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STORY: IRAQ / APPEAL
TRT: 1.25
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: FILE
1.Med shot, school exterior with kids at gate
2.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanan, 11 years old:
"Our parents drop us off at school and pick us up. They are afraid for our safety because of what is happening in the streets, the explosions."
3.Med shot, pupils at desks
4.Med shot, pupils at desks
5.Med shot, teacher at blackboard, pupils at desks
6. Zoom out, girls at new clean water taps
7.Med shot, boy and girls at taps
8.Med shot, boys playing basketball in playground
9.Med shot, girls at desks in classroom
10.Med shot, pull out teachers handing out books in classroom
11.Med shot, girl opens new school equipment donation
12.Med shot, boy and girls talking to each other at desks
13.Med shot, pull out, teacher at blackboard
14.Med shot, pupils walk across corridor carrying books
UNICEF and the UN refugee agency today issued a $129 million joint appeal aimed at getting tens of thousands of uprooted Iraqi children back in school.
Warning that a generation of Iraqis could grow up uneducated and alienated, the two UN agencies presented a plan to support host governments such as Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon in providing schooling for an additional 155,000 young Iraqi refugees during the 2007-08 school year.
Altogether, more than 2 million Iraqis have fled to nearby countries - primarily Syria and Jordan - to escape continuing violence in their homeland. About 500,000 of them are of school age and most currently have limited or no access to education.
Many children have already missed up to three years of schooling. Special remedial programs and psycho-social support will be established for them and their families in hopes of reintegrating them back into the school system.
Special training will be provided to school counselors and teachers in dealing with the special needs of Iraqi children, many of whom faced traumatic experiences.