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UGANDA / CONGOLESE DISABLED REFUGEES
STORY: UGANDA / CONGOLESE REFUGEES
TRT: 2:23
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: KISWAHILI / NATS
DATELINE: 19 JULY 2013, BUBUKWANGA, UGANDA
1. Various shots, refugees fleeing with there belongings
2. Aerial shot, Bubukwanga refugee transit center
3. Adam Mogisho in his wheelchair riding in the camp
4. Close up, wheel chair
5. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adam Mogisho, Congolese Refugee:
“We have others who are very disabled who are not able to move at all. They can’t walk, they just sit down. Adults would rather choose to carry their own children so they leave the disabled behind. These are the challenges we faced as people with disabilities.”
6. Med shot, Adam in his wheelchair
7. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adam Mogisho, Congolese Refugee:
“When I fled, it’s my wheelchair that helped me to escape. I had a lot of problems on the way - no water no food. I have nothing, I am just the way you see me here.”
8. Various shots, Michael Sande crawling to his house
9. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Michael Sande, Congolese Refugee:
“She put me on her back and the small baby on her chest, and we walked to this place.”
10. Med shot, Michael with his family
11. SOUND UP Felista Kavanako Sande’s wife
“I love him”.
12. Med shot, Michael struggling to get on to his wheelchair
13. Med shot, Adam sitting at his repair desk
14. Med shot, Adam repairing a phone
15. Med shot, Adam repairing a radio
16. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adam Mogisho, Congolese Refugee:
“We the disabled we have a saying that says: disability is not inability!
“When being disabled doesn’t mean you should not work, no you should work!”
17. Various shots, Adam wheeling through the camp
Congolese fleeing to Uganda - a hardship for anyone forced to make the journey.
But imagine what it’s like if you can’t walk.
When he was a teenager, polio shriveled Adam’s legs.
Determined, he set up his own electronic repair business and with the money he earned he bought his own wheelchair. It helped get him here.
SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adam Mogisho, Congolese Refugee:
“We have others who are very disabled who are not able to move at all. They can’t walk, they just sit down. Adults would rather choose to carry their own children so they leave the disabled behind. These are the challenges we faced as people with disabilities.”
Adam came with his wife and five children just after the troubles started in mid-July.
SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adam Mogisho, Congolese Refugee:
“When I fled, it’s my wheelchair that helped me to escape. I had a lot of problems on the way - no water no food. I have nothing, I am just the way you see me here.”
Michael Sande was born with his disabilities. When the rebels attacked his North Kivu village a few years ago, his father abandoned him.
He crawled into the bush to hide from the rebels. His wife then saved both him and their baby.
SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Michael Sande, Congolese Refugee:
“She put me on her back and the small baby on her chest, and we walked to this place.”
It was a heroic act.
SOUND UP Felista Kavanako Sande’s wife
“I love him”.
As a refugee Sande struggles to earn a pittance repairing shoes in his tiny house. It supports his family – which has now grown to six children.
The day after Adam reached the camp he set up his repair shop under a tree, the first refugee here to go into business for himself.
He says as long as you have a skill, you don’t have to wait for others to help you.
SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adam Mogisho, Congolese Refugee:
“We the disabled we have a saying that says: disability is not inability!
“When being disabled doesn’t mean you should not work, no you should work!”
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