JAPAN PRIZE 2006 : Runners-up

The Best Program List of Entry
Program Division / Youth Education
Program Title I can do it without seeing:
The Challenge of Chikako, a Little Blind Swimmer
Organization Sapporo Television Broadcasting Co. (STV)
Country Japan
The program follows the growth and development of a wholly blind girl, Chikako, as she trains to become a Paralympic swimmer. Her parents raise her with intense love and severity in order to give her complete self-sufficiency. She overcomes one fearful experience after another, whether in the pool or riding a bicycle, in this inspirational documentary of a very determined girl's struggle.
Program Title Child
Organization The Children's Company Ltd.
Country United Kingdom
A contemporary snapshot of the lives of HIV/AIDS affected young people in Britain and Rwanda. Through personal testimony, Child attempts to dispel many peoples' misconceptions that HIV/AIDS affected young people in Britain are fortunate to live in such an affluent society, asking the question, "Is life for a British teenager in some ways more challenging than for his or her Rwandan counterpart?"
Child touches upon the terrible genocide of 1994 in Rwanda when soldiers, many HIV positive, raped surviving women, exacerbating the country's critical rate of HIV/AIDS. It portrays life for affected young people in child-headed households, demonstrating the value they put on education as the means of transforming lives.
Child illustrates that in Britain and Rwanda all these young people share many common dreams and aspirations whilst living extraordinary lives with bravery, courage and hope.
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