NIGERIA / SCHOOLS BOKO HARAM

More than half of all schools remain closed in Borno State, epicentre of the Boko Haram crisis in northeast Nigeria. Three million children need emergency education support at the start of the new academic year. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:10
• Production Date: 28 September 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN; CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICTS; DISPLACED PERSONS; EDUCATION
• Geographic Subject: NIGERIA
• MAMS Id: 1982968
• Parent Id: 1982968
• Alternate Title: unifeed170928c

Description

STORY: NIGERIA / SCHOOLS BORNO STATE
TRT: 01:10
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 28 SEPTEMBER, 2017, MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, IDP wait by fence
2. Med shot, two boys stand in their temporary housing
3. Wide shot, IDP pump water from well
4. Wide shot, IDP children play at large tree
5. Med shot, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth walks through Banki to health center
6. Med shot, Forsyth meets with IDP
7. Close up, young child in health center
8. Med shot, Forsyth meets with IDP and Nigerian military
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Forsyth, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director:
“Here in Borno State, over half the schools have been destroyed in the conflict, thousands of teachers have been killed, so we’ve got to help the children get back to learning, get back to school and that’s as important as the life-saving work we’re doing on health and malnutrition.”
10. Various shots, children study at school
11. Close up, a girl holds her baby brother

Storyline

More than half of all schools remain closed in Borno State, epicentre of the Boko Haram crisis in northeast Nigeria. 3 million children need emergency education support at the start of the new academic year.

The crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria means that over 57 percent of schools in Borno, the worst-hit state, are closed, even as the new school year begins. Since 2009, across the northeast, over 2,295 teachers have been killed and 19,000 have been displaced. Almost 1,400 schools have been destroyed with the majority unable to open because of extensive damage or because they are in areas that remain unsafe.

Visiting Maiduguri, the capital and the largest city of Borno State, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forsyth met with families and children affected by the conflict who told him of their fear living under Boko Haram and the dire conditions they live in.

SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Forsyth, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director:
“Here in Borno State, over half the schools have been destroyed in the conflict, thousands of teachers have been killed, so we’ve got to help the children get back to learning, get back to school and that’s as important as the life-saving work we’re doing on health and malnutrition.”

In the three most-affected states of northeast Nigeria, UNICEF and partners have enrolled nearly 750,000 children in school this year, establishing over 350 temporary learning spaces, and distributing almost 94,000 packs of learning material that will help children to get an education.

To date, nearly 1 million children have been displaced by the crisis and 450,000 children under the age of five are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year. The use of children as human bombs – close to 100 so far this year – has sown a climate of mistrust among communities in the northeast, and a cholera outbreak has affected more than 3,900 people, including over 2,450 children.