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STORY: UN / STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN (SOWC) ADVANCER
TRT: 3:11
SOURCE: UNICEF
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CREOLE / SINDHI / URDU / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT / FILE
FILE - 17 DECEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, band of young boys singing
2. Wide shot, long queue of people in front of a white building
3. Wide shot, construction workers amongst rubble
4. Med shot, man outside tent
5. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Youri Belcomb, 13 Year Old:
“This song talks about the way people can clean up Haiti, to get rid of the bad and replace it
with the good, to make a good Haiti”
FILE - 3 OCTOBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
6. Wide shot, rubble and destruction caused by the earthquake
FILE - PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI, 17 DECEMBER 2010
7. Med shot, band of young boys singing
FILE - 21 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
8. Med shot, boys sitting by a bucket and playing with water
9. Med shot, boy walking by a sewage canal
FILE - 15 AUGUST 2010, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN
10. Wide shot, boys crossing the flooded river
FILE - 25 JANUARY 2011, MUZAFFARGARH DISTRICT, PAKISTAN
11. Close up, young girls
FILE - 17 DECEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
12. Close up, little girl with braided hair
FILE - 26 JULY 2010, STUNG TRENG PROVINCE, CAMBODIA
13. Med shot, boys in uniform walking on the street
FILE - 21 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
14. Wide shot, people sitting by the sewage canal
FILE - 26 OCTOBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
15. Wide shot, people standing in queue snaking around a field
FILE - 10 DECEMBER 2010, KPOTO, BENIN
16. Wide shot, destroyed houses by the river
FILE – UNKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
17. Wide shot, camp for people displaced by the floods
18. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Sajjad Shoro, 17 year old:
“I had big dreams. I wanted to get an education. I wanted to get a job. I wanted to see the
children in my village educated; I wanted to see the village prosper. But the floods came and
drowned all our dreams.”
FILE - 20 DECEMBER 2010, BORDER BETWEEN HAITI AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
19. Close up, boy sitting on the street
FILE - 18 JUNE 2010, DAMASCUS, SYRIA
20. Med shot, girl with head covered walking on the street along with a boy
FILE - SEPTEMBER 2010, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
21. Close shot, boys crowding around each other
FILE - 28-29 JANUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
22. Med shot, girl washing clothes in a bucket
FILE - 8 FEBRUARY 2010, CHINWAGHARI VILLAGE, NIGER
23. Wide shot, kids sitting at the back of a donkey cart
FILE - 31 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR, PAKISTAN
24. Wide shot, flood refugees sitting by the road side
FILE - 11 MAY 2010, HAMUKUNGU, UGANDA
25. Wide shot, little girl standing in the river, filling water in her can
FILE - 15 DECEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
26. Close up, girl standing behind steel sheet
FILE – UNKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
27. Med shot, woman hands baby to Farzana Fayaz
28. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Farzana Fayaz, Child Bride:
“It hurts me. It hurts me a lot as I wanted to study and make a life for myself. People don’t realize that an educated mother can raise her children better.”
FILE – UNKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
29. Various, still photos
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Morgan, UNICEF Director of Policy and Practice:
"Young people certainly need hope, they need opportunities, they need to feel that they are growing up into a society of which they'll be full members and able to play their part...earn their livelihood and start families. We can do a lot by working with adolescents and encouraging them as participants in addressing and solving the problems including in emergency or humanitarian criss situations. We need to see adolescents not only as vulnerable and in need of support but also people who themselves can make contributions to solutions"
FILE – DECEMBER 2009, BENIN
31. Wide shot, teacher with students walking to school
32. Wide shot, students and teacher in classroom, kids raising hands to answer a question
FILE – 22 JULY 2010, BIHAR, INDIA
33. Med shot, three boys in school uniforms sitting and reading
FILE – 31 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR, PAKISTAN
34. Wide shot, boys playing cricket
FILE – UNDATED, ANGOLA
35. Close up, students in classroom writing on their notebooks
FILE – 27 SEPTEMBER - 4 OCTOBER 2009EASTERN SRI LANKA
36. Wide shot, girls in uniforms holding hands and walking
FILE – OCTOBER 2009, GANTA, MONROVIA, LIBERIA
37. Med shot, student writing on notebook in the foreground, teacher writing on blackboard in the background
FILE – 15 FEBRUARY 2010, AL-HASAKEH, SYRIA
38. Med shot, girls sitting in a row and writing
FILE – UNKNOWN DATE AND LOCATION
39. Wide shot, adolescents at the stage during the Children's Climate Change Forum
Haiti’s generation next, inspiring others to rebuild their country through music.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Youri Belcomb, 13 Year Old:
“This song talks about the way people can clean up Haiti, to get rid of the bad and replace it
with the good, to make a good Haiti.”
A year after the earthquake devastated the country, this hip hop band is urging young people to brave the odds, step up and create positive change
Nearly half of the Haitian population is under 18, but the lack of opportunities has cast a dark cloud over the future of country
From Haiti to Pakistan, millions of adolescents face an increasingly uncertain world. A world where political turmoil, the economic recession, rising unemployment, escalating humanitarian crises and climate change are presenting unprecedented challenges
SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Sajjad Shoro, 17 year old:
“I had big dreams. I wanted to get an education. I wanted to get a job. I wanted to see the
children in my village educated; I wanted to see the village prosper. But the floods came and
drowned all our dreams.”
Today, more than a billion adolescents between 10 and 19 years old stand at the crossroads between childhood and the adult world.
The majority live in the developing world where the inequities are glaring and the poorest and most marginalized children are most vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.
But over the years, international efforts have focused on early childhood and the resources devoted to adolescents have been extremely limited.
17 year old Farzana, a mother of two children in Pakistan's Punjab province was one of them
SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Farzana Fayaz, Child Bride:
“It hurts me. It hurts me a lot as I wanted to study and make a life for myself. People don’t realize that an educated mother can raise her children better.”
Recognizing the need to turn adolescence into an age of opportunity, UNICEF has placed the youth at the centre of its flagship report ‘State of the World’s Children’.
The report highlights the need to invest in adolescents, to help them navigate this pivotal time and set them on a path where their potential can be realized.
SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Morgan, Director of Policy and Practice, UNICEF:
"Young people certainly need hope, they need opportunities, they need to feel that they are growing up into a society of which they'll be full members and able to play their part...earn their livelihood and start families. We can do a lot by working with adolescents and encouraging them as participants in addressing and solving the problems including in emergency or humanitarian crises situations. We need to see adolescents not only as vulnerable and in need of support but also people who themselves can make contributions to solutions."
Evidence shows that educating and empowering the youth is our best hope of breaking the unending cycles of poverty and inequity.
Through its report, UNICEF is urging all stakeholders to support young people develop the skills and abilities they need to pull themselves out of poverty. It highlights the need to make use of the energy and initiative that adolescents have to offer by involving them in the decision-making process.
