(25 Jul 2024)
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++CLIENTS NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS RE-ENACTMENTS OF VIOLENCE++
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Bundibugyo, Uganda – 30 June 2024
1. Wide of actor portraying a drunk man in initiative to combat domestic violence by local not-for-profit organization ‘Ourganda
2. Various of a couple arguing and fighting in staged performance
VOICE-OVER: "This reenactment, aimed at demonstrating what happens in incidents of domestic violence, is being staged for the benefit of Ugandan villagers. In it, a drunken man strikes his wife with a piece of firewood, triggering a fight between them before they are separated."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Birungi, ‘Ourganda’ women’s leader:
“When people are in the vicious circle of poverty, violence tends to be so rampant because these people lack the basic needs of life, where we find food, clothes, school fees, the shelter and the other things that are so important in life, and as a result the two have to disagree and from a disagreement just expect fights.”
4. Various of members of ‘Ourganda’, from groups ‘Mankind’ and ‘Soul Sisters’, in mock meeting depicting conflict resolutions
5. Various of people in Sara-Kihombya village in Bundibugyo, Uganda
6. Various of Linda Kabugho, domestic violence survivor and ‘Ourganda’ ‘Soul Sister’ member and her 1-year-old daughter
VOICE-OVER: "It’s all part of a program to combat such violence through public education organized by an NGO known here as Ourganda. A 2020 survey in Uganda by a U.N.-backed local NGO found that 95% of women and girls had experienced physical or sexual violence, or both, after turning 15."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Kabugho, domestic violence survivor and ‘Ourganda’ ‘Soul Sisters’ member:
"The reason to why I became a member is because it helped me and I am now settled. I also want to help those people who are in the same problem like I faced in the past and I am doing it because I feel pity to those people who are suffering like the way I could suffer."
8. Various of members of ‘Ourganda’, ‘Mankind’ and ‘Soul Sisters’ in mock meeting depicting conflict resolutions
9. Various of ‘Ourganda’ screening play on domestic violence in church within Sara-Kihombya Village
10. People in Sara-Kihombya village
VOICE-OVER: "This program aims to instill fear in offenders as much as educate them. An accused perpetrator is asked to sign a “reconciliation form” in which they pledge never to commit the same offense. Signing the form prevents an escalation that might lead to the police’s involvement. But the form is also kept as evidence for possible prosecution if the agreement is ever breached. But, despite the effort of groups like Ourganda, most cases are never prosecuted and according to people here, cases of domestic violence are increasing."
STORYLINE:
A non-profit group in rural Uganda says domestic violence is so widespread that it’s hard to find a woman who isn’t affected.
Ourganda, which is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has launched a campaign to educate communities.
It recently staged a performance to highlight the crisis in Bundibugyo district, 400 kilometres (248 miles) from the capital of Kampala.
Villagers looked on as a man pretended to be a drunken husband.
They watched him kick a pot off a fireplace, demand his dinner and then reach for a piece of firewood to strike his wife in rage.
Ourganda aimed for the staged scene to draw attention to the all-too-common real-life problem of domestic violence in Uganda.
The organization’s women’s leader Esther Birungi explains that alcohol abuse was a severe problem in the community.
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