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STORY: AFGHANISTAN / WOMEN RIGHTS CHILDREN EDUCATION
TRT: 4:18
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 JUNE 2022, HERAT PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN
1. Various shots, women working on computers, UNHCR women business center
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Refugee Agency Deputy High Commissioner:
“I’m leaving with great hope. I have to say the women here are incredibly resilient. They talked about education. They talked about the need for livelihoods. They talked about wanting to be a part of the public society in Afghanistan. They wanted they want to educate their girls. And so, I leave with hope that they have a strong courage in terms of wanting to take their lives forward and what they're doing here, for example, in the center, to be able to use their skills, to be able to try to network with others, learn computer skills, try to connect through the Internet, online education and so on. That despite the constraints there, they're moving forward. That doesn't mean that we can't forget them.”
3. Various shots, primary schools, classrooms with students and teachers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Refugee Agency Deputy High Commissioner:
“UNHCR, the Un Refugee Agency, continues to support this country, as it has for 40 years, but intensively now to try to support internally displaced those returnees, both internally displaced, but also refugees. We need the support, the very, very strong support of the international community to be able to do that with ourselves, our partners working very closely in communities like Herat to be able to make their lives here just a little bit better and to allow people to prosper as they will if they're given the opportunity.”
5. Various shots, primary schools, classrooms with students and teachers
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly T. Clements, UN Refugee Agency Deputy High Commissioner:
“I met a bunch of enthusiastic young, young girls. Some were taking the class over again just so that they could have an education. The level seven and eight were still in level six because they wanted to continue to get an education. They wanted to learn. They wanted to be with their friends. They wanted to be in a supportive environment. And this is something we, too, want to be able to support. We've heard support here for girls’ education. We need to see that expanded the opportunities that they have for their futures. The futures of Afghanistan depend on it.”
7. Various shots, Clements Visiting primary school, and exhibition
UN Refugee Agency Deputy High Commissioner Kelly T. Clements visited Afghanistan this week to draw more attention to the Afghanistan crisis, the rights of women, and access to education for all children.
Clements said that women in Afghanistan are “incredibly resilient.”
She noted that women “despite the constraints there, they're moving forward. That doesn't mean that we can't forget them.”
UNHCR, the Un Refugee Agency, continues to support this Afghanistan, “as it has for 40 years, but intensively now to try to support internally displaced, those returnees, both internally displaced, but also refugees,” said Clements.
She added, “We need the support, the very, very strong support of the international community to be able to do that with ourselves, our partners working very closely in communities like Herat to be able to make their lives here just a little bit better and to allow people to prosper as they will if they're given the opportunity.”
