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De Belofte (2010)

Name: De Belofte
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-01-03T11:04:30+01:00
Cast: Mary, Ruth, Gideon

Documentary | 57 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 57 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Eugene van den Bosch

Stars: Mary, Ruth, Gideon

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De Belofte plot

The sense and nonsense of sixty years of development cooperation, seen through the eyes of an African village, or: how the West made great promises to the Third World for sixty years, which they never kept. 'The Promise' is a documentary in which the effect of Western aid to Africa is discussed. What have all those great plans, such as the Millennium Goals, actually achieved? The film sketches three intimate portraits of young Africans in a small village in the Ghanaian rainforest. They have to fight every day to survive. For them, the aid from the west is but a broken promise. The film examines an alternative to current forms of development cooperation: couldn't Western money be better used to let Africans help their own people? Can Africans better than 'the West' determine what development cooperation should look like?