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STORY: JORDAN / BEDOUIN TEACHER
TRT: 2.34
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 19 MARCH 2014, AMMAN, JORDAN
1. Various shots, Jamal gathering children for school
2. UPSOUND (Arabic) Jamal Ahmed Shahadeh, School Founder:
“Hurry, Reham. Hurry, hurry, it’s time for school.”
3. Walking shot of Jamal arriving at the school
4. UPSOUND (Arabic) Jamal Ahmed Shahadeh, School Founder:
“Hurry kids. Get in a line.”
5. Various shots, children entering school
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jamal Ahmed Shahadeh, School Founder:
“I noticed children playing all day long in the streets and going to the vegetable market and I thought that this is a shame. These kids are seven years old. They have to learn. So I thought that we must do something. I reached out to the families here and told them that we should have an understanding to establish a school.”
7. Med shot, children in school
8. Close up, Jamal writing a math problem on the board
9. Various shots, student working out the problem on their notebooks
10. Pan of student coming to the board and working out the problem
11. Wide shot, Mohammed putting books in his a backpack
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Nour Al-Awad, Student:
“I could teach the kids who didn’t study in Syria here. It’s better than them staying without education or anything. I could teach them how to read and write. It’s better than them going out to play without knowing how to read or write.”
13. Various shots, students in the classroom
14. Med shot, Hala calling on the teacher
15. Wide shot, Hala walking to the board to work out a problem
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hala Al-Ahmed Mohammed, Student:
“Apple in Arabic we say ‘apple’. Or orange, ‘orange’, right? And bus in Arabic is ‘bus’; and ‘dear’, dear, right?”
17. Various shots, camp
18. Med shot, Jamal and Akram talking
19. Close up, Akram watching children
20. Wide shot, children playing and singing
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Akram Mahmoud Shahadeh, Schoolteacher:
“Our most humble request is to make another tent like this one so we can take in the greatest number of students who aren’t coming here because there is not enough space.”
22. Various of Jamal arriving home and greeting his wife and daughter
An estimated 25 percent of Syrian refugee children in Jordan are not enrolled in schools. Some refugee teachers have taken it into their own hands to educate their children.
UPSOUND (Arabic) Jamal Ahmed Shahadeh, School Founder:
“Hurry, Reham. Hurry, hurry, it’s time for school.”
Jamal Ahmed Shahadeh loves teaching children. But that ended when he fled to Jordan.
UPSOUND (Arabic) Jamal Ahmed Shahadeh, School Founder:
“Hurry kids. Get in a line.”
A few months ago Jamal opened a school at a refugee settlement near Amman, where all the residents are Bedouin relatives.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jamal Ahmed Shahadeh, School Founder:
“I noticed children playing all day long in the streets and going to the vegetable market and I thought that this is a shame. These kids are seven years old. They have to learn. So I thought that we must do something. I reached out to the families here and told them that we should have an understanding to establish a school.”
There are 45 students in the school, from the first grade to the sixth.
The day starts with a math lesson.
Mohammed is 12 years old. He came here with his family four months ago.
Jamal is not only his teacher, but his role model.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Nour Al-Awad, Student:
“I could teach the kids who didn’t study in Syria here. It’s better than them staying without education or anything. I could teach them how to read and write. It’s better than them going out to play without knowing how to read or write.”
Like Mohammed, many of the children here want to be schoolteachers.
10-year-old Hala is determined to give language lessons when she grows up.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hala Al-Ahmed Mohammed, Student:
“Apple in Arabic we say ‘apple’. Or orange, ‘orange’, right? And bus in Arabic is ‘bus’; and ‘dear’, dear, right?”
The camp hosts around one hundred families, all from one of Hama’s rural villages and all part of a large extended family.
But Jamal is about to hand over the school to his cousin Akram, also a teacher.
Akram has plans for the school.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Akram Mahmoud Shahadeh, Schoolteacher:
“Our most humble request is to make another tent like this one so we can take in the greatest number of students who aren’t coming here because there is not enough space.”
Jamal’s passion will not be forgotten, nor his legacy. He is leaving for Europe with his wife and daughter. With the help of UNHCR, the family has been chosen for resettlement in Austria.
