Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoSOUTH SUDAN / STUDENTS HUMAN RIGHTS CLUBS
Download
There is no media available to download.
Share
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / STUDENTS HUMAN RIGHTS CLUBS
TRT: 02:09
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
DATELINE: 25 APRIL 2018, RUMBEK, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Close up, girls jumping in a circle
2. Med shot, girls jumping
3. Wide shot, Laat and Daniel walking and joking with each other
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Laat Luka, Student at Abukloi Secondary School:
“From the first time I met him I did not know him and he did not know me also so we began to know each other through works. I was good in English and he was good in Mathematics so there we used to share our ideas and he used to calculate for me mathematical numbers, one plus one, I used to share with him verbs and adverbs. So from there that’s when we became friends.”
5. Med shot, Laat and Daniel holding hands and talking to each other
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Deng Joseph, Student at Abukloi Secondary School:
“And I really get surprised that so there is someone who is not from my tribe that can bring me up like that.”
7. Wide shot, men under a tree
8. Med shot, woman serving tea while a Police officer greets another man
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Deng Joseph, Student at Abukloi Secondary School:
“I believe that we are change agents we are not working on tribalism, we are working on how to become educated so that we can bring up our country. As we have seen there is a lot of tribalism so this is where we need to help each other. Now we don’t call ourselves from any tribe. No, we are a family. We are like brothers and sisters so that how we knew each other and I’m very happy that I have a friend like him.”
10. Wide shot, Peace and Human Rights club community event
11. Med shot, Police Officer with gun
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gibril Allan Turay, UNMISS Civil Affairs Officer:
“The animosity that used to set in among the students is dying out gradually and because of this we have now decided to strengthen the weaker schools so that they can lift up. But those particular schools that have succeeded with our strategy, we now want to make sure that they move out to communities and start to propagate peace messages to these particular communities to see the uniqueness of working together or living together within the school being transmitted to the communities.”
13. Med shot, Laat and Daniel kidding around
Students at Abukloi Secondary School in Rumbek, in the Western Lakes region of South Sudan have formed Peace and Human Rights clubs, calling for peace and an end to violence perpetuated by ethnic divisions.
Their friendship efforts at school have so far have paid off spectacularly well. Now they are taking aim at creating harmony between their respective home communities as well.
With the support of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Ministry of Education, the clubs were launched back in 2016 to promote peace and push for a change of attitudes between students belonging to different ethnic groups.
Laat Luka and Daniel Deng Joseph have broken ethnic boundaries and became friends exemplifying a new change in the hearts and minds of South Sudan’s future generation.
Nineteen-year-old Laat says that when he first went to the school, he soon realized that he was different from the other students and that they were different from him, but despite this, bonds were formed.
SOUNDBITE (English) Laat Luka, Student at Abukloi Secondary School:
“From the first time I met him I did not know him and he did not know me also so we began to know each other through works. I was good in English and he was good in Mathematics so there we used to share our ideas and he used to calculate for me mathematical numbers, one plus one, I used to share with him verbs and adverbs. So from there that’s when we became friends.”
His friend Daniel is just as happy about their strong partnership.
SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Deng Joseph, Student at Abukloi Secondary School:
“And I really get surprised that so there is someone who is not from my tribe that can bring me up like that.”
Laat, Daniel and the other students have been encouraged to act as ‘agents of change’ and relay messages of peace to their families and communities.
SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Deng Joseph, Student at Abukloi Secondary School:
“I believe that we are change agents we are not working on tribalism, we are working on how to become educated so that we can bring up our country. As we have seen there is a lot of tribalism so this is where we need to help each other. Now we don’t call ourselves from any tribe. No, we are a family. We are like brothers and sisters so that how we knew each other and I’m very happy that I have a friend like him.”
During the event organised by the UN Mission, students met with community leaders, youth and women’s groups to preach peace and call for a stop to intercommunal violence that has been marred the region.
SOUNDBITE (English) Gibril Allan Turay, UNMISS Civil Affairs Officer:
“The animosity that used to set in among the students is dying out gradually and because of this we have now decided to strengthen the weaker schools so that they can lift up. But those particular schools that have succeeded with our strategy, we now want to make sure that they move out to communities and start to propagate peace messages to these particular communities to see the uniqueness of working together or living together within the school being transmitted to the communities.”
For now, hopes to erode tribalism and build a peaceful South Sudan lies in friendships like Laat and Daniel’s.
