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AFGHANISTAN / SCHOOL
STORY: AFGHANISTAN / SCHOOL
TRT: 4:36
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / DARI / NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2010, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
1.Wide shot, girls singing
2.Med shot, Pan of girls singing
3.Close up, girl singing
4.Close up, girl singing
5.Dr Farooq Wardak, Afghan Minister of Education arriving
6.Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative to Afghanistan, Dr Farooq Wardak, Afghan Minister of Education arriving and Shigeyuki Hiroki, Japan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan sitting together.
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Dr Farooq Warak, Afghan Minister for Education:
“I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks, Mr Ambassador, to you and to your government and to your great nation for your generosity towards the education and the development and the reconstruction of education in Afghanistan. and I wish to take this opportunity. Mr Peter Crowley and your team to express my heartfelt thanks to you, the leadership of UNICEF and the entire team for extending your tireless support and in completion of this project.”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative to Afghanistan:
“The project aims to address the scarcity of adequate teaching and learning spaces for Kabul’s rapidly growing population and has a particular focus on increasing educational opportunities for girls. At the completion of the project nearly 150, 000 students will benefit from access to safe, healthy and hygienic learning environments. In addition over 3000 teachers will have been trained in child centered parcipitatory teaching techniques.”
9. Various shots, girls performing
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shigeyuki Hiroki, Japan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan:
“Quality education and provision of educational facilities are key needs for development and progress in this country. There is no doubt that a significant number of schools have been built and rebuilt in Afghanistan, yet we still need to do more efforts in this area. Considering the importance of education for Afghanistan, helping the education sector is one of the priorities of the Government of Japan”
11.Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative to Afghanistan, Dr Farooq Wardak, Afghan Minister of Education arriving and Shigeyuki Hiroki, Japan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan walking through the corridors
12.SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Farooq Wardak, Afghan Minister of Education:
“When I went to school in the primary level I didn’t have the luxury to have chairs and a classroom like this. Sometime I was under the tree, sometime in the tents.”
13.Wide shot, girls in the audience
14.SOUNDBITE (English) Maihan Zoly, Student:
“Actually that is great because we have a lot of student that they did not have their classrooms so they could not study very well, but right now they have a good classroom where they can study and they can search very well and they can actually pay attention on teacher’s lecture”
15.Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative to Afghanistan, Dr Farooq Wardak, Afghan Minister of Education arriving and Shigeyuki Hiroki, Japan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan cutting the ribbon to open the school.
These girls from the Mohamed Mussa Shafiq High School on the outskirts of Kabul certainly have something to sing about.
They have a new school.
Along with 2,400 other boys and girls from here in eastern Kabul they now have 30 new classrooms in which to learn.
The classrooms are part of the more than one thousand new classrooms in Kabul city project that are being built in 58 schools across the capital city of Afghanistan by the Ministry of Education with the support of UNICEF and 24 million dollars from the Government of Japan.
Dr Farooq Wardak, The Afghan Minister for Education along with Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative to Afghanistan and Shigeyuki Hiroki, Japanese Ambassador to Afghanistan visited the Mohamed Mussa Shafiq High School to celebrate it’s completion.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Farooq Warak, Afghan Minister for Education:
”I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks, Mr Ambassador, to you and to your government and to your great nation for your generosity towards the education and the development and the reconstruction of education in Afghanistan. and I wish to take this opportunity. Mr Peter Crowley and your team to express my heartfelt thanks to you, the leadership of UNICEF and the entire team for extending your tireless support and in completion of this project.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Crowley, UNICEF Representative to Afghanistan:
“The project aims to address the scarcity of adequate teaching and learning spaces for Kabul’s rapidly growing population and has a particular focus on increasing educational opportunities for girls. At the completion of the project nearly 150, 000 students will benefit from access to safe, healthy and hygienic learning environments. In addition over 3000 teachers will have been trained in child centered parcipitatory teaching techniques.”
The opening ceremony included a drama put on by Afghan girls to stress the importance of girls education.
The current program of cooperation between UNICEF and the Government of Afghanistan focuses on reducing inequalities in education for girls, hard to reach children and minorities. UNICEF believes that providing a safe, attractive and sanitary environment including boundary walls, recreational areas, water points as well as separate latrines for boys and girls can significantly improve girls enrollment and retention..
SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shigeyuki Hiroki, Japan’s Ambassador to Afghanistan:
“Quality education and provision of educational facilities are key needs for development and progress in this country.There is no doubt that a significant number of schools have been built and rebuilt in Afghanistan, yet we still need to do more efforts in this area. Considering the importance of education for Afghanistan, helping the education sector is one of the priorities of the Government of Japan.”
In an inspection of the school building Dr Wardak remarked on how things have improved in Afghanistan since he was a boy.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Farooq Wardak, Afghan Minister of Education:
“When I went to school in the primary level I didn’t have the luxury to have chairs and a classroom like this. Sometime I was under the tree, sometime in the tents.”
But it’s the students who will gain the most.
SOUNDBITE (English) Maihan Zoly, Student:
“Actually that is great because we have a lot of student that they did not have their classrooms so they could not study very well, but right now they have a good classroom where they can study and they can search very well and they can actually pay attention on teacher’s lecture.”
The 1,000 classroom project is another way that UNICEF is helping the ministry of education ensure the children of Afghanistan have a brighter future.
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