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KYRGYZSTAN / STREET CHILDREN
STORY: KYRGYZSTAN/ STREET CHILDREN
TRT: 3.27
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ RUSSIAN/ NATS
DATELINE: JUNE 2009, BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN
1.Wide shot, dining room in Bishkek Centre for Street Children
2.Close up, cups on table
3.Various shots, children eating
4.Various shots, Petrushevski in office
5.Med shot, Petrushevski speaking at meeting
6.Med shot, colleague listening
7.Med shot, colleague talking
8.SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Petrushevski, Director, Bishkek Centre for Street Children:
“It’s very joyful when children come and the feel happy here as if they’re at home They feel as if they’re part of a family, so I realize that all the hard work isn’t wasted.”
9.Pan, bedroom in centre
10.SOUNDBITE (Russian) Unidentified Ward:
“He’s a very, very good and kind person and the social workers are good people, too. They are doing all the good work they can possibly do.”
11.Med shot, girls working on project while singing
12.Close up, girls embroider
13.Med. shot, Petrushevski in classroom
14.Med shot, boys listening
15.Wide shot, Petrushevski in classroom
16.Wide shot, Petrushevski at outdoor café
17.Med shot, child rights lawyer at cafe
18.Close up, coffee cup
19.SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yelena Gavrilova, Child Rights Lawyer:
“I can tell you honestly that he’s the right person in the right place. And he’s got a natural instinct to fight for children’s rights
20.Med shot, Petrushevski and girl enter building
21.Med shot, stairwell
22.Med shot, entering apartment from behind
23.Various shots, girl with grandparents
24.Close up, dirty pots and pans
25.Close up, dirty pan and ashtray
26.Med shot, girl hugging grandfather with grandmother fore
27.SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Petrushevski, Director, Bishkek Centre for Street Children:
“Children are supposed to be happy. There shouldn’t be anything in this country to abuses them or undermines them – not in this country and not in the world.”
28.Med shot, children in school uniforms singing at presentation
29.Med shot, war veterans listening to concert
30.Med shot, Petrushevski and children listening
31.Med shot, children singing
32.Med shot, veteran singing along
33.Med shot, elderly women veterans
34.Various, boys dancing and acrobats
35.SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Schaffter, UNICEF, Kyrgyzstan:
“It’s so wonderful to see that there are people willing to put not just the time but the heart and soul into and other children have said there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for children there. So to me, Alexei is a true champion, a true hero for children.”
36.Wide shot, kids on skating rink
37.Wide shot, Petrushevski from behind watching skating rink
38.Wide shot, Petrushevski throws cap on rink
39.Wide shot, girl fetches cap and returns it
40.Wide, skaters
41.Close, cap
42.Close, Petrushevski
43.SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Petrushevski, Director, Bishkek Centre for Street Children:
“Life is sort of like a skating rink. You never know when you are going to fall. They act on the ice, like they do in life. They fall down, and they get back up.
44.Wide shot, boy fetches cap, falls, gets up
A day in the life of Alexei Petrushevski is not for the faint of heart. Before the morning’s out, he’s been to four meetings and fielded at least fifty phone calls. Combining determination, charm, bullishness and sheer enthusiasm, Alexei fights for the most defenceless citizens of the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Petrushevski, Director, Bishkek Centre for Street Children:
“It’s very joyful when children come and the feel happy here as if they’re at home They feel as if they’re part of a family, so I realize that all the hard work isn’t wasted.”
In six years, a thousand homeless or troubled young people have passed through the Bishkek Centre for Street Children. It is very much Alexei’s project – he started it and while others stop down to sleep or eat – Alexei keeps on going.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Unidentified Ward:
“He’s a very, very good and kind person and the social workers are good people, too. They are doing all the good work they can possibly do.”
He turns even a quick meal into a work in progress.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yelena Gavrilova, Child Rights lawyer:
“I can tell you honestly that he’s the right person in the right place. And he’s got a natural instinct to fight for children’s rights.
Still going well into the evening, Alexei takes one of his wards to visit her grandparents. It’s an all-too-common story – her parents both died from alcoholism. Her grandparents are sufferers, too.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Petrushevski, Director, Bishkek Centre for Street Children:
“Children are supposed to be happy. There shouldn’t be anything in this country to abuses them or undermines them – not in this country and not in the world.”
The former street children put on a concert for war veterans which shows what talents they hide. It shows, too, that you can take a child out of the street, but not quite all of the street out of the child.
SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Schaffter, UNICEF, Kyrgyzstan:
“It’s so wonderful to see that there are people willing to put not just the time but the heart and soul into and other children have said there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for children there. So to me, Alexei is a true champion, a true hero for children.”
As Alexei trains another group to take part in a skating show, he can reflect on his work.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexei Petrushevski, Director, Bishkek Centre for Street Children:
“Life is sort of like a skating rink. You never know when you are going to fall. They act on the ice, like they do in life. They fall down, and they get back up.”
On the 20th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, which spells out the basic human rights of children worldwide, Alexei Petrushevski is helping them reach their full potential in Kyrgyzstan.
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