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AFGHANISTAN / EDUCATION CANNOT WAIT
STORY: AFGHANISTAN / EDUCATION CANNOT WAIT
TRT: 6:29
SOURCE: ECW
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / DARI / NATS
DATELINE: 26-27 OCTOBER 2021, KABUL AFGHANISTAN
26-27 OCTOBER 2021, KABUL AFGHANISTAN
1.Med shot, Sherif, interacts with school children at Abulqasim Firdawsi school
2.Wide shot, Sherif interacts with school children at Abulqasim Firdawsi school
3.Pan left, Sherif walks with teachers
4.Med shot, Sherif interacts with female teachers at Abulqasim Firdawsi school
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmine Sherif, Director, Education Cannot Wait:
"I put together with my colleagues and friends in UNICEF an all-women mission to Afghanistan; with my colleagues from Education Cannot Wait and our UNICEF female colleagues specialized in education in country. And together, we undertook this mission to see with our own eyes, first-hand, empirically data, what the situation actually looks on the ground."
6.Med shot, Sherif with education department officials at Abulqasim Firdawsi school
7.Various shots, delegation visit and interact with primary school girls in their classroom
8. Med shot, boys and girls walking at Abulqasim Firdawsi school
9.Med shot, Sherif departs from Abulqasim Firdawsi school
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmine Sherif, Director, Education Cannot Wait:
"They are close on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. The world has to act now. Afghanistan cannot wait. When it comes to education, they have made enormous progress over the past 20 years; boys’ and girls' education, including girls' education at secondary school with 10 million children and adolescents at school. We do not want to lose on that progress made. Afghanistan cannot afford it."
11.Various shots, Sherif and delegation at a meeting in Ministry of Education
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmine Sherif, Director, Education Cannot Wait:
"We need to continue and scale up the community-based education, the accelerated learning, the primary and the secondary school, for girls as well. Afghan women are strong, and the Afghans know this. Every Afghan knows this. We need to pay the teachers. We need to pay all the basic health services, and it is possible. This is what the humanitarian development nexus looks like in the reality."
13. Various shots, girls in class
14. Wide shot, Sherif interacts with schoolgirls in classroom at Abulqasim Firdawsi school
15.Various shots, school children interact in the schoolyard
16. UPSOUND (Dari) Schoolgirl:
“Our classes have resumed but not the ones for our older sisters. We have been promised that our older sisters will also return to classes, but it has not happened yet.”
17.UPSOUND (Dari) Schoolgirl:
“We are the future of this country. Our older sisters should come back to schools so we will, together, build and serve our country.”
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmine Sherif, Director, Education Cannot Wait:
"We are here to serve people. We are here to serve the children and the youth of Afghanistan based on the humanitarian imperative and to bring basic services, such as education, to them. By using the direct execution modality, direct implementation modality - fund an organization like UNICEF that has been here for 17 years, WFP, UNHCR. There are numerous international NGOs, like Save the Children, IRC, The Catholic Relief Service, Afghan NGOs. Fund them through direct execution. We work like this in every crisis country,"
19.Various shots, Sherif and delegation meets with UN and NGO education partners
20.Close up, ECW-branded folder during meeting with UN and NGO partners
Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Director, Yasmine Sherif, led the first all-women mission to Afghanistan since Taliban takeover, where she met with the de facto authorities in Kabul, stressing the importance of increasing access to quality education for all children, with an emphasis on adolescent girls, throughout the country.
During her three-day mission, Sherif also visited a girls’ school in Kabul and met with a wide range of education partners, including the leadership of the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), UN agencies, international and national civil society organizations, and members of the education in emergency working group to take stock of the situation on the ground and identify additional opportunities to expand ECW emergency education investments and scaled up funding for UN and NGOs in the education sector.
The ECW Director stressed that Afghans are “on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe,” adding that the “world has to act now.” She said Afghanistan has made enormous progress over the past 20 years in terms of boys’ and girls' education 10 million children and adolescents in school. She said, “We do not want to lose on that progress made. Afghanistan cannot afford it."
Sherif underscored the need to continue and to scale up community-based education and accelerated learning, particularly for girls. She said, “Afghan women are strong, and the Afghans know this. Every Afghan knows this. We need to pay the teachers. We need to pay all the basic health services, and it is possible. This is what the humanitarian development nexus looks like in the reality."
The ECW Director said humanitarians are in Afghanistan to serve people “based on the humanitarian imperative and to bring basic services, such as education, to them.” She said called on donor to fund NGOs and international organizations directly by using the “direct execution modality,” and noted that this method is being used in “every crisis country."
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