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UGANDA / UNACCOMPANIED CHILD REFUGEES
STORY: UGANDA / UNACCOMPANIED CHILD REFUGEES
TRT: 01:54
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 MAY 2017, BIDIBIDI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, UGANDA
1. Pan left, South Sudanese unaccompanied refugee children singing
2. Various shots, Joyce sowing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“Some of them their parents died. Some of them they were just separated because of war. They don’t know where their parents are up to now.”
4. Pan right, children playing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“We are now like one family, brothers and sisters. We are now together.”
6. Med shot, children playing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“In case anything happens to anyone from here, all of us can support her or him.”
8. Various shots, Joyce and Susan washing pots
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Kasara, 16-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“Living with them together here makes me to forget the past things, the fighting, and what I have seen in South Sudan.”
10. Various shots, children sitting
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Kasara, 16-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“We are respecting each other. We also tell the young ones the good way; how to behave, ow to continue with the school.”
12. Wide shot, children praying
13. Med shot, children praying
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“We make here a prayer to help our country, even our people who remain there in South Sudan.”
15. Various shots of unaccompanied refugee children playing and laughing
According to the United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR), more than one million children have now fled the conflict in South Sudan including some 160,000 refugee children in the Bidibidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. More than 5,000 are believed to have crossed South Sudan’s borders alone, or were separated from their families along the way. UNHCR
These children fled South Sudan’s civil war.
SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“Some of them their parents died. Some of them they were just separated because of war. They don’t know where their parents are up to now.”
Joyce lives with 34 other refugee children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“We are now like one family, brothers and sisters. We are now together.”
They’ve been living with no adults for almost one year.
SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“In case anything happens to anyone from here, all of us can support her or him.”
Joyce acts as a mother to these children who escaped South Sudan but not the pain of war.
16 year-old Susan said the pain of what she endured in her country was still in her heart, but her new found family provides her with some comfort.
SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Kasara, 16-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“Living with them together here makes me to forget the past things, the fighting, and what I have seen in South Sudan.”
Susan said the unaccompanied children take good care of each other.
SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Kasara, 16-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“We are respecting each other. We also tell the young ones the good way; how to behave, ow to continue with the school.”
Every day the children pray as Joyce described.
SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Abau, 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee:
“We make here a prayer to help our country, even our people who remain there in South Sudan.”
Together they are salvaging part of their childhood.
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