Excellent Proposal < The National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan Prize >

JAPAN PRIZE 2018 Prize Winners

Excellent Proposal
< The National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan Prize >

REVOLUTION IN THE DESERT

	Entering Organization	Buren Zohist Production
	Country/Region	Mongolia

(By Hidayah Ong)

The producer has taken on one of the most difficult tasks of all times—make men listen.

This proposal is ostensibly about sanitation—building toilets along the highway. But depending on who you are—men, women, activists, feminists, young persons, politicians, you will learn something new and take something different away from it. That’s the magic of storytelling, isn’t it? A good story doesn’t need to tell people what to think, feel or do. Good stories are catalysts for positive action. That’s why the JAPAN PRIZE competition is truly unique in the international space of digital, TV content and educational media.

At the heart of it, it’s about creating meaningful content that changes our behaviour and habits so that we become better fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, bosses and co-workers… and inhabitants of this earth.

So, congratulations to the producer of “Revolution in the desert.” Good luck and all the best in making men listen.

(By Oyundari Tsagaan)

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan and the JAPAN PRIZE Secretariat to give me a chance to make my idea into a real change-making documentary film with the prestigious award money. Toilet change movement in Mongolia is a much needed movement right now in Mongolia, because 72% of all households in Mongolia use unhygienic pit toilets which cause large-scale soil and ground-water pollution in populated areas. Many families and children suffer year by year. Locals have long been aware of the issues, people have lacked feasible alternatives. Having led many trainings as one of a few members of the Toilet change movement leadership, I myself believe that this movement will be an abrupt and drastic change like the campaign to end illiteracy in the late 1940s and the Democratic revolution of 1990. Therefore my documentary is going to be a part of this historic change, and I must thank the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan and the JAPAN PRIZE for their contribution to this history change in Mongolia.

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