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DRC / DISPLACED CHILDREN LABOUR
STORY: DRC / DISPLACED CHILDREN LABOUR
TRT: 03:23
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: SWAHILI / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 – 18 JANUARY 2018, EP MONI IDP SITE, KALEMIE, TANGANYIKA PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO / 16 AND 18 JANUARY 2018, LAKE TANGANYIKA, KALEMIE, TANGANYIKA PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO / 17 JANUARY 2018, KASEKE DISPLACEMENT SITE, TANGANYIKA PROVINCE, DRC
16 AND 18 JANUARY 2018, LAKE TANGANYIKA, KALEMIE, TANGANYIKA PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
1.Wide shot, displaced Congolese children carrying sand from the shores of Lake Tanganyika
2.Wide shot, displaced Congolese children carrying sand, crossing the street
3.Wide shot, displaced Congolese children carrying sand from the shores of Lake Tanganyika
4.SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Françoise Asani Philippe, Displaced Congolese:
“All of us here used to be in school. Now we work to earn money to eat.”
5.Med shot, displaced Congolese children carrying sand from the shores of Lake Tanganyika
6.Wide shot, displaced Congolese children carrying sand from the shores of Lake Tanganyika
7.Med shot, displaced Congolese child carrying a sack of sand on his shoulders
8.Wide shot, Congolese children collecting sand from the shores of Lake Tanganyika
9.Wide shot, overhead of children collecting sand on the shores of Lake Tanganyika
10. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Françoise Asani Philippe, Displaced Congolese:
“My name is Françoise. I’m 14 years old. I transport sand. It’s very heavy and the distances are long. I work from 4:30 until 8 in the morning. Then I start again at 16:00 and I finish at 19:00.”
11. Wide shot, overhead of Françoise working
12. UPSOUND (Swahili) Congolese local resident:
“Pour the sand on this side. You!”
13.Wide shot, Françoise being interviewed
14.Wide shot, Françoise helping a displaced child balance a sack of sand on his head
15.Wide shot, Françoise carrying sand from the shores of Lake Tanganyika
16.Wide shot, Françoise being interviewed
17.Various shots, Françoise carrying a sack of sand on her head
18.Med shot, displaced child collecting sand
19. Med shot, displaced child collecting sand, overseen by his boss
20.UPSOUND (Swahili) Displaced Congolese child:
“Help me! Come help me! Help me!”
21. Wide shot, IDPs shoveling sand on Lake Tangnayika’s shores
22. Med shot, IDPs woman with baby on back packing sand into a sack
23. Med shot, IDP child lifting a sack of sand
24. Wide shot, IDPs shoveling sand
25. SOUNDBITE (French) Philippe Kika Malisawa, Displaced Congolese, Françoise’s Dad: “Our parents never made us work like this. We just sat back and our father would bring us food. But now that we are displaced, we suffer tremendously.”
26. Wide shot, Françoise sitting on Tnanganyika beach
27. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Françoise Asani Philippe, Displaced Congolese:
“I feel sad. There’s nothing good here. It’s all bad. It’s difficult work. We all complain because the sand is heavy and we get tired. I wish we could stop transporting sand and go back to school.”
28.Close up, Françoise’s face
29. Wide shot, Françoise is being interviewed
30. Med shot, displaced child placing bucket of sand on his head
31. Wide shot, displaced girl carrying sand on her head
32. Wide shot, displaced children crossing the streets in Kalemie carrying sacks of sand from the shores of Lake Tanganyika
33. Wide shot, Françoise is being interviewed
17 JANUARY 2018, KASEKE DISPLACEMENT SITE, TANGANYIKA PROVINCE, DRC
34. Wide shot, makeshift IDP shelters
16 AND 18 JANUARY 2018, LAKE TANGANYIKA, KALEMIE, TANGANYIKA PROVINCE, DRC
35. Wide shot, displaced children collecting sand
36. Med shot, IDP children balancing sacks of sand on their heads
37. Wide shot, IDP children transporting sacks of sand from Tanganyika Lake
Displacement is on the rise in DR Congo. The situation is especially dire in Tanganyika Province, in the southeastern part of the country where hundreds of thousands of people, over half of whom are children, have been forced to abandon their homes.
Faced with extreme poverty, hunger and disease, displaced children as young as five years old are being put to work to help support their parents.
UNHCR and other humanitarian actors have provided some humanitarian help to the displaced in the Kalemie area, but still people are struggling to survive.
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Françoise Asani Philippe, Displaced Congolese:
“We used to be in school. Now we work to earn money to eat.”
These children have been working since 4:30 am.
They are child laborers in DR Congo displaced by years of conflict.
They work to support their families.
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Françoise Asani Philippe, Displaced Congolese:
“My name is Françoise. I’m 14 years old. I transport sand. It’s very heavy and the distances are long. I work from 4.30 until 8 in the morning. Then I start again at 16:00 and I finish at 19:00.”
UPSOUND (Swahili) Congolese local resident:
“Pour the sand on this side. You!”
Sand is a low-cost building material. Children make 30 cents for every 25 kilograms they carry.
UPSOUND (Swahili) Displaced Congolese child:
“Help me! Come help me! Help me!”
Parents here have no choice, old and young have to work to survive.
SOUNDBITE (French) Philippe Kika Malisawa, Displaced Congolese, Françoise’s Dad:
“Our parents never made us work like this. We just sat back and our father would bring us food. But now that we are displaced, we suffer tremendously.”
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Françoise Asani Philippe, Displaced Congolese:
“I feel sad. There’s nothing good here. It’s all bad. It’s difficult work. We all complain because the sand is heavy and we get tired. I wish we could stop transporting sand and go back to school.”
Tanganyika’s displaced lost everything when they fled but children are bearing the brunt.
Urgent action is needed to prevent more suffering and protect all those in need.
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