), so let\'s how it is?
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So do you think what Rafeh\'s
doing my side of a bad example?
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Because he\'s going beyond his mandate now, he\'s not just
suggesting it, if he… if the government doesn\'t cooperate,
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he\'s going to find alternative.
Well, he had a vision of his own,
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uh… which he has that he knows,
and he is the young man and…
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It seems like Rafeh is on his home, but there
is another audience, yet to be approached.
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[sil.]
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These are the people of
Ratrian, their standard of life
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even in comparison to that of other village
dwelling Pakistanis, is pretty low.
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Rafeh\'s uncle\'s political
connections paved the way
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for an erratic electricity supply here a
year ago. Life otherwise hasn\'t changed much
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for these people for generations.
The only local source of water
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is an occasional hand-pump.
Some like this man
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prefer alternative sources of water his daily
routine includes riding his donkey car,
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three hours into the next town, filling
these former chemical containers
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with slightly less brackish water and
bringing them back home in fact on most days
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that\'s all his daily routine has to it.
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This young man is ideally walking in the dung ridden
streets of Ratrian, at the peak of the school day.
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There is a school in Ratrian, but he\'s
not playing truant the teacher is.
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It\'s padlocked and (inaudible),
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the only science of life here, A
pages of notebooks and textbooks,
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strewn about some extol the virtues of a political
regime that was removed from power some time ago.
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Even the hand pump here is dry,
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with an estimated 90% of livelihoods
here depending on sharecropping
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poverty is rampant. The
tenants earn enough in food
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not to be malnourished, but having money in
their pockets is for most a distant fantasy.
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It\'s this absence of hard cash
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that keeps this crippled man from being
able to visit the nearest clinic.
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It\'s a two hour drive away,
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the journey he can\'t afford. Having money for treatment
is something he doesn\'t even bother thinking about.
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[non-English narration]
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You can we go to anywhere,
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why cry before someone you can\'t dry your
tears. Malik Atta Mohammed\'s king yes,
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but it\'s not his job to solve all of our problems,
it is a people in government who are paid to do it.
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[non-English narration]
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They don\'t blame the local royal
family for their poverty,
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based on camera, but they do believe the
family has the power to change things.
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So what if they decided to get these problems
solved, could they? Of course absolutely.
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[sil.]
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And so Rafeh \'cause the men as
well as the women of Ratrian,
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to talk about life, and how
it can be made better.
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[sil.]
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As the cameras begin to roll and a rich
politician starts talking about big ideas
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the event begins to seem all too familiar.
But the MDG\'s that\'s new
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Rafeh tries his best to explain
the Millennium Development Goals,
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to an increasingly disoriented audience.
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A group of the world\'s nations have come together
and agreed on, eight basic targets for development
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that all countries should achieve,
we can achieve these targets.
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Rafeh wants to know what
they think it might take,
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to achieve these goals despite finding themselves
in a completely unrecognizable situation.
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The villages begin to open up
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water is a popular topic of conversation,
as is the state of literacy in the village.
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We need a hospital, than a school for girls. If
something could be done about drinking water
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we\'d be grateful.
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Women speak openly, if they
worries for their children.
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One day its (inaudible), the next day
it\'s fever, that the next day vomiting.
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They want employment opportunities
for the men, and their arrangements
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to set up cottage industries for
themselves. One woman interrupts to Rafeh,
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and even questions his intentions.
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The query about electricity and
all, I made it clear to them that
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I cannot help them with diet does the government
stink, but I will aid them with that as well
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but our major primary concern is about them even Millennium
Development Goals, and implementing them over here.
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So I think when I told them it would be humble
beginning I was being honest with them,
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I think that was the turning point.
Those people head back to the lives
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they\'re familiar with Rafeh is feeling
some rather unfamiliar feelings.
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The body language you\'d reflected that
they were hopeful something will happen
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which simultaneous put enormous pressure of
responsibility on my shoulders that I have to do.
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If I don\'t deliver, I will not be
able to deliver the (inaudible),
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I just did a show, at cost of
(inaudible) of self-respect.
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[sil.]
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Uh… I don\'t f eel like a politician that way,
but? But this is really like politics uh…
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A fuse and that… taking the seriously in honor of that
terrible, before I\'m going with my father, (inaudible),
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I just be yours, second fiddle
around number in the front,
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so it\'s like not their life (inaudible) like I\'m stepping
into his issues (inaudible) that\'s the responsibility.
