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The main character of this documentary is thirteen-year-old Arif, who lives in the slums on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Because his father's earnings are not enough to provide for the family, Arif, like approximately ten million other children in Bangladesh, is forced to work. Arif's bold ambition to become a journalist begins to be realized from the moment he is able to get job as a reporter in the Bangladesh TVstation ETV. Once a week he prepares a highly-watched news program, which is oriented to the dismal situation of working children, who are not able to attend school. Many of these children also perform exceptionally dangerous work without any type of safety precautions or protective clothing. He knows well from his own experiences that without education it is difficult to escape poverty. Therefore, he tries together with other similarly-minded children to help his peers achieve a better life. The International Labor Organization estimates that globally there are over 246 million children who are forced to work full-time.
Jamila is a passionate football player. Her family's religion is Islam, which prohibits girls from exposing their legs. Even though her father supports Jamila in her passion for football and is proud of her success, he does not like the fact that she is supposed to play in shorts.
Ten-year-old Roy lives in a small Peruvian village. Instead of going to school he often goes to the local mine, where under extraordinarily difficult and dangerous conditions he tries to mine enough gold to help lift his family out of poverty.
A portrait of a Somalian girl named Nima who, with her mother, fled from war in her country and since that time has lived in a refugee camp in the Netherlands. Here she goes to school, enjoys spending time with her new friends at the sea, and awaits the day when the longed-for letter allowing her to stay in the Netherlands finally arrives.
They come here to escape from serious problems in their homelands. Sometimes they have skin of different color and their mother tongue is not understandable to us. What kind of people are they? What are their plans? Are they capable of living among us? What can they expect here? Also these questions are answered in this educational movie for schoolchildren, which is particularly focused on problems of young refugees and women. It was made by Prosperita a Solidarita Association for UNDP.
