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MOTHERS OF CHIBOK
MOTHERS OF CHIBOK tells the story of an extraordinary group of Chibok (Northeast Nigerian) women, over the course of one year’s harvest cycle, who go on in the face of continuing terror in an attempt to secure better lives for their children.
SYNOPSIS
On small farmlands scattered across the village of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria, women till the dry crusty earth with ancient tools — hoes and machetes — planting seeds and praying for a good harvest. A successful harvest means more than just extra money in their purse. It is an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty they live in, by ensuring that they provide their children, especially their daughters, with an education.
In 2014, Chibok was thrust into the spotlight when the terrorist group Boko Haram abducted 276 teenage schoolgirls, some of the daughters or sisters of our subjects. The world thinks they know these women because we know their tragedy, but tragedy does not define the entirety of their experience. These women are warriors, who continue to stand tall, year after year, so that their children may have the opportunity to do what children and mothers and entire peoples in other nations take for granted: to go to school.
Ian Darling, Executive Producer.
SYNOPSIS
On small farmlands scattered across the village of Chibok, Northeast Nigeria, women till the dry crusty earth with ancient tools — hoes and machetes — planting seeds and praying for a good harvest. A successful harvest means more than just extra money in their purse. It is an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty they live in, by ensuring that they provide their children, especially their daughters, with an education.
In 2014, Chibok was thrust into the spotlight when the terrorist group Boko Haram abducted 276 teenage schoolgirls, some of the daughters or sisters of our subjects. The world thinks they know these women because we know their tragedy, but tragedy does not define the entirety of their experience. These women are warriors, who continue to stand tall, year after year, so that their children may have the opportunity to do what children and mothers and entire peoples in other nations take for granted: to go to school.
Ian Darling, Executive Producer.