Movies as a training instrument in Guinea
Aguidep is a partner of Trias, elaborating in Guinea tailored trainings for urban entrepreneurs and farmers. In order to get its trainings sold, Aguidep travels throughout the country with a mobile cinema.
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The Guinean entrepreneurs are often badly organized and have little knowledge of business-planning, accountancy and access to credits. “One of the most important obstacles for a better management is the faulty degree of alphabetization”, explains Trias-collaborator Ward Tanghe.
“An additional problem is that many people with a low training level do not realize the importance of alphabetization and of education”, tells Tanghe. Therefore, Aguidep sensitizes enterpreneural people with small movies about business management and alphabetizing.
Through these comic movies, the spectators see how economic progress or regress are not the result of black magic but of rational planning and follow-up. The small movies show funny and recognizable stories of people administering well or badly their businesses and how this influences their lives in the long run.
In order to make these presentations possible, Aguidep uses two LED-projectors. Due to its low energy need, they last for six hours with a simple motor battery. They easily project an image of two by three meters. The instructors of Aguidep dispose of a motor-cycle, so that they can install their mobile cinema in the most remote villages.
The movies are made in two local languages: Malinké and Sousou. They were produced in cooperation with the national theatre school. “Especially the presentations introducing courses are of great importance because they have a clear impact on the attention with which course members follow the training”, says Tanghe.