PHILIPPINES / EDUCATION

Six months after Typhoon Bopha took more than 1,000 lives and displaced more than a million people, teaching and learning are taking place again in elementary schools across affected parts of the Philippines. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:44
• Production Date: 10 May 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• MAMS Id: U130510d

Description

STORY: PHILIPPINES / EDUCATION
TRT: 1.44
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / TAGALOG / NATS

DATELINE: 5 MARCH 2013, NEW BATAAN, PHILIPPINES

Shotlist

1. Various, typhoon damage
2. Various, UNICEF temporary learning centre
3. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Christine Joy Taglocob, 10 years old:
“I want to finish school so I can become a teacher. That’s been my dream since I was small.”
4. Various, storm damage
5. Various, UNICEF temporary learning centre being erected
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yul Olaya, UNICEF Education in Emergencies Officer:
“It’s better for teachers because they’re able to do their routine. When they’re able to do their routine it is psycho social support for them. It is good for children because we are capturing them again the times that they spend in our learning spaces are times that they are away from harm and danger.”
7. Various, storm damage
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF Representative in Indonesia:
"It really helps a lot for children to come back to school and then interact with the other children, participate actively, in teaching and learning, play and sing and things like that. It really helps them to regain much needed sense of normalcy."
9. Medium shot, children learning

Storyline

Picking up the pieces after Typhoon Bopha.

Last year’s super storm in the Philippines killed more than one thousand people and left about a million displaced.

For many children, school is the one thing in their lives that’s certain.

SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Christine Joy Taglocob, 10 years old:
“I want to finish school so I can become a teacher. That’s been my dream since I was small.”

The typhoon destroyed schools across three provinces.

This is the only remaining classroom of the school in Andap in the Compostela Valley.

A UNICEF-supported temporary learning centre benefits teachers and students.

SOUNDBITE (English) Yul Olaya, UNICEF Education in Emergencies Officer:
“It’s better for teachers because they’re able to do their routine. When they’re able to do their routine it is psycho social support for them. It is good for children because we are capturing them again the times that they spend in our learning spaces are times that they are away from harm and danger.”

In Davao Oriental - the province where the typhoon first made landfall – most of the schools have been damaged or destroyed.

Because of the work of UNICEF and the Department of Education, most of the children are now back in school.

SOUNBITE (English) Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF Representative in Indonesia:
"It really helps a lot for children to come back to school and then interact with the other children, participate actively, in teaching and learning, play and sing and things like that. It really helps them to regain much needed sense of normalcy."

The physical reminders of Typhoon Bopha will be around for some time. But for these children school provides a path to recovery.