Documentary Film Project - Tajikistan

As part of their efforts to monitor the condition of its institutions, the Governmental Republican TV crew conducted field visits to residential care facilities to interview children. These face-to-face encounters constitute the bulk of the hour-and-a-half film. Several of the children interviewed appeal to their parents to take them back into the family. For instance, at the beginning of the film, one child notes that he is happy to have toys, food, games, and friends provided to him, but still feels lonely for his family:

• Question: Do you like the place you stay and are you satisfied of the condition possessed?
• Response: (seen a hesitation to reply Yes or No.) Here you see, we have everything. We have toys and food and we play games and we have friends but we don't have ourparents with us here.
• Question: do you have parents?
• Response: Yes, I have my mother, grandmother, grandfather, sisters, uncle and aunts, but they do not cometo see me here.
• Question: what would you say to them through our TV?
• Response: please, come and take me home to my sisters. Why you have abandoned me here? Why you do not visit me? I miss you very much, please come. I will peer my eyes for you.

A series of separate ten-minute sections of the film have been broadcast on the Republican channel, where the programme entitled "World of Kindness" airs once per week on Tuesday evenings, when the majority of Tajikistan people are at home.

Children.