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[Villagers playing different instruments]

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[Villagers playing different instruments]

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[Villagers playing different instruments]

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[Flute]

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[Inaudible chatter]

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[Music]

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[Crowded street market]

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[Giraffes in wilderness]

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[Singing in Swahili]

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[Ostrich]

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[Child running]

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[Villagers and wildlife montage]

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[Aerial view of high-rise buildings]

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[City dwellers walking]

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[Villagers and wildlife montage]

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[Music and singing]

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[Villagers and wildlife montage]

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[Music fades out]

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[Truck engine]

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[Dramatic musical sting]

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[A quiet revolution]

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[Truck moving on dirt road]

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["Kinga" imprinted on truck]

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[Narrator:] "Kinga" in
Swahili means "shield."

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Kinga is a program for
selling contraceptives

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to the men of Kenya through
the loca, small general stores,

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which sell everyday needs.

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The men who sell the
condoms bearing this name

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travel in two trucks.

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The first truck to
enter the village

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is white, for the
advance information

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man who distributes promotional
material and samples.

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[Truck moving]

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The pink truck is
driven by the salesman,

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who distributes supplies
of condoms to the locals.

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As part of a program sponsored
by the government of Kenya,

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they sell the condoms at
a low, subsidized price.

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But the Kinga men
do more than sell.

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[Speaking Swahili]

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[Narrator:] The advance
man, very friendly

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and very authoritative,
talks about family planning

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as a principle.

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He answers questions
and dispels confusion.

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He talks about a whole range
of contraceptive methods,

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including those the womenfolk
can use.

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The pills and IUDs.

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[Speaking Swahili]

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[Narrator:] But they
concentrate on the condoms,

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which give the responsibility
for family planning to the man.

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By using the Kinga,
the shield, the man

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retains the image of
virility and strength

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that he associates to the
tradition of his forefathers.

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[Kinga signage]

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The condoms can be bought
for a few pennies wherever

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the men buy tobacco

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and other
personal needs.

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[Kinga condom box]

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[Speaking Swahili]

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[Narrator:] It is not
necessary for the men

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to visit doctors,
clinics, to get them.

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Most of the men know by
now that they need not

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have more babies than they
can properly care for.

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By helping them to buy a
contraceptive method cheaply

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and easily, in locations
they visit frequently.

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The Kinga program is making the
whole process not only simpler

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but more dignified.

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Something which suits the
man of Kenya well.

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[Murmuring]

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The government wants a
prosperous, healthy nation.

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The men who lead Kenya
believe that family planning

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is one way to reach this goal.

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[Speaker 1:] Mr. Minister,
family planning

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is a relevant issue
in matters of planning

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in relation to behavior.

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What are your views on this?

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[Minister:] Well, my views, which
really are government views,

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is that family planning is an
integral part

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of development planning.

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It is an essential part, for
the reason that you cannot hope

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to plan other forms of
production if you cannot plan

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the production of the main
resource, human beings.

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We view it as an aspect
of human freedom,

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in the same way as we
give people education

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so as to open wider horizons
for them in the world.

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The same way that you provide
a farmer with greater knowledge

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about the seed, about
fertility of the soil,

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about climate, about
rotation of crops.

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It's the same way that you
must provide that information,

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that education, to the person
so that he is not restricted

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in his living by ignorance,
so that he becomes aware

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that there is a way,
there are methods,

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of regulating his family.

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There are means of spacing
the birth of his children.

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So that he is not slave
to just natural forces.

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And this is what I said in
Swahili to these people,

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that we view family planning
education as an extension

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of personal liberty.

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The man, the woman,
are then able

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to make personal decision,
a family decision,

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as to when they want their
children, how many they want.

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It is not a program
for government

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to force people to restrict
the numbers, or even as

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to how to space their children.

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It is a program to give
them the knowledge.

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With the knowledge,
and as a free people,

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we know they will make the right
decision, which is that they

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want healthy children.

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They will therefore
want to space them,

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so that they can feed them
better, educate them better,

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clothe them better.

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And then we shall have
a healthier nation.

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This is what we want to do.

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[Truck motor at a distance]

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[Narrator:] Another man of Kenya
sees the matter in homelier,

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more personal terms.

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[Cattle mooing]

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[Rooster crows]

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[Speaker 2:] I've been
our tour guide

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in this tour guide business for
about five years solid.

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This time, I'm just
married, at an age of 28.

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And I want to plan
my path and my family

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to an extent of two children,
because this is the new system

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in our young country of Kenya.

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And it's a 12-month [?].

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Of course, one should
plan everything.

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So I think it would be all right
to plan it, two children, which

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I'll be able to look
after in the best way.

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I guess that's a nice
thing altogether.

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[Narrator:] It is
men such as this

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who benefit from
programs such as Kinga.

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Programs aimed at
their intelligence,

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their self-interest, their
belief in the future.

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[Van traveling down gravel road]

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[Singing in Swahili and in English]

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[Narrator:] If, in time,
a Kenyan father,

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upon dividing his land
between his children,

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can see that he has
enough land for them.

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Because he has only
two sons, not ten.

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If the people can think
calmly of their future,

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not as something which
happens by cruel chance,

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but something which
comes of a quiet plan.

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Then, one day, they can look
at the dear land of Kenya,

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and be proud.

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The old ones walked by the
road and dream of old days.

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The young ones go in the
sunlight and dream of days to come.

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Of the richness of
our land, the blue mountains

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and the forests and valleys,
where wild creatures roam.

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These are our blessed heritage.

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These we must nourish and
guard for our children,

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so that our land lives forever.

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[Birds trilling, rooster crowing]

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[Music playing]

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[Singing in Swahili]

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[Villagers and wildlife montage]

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[Truck travels down local road]

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[Drum beating]

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[An AIRLIE production]

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[Drum beating]

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[Executive producer, Murdock Head, M.D.]

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[Photographed and edited by, William Livingston]

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[Narration written by, Miriam Bucher]

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[Produced for Inter-American Dialogue Center]

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