{"id":571,"date":"2013-11-27T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=571"},"modified":"2016-07-19T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:25:15","slug":"population-media-center-changing-burundian-mindset-through-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/population-media-center-changing-burundian-mindset-through-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Population Media Center: changing Burundian mindset through movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Population Media Center is soon going to broadcast a series of sketches for helping Burundian people change their behaviour. Filmmakers have already got training sessions. Thanks to the latter, beneficiaries are proud of the offered guidance.<\/strong>-By Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jean Bosco Ndayishimiye: \u201cWhile working, we will comply with the Burundian culture and behaviour. People\u2019s qualification and illiteracy will also be considered.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Population Media Center takes origin in USA. From 2013 to 2016, the center has the main objective of changing Burundian mentality through movies. The training sessions will mainly focus on health -malnutrition, planning family and improving mothers\u2019 health- gender equality and fighting against HIV\/AIDS. According to Jean Bosco Ndayishimiye, Burundi Representative, the center now operates in 47 countries worldwide. \u201cWe work in partnership with two ministries, in charge of Health and Solidarity, Human rights as well as Gender,\u201d says Ndayishimiye. He underlines that the center is supported by different organisations such as UNICEF, UNFPA, PSI, Legal Family Foundation and WFP. Nowadays, different filmmakers are getting training on how to produce movies which are going to be broadcast on different local radios. \u201cWhile working, we will comply with the Burundian culture and behaviour. People\u2019s qualification and illiteracy will also be considered,\u201d adds Ndayishimiye. Population Media Center to change bad behaviour into good<\/strong> According to Ndayishimiye, the center will work in partnership with four local radios which are Isanganiro, Bonesha FM, National Radio and African Public Radio (RPA). \u201cThose movies are going to be broadcast twice a week. They will go to be divided into 208 units in three years,\u201d he states. In order to facilitate the movies\u2019 broadcasting, he says that the center is going to choose a pertinent time for a very large audience. \u201cOur main objective is to change the bad behaviours into good ones\u201d, he underlines. At this moment, the center is training filmmakers and next actors will be trained. \u201cThe only request for the candidates is to have a nice voice and reading skills\u2019 competence. Regarding gender or age, it is not our concern,\u201d he mentions. He indicates that the center prefers to use the unknown people\u2019s voices to attract many listeners because they will probably consider movies as reality and not fiction. For instance, many things have changed about different activities run in several hospitals; the number of patients has increased due to different sensitization campaigns through communication. Beneficiaries have got some advantages<\/strong> Micheline Ndayikunda, one of the trainees, reveals that the training has a great importance. \u201cWe learn many things related to our daily life, such as family planning, gender equality, etc. About editing, the training has benefited me because it wasn\u2019t in my mind and surprisingly enough I liked it. We are going to mix writing and playing sketches,\u201d thanks Ndayikunda. Although, the training plays a major role, she states that the important thing is to get where to practice. For Thadd\u00e9e Nzigamasabo, another trainee, there is some improvement on how to write. \u201cI was a filmmaker before taking part in this training. I have found out that the new method we have acquired is more interesting than the one I had\u201d, comments Nzigamasabo. He states that before this new writing method acquisition, filmmakers would focus much more on giving moral lessons to the audience. \u201cBut now, the filmmakers do not give any moral lesson, the listeners find it themselves after hearing. If an actor does bad things, the audience automatically refers to him\/her in order to change mindset. All themes are related to human beings\u2019 daily life\u201d, concludes Nzigamasabo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Population Media Center is soon going to broadcast a series of sketches for helping Burundian people change their behaviour. Filmmakers have already got training sessions. Thanks to the latter, beneficiaries are proud of the offered guidance.-By Diane Uwimana Population Media Center takes origin in USA. From 2013 to 2016, the center has the main objective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[173,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}