Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoMAURITANIA / REFUGEE EDUCATION
Download
There is no media available to download.
Share
STORY: MAURITANIA / REFUGEE EDUCATION
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 26-28 JULY 2012, MBERA CAMP, MAURITANIA
1. Wide shot, welcome centre in Mbera camp
2. Med shot, refugee girl receiving T shirt
3. Med shot, refugee kids playing with toy
4. Close up, refugee girls playing with toy, counting
5. Wide shot, refugee kid sliding
6. Wide shot, inside of welcome centre
7. Med shot, volunteers playing with refugee kids
8. Med shot, volunteers playing with refugee kids
9. Close up, refugee children singing
10. Med shot, woman (volunteer) helping refugee child wearing his T shirt
11. Med shot, volunteers playing with refugee kids
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Meissa Walat Abdoulaye, Volunteer:
“We only have this space. We made a programme. Every day sixty children come here for some schooling.”
13. Various shots, daily life at the Mbera camp
14. Wide shot, refugee children playing in the camp
15. Various shots, life scenes at the Mbera camp
16. Wide shot, water point in the camp
17. Close up, water point getting charged
18. Wide shot, refugee women walking
19. Med shot, refugee woman waiting for her tent
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Philippe Creppy, UNHCR Mauritania:
“We will go see her, we will find her a tent.”
21. Med shot, Els Taleb taking care of refugee baby
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Ely Taleb, Nurse:
“I do consultations every day, about fifty or sixty consultations.”
23. Wide shot, Mbera refugee camp
24. Med shot, Mohamed and his brother studying with their mother
25. Close up, Mohamed reading
26. Wide shot, Mohamed and his brother studying with their mother
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Maissa Walat Mohammed, Malian refugee:
“We have to teach our children at home so that they don’t lose all the school year.”
28. Various shots, volunteers preparing
29. Med shot, volunteers playing with refugee kids
30. Wide shot, interior of new school tent
31. Close up, blackboard
32. Various shots, refugee children in the camp
33. Med shot, volunteers with refugee children
34. Wide shot, refugee children singing
A welcome centre in a tent in the Sahel desert.
Some children get a T-shirt, others get new toys, it’s not much but it brings a few smiles to these young Malian refugees.
This child friendly centre set up by the UN Children’s Fund, UNCEF, and the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has registered over 500 children between the ages of three and six. It accommodates about fifty a day.
Twenty-six volunteers oversee the children, trying to give them some schooling.
SOUNDBITE (French) Meissa Walat Abdoulaye, Volunteer:
“We only have this space. We made a program. Every day sixty children come here for some schooling.”
Mbera camp came into being over six months ago. Attacks in northern Mali sent thousands across the border into Mauritania. All the children here saw their school year cut short. Their education was cut off.
This camp is in a desolate area of the Sahara desert. It takes days of driving through the desert to get food, water and supplies here.
Initially the priority for UNHCR was shelter. This new refugee woman needs a tent.
SOUNDBITE (French) Philippe Creppy, UNHCR Mauritania:
“We will go see her, we will find her a tent.”
Setting up medical care centre came next.
SOUNDBITE (French) Ely Taleb, Nurse:
“I do consultations every day, about fifty or sixty consultations.”
Then attention turned to the need for schooling.
Mohamed is ten years old. His little brother Ousmane is six. They were in third and first year until they fled with their mother.
SOUNDBITE (French) Maissa Walat Mohammed, Malian refugee:
“We have to teach our children at home so that they don’t lose all the school year.”
Parents and camp organizers have rallied to put together to help give their children some schooling. Former teachers have taken to the classrooms again. And four schools in tents have been prepared for the upcoming school year.
At least twenty percent of the refugee children will benefit from these efforts. Meanwhile UNHCR and its partners are working to mobilize donor support so that more children can be given access to some education while they are here, living in exile.
