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STORY: LEBANON / SYRIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN
TRT: 2:42
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 MAY 2019, OUZAI, BEIRUT, LEBANON
1.Close up, Fahed
2.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fahed, Syrian Refugee:
“My employer used to beat me , if I couldn’t carry something he would beat me and tell me I had to.”
3. Various shots, Fahed writing in class
4.Close up, Fahed on the board
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fahed, Syrian Refugee:
“Today I am studying at the Center. It’s very nice here. I learn, study and laugh with my friends.”
6. Various shots of Fahed writing on the board
7. Various shots of students in class
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Randa Ajami, Co-founder Borderless Center:
“You are taking them off the street. You are providing them with something that they would love to have and that their parents would love to have and that’s education.”
9. Various shots, teacher in class
10. UPSOUND (English) Lina Attar Ajami, Co-Founder of Borderless Centre:
“All of them are kids who don’t go to school or don’t stand a chance to be admitted in school. What we do is get them here, give them basic education and try to catch-up with their levels of education.”
11. Various shots, founders Lina and Randa talking to a class
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali, Syrian Refugee:
“I come here to study Arabic, English and math.”
13. Various shots, kids in playground of school
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali, Syrian Refugee:
“School is more important than work…. But I have to work to help my parents.”
15. Various shots, computer class
16. Various shots, classroom
In Beirut’s suburbs, a center is providing former refugee street children and working children with an opportunity to learn. The Borderless NGO center welcomes 150 refugee kids helping them catch up with their education.
Last year, Fahed worked 10 hours a day. He was just 10 years old.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fahed, Syrian Refugee:
“My employer used to beat me , if I couldn’t carry something he would beat me and tell me I had to.”
Now, Fahed is safe and attending an informal school for refugee children in Beirut.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fahed, Syrian Refugee:
“Today I am studying at the Center. It’s very nice here. I learn, study and laugh with my friends.”
Many of the kids are former street children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Randa Ajami, Co-founder Borderless Center:
“You are taking them off the street. You are providing them with something that they would love to have and that their parents would love to have and that’s education.”
UPSOUND (English) Lina Attar Ajami, Co-Founder of Borderless Centre:
“All of them are kids who don’t go to school or don’t stand a chance to be admitted in school. What we do is get them here, give them basic education and try to catch-up with their levels of education.”
Lina is Syrian and Randa is Lebanese. They opened the center together.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali, Syrian Refugee:
“I come here to study Arabic, English and math.”
The Ministry of Education recently certified the Centre. It accommodates 150 kids and most have stopped working. Ali, though, still works in the afternoon.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali, Syrian Refugee:
“School is more important than work…. But I have to work to help my parents.”
The Centre depends on donations. But it is often touch and go.
The school needs sustainable support to keep going. If not, many children risk being back on the street, losing their opportunity to thrive and to dream of a better future.
