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DR CONGO / EDUCATION
STORY: DR CONGO /EDUCATION
TRT: 2.49
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SWAHILI/ FRENCH/ NATS
DATELINE: 7-9 DECEMBER 2010, WALIKALE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
1. Med shot, Ujumbe Kiwabantu walking down dirt road in village
2. Med shot, Ujumbe Kiwabantu walking through the bush
3. Aerial shot, Walikale
4. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Ujumbe Kiwabantu, 12-years-old:
“We came here because the military would always come to our village and loot.”
5. Wide shot, UN peacekeeping officers, two civilians carrying buckets/ baskets on their heads walk past frame
6. Med shot, children sitting around, shot through barbed wire
7. Wide shot, Congolese armed forces in town with civilians
8. Med shot, various Congolese forces marching through jungle together
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Zirhumana Muzirhu, Ujumbe’s Teacher:
“It’s very difficult to teach in an insecure situation like Walikale because you can be teaching and other times an armed group can crop up and you are obliged to flee with the school children and stop the class.”
10. Zoon out, from UNICEF logo to sign of UNICEF logo and AVSI logo
11. Med shot, children raising their hands in class
12. Close up, Ujumbe Kiwabantu’s face, in class
13. Med shot, Ujumbe Kiwabantu in class, shot from behind
14. Med shot, Ujumbe Kiwabantu in class, opens UNICEF notebook
15. Wide shot, Ujumbe Kiwabantu and other students participating in expression activities outside
16. Med shot, two boys in costume and purple make-up participating in expression activities outside
17. Close up, child watching expression activities next to UNICEF logo on t-shirt
18. Med shot, children in costume singing and dancing outdoors
19. Zoom out, exterior of school
20. Med shot, AVSI trainer training teachers
21. Wide shot, AVSI trainer training teachers
22. Close up AVSI trainer talking
23. Med shot, teachers participating in psycho-social exercises
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Zirhumana Muzirhu, Ujumbe’s Teacher:
“In the past we would whip the children. We would beat them in class. But thanks to the psycho-social training, teachers and school children are now friends so we don’t use the whip anymore.”
25. Med shot, UNICEF staffer Elena Locatelli going over items in UNICEF recreation kit
26. Close up, hand on UNICEF notebooks
27. Wide shot, UNICEF school and recreation supplies laid out on table
28. Close up, UNICEF school and recreation supplies
29. Wide shot, children playing with soccer ball outside
30. Close up, Ujumbe Kiwabantu throwing soccer ball outside
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Elena Locatelli, UNICEF Goma Education Specialist:
“We helped more than 6,000 children for the last intervention on education, for the training of teachers; more than 400 teachers have been trained.”
32. Pan right, to Ujumbe Kiwabantu
32. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Ujumbe Kiwabantu, 12-years-old:
“I like going to school and hope to finish it but I’m not sure if another war will crop up and make me displaced again.”
33. Tilt down, Ujumbe sitting outside with her family
34. Med shot, Ujumbe Kiwabantu and her siblings
Twelve-year-old Ujumbe Kiwabantu and her family were violently displaced by civil conflict in her country two years ago. They fled their home and came to live with distant relatives in Walikale, a remote rain forest territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Ujumbe Kiwabantu, 12-years-old:
“We came here because the military would always come to our village and loot from us.”
Congolese families live in an unpredictable environment and constant state of uncertainty. At any moment, their lives could be disrupted again.
SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Zirhumana Muzirhu, Ujumbe’s Teacher:
“It’s very difficult to teach in an insecure situation like Walikale because you can be teaching and other times an armed group can crop up and you are obliged to flee with the school children and stop the class.”
UNICEF and Italian NGO AVSI, with the support of the Government of the Netherlands are collaborating on an education in emergencies program to give children like Ujumbe a sense of normalcy during this tenuous time.
Children participate in group activities to help them express themselves where they can channel their trauma through song, poetry and dance. AVSI has also been training teachers to be better equipped to nurture displaced and vulnerable children, and the training has produced significant changes in the philosophy and practice of educating children in Walikale.
SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Zirhumana Muzirhu, Ujumbe’s teacher:
“In the past we would whip the children. We would beat them in class. But thanks to the psycho-social training, teachers and school children are now friends so we don’t use the whip anymore.”
These programmes are also rehabilitating schools in the region, providing school supplies and recreation kits so students can participate in regular activities that are crucial to their physical, mental, psychological and social development.
SOUNDBITE (English) Elena Locatelli, UNICEF Goma Education Specialist:
“We helped more than 6,000 children for the last intervention on education, for the training of teachers, more than 400 teachers have been trained.”
Yet, Ujumbe still worries about her future.
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Ujumbe Kiwabantu, 12-years-old:
“I like going to school and hope to finish it but I’m not sure if another war will break out and make me displaced again.”
Ujumbe and her family hope to be able to return to their village one day and have their own home again, with the hope of a brighter future.
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