COTE D’IVOIRE / TRAUMA

Since the post-election crisis began last November, more than 500,000 Ivorians have fled their homes, about 60 percent were women and children. Even though the crisis has eased, many still are remain traumatized. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:06
• Production Date: 18 May 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: POPULATION DYNAMICS; HEALTH; EDUCATION; HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U110518b

Description

STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / TRAUMA
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH/FRENCH/NATS

DATELINE: 2,4,5,6 MAY 2011, COTE D’IVOIRE

Shotlist

4 MAY 2011, DUEKOUE, COTE D’IVOIRE

1. Travelling shot, children lining in the Duekoue Catholic mission camp waiting to get food

2 MAY 2011, KOARO, COTE D’IVOIRE

2. Pan left, children around their burnt houses

4 MAY 2011, DUEKOUE, COTE D’IVOIRE

3. Med shot, mother and children sitting in the camp

9 MAY 2011, ABIDJAN, ABOBO, COTE D’IVOIRE

4. Med shot, children walking by a school wall with bullet holes

5 MAY 2011, BLOLEU, COTE D’IVOIRE,

5. Wide shot, Children arriving at Bloleu school
6. Med shot, children opening the door of their classroom
7. Med shot, young boy at blackboard
8. Pan right, children in the classroom to Ashkenaze Gouli Ouaigue, 12 years old, displaced from Duekoue
9. Pan right, UNICEF school bag to Ashkenaze
10. Med shot, Ashkenaze leaving classroom
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Ashkenaze Gouli Ouaigue, 12 years old:
“When I was in Duekoue, the war was going on, my father my mother and I we came here. People were being killed. My family said we had to flee, that’s why we’re here now.”
12. Med shot, Ashkenaze walking away
13. Close up, young girl writing and looking at the blackboard
14. Med shot, children studying
15. Wide shot, children running towards camera with UNICEF bags

6 MAY 2011, LOGOUALE, COTE D’IVOIRE

16. Tilt down, children sitting in child friendly space
17. Med shot, children sitting in child friendly space with counsellor
18. Pan left, Sandrine listening and taking care of children
19. SOUNDBITE (French) Sandrine Dion, Counsellor, UNICEF’s Partner NGO Metissage:
“They usually talk about what they have seen, lately they shot gunfire around here and they were traumatized. We’re trying to distract them from the problems of the crisis, from the war. Some children were in Duekoue and they saw a lot of things, so we’re trying to put them in an ambiance which makes them forget what they saw and what traumatized them.”
20. Med shot, children and counsellor
21. Close up, young girl
22. Pan right, children outside the child friendly space, with counsellors
23. Med shot, children

Storyline

In Cote d’Ivoire, many children have suffered from the recent post electoral crisis.

Some had their houses burnt down, others had to flee their homes altogether.
More than 800,000 children have not attended school for several months.

The ongoing crisis has left many children in the country traumatized.

In the school of Bloleu, in Western Cote d’Ivoire, the school finally reopened after having been closed for four months.

Children are just beginning to get back to their lives. But along with the regular pupils are displaced children like Ashkenaze.

He’s 12 years old and comes from Duekoue, a few hundreds kilometres from here. He had to walk for two days in the bush to avoid the fighting.

SOUNDBITE (French) Ashkenaze Gouli Ouaigue, 12 years old:
“When I was in Duekoue, the war was going on, my father my mother and I we came here. People were being killed. My family said we had to flee, that’s why we’re here now.”

Many children like Ashkenaze, still live far away from home and fear what they might come across on their way back.

In Logouale, a few kilometres from there, UNICEF set up a child friendly space in a former hotel. Here, counsellors provide psycho-social support for 200 children every day.

SOUNDBITE (French) Sandrine Dion, Counsellor, UNICEF’s Partner NGO Metissage:
“They usually talk about what they have seen, lately they shot gunfire around here and they were traumatized. We’re trying to distract them from the problems of the crisis, from the war. Some children were in Duekoue and they saw a lot of things, so we’re trying to put them in an ambiance which makes them forget what they saw and what traumatized them.”

Meanwhile, UNICEF is also working closely with the Ivorian government and non-governmental organizations to assist more than a million children as part of its ‘Back to School’ campaign.