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STORY: MYANMAR / COMMUNITY RECONCILIATION
TRT: 0:59
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: RAKHINE /NATS
DATELINE: 4 JULY 2017, MAUNGDAW, MYANMAR
1. Close up, pastries being fried
2. Tracking shot, Momo in shop
3. Wide shot, pastry shop
4. Close up, Momo
5. Med shot, man cooking pastry
6. Tilt up, Momo and a helper
7. Various shots, pastries being fried and served
8. SOUNDBITE (Rakhine) Momo, business woman:
“It’s very important to work together. If he is absent from work, I have difficulty doing the job, if he is absent, I won’t be able to work. So it’s very important to be together always.”
9. Various shots, butchers and their meat
10. SOUNDBITE (Rakhine) Momo, business woman:
“It brings income so I can send the children to school and pay for hospital fees. This market is important the family. It supports the whole family.”
11. Tracking shot, market
12. Various shots, Momo working
A market in Maungdaw, supported by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), brings different sects of the community from Rakhine State together. Hindus, Muslims and Rakhine put aside their differences and work together in peace on a daily basis. The market helps build bridges between divided communities in Myanmar who have been long divided by violence and persecution.
Momo, a pastry stall owner sells hundreds of sweet and savory pastries every day. She is a Rakhine. Her employees are a Muslim and a Hindu.
SOUNDBITE (Rakhine) Momo, business woman:
“It’s very important to work together. If he is absent from work, I have difficulty doing the job, if he is absent, I won’t be able to work. So it’s very important to be together always.”
In a community which has long been divided by violence, Momo is one of many vendors in this market who put their differences aside and work together to earn a living.
SOUNDBITE (Rakhine) Momo, business woman:
“It brings income so I can send the children to school and pay for hospital fees. This market is important the family. It supports the whole family.”
Violence in Rakhine State has left thousands of people displaced. Also, around a million of people are stateless.
