DRC / MIA FARROW

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and actress Mia Farrow travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo recently to visit a centre for girls freed from armed groups. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:25
• Production Date: 31 March 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILD SOLDIERS; HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
• MAMS Id: U120331a

Description

STORY: DR CONGO / MIA FARROW
TRT: 1:25
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20-21 FEBRUARY 2012, BUKAVU, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Shotlist

1. Med shot, Mia Farrow shakes hands with staff at center
2. Med shot, Mia Farrow enters center for girls freed from armed groups
3. Close shot, hand and sewing machine
4. Med shot, girl at the sewing machine
5. Med shot, girl smoothing material
6. Med shot, Mia Farrow looking at material
7. Med shot, Mia Farrow with kids
8. Wide shot, Mia Farrow with kids
9. Close shot, Mia Farrow and child listening to music
10. Close shot, hand and baby
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“She was just 14 when her family was attacked and her parents disappeared and the militia that attacked, at knife point, they raped her and eventually somebody took her to a hospital and they discovered she was pregnant. She wants to make clothes, she wants to be a tailor and for her son, she wants him to be a doctor and she wants him to have an education, more than anything - a good education. And here's a young woman that’s so smart and so strong and so brave, I mean who among us could endure all of that”
12. Close shot, Mia Farrow’s hand and baby
13. Med shot, Mia Farrow talking to children

Storyline

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow recently travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) visited a center for girls freed from armed groups.

Many of them had been subjected to rape, sexual slavery or other forms of gender-based violence. At the centre, they receive counselling and vocational training as tailors or carpenters, skills that will offer them a means of survival after they leave.
The centre also has a nursery to assist the girls who arrive either pregnant or with children.

SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“She was just 14 when her family was attacked and her parents disappeared and the militia that attacked, at knife point, they raped her and eventually somebody took her to a hospital and they discovered she was pregnant. She wants to make clothes, she wants to be a tailor and for her son, she wants him to be a doctor and she wants him to have an education, more than anything - a good education. And here's a young woman that’s so smart and so strong and so brave, I mean who among us could endure all of that”