No time for my children: the struggle to balance care and work
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 01/03/2018

This story from Rwanda is based on a number of real women’s day-to-day experiences of paid work and care work responsibilities and the depleting effects it has on their wellbeing, and that of their families. In this film these experiences have been consolidate and adapted into a single story, anonymised and narrated by an actor. The photos are from the region where they live but not of the women themselves. 

This story was created for the project ‘Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment Programmes and Policies’, 2015-2017
http://interactions.eldis.org/economic-empowerment

Credits:

Voiceover by Adama Njie

Photography

Creative Common license BY 2.0
IMG_6458 from Trocaire
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trocaire/36931807482/
Rwandan Children from configmanager
https://www.flickr.com/photos/configmanager/4469721621/
Children Playing from johncooke
https://www.flickr.com/photos/john-cooke-uk/5264671130/

Creative Commons license BY 4.0
Various from Institute of Development Studies (Deepta Chopra)http://interactions.eldis.org/economic-empowerment/policy-findings/case-studies/case-studies-dataset

Creative Common license BY-SA 2.0
Photo-of-the-Day,-24-January-2014 from MONUSCO (Myriam Asmani)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/monusco/12115916585/
Getting clean water from Julien Harneis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/3027070729/

Creative Common license BY-NC 2.0
Corn from naoyafujii https://www.flickr.com/photos/naoyafujii/2610555718/
Rwanda 2013 from HarvestPlus
https://www.flickr.com/photos/harvestplus/12104090036/
Vegetable stall on Kigali market from kigaliwire
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kigaliwire/3881662175/
Tomatoes and onions from kigaliwire
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kigaliwire/4292804870/
School books in local supermarket from M*rte
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mortenjust/3160221198/
Uganda emmanuel africa - 08-4361 from Tim Proctor
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tep/2716641997/
090112-F-1936B-132 from TORCH MAGAZINE (Staff Sergeant Samuel Bendet)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/63590594@N05/5866060579/
Rwanda 2013 from HarvestPlus
https://www.flickr.com/photos/harvestplus/12103415015/
Seeds on sale on Kigali market from kigaliwire
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kigaliwire/3881622655/

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Water halen from Inklaar
https://www.flickr.com/photos/inklaar/10490293323/
Rwanda 041 from Cybercom CSR
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54797744@N08/5080310947/
 
Music commissioned by Karrot Entertainment

Produced by Elaine Mercer

Funded by IDS, ISST, DFID, IDRC and Hewlett foundation

This video is creative commons licensed BY-NC-SA 4.0