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STORY: JORDAN / MALALA ZATARI CAMP
TRT: 2.47
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / Arabic / NATS
DATELINE: 18 FEBRUARY 2014, ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN
1. Various shots, Malala with refugee children in Zaatari camp
2. Med shot, Syrian refugee boy looking into a football field
3. Various shots, Malala playing football with refugee children
4. Pan right, Malala walking with Mozoun in Zaatari streets
5. Various shots, Malala and Mozoun in a shoe store
6. Wide shot, school
7. Wide shot, Malala and Mozoun arriving to school
8. Close up, welcome sign on whiteboard in classroom
9. Wide shot, Malala and Mozoun arriving to classroom
10. Close up, Mozoun’s face
11. Close up, pupil’s feet
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mozoun Mleihan, Syrian Refugee:
“Malala's visit is very important to me because she’s a girl who faced a lot of difficulties at an early age in her society, so she is interested in education because education is the most important thing. When she takes care of education it is like she is taking care of all aspects of life.”
13. Various shots, Malala with the pupils in the classroom
14. Wide shot, pupils clapping
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Malala Yousafzai, Education Activist:
“They say we want to get education because we want bright futures. And they all have a dream, some want to become doctors, some want to become engineers and some want to become journalists. So it is very good to see them and to have a conversation with them. But there are still so many girls and so many children who cannot go to school and I think that the whole community outside, the international community, should help these children.”
16. Wide shot, pupils leaving school
17. Pan left, Malala and Mozoun leaving the school
18. Various shots, UNICEF’s Toby Fricker talking with refugee children
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Fricker, Communication Specialist, UNICEF:
“Having Malala here is really key to highlight the issues that we have here and the fact that it’s urgent and that we need to act now and that we need to offer as many opportunities as we can for children to access formal schools, to access informal education, and to get the support, the psychosocial support that they need now before they become adults.”
20. Various shots, refugee children in Zaatari camp
Teenage activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai visited the Zaatari Refugee Camp in northern Jordan today (18 Feb) to promote better and more accessible education for Syrian children.
During her visit, she announced the Malala Fund will partner with Save the Children to educate young Syrian refugees by helping to build schools.
Since being shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban for defending girls’ right to go to school, Malala Yousafzai has taken her children’s education campaign worldwide.
The Zaatari camp in northern Jordan hosts about 25 thousand Syrian school age refugee children.
16 year old Mozoun fled the fighting in her hometown of Deraa one year ago. She gleams as she walks beside her role model. Like Malala, she too believes in the power of education.
She’s become one of the school ambassadors in the Zaatari camp, going from caravan to caravan, tent to tent to encourage people to send their children to school.
Aspiring to be a journalist, Mozoun joins her fellow pupils in welcoming Malala to their classroom.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mozoun Mleihan, Syrian Refugee:
“Malala's visit is very important to me because she’s a girl who faced a lot of difficulties at an early age in her society, so she is interested in education because education is the most important thing. When she takes care of education it is like she is taking care of all aspects of life.”
Malala was inspired by the enthusiasm and determination she witnessed.
SOUNDBITE (English) Malala Yousafzai, Education Activist:
“They say we want to get education because we want bright futures. And they all have a dream, some want to become doctors, some want to become engineers and some want to become journalists. So it is very good to see them and to have a conversation with them. But there are still so many girls and so many children who cannot go to school and I think that the whole community outside, the international community, should help these children.”
There are currently three main schools in the camp which can accommodate a total of 15,000 students.
Malala’s visit is a boost for getting children into the classroom.
SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Fricker, Communication Specialist, UNICEF:
“Having Malala here is really key to highlight the issues that we have here and the fact that it’s urgent and that we need to act now and that we need to offer as many opportunities as we can for children to access formal schools, to access informal education, and to get the support, the psychosocial support that they need now before they become adults.”
Outside the camp, 80 Jordanian schools hold classes for Syrians in the afternoons.
That leaves about 25 percent of the nearly 140 thousand Syrian school age children across Jordan not in classes.
But there will be at least one more school soon. Malala’s foundation is already teaming up with Save the Children to build a new school while expanding an existing one for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
