COTE D’IVOIRE / EMERGENCY EDUCATION

UNICEF is providing school kits along with training and recruiting teachers in Cote d'Ivoire. Almost one million school children suffered from the recent post- electoral crisis An estimated 200,000 children are still out of school. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:32
• Production Date: 11 May 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL POLICY; EDUCATIONAL PLANNING; EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U110511h

Description

STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / EMERGENCY EDUCATION
TRT: 2:32
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 9 MAY 2011, ABIDJIAN / 5 MAY 2011, BLOLEU, COTE D’IVOIRE

Shotlist

ABIDJIAN, COTE D’IVOIRE 9 MAY 2011

1. Med shot, burnt car in front of Fengue 1 school
2. Tilt down, school door with pupils going out
3. Med shot, damaged school classroom
4. Med shot, children playing with destroyed car in the Houantoue school yard
5. Wide shot, Abobo street
6. Med shot, director’s office door, with bullet holes Fengue 1 school
7. Zoom out, children walking in front of wall shattered with bullet holes
8. Tilt up, classroom door damaged by explosion
9. Med shot, children in the courtyard
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Gabin Zerebi Touboui, head of the school Fengue 1, Abobo: “Teachers come to school, but children are still very few. For those who come we try and keep them in class by studying what we did before the crisis, so that parents see school has started back. It’s a very slow reopening.”
11. Pan left, school of BAD 8 in Abobo
12. Pan right, teacher handing UNICEF school kits to children
13. Close up, content of a UNICEF school kit
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilberte Yeble Amari, head of Education, UNICEF Cote d’Ivoire: “Many of those children have been displaced and found their houses empty when they came home. They lost everything. Those kits are then the first step to help them gain confidence and get back on track until the end of the school year.”

BLOLEU, COTE D’IVOIRE, 5 MAY 2011

15. Wide shot, Bloleu school
16. Med shot, young girl ringing school bell to call children to school
17. Wide shot, children walking towards school wearing UNICEF bags
18. Med shot children walking towards school
19. Pan left, children running towards school
20. Med shot, children in the courtyard
21. Med shot, Michel Tehe Seroux, director and teacher, Bloleu school, calling children inside the classroom
22. Med shot, Michel switching classrooms
23. SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Tehe Seroux, director and teacher, Bloleu school: ”At the start of the day it’s hard to settle everyone down, I teach 6 classes, it’s pretty exhausting, I really look forward to seeing the colleagues come back so that we can really start the year.”
24. Med shot, Michel teaching at the blackboard
25. Med shot, children eavesdropping in the classroom
26. Med shot, children studying
27. Close up, young girl studying

Storyline

With the recent post election crisis that hit Cote d’Ivoire last December, around one million children have been forced out of school.

Many schools have been damaged, occupied and looted by military forces.

In the Abobo, a neighbourhood in Abidjan most schools remain closed as fights are still continuing.

In this school, a bomb shell exploded, heavily damaging the classrooms and the roof.
School began slowly a month ago but only one-tenth of the children are back in class.

SOUNDBITE (French) Gabin Zerebi Touboui, head of the school Fengue 1, Abobo:
“Teachers come to school, but children are still very few. For those who come we try and keep them in class by studying what we did before the crisis, so that parents see school has started back. It’s a very slow reopening.”

UNICEF is now distributing 500,000 school kits and bags to the most affected children.

SOUNDBITE (French) Gilberte Yeble Amari, head of Education, UNICEF Cote d’Ivoire:
“Many of those children have been displaced and found their houses empty when they came home. They lost everything. Those kits are then the first step to help them gain confidence and get back on track until the end of the school year.”

In the west of the country, the situation on education is alarming: 80 percent of the schools have been damaged or looted and only one third of the teachers have come back. In the village of Bloleu, this school reopened after being closed for four months. Now, more than 200 children are back to school.

But there is only one teacher. Michel has to switch classes in the middle of the lesson, to ensure every child is getting an education.

SOUNDBITE (French) Michel Tehe Seroux, director and teacher, Bloleu school:
”At the start of the day it’s hard to settle everyone down, I teach 6 classes, it’s pretty exhausting, I really look forward to seeing the colleagues come back so that we can really start the year.”

UNICEF is now training and recruiting teachers to help the transition and meet with the communities to help teachers as well as children to go back to school.