IRAQ / CHILDREN

After living under ISIS rule in northern Iraq, Mohammed, 13 and his family undertook a dangerous journey to flee their home to find a safe harbour in a camp in Erbil, northern Iraq. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:35
• Production Date: 29 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICTS
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ
• MAMS Id: 1806654
• Parent Id: 1806654
• Alternate Title: unifeed161229a

Description

STORY: IRAQ / CHILDREN
TRT: 1:35
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 23-28 NOVEMBER 2016, DEBAGA DISPLACEMENT CAMP, ERBIL, IRAQ

Shotlist

1. Close up, Mohammad in class.
2. Wide shot, Mohammad in class.
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad, student:
“Living under ISIL our life was really bad. Because there were no jobs and they would lash and beat people.”
4. Close up, of a notebook being reviewed by a teacher.
5. Close up, a whiteboard being written on by a teacher.
6. Close up, of boxes of pens and other school supplies.
7. Med shot, Mohammad in class.
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad, student:
“They changed all of the school curriculums. The curriculums became very bad. In order to study, they’d ask you to pay 30,000 dinars. We could barely earn 10,000 dinars to buy food. So I dropped out.””
9. Close up, Mohammad writing in a notebook.
10. Med shot, Mohammad standing up in class.
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad, student:
“I became very depressed. I thought I would never go back to school again, but the security forces came and freed me.”
12. Med shot, Children standing on a wall in the camp.
13. Wide shot, two girls walking through a camp.
14. Wide shot, two boys standing in the camp.
15. Wide shot, a main thoroughfare in the camp.
16. Wide shot, a main thoroughfare in the camp.
17. Wide shot, boys line up to shoot basketball.
18. Med shot, boys crowded around a desk.
19. Med shot,, teacher leading a class.
20. Close up, Mohammad

Storyline

After living under ISIS rule in northern Iraq, Mohammed, 13 and his family undertook a dangerous journey to flee their home to find a safe harbour in a camp in Erbil, northern Iraq.

The UNICEF-supported school in the camp has helped him recover and have hope for his future.

An estimated 3.3 million Iraqis — half of them children — have fled their homes in since January 2014. Approximately 4.7 million children need immediate humanitarian assistance across the country.