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STORY: CHAD / MIA FARROW DARFUR REFUGEES
TRT: 5:16
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC, ENGLISH
DATELINE: 14 FEBRUARY, GOZ BEIDA, CHAD
1. Wide shot, women carrying buckets
2. Wide shot, women at taps
3. Close up, scraping water
4. Close up, pouring water
5. Med shot, boy pouring water
6. Close up, pouring water
7. Close up, scooping water
8. Wide shot, woman pouring water
9. Close up, tying jerry cans
10. Wide shot, putting jerry cans on donkey
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aisha Mahamat, Darfur Refugee:
“They raped women and killed men. They attacked all of the small villages around Tandusa and the people fled to Tandusa for protection, but the Janjaweed found out and they attacked, they burned down the whole village.”
12. Med shot, woman with child tying jerry cans
13. Close up, tying jerry cans
14. Med shot, mother and child
15. Med shot, Mia Farrow talking to group
16. Close up, Mia Farrow
17. Wide shot, well
18. Med shot, woman with jerry can on head
19. Med shot, baby
20. Wide shot, Mia Farrow with Abdullah
21. Close up, Abdullah
22. Med shot, Abdullah talking to Mia Farrow
23. Close up, Abdullah's feet
24. Med shot, Abdullah talking to Mia
25. Close up, Adam
26. Med shot, Mia Farrow with Adam
27. Med shot, women walking
28. Wide shot, Mia Farrow with group of women, hugging Hawaye
29. Med shot, Mia hugging Hawaye
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
“It’s happy to see my friends like Hawaye, we met in 2006, she had just come, her village had been destroyed and she was in a very emotional frame of mind. It was among the worst years of the violence and people were still coming in from Darfur. So I feel overjoyed to find her again and to see her again.”
31. Med shot, little girl behind fence
32. Med shot, two boys
33. Med shot, Mia Farrow handing out birth certificate
34. Tilt up, birth certificate to boy
35. Med shot, over the shoulder, Mia Farrow talking to women
36. Med shot, woman sewing as Mia looks on
37. Close up, woman's feet on sewing machine
38. Med shot, little boy drinking from pipe
39. Med shot, Mia talking to mother with baby
40. Wide shot, women behind fence
41. Close up, women behind fence
42. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“There is no more visceral plea from the human heart than to be safe, to go home and I hope for that, for Hawaye and for everyone here.”
43. Med shot, woman
44. Med shot, woman tying basket to donkey
45. Med shot, little girl
46. Med shot, little boy drinking from pipe
47. Med shot, women with buckets
48. Med shot, little boy drinking from pipe
49. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“We could not know what would happen if we saw loved ones killed and raped and our own homes and towns were burned. We can't know if we would have the courage of these women and the generosity of spirit to care for each other and to care for their children so beautifully and prioritise now, even above their own safety they want their children to be educated and to be well.
50. Close up, kids behind fence
51. Med shot, woman with child
52. Med shot, little boy
53. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aisha Mahamat, Darfur refugee :
“We women here are mostly illiterate, so for us, our main worry, our main concern is the education of our children. We weren't able to go to school because of the fighting so we hope that our children at least will be able to and that in the future they'll be able to support us.”
54. Close up, feet
55. Close up, woman
56. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“I've learned a lot from the women of Darfur about courage and humanity, resilience and triumph, even in the face of all the indignities and atrocities, the triumph of human spirit exemplified here with my sisters.”
57. Close up, Mia and Hawaye saying goodbye
58. Med shot, old women
59. Med shot, woman
60. Wide shot, boys driving donkey cart.
There are over 280 000 Sudanese refugees living in Chad. Most of them have fled Darfur, most of them have fled the Janjaweed militias that killed friends and family members, that burned down their homes and thousands have settled in camps near the town of Goz Beida in eastern Chad.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aisha Mahamat, Darfur refugee:
“They raped women and killed men. They attacked all of the small villages around Tandusa and the people fled to Tandusa for protection, but the Janjaweed found out and they attacked, they burned down the whole village.”
In fleeing they left everything behind, their belongings, their families, their lives.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Mia Farrow has been here 14 times in just six years. She has a deep affinity with the people of Darfur and, with their way of life under threat, has been working with them to create an archive of their stories, their history, their culture and traditions.
As she passed through the various camps she met with old friends.
Abdullah Idriss Zaid had his eyes cut out by Janjaweed knives. Farrow first met him in the tiny Goz Beida medical centre in 2006 just after he had been attacked and held his hand until his father arrived.
She also visited nine year old Adam Bakhit, who lost both his arms and an eye when he and a friend found an unexploded grenade. And in the Djabal refugee camp she reunited with Hawaye Matar, whom she hadn't seen since her first visit here.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“It’s happy to see my friends like Hawaye, we met in 2006, she had just come, her village had been destroyed and she was in a very emotional frame of mind. It was among the worst years of the violence and people were still coming in from Darfur.”
UNICEF has been working with the displaced communities to register their children and during her visit, Farrow helped hand out the recently completed birth certificates. She also met with UNICEF-supported women's groups that make soap and clothing to survive here.
The visits are bittersweet, her friends are alive and as well as can be expected, but it’s still not safe to return home.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“There is no more visceral plea from the human heart than to be safe, to go home and I hope for that, for Hawaye and for everyone here.”
But for everyone here, home is a world away and for some it no longer even exists.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“We could not know what would happen if we saw loved ones killed and raped and our own homes and towns were burned. We can't know if we would have the courage of these women and the generosity of spirit to care for each other and to care for their children so beautifully and prioritize now, even above their own safety they want their children to be educated and to be well.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aisha Mahamat, Darfur Refugee:
“We women here are mostly illiterate, so for us, our main worry, our main concern is the education of our children. We weren't able to go to school because of the fighting so we hope that our children at least will be able to and that in the future they'll be able to support us.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“I've learned a lot from the women of Darfur about courage and humanity, resilience and triumph, even in the face of all the indignities and atrocities, the triumph of human spirit exemplified here with my sisters. It’s hard to leave.”
