Little Statistics (Documentary)
The film Little Statistics travels through India’s most impoverished neighborhoods setting up elementary/middle schools with The Ninash Foundation for the children of India’s lowest caste — the neglected “untouchables.” Even though the Caste system was abolished long ago, discriminatory classism still exists and millions of children suffer in poverty. This level of poverty leads to illiteracy, malnutrition, and child labor without any opportunity for a better life.
At the time the film was shot, India had the fastest growing population, the largest number of poor people, and the highest number of children out of school in the world. This documentary travels through the remote towns of Mahapura, Dundlod, and Kuran where the Ninash Schools have been established to educate the children that comprise these statistics. Despite the odds against them they depict brightness, curiosity, and hope. They dance, sing, share an eagerness to learn, and a vigor for life unique to each location. This film investigates what education means to the poorest of Indian society by taking an intimate look at the many lives of impoverished children educated at the various Ninash schools.
Year: 2005 TRT: 20 min
Produced, Directed & Edited by Vanessa Libertad Garcia
