27 Feb 2013

JORDAN / ZAATARI BACK TO SCHOOL

It's back to school time for thousands of Syrian children at Za'atari refugee camp in northernJordan. After a one-month winter break classes are full again bringing some degree of normality to the lives of children among the camps 70,000 population. UNICEF

Posted at: February 27, 2013 12:49 pm

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STORY: JORDAN / ZAATARI BACK TO SHCOOL
TRT: 2.06
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 12 FEBRUARY 2012, ZA'ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN

SHOTLIST

1. Pan right, from sign to school courtyard
2. Med shot, children in circle walking around
3. Wide shot, school courtyard children in big circle
4. Med shot, Deema Jarrar (UNICEF Emergency Education Advisor) talking to children in classroom
5. SOUNDBITE (English), Deema Jarrar, UNICEF Emergency Education Officer:
"Today we decided to do like a big day for the children where they can come and do some entertaining activities. We asked the children to send a message to the world by making a drawing. Each one is expressing herself in a different way. Many of the children either drew a sun with like nice flowers or they are drawing their flag. So apparently they are thinking of their home or at the same time looking at the future." 
6. Close up, girl face whilst drawing 
7. Close up, hand and pencil drawing
8. Med shot, two girls drawing at desk
9. Close up, girl's face whilst drawing
10. Med shot, Deema Jarrar talks to children 
11. Close up, girls hand drawing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Deema Jarrar, UNICEF Emergency Education Officer:
13. Med shot, three girls drawing at desk 
14. Close up, hand and pencil, drawing 
15. Wide shot, EU delegation at entrance to school
16. Med shot, Dominique Hyde, UNICEF Rep for Jordan talks to EU delegation
17. Close up, face of woman, member of the EU delegation
18. Med shot school, Deema translates for Marian Marinesco, Member of European Parliament as he talks to children in classroom
19. SOUNDBITE (English), Marian Marinesco, Member of European Parliament 
"I spoke with the children, they are happy. This generation will not be lost. They will have the opportunity to learn. Education is the first chance to live, to earn your life." 
20. Close up, Marian listening to children 
21. Med shot, EU delegation members talking to children in classroom
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Boy student:
"I like to play with my friends and to study and learn." 
23. Wide shot, school courtyard, girls with balloons
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNICEF Representative for Jordan
"Many of these children have been through so much. They have undergone extreme stress. They have left their homes they have left sometimes their family members behind. A lot of them have not been to school for the past 20-months. This is really the return to normalcy, the beginning of hope that there is a future for these children." 
25. Wide shot, classroom with girls at desks and teacher showing book to class
26. Close up, teachers face talking to children
27. Med shot, children with their hands ups
28. Med shot, teacher talking with girl who is reading from book
29. Close up, girl's face, reading book
30. Med shot, girls come out of classroom door
31. Wide shot, school being constructed, frame of new school 
32. Wide shot, man hammers metal rod into ground
33. Med shot, man with hammer
34. Close up, hammer hits metal rod
35. Med shot, man with electric saw working
36. Close up, face of man working
37. Wide shot, frame of new school, workers inside

STORYLINE:

It's back to school time for thousands of Syrian children at Za'atari refugee camp in northern Jordan. After a one-month winter break classes are full again bringing some degree of normality to the lives of children among the camps 70,000 population.

SOUNDBITE (English) Deema Jarrar, UNICEF Emergency Education Officer:
"Today we decided to do like a big day for the children where they can come and do some entertaining activities. We asked the children to send a message to the world by making a drawing. Each one is expressing herself in a different way. Many of the children either drew a sun with like nice flowers or they are drawing their flag. So apparently they are thinking of their home or at the same time looking at the future."

To mark the start of school term, a delegation from the European Union, one of the school's largest funders, have come to visit.

SOUNDBITE (English) Marian Marinesco, Member of European Parliament: 
I spoke with the children, they are happy. This generation will not be lost. They will have the opportunity to learn. Education is the first chance to live, to earn your life.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic), 
"I like to play with my friends and study and learn."

SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNICEF Representative for Jordan:
"Many of these children have been through so much. They have undergone extreme stress. They have left their homes they have left sometimes their family members behind. A lot of them have not been to school for the past 20-months. This is really the return to normalcy, the beginning of hope that there is a future for these children."

To meet the needs of the camp's increasing population, with over 1,000 people arriving every day, a new school is currently being constructed. On completion the facilities will provide education to several thousand more children.