I take care of everything: the struggle to balance care and work
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 11/05/2018

This story is based on a real woman’s day-to-day experience in Tanzania. She is balancing paid work and the need for generating income with care responsibilities. The physical, emotional and mental demands of doing this can have depleting effects on her wellbeing, and that of her family. 

In this film her story has been adapted into a script, anonymised and narrated by an actor. The photos are from the region where she lives but not of the woman herself. 

It was produced as part of the IDS-led Balancing Unpaid Care Work with Paid Work project. Find out more and access all our free resources at: http://interactions.eldis.org/economic-empowerment
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 Violet Barasa

Creative Common license BY 2.0
IMG_8763.jpg from Kuruman
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuruman/26125477874/
Village Savings and Loans Group (VSL) from Trocaire (Bazar Productions)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trocaire/35738738240/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trocaire/35738737070/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trocaire/35289490584/in/photostream/
Woman carrying on head from ssilberman
https://www.flickr.com/photos/silbermanlaw/28197592005/

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
Lushoto, Tanzania from Rod Waddington
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rod_waddington/8032349103/
Women carrying firewood from Wendy Tanner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wentan/4914460619/
Market Day from imke.sta
https://www.flickr.com/photos/11264282@N02/6066061010/
Firewood, Kafa, Ethiopia from Rod Waddington
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rod_waddington/11267525826/

Creative Common license BY-NC 2.0
Boys from Egui_
https://www.flickr.com/photos/egui/114531881/
Mzizima Fish Market from Blinkofanaye
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blinkofanaye/6266328241/

Creative Common license BY-NC-SA 2.0
Gawayr Grape Farm Project from ©FAO/IFAD/WFP/ElizaDeacon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/unicphoto/14213718999/
Ugali in the Bucket from digital.democracy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaldemocracy/4840253631/

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