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KYRGYZSTAN / LAKE VISIT
STORY: KYRGYZSTAN / LAKE VISIT
TRT: 3:15
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN / UZBEK /NATS
DATELINE: 29 JUNE 2011, OSH, KYRGYZSTAN
29 JUNE 2011, OSH, KYRGYZSTAN,
1. Various shots, children welcome dance at Centre for Vulnerable Children
2. Med shot, UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake (with baseball cap) watching dance
3. Various shots, Anthony Lake interacting with children at centre
4. Tracking shot, streets still with rubble and burned out buildings from violence one year ago
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“It struck me that when you visit an area that’s been so badly damaged by an earthquake, people are not angry at the earthquake afterwards, that’s an act of nature. But to get over the legacy of the hatreds that produced this is a huge task.”
1 SEPTEMBER 2010, OSH, KYRGYZSTAN
6. Wide shot, temporary school provided by UNICEF in Shark District opened on 1 September 2010 to maintain continuous education for affected students
29 JUNE 2010, OSH, KYRGYZSTAN
7. Various shots, permanent new school, Tolstoy, constructed on site of previous one destroyed in violence. Building nearing completion
8. Various shots, children’s centre
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dilnoza Islamova, student:
“It was scary. Our house was burned down. Now things are a little bit better.”
11. Various shots, Anthony Lake, opening youth Centre in Asanchek Village in Kara-Suu district
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“Of course, one of the reasons why UNICEF and the United Nations and so many people from the outside are contributing to centres like this, is to help with jobs, but to help prevent violence from recurring in the future.”
13. Various shots, Lake with 11th form student Gulirano Saidova.
14. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Gulirano Saidova, student:
“This Centre is very good for us. I’m of Uzbek ethnicity, but here we all study together. This year I’m finishing school, and I need this education to get into university.”
15. Various shots, District hospital of Kara-Suu
16 SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF, Executive Director:
“The Secretary General of the United Nations has made maternal and new born health, his number one priority. So you, all are on the front lines of a global struggle.”
17. Various shots, maternity hospital tour
18. Various shots, streets in Shark District of Osh. Children after festivities at Children’s Centre making way home past wrecked buildings
In the city of Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan, children giving a dance of welcome but still overcoming the pain of recent conflict.
UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake, visiting a Centre for vulnerable children
that was originally set up to help heal the wounds after last year’s violence.
In the surrounding streets, evidence still of the several days of civic strife that ripped apart whole neighborhoods.
The provinces of Osh and Jalal-Abad enjoying peace now, but one that is precarious.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“It struck me that when you visit an area that’s been so badly damaged by an earthquake, people are not angry at the earthquake afterwards, that’s an act of nature. But to get over the legacy of the hatreds that produced this is a huge task.”
But everywhere signs of progress. A year ago, when the nearby Tolstoy school was destroyed, UNICEF provided a temporary one so classes would not be disrupted.
Now the finishing touches are being made to a permanent replacement, which UNICEF is supporting.
And soon this children’s centre will be moved to it, to become a permanent pre-school class.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dilnoza Islamova, student:
“It was scary. Our house was burned down. Now things are a little bit better.”
Opening one of sixteen Youth Centres supported by UNICEF and its local partners, these new facilities are designed to overcome intolerance across racial divides for older teenagers, creating spaces where young people from all communities can mix freely.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“Of course, one of the reasons why UNICEF and the United Nations and so many people from the outside are contributing to centres like this, is to help with jobs, but to help prevent violence from recurring in the future.”
They also help fill a gap in vocational training missing in mainstream education, which might otherwise hold back teenagers like Gulirano.
SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Gulirano Saidova, student:
“This Centre is very good for us. I’m of Uzbek ethnicity, but here we all study together. This year I’m finishing school, and I need this education to get into university.”
A year ago, the district hospital of Kara-Suu found itself in the middle of the violence, treating the injured from the surrounding villages.
Today, the doctors and nurses at the hospital’s Maternity House, are able to concentrate their skills in maternal and new born health.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“The Secretary General of the United Nations has made maternal and new born health, his number one priority. So you, all are on the front lines of a global struggle.”
And inside the facility, which is being supported by a joint UN project to give continuous improvement in quality, a little victory in that battle.
Born just half an hour earlier to mother Sahiba, a baby girl. A sign of hope in a country in need of both hope, and help.
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