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STORY: CHAD / CAR REFUGEES
TRT: 2.42
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: February 2013, CAMP AMBOKO AND CAMP GONDJE, CHAD
1. Wide shot, of refugees in Camp Amboko with clay houses
2. Wide shot, of four refugee children next to sing of Site Amboko
3. Med shot, Old woman refugee next to her UNHCR tent
4. Wide shot, Refugee women with tubs on heads in village
5. Med shot, Kaltouma Doudou, CAR refugee, squatted working in garden
6. Close up of Kaltouma's hands pulling weeds
7. Close up of Kaltouma's face
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kaltouma Doudou, CAR refugee:
"They shot at us. We were so scared and knew we could not stay here because they would kill us too."
9. Wide shot, Kaltouma carrying baby walking through refugee camp
10. Wide shot, reverse of Kaltouma carrying baby walking towards house
11. Med shot, shot of Kaltouma feeding baby seated selling produce at market
12. Close up of her salad for sale
13. Close up Kaltouma face
14. Med shot, Kaltouma handing money to customer
15. Wide shot, Kaltouma with two water cans watering her salad garden
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kaltouma Doudou, CAR refugee:
"In fact to work in the garden is very hard, but it really helps me because I take the salad to the market to sell and it helps me to have more food."
17. Close up, baby of Kaltouma next to plants
18. Close up, hands peeling peanuts
19. Close up, peeled peanuts
20. Wide shot, refugee Germaine Madje squatted and peeling peanuts
21. Wide shot, Germaine Madje wearing UNHCR apron selling peanut soup at Camp Gondje market
22. Close up, hand scooping out peanut soup into cup
23. Wide shot, Germaine Madje handing over cup of soup to customer
24. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Germaine Madji, CAR refugee:
"With this money, I bought peanuts, rice, sugar and the utensils to make my soup to sell"
25. Med shot, of group of women attending cooperative meeting for farmers
26. Wide shot, of meeting of women with supervisors seated at table
27. Wide shot, reverse of women's meeting with supervisor counting money
28. Med shot, supervisor hands over money to refugee woman who shows her cash
29. Med shot, of refugee woman seated and waiting
30. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saleh Ibrahim, supervisor of Revenue Activities:
“There is one part that funds the financing and functioning of the school, another part for the augmentation of capital. The third part for the motivation and the other for their own activities and the committee of women.”
31. Wide shot, Chadian women with sticks beating the earth
32. Wide shot, Chadian women beating ground with sticks
33. Close up, bucket drawing water from canal
34. Med shot, hydro pump
35. Traveling shot, canal
36. Wide shot, Chadian woman pouring water from bucket onto garden
37. Wide shot, refugee woman and man push wheelbarrow
38. Wide shot, refugee man and women enter grain shelter with sacks
39. Wide shot, men lift sack of grain
40. Close up, refugee woman's face
41. Med shot, Germaine Madje, refugee, peeling peanuts
42. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Germanine Madji, CAR refugee:
"I have other projects. I hope to open a restaurant.
43. Wide shot, Germaine Madje peeling peanuts in courtyard
This is Camp Amboko, a refugee camp in southern Chad built ten years ago by UNHCR.
Conflict in the Central African Republic has driven thousands across the borders to escape its horrors.
Kaltouma Doudou lost everything when rebels attacked her village.
Her grandparents were killed before her eyes.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kaltouma Doudou, CAR refugee:
"They shot at us. We were so scared and knew we could not stay here because they would kill us too."
Kaltouma is one of the 32,000 refugees who came to this region in southern Chad.
She made a life in the camp, three of her four children were born here.
Her outlook was bleak until the European Union put in place a program to help refugees in Chad become self-sufficient.
With that funding, Kaltouma got a patch of land. Then she bought seeds to grow salad.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kaltouma Doudou:
"In fact to work in the garden is very hard, but it really helps me because I take the salad to the market to sell and it helps me to have more food."
Developing agricultural resources is a key priority under the EU "socio-economic integration" program.
Germaine Madji received 115 euros to start a small business.
She sells her peanut soup at Camp Gondje's market.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Germaine Madji, CAR refugee:
"With this money, I bought peanuts, rice, sugar and the utensils to make my soup to sell"
Half the refugees in the camps are women many have become farmers and entrepreneurs. They've also organized themselves into co-operatives.
Under the EU program, the women give part of their earning to support other refugee programs.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saleh Ibrahim, supervisor of Revenue Activities:
“There is one part that funds the financing and functioning of the school, another part for the augmentation of capital. The third part for the motivation and the other for their own activities and the committee of women.”
Local Chadian who live among the refugees also benefit from the farming program.
The soil is harsh there are few tools but these farmers now have better access to water thanks to an installation of a pump funded by the EU. They built a canal to draw water from the river to their fields.
Other benefits for both are shelters to protect the grain from pests and bad weather. For refugees like Kaltouma and Germaine the EU's infusion of three millions euros has been a life-line to hope and a better future.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Germaine Madji, CAR refugee:
"I have other projects. I hope to open a restaurant.
