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STORY: SOMALIA / PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
TRT: 2.41
SOURCE: UNSOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SOMALI /NATS
DATELINE: 3 DECEMBER 2014, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
1. Wide shot, Hilaac UK Restaurant sign / two participants entering thevenue
2. Med shot, another participant arriving
3. Med shot, participant entering the conference hall
4. Wide shot, participants listening to speeches
5. Close up shot, Somalia Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN)banner
6. Med shot, participant listening to speech
7. Med shot, participants listening
8. Med shot, Farah addressing the participants
9. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohamed Ali Farah, Chairperson,Somali Disability Empowerment Network (Soden):
“This is a joyous day for disabled Somalis, we use this day to conduct awareness campaigns and share our needs and challenges with the rest of the public. Somalia is part of the global community and so thisday is important to us because the number of disabled people here is very high, it is considered to be 20 percent of the population.”
10. Med shot, participants listening
11. Close up, Ahmed listening
12. Med shot, female participants at the forum
13. Close up,Habiba Mohamed,
14. Med shot, woman speaking
15. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Habiba Mohamed, Disabled Person:
“We need care, just like other human beings. We also need international and local support. Though we are disabled people, we do not want to see our children face the same challenges.”
16. Close up, mobile phone
17. Med shot, Ahmed Hassan Warsame listening to his voice-enabledmobile phone
18. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Ahmed Hassan Warsame, Chairman, Somalia Association For The Blind:
“My mobile phone speaks to me. If I want to check my contacts, it tells me. If I want to use my camera, the voice function guides me. It’s a positive development that my phone can directly communicate to me. For example, I use a computer. I can tell my D drive from my C drive. I can get anything out or open any document I want to, because the computer speaks has voice-enabling software to guide me.”
19. Close up, Ahmed Warsame holding a cane
20. Med shot, Ahmed Warsame addressing the gathering
21. Wide shot, Ahmed Warsame speaking to participants
In Mogadishu, Somalia‟s capital, dozens of persons with disabilities today gathered at the popular Hilaac UK Restaurant to mark the International Day OF Persons with Disabilities and discuss the challenges they face in everyday life.
The event was organised by the Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN), an umbrella group that advocates for the rights of disabled people in the country that is still recovering from decades-long civil war.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohamed Ali Farah, Chairperson,Somali Disability Empowerment Network (Soden):
“This is a joyous day for disabled Somalis. We use this day to conduct awareness campaigns and share our needs and challenges with the rest of the public. Somalia is part of the global community and so this day is important to us because the number of disabled people here is very high - it is considered to be 20 percent of th
e population,”
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Habiba Mohamed, Disabled Person:
“We need care, just like other human beings. We also need international and local support. Though we are disabled people, we do not want to see our children face the same challenges,” said Habiba Mohamed, a participant at the event.
The global theme for International Day of Persons With Disabilities this year is „Sustainable Development And The Promise Of Technology‟. The chairperson of the Somalia Association for the Blind, Ahmed Hassan Warsame, champions the use of technology to assist disabled people to live productively.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Ahmed Hassan Warsame, Chairman, Somalia Association For The Blind:
“My mobile phone speaks to me. If I want to check my contacts, it tells me. If I want to use my camera, the voice function guides me. It’s a positive development that my phone can directly communicate to me. For example, I use a computer. I can tell my D drive from my C drive. I can get anything out or open any document I want to, because the computer speaks has voice-enabling software to guide me,”
Warsame also urged the other members of Somali society not to view their fellow disabled citizens as helpless or as a burden.
Somalia‟s Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed and First Lady Sahra Hassan separately addressed the gathering via mobile phone, loudspeakers and sign language translators. They both pledged government support and the protection of basic rights.
