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UZBEKISTAN / CHILD PROTECTION
STORY: UZBEKISTAN / CHILD PROTECTION
TRT: 2:55
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / UZBEK / RUSSIAN / NATS
DATELINE: 11 NOVEMBER 2011, TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN
1. Various shots, Family and Child Support Services team (FCSS) at their Samarkand office where staff members discuss and take notes and work on the computer
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrissie Gale, Chief, Child Protection, UNICEF:
“Over the past few years with UNICEF support, we’ve been doing a lot of awareness raising, a lot of attitude changing, and a lot of re-training of frontline professionals, so that now there’s a real growing understanding that it’s actually not a good thing to institutionalize children, and that we need to provide multi-sectoral services at a family level.”
3. Various shots, FCSS team at work in office at the computer
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Galina Kukanyants, Senior Social Worker:
“Individuals often have to deal with different agencies and it can be quite a challenge. But we can help simplify this by collaborating between different ministries. And we work in close co-operation with the local community and children’s homes.”
5. Close up, FCSS team member places his notebook in his bag
6. Wide shot, FCSS team getting ready to leave office
7. Med shot, FCSS team members arriving at home of client family and shaking hands with family members
8. Pan left, family members at the table
9. Close up, Avaz Rakhimov’s new wife
10. Close up, Avaz Rakhimov’s sons, Nodirbek (7 yrs – left of frame) and Nazirbek (6 yrs – right of frame).
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian), Avaz Rakhimov, Father:
“Obviously I’m very happy the boys have been returned to me. I’m doing everything I can for them. Everything is for them.”
12. Pan right to left, boys watering plants
13. Med shot, Avaz Rakhimov’s sons watering plants
14. Various shots, Avaz shows FCSS staff renovation work on the room
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Avaz Rakhimov, Father:
“As soon as I finish the work on the house, then my plan is to get my daughters back as well. This is their home and I don’t want them to be raised anywhere else.”
13. Wide shot, Avaz’s home
14. Med shot, FCSS staff with family member standing in front of the house
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Galina Kukanyants, Senior Social Worker:
“First we will try to arrange some sponsored support, and then hopefully we can return the girls here before the end of the year. That is the aim.”
16. Various shots, FCSS team leaving house walking away down road
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrissie Gale, Chief, Child Protection, UNICEF:
”We really want to see a national child protection system evolving that means communities, families and front line professionals all have the legislation, the policy, the systems and the mechanisms that really prevent children being at risk. And if children do become at risk and are subject to all forms of abuse and neglect, then the frontline professional services and the community support is there for them.”
18. Med shot, water fountain the foreground and bus driving past in the background in Samarkand, pans to child sitting by fountain
19. Med shot, children sitting by a fountain in Samarkand
20. Wide shot, tomb in Samarkand
21. Wide shot, people standing in front of a monument
At their office in the city of Samarkand, social workers are making a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children in Uzbekistan.
As part of a specially-created system of Family and Child Support Services, this team has benefited from UNICEF sponsored training in child friendly methods to support children at risk.
SOUNDBITE (English) Chrissie Gale, Chief, Child Protection, UNICEF:
”Over the past few years with UNICEF support, we’ve been doing a lot of awareness raising, a lot of attitude changing, and a lot of re-training of frontline professionals, so that now there’s a real growing understanding that it’s actually not a good thing to institutionalize children, and that we need to provide multi-sectoral services at a family level.”
Now these social workers are helping to coordinate the efforts of different departments.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Galina Kukanyants, Senior Social Worker:
“Individuals often have to deal with different agencies and it can be quite a challenge. But we can help simplify this by collaborating between different ministries. And we work in close co-operation with the local community and children’s homes.”
The team are off to follow up on an ongoing case.
A father broke up with his wife and in the process all four of his children taken into care.
Two of his sons have now been returned and he’s hoping with the support of his new wife, of being allowed to have back his two older daughters.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Avaz Rakhimov, Father:
“Obviously I’m very happy the boys have been returned to me. I’m doing everything I can for them. Everything is for them.”
His boys, Nazirbek and Nodirbek, are adjusting well to being at home.
And their father is putting the finishing touches to the house extension that he hopes will become his daughters’ bedroom.
SOUNDBITE (Russian), Avaz Rakhimov, Father:
“As soon as I finish the work on the house, then my plan is to get my daughters back as well. This is their home and I don’t want them to be raised anywhere else.”
All the signs point to a successful outcome.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Galina Kukanyants, Senior Social Worker:
“First we will try to arrange some sponsored support, and then hopefully we can return the girls here before the end of the year. That is the aim.”
And another example of how the system is changing for the benefit of children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Chrissie Gale, Chief, Child Protection, UNICEF:
”We really want to see a national child protection system evolving that means communities, families and front line professionals all have the legislation, the policy, the systems and the mechanisms that really prevent children being at risk. And if children do become at risk and are subject to all forms of abuse and neglect, then the frontline professional services and the community support is there for them.”
UNICEF is an active partner in developing that national social work system and child protection legislation.
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