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MALI/ GIRLS EDUCATION
STORY: MALI / GIRLS EDUCATION
TRT: 4.42
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / BAMBARA / NATS
DATELINE: MARCH 28th 2011, BENENA, MALI
1. Wide shot, kid riding a bike in the village
2. Med shot, sheep entering the village
3. Med shot, woman washing dishes
4. Pan left, Kadia washing dishes
5. Tilt up, man playing kora
6. Close up, Kadia washing dishes
7. Close up, Kadia washing dishes
8. Med shot, Kadia’s father standing in front of his house
9. Tilt up, Kadia swiping the floor
10. Med shot, woman grinding millet
11. Med shot, children walking to school
12. Wide shot, children walking to school
13. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Kadia Diarra, schoolgirl:
“School is very important. Through going to school you come to understand many things and that allows you to prepare a future for yourself.”
14. Wide shot, kids at school
15. Wide shot, classroom
16. Med shot, Kadia at the chalkboard
17. Close up, schoolgirl
18. Med shot, Kadia the chalkboard
19. Med shot, schoolboy
20. Close up, teacher
21. Close up, schoolgirl at the chalkboard
22. Med shot, classroom
23. Pan right, schoolgirl at the chalkboard
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Job Poudiougu, teacher:
“Sending a girl to school is most important. I say this because if a girl is well educated she will have an educated family. Her children will be educated. This is very important for our people and for our country.”
25. Med shot, teenagers fishing at the river
26. Close up, teenagers fishing at the river
27. Wide shot, kids playing in the village
28. Wide shot, family scene at the village
29. Close up, mother caping her daughter
30. Close up, daughter
31. Med shot, woman cooking
32. Close up, sewing machine
33. Wide shot, Kadia’s father sewing clothes
34. Close up, Kadia’s father
35. Close up, sewing machine
36. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Worowe Diarra, Kadia’s father:
“Sending your children to school is like lifting your family out of darkness because they will learn many things that will be useful and that can be applied to the family. If a girl is literate and educated she can take care of her family.”
37. Close up, Kadia
38. Med shot, Kadia doing her homeworks
39. Close up, Kadia writing on her notebook
40. Wide shot, children’s parliement
41. Med shot, children’s parliement
42. Close up, boy at the children’s Parliament
43. SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Kadia Diarra, schoolgirl:
“In the beginning many parents were not interested in sending their girls to school. They said the girls needed to stay home and help their mothers. But then all of us, the NGO, the teachers, the student government pushed and pushed. Now parents are sending their girls to school. Now there are more girls at school than boys! I think it also helps that now, everywhere you look in NGOs, on TV, in the civil service, you see women in high positions.”
44. Med shot, kids writing on a board in the classroom
45. Close up, writing
46. Close up, kids studying
47. Wide shot, classroom
48. Med shot, schoolgirl in the classroom
49. Wide shot, classroom view from outside
50. Med shot, teacher talking to the students
51. Wide shot, kids playing soccer in the playground of the school
52. Med shot, schoolgirls in the playground
53. Med shot, Kadia singing and dancing with other schoolgirls
Like most girls in Mali, 14-year-old Kadia Diarra has many responsibilities around the house.
Life in Mali’s rural communities has not changed much over the years, but in this village one important thing has.
Where once girls like Kadia just worked at home before marrying off at a young age, today they are going to school.
SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Kadia Diarra, schoolgirl:
“School is very important. Through going to school you come to understand many things and that allows you to prepare a future for yourself.”
Kadia attends a child friendly, girl friendly school, part of a UNICEF supported program to provide basic education to the most disadvantaged.
The schools provide children, and girls in particular, with a safe, nurturing and gender-sensitive learning environment
The program started in 2003 with Mali’s ministry of education, and its showing results; attitudes have changed, enrolment rates have jumped in areas supported by the child friendly approach, and in this school today there are more girl students than boys.
SOUNDBITE (French) Job Poudiougu, teacher:
“Sending a girl to school is most important. I say this because if a girl is well educated she will have an educated family. Her children will be educated. This is very important for our people and for our country.”
Mali is one of the world’s poorest nations; some 20 percent of school age children have not had the chance to learn because either school are not accessible, or because their parents could not afford to or saw no reason to send them to school.
This is especially true for girls who will be married to another family. Girls education has long been thought of as a lost investment.
But parents, many of whom never went to school like Kadia’s father, are beginning to realize the benefits of educating their daughters.
SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Worowe Diarra, Kadia’s father:
“Sending your children to school is like lifting your family out of darkness because they will learn many things that will be useful and that can be applied to the family. If a girl is literate and educated she can take care of her family.”
Today Kadia balances her homework with her household chores, at school she also sits on the children’s school government, an important feature of the child friendly, girl friendly school that allows the students to participate in its running.
SOUNDBITE (Bambara) Kadia Diarra, schoolgirl:
“In the beginning many parents were not interested in sending their girls to school. They said the girls needed to stay home and help their mothers. But then all of us—the NGO, the teachers, the student government, pushed and pushed. Now parents are sending their girls to school. Now there are more girls at school than boys! I think it also helps that now, everywhere you look, in NGOs, on TV, in the civil service, you see women in high positions.”
Working with the Malian government, teachers’ academies and other NGO partners UNICEF is establishing the child-friendly school model in areas across Mali.
The aim is not only to provide motivation for communities and parents to send their children to school, but also to educate teachers and school administrators in the child-friendly approach.
Change is coming. Kadia is just one example of this success, part of a new generation of educated girls who will help to create a better future for Mali.
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