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SUDAN / RETURNEES
STORY: SUDAN / RETURNEES
TRT: 3:50
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: MADI / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: JUNE 2010, PAGERI, LOA, NIMULE, JUBA, SUDAN
2 JUNE 2010, PAGERI, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Nimule Uganda road
2. Med shot, villager with children building house
3. Med shot, shop at the main Nimule Uganda road
4. Med shot, returnee Joseph Juma
5. Various shots, people at a store
6. Wide shot, people on a dusty road
2 JUNE 2010, LOA, SOUTH SUDAN
7. Med shot, Christine, a returnee, sweeping her compound
8. Wide shot, compound of returnees
9. Med shot, Christine Lindio with her two daughters walking towards her farm
10. Close up, Christine Lindio
11. Wide shot, women working in a farm
12. Med shot, Christine Lindio working in her farm
13. Close up, Christine Lindio working
14. SOUNDBITE (Madi) Christine Lindio, Returnee:
“I am back home now, I have a land and I can cultivate the way I want, because the land belongs to me.”
2 JUNE 2010, PAGERI, SOUTH SUDAN
15. Wide shot, street of Loa
16. Wide shot, Joseph Juma, returnee and tailor working under a thorn tree
17. Med shot, Joseph Juma tailoring
18. Various shots, Joseph Juma working
19. Med shot, Joseph Juma talking to a customer
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Juma, Returnee:
“I am proud of being at home and my future is OK, this time because as everyone knows that Sudan has been recently electing a leader, we have been for elections. So if the election which means there is something good coming, so as there is something good coming so we expect good governance and my future with good governance will be OK.I will never be a refugee again and when I was not a refugee no longer, my life and my family life in future will be so fine.”
11 JUNE 2010, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
21. Wide shot, Noriko Yoshida-Deputy Representative South Sudan walking
22. Close-up, UNHCR sign
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Noriko Yoshida, Deputy Representative in South Sudan, UN Refugee Agency:
“It is very important for UNHCR to insure the sustainability of the returnees, to achieve this it is very, very important to have the participation of returnees. In this context UNHCR is implementing different projects in high return areas such as livelihood and training programs.”
2 JUNE 2010, LOA, SOUTH SUDAN
24. Various shots, Mary Aruwa, returnee and carpenter
25. SOUNDBITE (Madi) Mary Aruwa, Returnee:
“Working as a carpenter I get enough money to help my family. If I make a table or a chair I can sell them in the market and get money and that way I am helping my family.”
26. Med shot, Mary dusting a chair
27. Med shot, Mary working on a new chair
28. Wide shot, Mary working under a tree
In Southern Sudan, tens of thousands of refugees are returning home following the end of a 22-year civil war in the country. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), nearly four hundred and fifty thousand southern Sudanese took refuge in neighboring countries.
Most residents of Magwi County, in Eastern Equatorial State, fled during the decades-long civil war that engulfed southern Sudan. Some one hundred thousand refugees have now returned to Magwi alone, giving it one of the highest influxes of returnees in the region.
The returnees are currently pioneers of a new life in Southern Sudan, their home country. UNHCR continues to assist Sudanese refugees and internally displaced persons to return home and facilitates their initial reintegration into Sudanese society.
UNHCR plays a key role in restarting life in their home land through providing basic inputs like reintegration and development activities, vocational training and primary healthcare.
Christine Lindrio is a young mother of two. She was living as a refugee in Uganda. Christine and her family returned to southern Sudan at the beginning of 2009. She said that since she returned home she has a plot of land she cultivates to feed her family. She is very happy to come back home.
SOUNDBITE: (Madi) Christine Lindio, Returnee:
“I am back home now, I have a land and I can cultivate the way I want, because the land belongs to me.”
The feeling of coming back home can also be shared by Joseph Tombe Juma who operates a tailoring business.
Working under a thorn tree on the Nimule Uganda road, Joseph, a returnee, joins the thousand returnees in contributing to their own future and that of southern Sudan. He is returning from Uganda and had been supported by UNHCR’s livelihood project in tailoring. With the skill he learnt, he is now able to cater for his family and share the skills with other community members.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Joseph Juma, Returnee:
“I am proud of being at home and my future is OK, this time because as everyone knows that Sudan has been recently electing a leader, we have been for elections. So if the election which means there is something good coming, so as there is something good coming so we expect good governance and my future with good governance will be OK. I will never be a refugee again and when I was not a refugee no longer, my life and my family life in future will be so fine.”
Noriko Yoshida, Deputy Representative of the UNHCR, said that the goal of the project is to equip trainees with skills so that they can be self reliant, promote livelihood activities in the community and, most importantly, create employment for others in the community.
SOUNDBITE (English) Noriko Yoshida-Deputy Representative South Sudan:
“It is very important for UNHCR to insure the sustainability of the returnees, to achieve this it is very, very important to have the participation of returnees. In this context UNHCR is implementing different projects in high return areas such as livelihood and training programs.”
Mary is a twenty three years old mother of two who lost her parents during the war and was in exile. With the support of UNHCR she was trained as a carpenter and she is a self employed, making tables and chairs for sale.
SOUNDBITE (Madi) Mary Aruwa, Returnee:
“Working as a carpenter I get enough money to help my family. If I make a table or a chair I can sell them in the market and get money and that way I am helping my family.”
Community-based reintegration projects have been implemented to provide protection, basic services and livelihood opportunities in areas of high return. Nearly nine hundred such projects have been completed to date including 330 hardware projects involving the construction or rehabilitation of schools, health clinics and water facilities.
UNHCR considers these achievements to be a vital contribution to the peace process and the future of Sudan.
Following the signing of the Comprehensive peace agreement, UNHCR has assisted 173,185 returnees resume life in southern Sudan.
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