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STORY: ETHIOPIA / SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEE SISTERS
TRT: 02:48
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESATRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NUER / NATS
DATELINE: 28-30 AUGUST 2019, GAMBELLA, ETHIOPIA
1. Close up, Nyamach, South Sudanese refugee looking on
2. Wide shot, Nyamach sitting with her sister, Nyakuong, South Sudanese refugee
3. Med shot, Nyamach preparing food as Nyakuong lights fire
4. Med shot, Nyamach sitting in the kitchen
5. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“If we disagree, I just keep quiet because I know she’s just a child.”
6. Various shots, Nyamach preparing food
7. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“Our parents died before the war. When fighting reached our hometown, we left.”
8. Close up, Nyamach fanning fire as she cooks
9. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“We just followed the crowds. It was very difficult. We fled with nothing. When we arrived, we got help and some clothes.”
10. Wide shot, children playing
11. Med shot, child standing
12. Close up, young child clapping
13. Wide shot, children in class
14. Med shot, children singing in class
15. Med shot, young girl standing, looking on
16. Close up, children playing
17. Close up, Nyamach looking on
18. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“I don’t want anybody to take care of me. I take care of my sister.”
19. Med shot, Nyamach and Nyakuong cooking together
20. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“I feel responsible. If we do not have enough food, I let my sister eat first. I like to see her happy.”
Close up, Nyamach and Nyakuong sitting together
21. Close up, Nyakuong’s face
22. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyakuong, South Sudanese Refugee:
“She takes good care of me. I love my sister.”
23. Wide shot, Nyakuong smiling
24. Various shots, Nyakuong playing with other children
25. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“I feel happy on the playground, because I play and forget all the things that
worry me.”
26. Close up, Nyamach’s hands kneading flour in bowl
27. Wide shot, Nyakuong and Nyamach sitting together
28. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“My sister watches what I’m doing and learns from me.”
29. Med shot, Nyamach cooking
30. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nyamach, South Sudanese Refugee:
“I’m hoping for a good job one day.”
31. Close up, Nyamach looking on
32. Wide shot, Nyamach and Nyakuong standing in front of their hut
33. Med shot, Nyamach and Nyakuong standing together, laughing
Two South Sudanese sisters are building a new life in Ethiopia’s Jewi refugee camp.
Nyamach Lul has known more loss and sorrow in her 16 years on earth than many other people in a lifetime. The teenager first lost her father in an attack by an armed group, and then her mother to illness.
After fighting broke out in South Sudan, she fled to safety in Ethiopia -- but lost her home. The one constant in her life has been her younger sister, 13-year-old Nyakoang. For the past three years, the Lul sisters have made a home for themselves in Jewi camp, one of eight camps hosting more than 300,000 South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia’s western Gambella region.
The Lul sisters fled South Sudan in 2016, following thousands of other people who were also desperate to escape the killing, raping and razing of villages by warring parties.
South Sudan’s conflict has been a catastrophe for children, who account for two-thirds of the more than 2 million South Sudanese living in exile. Not only has the violence robbed them of their homes, childhoods and schooling, it has also left thousands of children fending for themselves.
In Ethiopia more than 42,000 refugee children are unaccompanied or separated from their families.
