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STORY: CHAD / BACK TO SCHOOL
TRT: 2.44
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: FEBRUARY 2013, CAMP AMBOKO, CHAD
1. Wide shot, group of refugee children playing and singing
2. Med shot, refugee children
3. Wide shot, children running through village
4. Wide shot, refugee woman carrying tub on head, and children, in village crossing road
5. Med shot, two small refugee children in makeshift tent
6. Wide shot, refugees in camp with UNHCR tents
7. Wide shot, man building house with bricks and clay
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“I remember as if it was yesterday, that my grandmother died in front of me but it’s been so long since she’s been dead.”
9. Med shot, Taki Congolo walking in the middle of group of children
10. Med shot, Taki Congolo in classroom
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“I like going to school for my future.”
12. Wide shot, Santhia Manasse walking through refugee camp Amboko
13. Wide shot, Santhia greets mother outside house
14. Med shot, Santhia in classroom writing in notebook
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Santhia Manasse, CAR refugee:
“I go to school so in the future I can help my family.”
16. Pan left, refugee children in school courtyard
17. Wide shot, teacher at blackboard in front of classroom of students
18. Med shot, Santhia Manasse writing in notebook next to classmates
19. Close up, writing in notebook
20. Wide shot, Taki Congolo standing up in classroom
21. SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“Here we are missing books, ball pens! And we ourselves, the students, we come to school dirty. We have no other means.”
22. Wide shot, women’s cooperative meeting dividing funds in Camp Amboko
23. Med shot, supervisor of activities counting money pan
24. Med shot, supervisor of activities counting money
25. Pan, handing out money to refugee woman who shows her share and walks back to group
26. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Judith Manasse, CAR refugee:
“I am struggling for their future now. I pay for the schooling of my daughter and her young brothers as well so that tomorrow all these young can succeed and in exchange they will help us too.”
27. Wide shot, sign of Chad/UNHCR/EU in front of entrance to school with children
28. Wide shot, classroom of children with notebooks
29. SOUNDBITE (French) Olivier Beer, UNHCR representative in Chard:
“When a person is educated they can go home with knowledge and they can contribute to the rehabilitation of their country and the development of their country. It’s a very important goal for us”
30. Wide shot, Taki Congolo writing in notebook on bed at home
31. Close up, hand writing on notebook
32. SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“You know…a man who does not know how to read and write is like a tree that has no roots.”
33. Wide shot, refugee students chanting in classroom
It takes a child’s imagination to forget the daily hardships of living in a refugee camp.
For these young refugees, Camp Amboko is home.
Since 2002, through various conflicts and countries, families have crossed borders into Chad, all in search of security and shelter.
Today, tens of thousands live in refugee camps set up by the UNHCR.
Trying to move forward with their lives.
SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“I remember as if it was yesterday, that my grandmother died in front of me but it’s been so long since she’s been dead.”
Thirteen year old, Taki Congolo grew up in the Congo, until war drove his family out.
He dreams one day of having a life outside the refugee camp.
SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“I like going to school for my future.”
12 year old, Santhia Manasse’s family is from the Central African Republic. She’s grown up in Camp Gondje.
School is important for her too.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Santhia Manasse, CAR refugee:
“I go to school so in the future I can help my family.”
Targeted European Union funding means the children in Camp Amboko now receive a basic education that includes Take and Santhia.
They get a notebook, a pen and crayons. Dmall but important items.
Still there are some unmet needs.
SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“Here we are missing books, ball pens! And we ourselves, the students, we come to school dirty. We have no other means.”
Additional funding for the schools comes from the refugees themselves. If they are able to earn money selling produce, a quarter is directed to the camp schools.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Judith Manasse, CAR refugee:
“I am struggling for their future now. I pay for the schooling of my daughter and her young brothers as well so that tomorrow all these young can succeed and in exchange they will help us too.”
And so alongside the EU, the refugees are investing in their children. And their future.
SOUNDBITE (French) Olivier Beer, UNHCR representative in Chard:
“When a person is educated they can go home with knowledge and they can contribute to the rehabilitation of their country and the development of their country. It’s a very important goal for us”
It’s a goal that refugee children such as Taki Congolo take to heart.
SOUNDBITE (French) Taki Congolo, Congolese refugee:
“You know…a man who does not know how to read and write is like a tree that has no roots.”
