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SOUTHERN SUDAN / RURAL EDUCATION
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STORY : SOUTHERN SUDAN / RURAL EDUCATION
TRT : 2.01
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE : ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE : RECENT, MARIAL BEK, NEAR RUMBEK, SOUTHERN SUDAN
MARIAL BEK, NEAR RUMBEK, SOUTHERN SUDAN
1. Wide shot, cattle passing by
2. Med shot, cattle through sandy breeze
3. Wide shot, boys with bull
4. Wide shot, family under tree
5. Med shot, bull's head with boy
6. Med shot, guy petting bull's head
7. Close-up, boys face
8. Tracking shot, Marial Makur speaking
9. Med shot, boy speaking to village
10. Med shot, Makur in profile
11. Close-up, profile of man with pencil
12. Close-up, child with mud on face
13. Med shot, girl speaking
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marial Makur, Girls Education Movement leader:
"Last year we brought 95 children back in who dropped out of school. The GEM clubs went and talked to the parents about the future of the children. If you are an educated girl in the future, your future will be better."
15. Wide shot, Malok Mangui speaking to group
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Malok Mangui:
"Nowadays a person who is educated is earning a good life."
17. Close up, Mangui pan right to listeners
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Malok Mangui:
"When you send your girls to school, I told them, your girl will be very productive, in both giving you wealth through the man who's going to marry her, and even the wealth herself she's going to produce out of her education. I was telling them there is going to be a double income."
19. Wide shot, tree where under the meeting is taking place
20. Med shot, child in red shirt
21. Med shot, two children under tree
22. Med shot, woman with children
23. Close up, baby with finger in mouth
In the rural plains of Southern Sudan , little has changed over the years, despite booming growth in urban areas. The countryside is dotted with cattle camps like this in Marial Bek. Communities move with their herds according to the seasons.
Children who grow up in the camps are taught traditional skills centered on the cattle they tend. Formal schooling is almost never an option.
UNICEF is helping the Government of Southern Sudan in their campaign to rebuild the education system and bring 1.6 million children to school by the end of this year.
It's a considerable challenge.
A lack of learning spaces and cultural taboos on sending children to school - especially girls - has been a roadblock to formal education.
SOUNDBITE (English): Marial Makur, Girls Education Movement leader:
"Last year we brought 95 children back in who dropped out of school. The GEM clubs went and talked to the parents about the future of the children. If you are an educated girl in the future, your future will be better."
Malok Mangui also grew up in the Marial Bek cattle camp. He decided to attend school and now works for the State Ministry of Education.
SOUNDBITE (English): Malok Mangui:
"Nowadays a person who is educated is earning a good life."
He also works with UNICEF and the Girls Education Movement to reach out to children in remote areas and persuade them to come to school
SOUNDBITE (English) Malok Mangui:
"When you send your girls to school, I told them, your girl will be very productive, in both giving you wealth through the man who's going to marry her, and even the wealth herself she's going to produce out of her education. I was telling them there is going to be a double income."
Despite the challenges of life in this remote rural area, with the help of UNICEF and the government, these children will have a chance to reach their full potential.
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