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STORY: CHAD / REGIONAL CONFLICT REFUGEES
TRT: 3.15
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ FRENCH/ ARABIC/ NATS
DATELINE: 08-11 NOVEMBER 2013, TISSI, CHAD
1. Wide shot, refugees
2. Close Up, Khadidja washing pots
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khadidja Dramane, 50, refugee:
“First the rebels and the government clashed. Then came the Janjaweed. They're robbers. They kill people, burn villages, then steal the livestock. It's because of them we are here.”
4. Wide shot, people walking
5. Wide shot, refugee village camp
6. Med shot, refugee child
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Maes, UNICEF country representative:
“All the partners including UNICEF are ensuring that the right response is given to the children who are part of this new influx of population coming from CAR or Darfur so they also need the right to survival and education being addressed in an efficient way.”
8. Wide shot, UNICEF vehicle driving across desert
9. Wide shot, village shopkeepers
10. Close up, Sudanese pound
11. Wide shot, women under tree
12. Close up, vaccination card
13. Wide shot, child receiving vaccine
14. Close up, vaccine
15. Med shot, child playing with blocks
16. Close up, child playing with blocks
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Hassan Saleh Hassan, Counselor, Child Friendly Space
“From time to time we ask the children about their experiences. They say that they’ve seen dead bodies on the road and others that had been thrown into pits. The games help them to forget what they had seen.”
18. Wide shot, girl carrying water walking past ECHO/UNICEF sign
19. Wide shot, girl pumping water
20. Close up, water being pumped
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Dehermann-Roy, Head of office, ECHO, CHAD:
“We drilled boreholes in the host villages where most of these returnees and refugees found refuge as a first stage and also there is an operation on the education side where 9000 of these children will have access to primary education and this will be implemented in the schools and villages that are hosting the same refugees so this is something that will certainly be sustainable for the region”.
22. Med shot, Khadidja sitting
23. Close up, Khadidja drawing lines in the sand
24. Wide shot, Khadidja
Remote and volatile, the far southeast of Chad has little to offer. However, it's already a place of safety for 50,000 people. Most fled ethnic violence in Sudan’s Darfur region and Central African Republic (CAR).
Khadidja Dramane, 50, escaped from the lawless Darfur. She is in pain. She hurt her hip running away from bandits who attacked her village on horseback.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khadidja Dramane, 50, refugee:
“First the rebels and the government clashed. Then came the Janjaweed. They're robbers. They kill people, burn villages, then steal the livestock. It's because of them we are here.”
Not for the first time, Khadidja and her seven children lost everything, even their donkeys.
Members of the Salamat ethnic group, they have spent their lives fleeing hunger only to find violence, across three countries.
And since March 2013, mostly women and children like Khadidja Dramane have come to Tissi in search of safety.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Maes, UNICEF country representative:
“All the partners including UNICEF are ensuring that the right response is given to the children who are part of this new influx of population coming from CAR or Darfur so they also need the right to survival and education being addressed in an efficient way.”
But this is no easy task. There are few real roads. Getting aid to the refugees is a challenge. This part of Chad is so isolated that traders accept only Sudanese money. And the risk of disease is high. There is yellow fever in Sudan. But mothers who fled burning villages do not carry vaccination cards. Nurses look for inoculations scars, ask questions, and inject.
To help them to overcome traumas, children are encouraged to play.
SOUNDBITE (French) Hassan Saleh Hassan, Counselor, Child Friendly Space
“From time to time we ask the children about their experiences. They say that they’ve seen dead bodies on the road and others that had been thrown into pits. The games help them to forget what they had seen.”
UNICEF and partners, with the support of ECHO -the European Community humanitarian Office- are making sure that women and children are able to access the basics like a roof over the head, clean water, medicine and children can continue going to school. ECHO's involvement began soon after the start of the population influx when it became clear that Tissi had not a single clean water source.
SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Dehermann-Roy, Head of office, ECHO, CHAD:
“We drilled boreholes in the host villages where most of these returnees and refugees found refuge as a first stage and also there is an operation on the education side where 9000 of these children will have access to primary education and this will be implemented in the schools and villages that are hosting the same refugees so this is something that will certainly be sustainable for the region”.
Throughout the region, aid agencies are gearing up to deal with the spillover from the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Khadidja Dramane is one among thousands fleeing conflict to find food and safety; and maybe, one day, to be able to draw a line over a life as a perpetual refugee.
