Shines a light on child labor and abuse animated series

Social awareness campaign, ‘Shattering The Silence’ is a 4-part animated series.

 

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy one more film on social injustice.

Academy Award winner, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in her latest animated series focusing on nurturing responsiveness about the plight of children. Shattering the Silence is a 4-part animated series, a social awareness campaign in Urdu, which objective is to rationally involve audiences, and children especially with real-life stories of child abuse.

The goal is also to educate them with the corresponding laws, the resources which can be accessed and the steps which can be taken if they, or any other children they know of, are forced into situations of marriage, labor, trafficking or physical abuse.

The first of these episodes is called ‘Cheena Hua Bachpan’ which is told through the character of a young girl trafficked into working at an significant family’s home, where she’s deprived of elementary human rights such as education.