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I\'ve never felt as before like so as like for the
first time that sort of kicked and, you know.
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Leadership. Yeah, leadership.
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Back in the big city Rafeh
begins the critical journey
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from a good idea to solid plan.
Across much of the world it\'s NGO\'s
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that are often entrusted with
(inaudible) MDG\'s happen.
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Rafeh shares some of his father\'s
distrustive NGO\'s still he makes contact
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with the Omar Asghar Khan Development foundation. It\'s active
in the political and financial empowerment of communities
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devastated by 2005 earthquake.
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Rafeh understands that he needs their
help to get closer to his goal.
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He wears his apprehensions on his sleeve. My major
concern is that, I don\'t want somebody coming in
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and just rocking the whole system
which will be, not forget me. Even!
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(inaudible) and Allie on the
other hand believe Rafeh,
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will have to demonstrate more than just
good intentions, even his body language
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within the village would have to change. I mean, how
do seat with them, do you seat them just buying,
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you know, they have you get a special position
over there, you got the (inaudible) behind you,
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are you sitting on the ground with them and sort of
(inaudible) talk to them. I don\'t have a problem
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by sitting with be seat on (inaudible) along
with them and all, I think the first discussion
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I had with them they were, very much open
I want to go out I want to work with them
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in the things so that people don\'t
consider that I\'m trying to do it as
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a public political stunt you don\'t want to see… What
is the disadvantage with the cameras are moving,
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because when you go with the camera, they\'re must be
thinking that you\'re going to go on the news, you know that…
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Uh… That, that (inaudible) he\'s doing for all,
for that… He\'s doing this… simply it is for
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uh… political projection. Projection exactly. You don\'t
understand is for that different kind of… That\'s a disadvantage…
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They emphasized the need
for the people of Ratrian,
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to be organized into a
community based organization,
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with Rafeh as their leader. Before any of that could
happen, the village would have to be studied closely,
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by people with no vested interest in it.
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They volunteer the services of their own
organization and offer that Rafeh accepts.
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Ratrian will be profiled.
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This village profile is a missing piece in the puzzle
for Rafeh. He\'s met with people from the government
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as well as the World Bank. Both of identified
a village profile as a critical document
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central to the whole plan maybe
even a prerequisite to having more.
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The bankers also recommended that
he visit a water supply project
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in nearby (inaudible). Could
this be the model he needs
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Mossadegh (inaudible), the man running the project
started off as a meter reader for the government.
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When a (inaudible) funded water
supply project went (inaudible),
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before it was even halfway completed
he revived it in his own town,
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his since managed to turn it into a viable private
enterprise. But Mossadegh (inaudible) town
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is larger and richer than Ratrian, and
Mossadegh (inaudible) has corporate clients,
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aren\'t like to help Rafeh, so how
relevant was this all to Ratrian.
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In a situation where people are not
only illiterate, I\'d also very poor,
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a project like this simply
cannot be implemented.
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Impossible to implement this model over their own
self sustenance. In any condition… In any condition.
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(inaudible). Rafeh began to field like
he was staring down bottomless pit.
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It was only during the Mossadegh (inaudible)
attempt to cheer him up with water meters,
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when things started looking up to World
Bank people called Mossadegh (inaudible),
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Rafeh\'s presence there has cleric come as a welcome surprise,
(inaudible) they invite him over for another meeting.
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That would be great, if you
can do it some time soon.
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I have a meeting several new
possibilities that discussed.
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Rafeh is told of a widely implemented
development program. Villages can be rewarded
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with safe drinking water hand pumps. To qualify,
they must end the practice of defecating
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in the outdoors. It sounds achievable
enough, but Ratrian will need help.
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(inaudible) and we can arrange for
us films, so if you\'re interested,
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if people all of your maybe male separate or female separate are all
of them combined. We can ask some of them to come and have a session,
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two hour, three hour session with your
community. What that be great (inaudible).
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Several other opportunities are identified and
contacts are exchanged by the end of the meeting
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the mood is (inaudible). She again might
be some time will come and visit you…
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Oh great, will extend way wants will it gets little better,
and you got some progress (inaudible) should being free so…
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will have the over man, thanks a lot.
(inaudible).
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(inaudible), I\'ll you get in
touch as well, regarding…
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Rafeh has also made contact with the government
departments, which he hopes might be helpful.
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But his optimism is soon (inaudible).
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We have spoken to there (inaudible)
of the government and they were
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full agree (inaudible) but now, they way that
domestic political and government is going,
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who are got my reservations if
something happens how will they,
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just come out with funding for it.
