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COTE D'IVOIRE / CHILD SOLDIER
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STORY: COTE D'IVOIRE / CHILD SOLDIER
TRT: 3:18
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 APRIL 2007, BÉOUÉ VILLAGE, COTE D'IVOIRE
1.Wide shot, village scene: pounding, kids singing / dancing, chopping wood
2.Wide shot, UN vehicle through Government checkpoint
3.Med shot to wide, PakBat on patrol
4.Med shot to wide, gun at checkpoint and people walking past.
5.Med shot, attacked minibus
6.Med shot, youth walking to school
7.Zoom in , Béoué
8.SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué, 18 years old:
"I am a hero - they call me Béoué. I was so happy to defend my village, that on my way home, I used to sing."
9.Wide shot, boys playing football
10.Med shot, youth playing checkers
11.Wide shot, soldier inspecting truck
12.Wide shot, PakBat running through bush
13.Zoom in , garden programme
14.SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué:
"Although I am not a soldier, I know everything a soldier knows about weapons. Up till now – I remember everything. Around us, we had death…, people were wounded and dying. There are terrible things that happen on this earth."
15.SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvie Dossou, Chief , Child Protection – UNICEF: "UNICEF, along with implementing partners, has set up a Prevention, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme for children who have been associated with fighting forces, for children who were at risk of recruitment and also for vulnerable children in the community. The main goal of our intervention is to reintegrate children like Béoué into their families and into their community and offer them a second chance in life".
16.Wide shot, school destruction
17.SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué:
"When the rebels came, they burned everything… the birth certificates…, everything was destroyed. I would have liked to finish my schooling, but it is already too late, I need to learn a skill."
18.Wide shot, mud collecting for chicken house
19.Zoom in, mud collecting for chicken house
20.Zoom in, building chicken house
21.SOUNDBITE(English) Samy Checchin, Regional Humanitarian Advisor, ECHO:
"ECHO, the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department provides humanitarian assistance to the victims of crisis. In Ivory Coast, with its partner's Prevention, Demobilisation and Reintegration programmes, to date, over 4000 children associated with armed groups and thousands of vulnerable children, at risk of recruitment, have benefited from the Commission's support."
22.Long shot, youth walking to school
23.Zoom in, Béoué in school
24.Med shot, Béoué and chickens
25.SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué:
"In the project I learn the alphabet, maths. I learn to read and write. I learn many things. The education which I receive is good. It helps me; it actually helps me a lot. I chose chicken breeding, because a hen might produce 10 eggs in 2 weeks. So soon there may be many more. In five years time, I would like to have a business, a big business!"
Once hailed as a model of stability, Cote d'Ivoire has slipped into the kind of internal strife that has plagued many African countries.
In 2002, an armed rebellion split the nation in two.
The conflict caused numerous atrocities and displaced thousands of people. Violence against civilians was rampant. Children were witnesses, victims and sometimes even perpetrators.
SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué, 18 years old:
"I am a hero - they call me Béoué. I was so happy to defend my village, that on my way home, I used to sing."
Béoué is one of the thousands of Ivorian children who were associated with the fighting forces. Béoué, like so many others was deprived of his basic rights.
SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué:
"Although I am not a soldier, I know everything a soldier knows about weapons. Up till now – I remember everything. Around us, we had death…, people were wounded and dying. There are terrible things that happen on this earth."
SOUNDBITE (English) Sylvie Dossou, Chief, Child Protection – UNICEF: "UNICEF, along with implementing partners, has set up a Prevention, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme for children who have been associated with fighting forces, for children who were at risk of recruitment and also for vulnerable children in the community. The main goal of our intervention is to reintegrate children like Béoué into their families and into their community and offer them a second chance in life".
The main goal of our intervention is to reintegrate children like Béoué into their families and into their community and offer them a second chance in life".
SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué:
"When the rebels came, they burned everything… the birth certificates…, everything was destroyed. I would have liked to finish my schooling, but it is already too late, I need to learn a skill."
Because he had no access to school during the war, UNICEF – with the assistance of ECHO – has helped Béoué, and many more, to learn skills which benefit his entire community.
SOUNDBITE (English) Samy Checchin, Regional Humanitarian Advisor, ECHO:
"ECHO, the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department provides humanitarian assistance to the victims of crisis. In Ivory Coast, with its partner's Prevention, Demobilisation and Reintegration programmes, to date, over 4000 children associated with armed groups and thousands of vulnerable children, at risk of recruitment, have benefited from the Commission's support."
SOUNDBITE (French) Béoué:
"In the project I learn the alphabet, maths. I learn to read and write. I learn many things. The education which I receive is good. It helps me; it actually helps me a lot. I chose chicken breeding, because a hen might produce 10 eggs in 2 weeks. So soon there may be many more. In five years time, I would like to have a business, a big business!"