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BANGLADESH / GRANDI ROHINGYA CHILD
STORY: BANGLADESH / GRANDI ROHINGYA CHILD
TRT: 2:36
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ROHINGYA / NATS
DATELINE: 27 APRIL 2019, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BANGLADESH
1. Various shots, UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi and Myshara walk through Kutupalong refugee settlement
2. Various shots Myshara in classroom
3. Close up, little girl leading call-and-response activity in class
4. Various shots, Myshara and other students including Grandi
5. Close up, Grandi in the classroom
6. Various shots, Grandi walking in the settlement
7. Wide shot, settlement
8. Various shots, Grandi talking to Myshara and her family
9. Various shots, Grandi at the settlement with the children
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I could see that everywhere she’s a real leader.”
11. Close up, Myshara in the classroom
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“And I could see the confidence and conviction with which she shared this message with the other children.”
13. Various shots, children doing activities in the classroom
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think Myshara is a young Rohingya refugee girl proves the point that even the most deprived, discriminated, distressed refugees, if given opportunities can shine and prosper.”
15. Various shots, children in class
During his trip to Bangladesh, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi met with Myshara, who is a group leader for an innovative peer-to-peer psychosocial mental health programme run by UNHCR, in which the children aged six to 16 run their own workshops based on a UNHCR-conceived psycho-social programme.
Myshara is 13 and a leader among her peers. But she and other Rohingya children struggle to hold on to their childhood inside the world’s largest refugee camp, Kutupalong, where hope and ambition clash with a harsher reality facing Rohingya refugees.
She also attends sessions at the learning centre which, like all other schooling available to refugee children in Kutupalong, offers only an informal education rather than a formal curriculum. She feels limited in her ability to learn as much as she can and wants to in order to meet her goals of becoming a teacher one day.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I could see that everywhere she’s a real leader.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“And I could see the confidence and conviction with which she shared this message with the other children.”
More than half of the 540,000 Rohingya refugee children under the age of 12 have no access to education at all, while only a handful of teenagers are going to school.
Kutupalong has some 730,000 people living in cramped quarters in 16 different “camp” areas.
Myshara shares space with her parents and three sisters in the settlement. Like other Rohingya men, her father cannot legally work. Her family survives thanks to international aid.
Grandi was in Kutupalong as part of a joint visit with Mark Lowcock, the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). They also had diplomatic meetings with Bangladeshi officials in Dhaka.
During the visit, Grandi noted that a joint UN appeal for 2019 on behalf of humanitarian efforts for Rohingya refugees was only 16-percent funded thus far. The UN is seeking 920 $US million for its programmes, which include but are not limited to food assistance, health and mental health care, shelter and infrastructure, education and protection and legal services.
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