That I would set.
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What is the good pressure on you?
Coming to that.
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That puts pressure on me, if there\'s a change of government,
will be all new set their will be new people calling
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the shots world. (inaudible) disbursement of funds, and
then I would have to start from scratch all over again.
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[sil.]
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Do you feel you\'ve bitten off more than you (inaudible). I don\'t think
(inaudible) more than I can choice is that I need patience and perseverance,
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and I have all the patience, I just need the
patience of the everyone else around me,
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to understand the ground realities that it takes
time. It can not happen in the (inaudible).
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So are you suspicious of
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the NGO people were going to be coming into (inaudible). Oh
yeah, suspicious… I\'m suspicious that gonna (inaudible) things.
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A meeting to help Rafeh and the
NGO understand each other better
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is arranged the (inaudible) as
attempts to put Rafeh at ease
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might be missing the mark. So once
you\'re done with profiling the village
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will gather all the presence and organize
a protest against the evil landlord.
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What about (inaudible) environment.
Eventually however they do begin
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to win the princes confidence the
political upheaval of Ratrian
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was certainly not on their agenda. The
next morning five people Rafeh has met
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only the day before heading to his village
with a mandate to tell the truth about it,
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it\'s a huge step for him and he\'s
still not certain of its direction.
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Momtaz the team leader tries to
tap into the people\'s enthusiasm.
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Any questions? Any questions
in anyone\'s mind at all.
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[sil.]
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Rafeh to help you identify your needs, the point
of today is to make a plan the plan for a Ratrian.
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[non-English narration]
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As activities commence the villages
seem to be somewhat bewildered,
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a handful catch on quickly.
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They proceed to help Momtaz\'s team to construct
what the first ever maps of Ratrian.
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[sil.]
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Others take an impromptu lunch break,
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are they disenchanted or just Brady hungry.
If you\'re ready to do things,
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we\'re ready for them to be done. I
have things like this happen before.
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Yes, people come conduct their service
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and then just disappeared. But
does any of this map making,
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make any sense to you.
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We don\'t get it at all after all. We\'re
just illiterate primitive people
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this stuff is for educated
people to understand.
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With the physical mapping done, and newly
inspired team heads out into the village,
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for some social mapping.
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[sil.]
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When you think of a rich person, how
much money do you think does he have
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thousands, millions, billions?
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We honestly have no idea, how
much money a rich man has?
00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:39.999
[non-English narration]
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He\'s poor,
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he is also poor
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and he is poor too. The
village profile is now
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firmly on track, Back at his family home
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Rafeh allows himself a breath the relief
thought of what the future might hold
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weighs heavy on the shoulders. Next is
(inaudible) not gonna we door for hope,
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hoping someone is going to deliver
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for all their promised. Yeah… Yeah, But you\'re one
of those people as well you\'ve made promises.
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Oh yeah, I made, (inaudible) promises,
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and hopefully I\'m… hoping to live up to them.
My people know this inside you come out with
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and put a lot of faith in me, trust.
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You\'re not used to these (inaudible),
knocking on doors and stuff like that.
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I\'m thinking different never
really, went about it this way
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or spoken to some of movement officials
in the local government department,
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they\'re just saying will see, will…
wait (inaudible) telegrams commends,
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so is basically promises. You\'re
going to run out of patience.
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I hope, I don\'t but just
only time will tell. Umm…
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A time really frestitatng, they have been questions
raised rather well what my intention behind it is,
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why am I doing this, what I told them
what the whole, entire situation this.
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How\'s you for the taking this
whole thing (inaudible).
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Well, so far he\'s just standing by…
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Malik Atta Mohammed speaks for himself.
I don\'t think I can helping much
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of course, he\'s… because the
connection that I have…
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you can benefit from them
and their critically
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we\'re apposed will face same music,
00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.999
(inaudible) somebody could say,
that they\'re crazy (inaudible),
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when people are suffering.
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And that\'s you see something
happen before you,
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something… something concrete in
only then you would be loose it,
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at… at present is all in the air.
You\'d think meeting the MDG\'s
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is a matter of resources and
wheel, but it\'s not that simple.
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The prince is caught between two worlds.
Should he risk disrupting a society that,
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for better or worse, has at least functioned
for centuries? It\'s a tough choice.
00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.999
It\'s too soon to say whether the MDG\'s
will be met globally or here in Ratrian.
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[sil.]