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STORY: BANGLADESH / GRANDI ROHINGYA
TRT: 3:24
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2-3 JULY 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
2-3 JULY 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
1. Various shots, children in classroom singing to learn lessons
2. Close ups, children in classroom
3. Wide shot, teacher instructing children
4. Close ups, girl writing
5. Pan right, Kutupalong area with hills covered with shelters
6. Aerial shot, Kutupalong area with hills covered with shelters
7. Wide shot, children in classroom
8. Med shot, teacher providing English lesson
9. Med shots, child drawing
10. Close up, boy in classroom
11. Close up, notebook
12. Med shot, boys in classroom
13. Med shot, Grandi speaking to children in classroom
14. Med shot, children interacting with Grandi
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“That’s not proper education. So, if we don’t structure that properly, in a manner that is standardized and offers proper curriculum to all children, primary and secondary, you really risk losing big time on a generation of children.”
16. Med shots, Grandi sitting with children in classroom
17. Close up, notebook
18. Close up, Grandi speaking to child
19. Close up, notebook
20. Close up, child in classroom
21. Med shot, men sitting with children in front of shelters
22. Med shot, child giving thumbs up
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“The World Bank has already allocated 480 million in grant money to Bangladesh to improve the conditions of the camps here, but also of the local communities, and really step up the assistance from purely humanitarian and day-to-day, to medium term and developmental.”
24. Wide shot, Grandi at primary healthcare centre
25. Med shot, health worker
26. Med shot, mother holding sick child
27. Tilt up, thermometer to child
28. Various shots, workers building drainage ditch next to brick-paved road
29. Med shot, man running from one shelter to another
30. Wide shot, heavy rain coming down on shelters
31. Close up, rain drops on rope
32. Various shot, rain creating puddles and mud
33. Wide shot, shelters
34. Med shot, man sitting under tree
35. Close up, man sitting under tree
36. Pan right, shelters
37. Med shots, people walking with belongings to be relocated
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited Bangladesh this week to highlight the need for longer-term planning and investment in critical sectors like health care and education to help nearly one million Rohingya refugees now in the country.
A choral drill helps these children learn basic lessons.
They are Rohingya refugees, and for most of them, this is the first classroom they have known.
Twenty-nine out of the 40 children here, aged 6 to 11, never went to school in Myanmar.
Only now, in exile in Bangladesh, is that changing. One hundred twenty learning centres supported by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have been set up in the Kutupalong settlement, home to around 700,000 refugees.
Students learn math, English, and Burmese, the official language of Myanmar, preparing for that time when they may be able to go home.
But that homecoming may not be anytime soon – which means schooling, and much else here, needs to be thought of not as a stop-gap, but something more lasting.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said what he saw in the camps was really just ad hoc schools without proper curriculums.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“That’s not proper education. So, if we don’t structure that properly, in a manner that is standardized and offers proper curriculum to all children, primary and secondary, you really risk losing big time on a generation of children.”
Grandi visited refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar accompanied UN Secretary-General António Guterres and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on a two-day visit to Bangladesh. The trip drew attention to the World Bank’s pledge last week of nearly half a billion dollars in grant support for Bangladesh for this purpose. The high-level delegation, which also included UN Population Fund Executive Director Natalia Kanem, focused on projects related to health, education and infrastructure in order to highlight the need for durable solutions.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“The World Bank has already allocated 480 million in grant money to Bangladesh to improve the conditions of the camps here, but also of the local communities, and really step up the assistance from purely humanitarian and day-to-day, to medium term and developmental.”
Another priority for those funds is health care. Centres like this one run by UN agencies and NGOs are delivering front-line medical services to women, men and children.
Infrastructure too is at the top of the UN and World Bank agenda – putting sanitation, roadworks and durable shelters on an already packed priority list.
But this is still an emergency situation. With monsoon rains beating down on the Rohingya settlements, causing landslides and flooding, urgent measures are still sorely needed.
UNHCR said the 950 million USD humanitarian aid plan for the Rohingya is critically underfunded.
The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority who have endured decades of repression and social exclusion in Myanmar. Current conditions in Myanmar do not allow for a safe and dignified return for refugees. UNHCR and UNDP recently agreed with the Government of Myanmar to begin creating those conditions and preserve the right of Rohingya refugees to return if they decide to do so. The UN only supports the return of refugees when it is voluntary and when the conditions are in place for a sustainable life.
