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STORY: LEBANON/ SYRIA REFUGEE EDUCATION
TRT: 2:41
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC/ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 9 JUNE 2014, ZGHARTE, LEBANON
1. Wide shot, Baha studying
2. Close up, Baha studying
3. Various shots, Baha studying
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baha, Syrian Refugee:
“With all that we've witnessed, we've been forced to grow up fast. At first, when the planes bombed us, I was scared. But then I got used to it. We used to go out and watch the rockets as they fell.”
5. Wide shot, Baha standing outside
6. Various shots, Baha’s face
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baha, Syrian Refugee:
“I decided to work because I got very bored at home. Staying in the house here, there is nowhere to play, and I miss our village. At work, I can forget, I go here and there, get stuff, I forget.”
8. Wide shot, Baha leaving house to go to school
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baha, Syrian Refugee:
“I didn’t waste any time, the following day I took the ID card and went to register. The headmaster took my name and registered me.”
10. Wide shot, Baha getting on the school bus
11. Wide shot, bus leaving
12. Various shots Baha talking to his friend
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Vanan Mandjikian, UNHCR Lebanon:
“In second shift schools most of the directors, most of the teachers are trying to simplify the curriculum, they are trying even the maths, the sciences, they are trying to translate it into Arabic, use the Arabic version of the Lebanese curriculum to explain to the students because the students who came from Syria they do not know a foreign language in French which is used in Lebanese schools.”
14. Various shots, Baha in the classroom
15. Close up, Baha studying
Thirteen-year-old Baha is preparing for school. He arrived in Lebanon from Syria a year and a month ago, he recounts in detail.
Baha’s family lost their business, their home and their innocence in the war.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baha, Syrian Refugee:
“With all that we've witnessed, we've been forced to grow up fast. At first, when the planes bombed us, I was scared. But then I got used to it. We used to go out and watch the rockets as they fell.”
When they arrived in Lebanon, Baha had missed nearly one year of education. For few months he worked 12-hour days in a supermarket, delivering goods to homes.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baha, Syrian Refugee:
“I decided to work because I got very bored at home. Staying in the house here, there is nowhere to play, and I miss our village. At work, I can forget, I go here and there, get stuff, I forget.”
Early this year, Baha heard about a nearby school that had a second shift in the afternoon for Syrian children.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Baha, Syrian Refugee:
“I didn’t waste any time, the following day I took the ID card and went to register. The headmaster took my name and registered me.”
There are over a million Syrian refugees now residing in Lebanon, over 350 thousand are school age. UNHCR is funding 90 thousand locations in first and second shifts at school.
SOUNDBITE (English) Vanan Mandjikian, UNHCR Lebanon:
“In second shift schools most of the directors, most of the teachers are trying to simplify the curriculum, they are trying even the maths, the sciences, they are trying to translate it into Arabic, use the Arabic version of the Lebanese curriculum to explain to the students because the students who came from Syria they do not know a foreign language in French which is used in Lebanese schools.”
Baha registered in January this year, he is already fluent in French.
He has ambitions to become a nuclear physicist. He says he wants to be the most famous person in the world and enter the Guinness book of records.
Now back at school, he is one step closer to achieving his dreams.
