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STORY: SOMALIA / DISABLED PEACE
TRT: 2.35
SOURCE: UNSOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SOMALI / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 SEPTEMBER 2014, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
1. Wide shot from the back, people with disabilities attending a dialogue on peace
2. Med shot, participants at the peace dialogue
3. Med Close up, Mohamed Ali Farah, Director General of the Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN) addressing participants
4. Med shot, participants
5. Close up shot, participant at the dialogue
6. Wide shot, participants attending the peace dialogue
7. Med shot, participants attending the dialogue
8. Med shot, participants at the dialogue
9. Med shot, one of the participants speaking
10. Close up shot, one of the participants speaking
11. Med shot, part of the audience
12. Close up, the audience
13. Wide shot, the participants
14. SOUNDBITE (English), Mohamed Ali Farah, Director General of the Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN):
“People With Disabilities (PWD) are vulnerable people about peace. PWDs are stigmatized in this country. PWDs are discriminated all over the country and PWDs mostly can’t live without peace, because they can’t run when the explosions happen, they can’t run when the rockets sound; they can’t run, they can’t do anything like others.”
15. Wide shot, some of the participants singing
16. Wide shot, participants singing and dancing
17. Med shot, entertainers perform skit
18. Med close up shot, entertainers in a skit
19. Med shot, audience clapping
20. SOUNDBITE (Somali): Basiiro Abdi Mohamed, visually impaired participants:
“I am very excited to see that people with disabilities can come together to celebrate peace. This makes me happy. It also encourages me and I feel that people with disabilities are not just disabled but can do something on their own to empower them.”
21. Med shot, Basiiro Abdi Mohamed aided to walk
22. Med close up, part of the audience
People with Disabilities in Mogadishu have made an appeal to fellow citizens in Somalia to bring to an end all acts of conflict, as they sought to highlight their plight
According to the Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN), there are an estimated 30,000 people living with disabilities in Mogadishu.
A section of the people living with disabilities participated in a dialogue in which they discussed the challenges they have endured during the many years of war in Somalia and the importance of peace in their lives.
The major challenges faced that emerged from the day’s discussions include high levels of illiteracy, lack of basic skills, extreme poverty and stigmatization, among others.
Discussants called for an end to civil war, which they identified as a major cause of disability through bullet wounds and improvised explosive devices, among other tools of war.
Mohamed Ali Farah, the Director General of the Somali Disability Empowerment Network, noted that PWD were among the people at highest risk in any situation of conflict given the physical limitations they face.
He said that “People with Disabilities are vulnerable people about peace. PWDs are stigmatized in this country. PWDs are discriminated all over the country and PWDs mostly can’t live without peace, because they can’t run when the explosions happen, they can’t run when the rockets sound they can’t run, they can’t do anything like others.”
