ECW / SUDAN CRISIS EDUCATION RESPONSE
15-May-2023
00:05:02
Following a high-level field mission with the UN Refugees Agency to the border regions of Chad with Sudan, where 60,000 refugees have arrived recently, Education Cannot Wait’s Executive Director Yasmine Sherif announced a US$3 million First Emergency Response grant. ECW
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STORY: ECW / SUDAN CRISIS EDUCATION RESPONSE
TRT: 05:02
SOURCE: ECW
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: MAY 2023, FARCHANA, BOROTA, CHAD
TRT: 05:02
SOURCE: ECW
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT ECW ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: MAY 2023, FARCHANA, BOROTA, CHAD
SHOTLIST
MAY 2023, GAGA REFUGEE CAMP, FARCHANA, CHAD
1. Med Shot, Sherif talking to UNHCR staff
2. Wide Shot, refugee settlement camp infrastructure building
3. Med Shot, local workers building refugee settlement camp
4. Med Shot, local workers building refugee settlement camp
5. Med Shot, Sherif visits construction site with UNHCR staff
6. Med Shot, Yasmine Sherif and UNHCR staff listening, classroom
7. Various shots, refugee women, girls, boys sitting, classroom
8. Med Shot, Sherif speaking with school principal and young teacher, classroom
MAY 2023, MAKESHIFT REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BOROTA, CHAD
9. Wide Shot, Sherif speaking with colleagues while walking
10. Wide Shot, Sherif visiting camp with UNHCR staff
11. Wide Shot, refugee women and girls standing in the camp, tents
12. Med Shot, Sherif talking with refugee women
13. Various shots, camp, tents, donkeys eating hays, refugees
14. Various shots, Sherif speaking and walks with UNHCR staff, refugees walking15.
15. Various shots, Sherif, HIAS staff, refugees, ECW Deputy Director Graham Lang
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director, Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
“Today, ECW is using our First Emergency Response – and I hereby announce a grant of US$3 million to UNHCR’s immediate operations for all of these refugees. The total need in the Regional Refugee Response Plan for UNHCR in Chad is US$8 million for education, and ECW is now coming in with $3 million. I hereby urge all donors and strategic partners to help us fill the remaining gap of $5 million. And also, bear in mind the needs of refugee children who are now going to Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic. These are the children left furthest behind. And Education Cannot Wait is not waiting for them to come to us. We have traveled to be with them, to feel their suffering and their needs, and hear their ultimate wish: protection, to have their fundamental needs met and education for their children so that they have hope for the future.”
17. Med Shot, Yasmine Sherif talks with refugee women. Borota makeshift refugee settlement.
18. Various shots, Sherif talking with refugee, women sitting on the ground
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdelnasser Mahamout, Sudanese refugee:
“I came here hoping to continue my education, but there is no school at the moment, no buildings for now. We are here, but we want to go to school. Education is our top priority – it is the most important thing we are asking for.”
20. Various shots, UNHCR water truck delivering water at the camp, UNHCR staff and refugees pulling water pipes off, refugees holding water buckets
1. Med Shot, Sherif talking to UNHCR staff
2. Wide Shot, refugee settlement camp infrastructure building
3. Med Shot, local workers building refugee settlement camp
4. Med Shot, local workers building refugee settlement camp
5. Med Shot, Sherif visits construction site with UNHCR staff
6. Med Shot, Yasmine Sherif and UNHCR staff listening, classroom
7. Various shots, refugee women, girls, boys sitting, classroom
8. Med Shot, Sherif speaking with school principal and young teacher, classroom
MAY 2023, MAKESHIFT REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, BOROTA, CHAD
9. Wide Shot, Sherif speaking with colleagues while walking
10. Wide Shot, Sherif visiting camp with UNHCR staff
11. Wide Shot, refugee women and girls standing in the camp, tents
12. Med Shot, Sherif talking with refugee women
13. Various shots, camp, tents, donkeys eating hays, refugees
14. Various shots, Sherif speaking and walks with UNHCR staff, refugees walking15.
15. Various shots, Sherif, HIAS staff, refugees, ECW Deputy Director Graham Lang
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director, Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
“Today, ECW is using our First Emergency Response – and I hereby announce a grant of US$3 million to UNHCR’s immediate operations for all of these refugees. The total need in the Regional Refugee Response Plan for UNHCR in Chad is US$8 million for education, and ECW is now coming in with $3 million. I hereby urge all donors and strategic partners to help us fill the remaining gap of $5 million. And also, bear in mind the needs of refugee children who are now going to Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic. These are the children left furthest behind. And Education Cannot Wait is not waiting for them to come to us. We have traveled to be with them, to feel their suffering and their needs, and hear their ultimate wish: protection, to have their fundamental needs met and education for their children so that they have hope for the future.”
17. Med Shot, Yasmine Sherif talks with refugee women. Borota makeshift refugee settlement.
18. Various shots, Sherif talking with refugee, women sitting on the ground
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdelnasser Mahamout, Sudanese refugee:
“I came here hoping to continue my education, but there is no school at the moment, no buildings for now. We are here, but we want to go to school. Education is our top priority – it is the most important thing we are asking for.”
20. Various shots, UNHCR water truck delivering water at the camp, UNHCR staff and refugees pulling water pipes off, refugees holding water buckets
STORYLINE
Following a high-level field mission with the UN Refugees Agency (UNHCR) to the border regions of Chad with Sudan, where 60,000 refugees have arrived recently, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Executive Director Yasmine Sherif announced a US$3 million First Emergency Response grant.
The funding will provide access to safe and protective learning environments for incoming refugee girls and boys and support the host communities.
The new grant brings ECW’s total investments to support vulnerable children’s education in Chad to over US$41 million.
Since the conflict erupted in Sudan on 15 April, over 200,000 people have crossed the borders to the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan to flee the violence.
UNHCR estimates that this number could reach 860,000 because of the escalating conflict.
Incoming refugees are in precarious conditions and need urgent assistance and empowerment. Almost 70 percent of pre-registered refugees are children.
Without access to safe and protective learning environments, uprooted girls and boys face higher risks of child marriage, sexual violence, exploitation, hunger, recruitment into armed groups, and attacks.
The new 12-month First Emergency Response grant will be implemented by UNHCR and its partners in close coordination with the Government.
Before the new crisis erupted, Chad was already hosting Africa's fourth-largest refugee population.
The Government’s progressive policy on refugee inclusion within the national education system serves as a model example for the whole region.
Despite the Government’s efforts, successive shocks and crises affecting the country – including climate-induced disasters, large-scale internal displacement, and the Lake Chad and Central African refugee crises – have eroded the delivery of basic services. Chad’s education performance indicators are among the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa, with 56 percent of primary school-aged children out-of-school.
Across the country, the education system is strained and lacks resources and qualified personnel. Overstretched capacities must urgently be strengthened to meet the needs of the newly uprooted children and further support host communities.
The new grant comes as ECW’s initial contribution to the $445 million inter-agency Regional Refugee Response Plan, launched by UNHCR and 134 partners to address the Sudan refugee regional crisis in the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.
ECW is working with its partners to mobilize further support against this appeal.
ECW’s total investments in Chad have reached over 830,000 children since 2017, focusing on refugee and internally displaced children, host communities, girls, children with disabilities, and other vulnerable children.
ECW’s holistic support has enhanced school infrastructure, school feeding, quality learning materials, mental health and psychosocial services, teacher training, and inclusive education approaches.
An additional 1.1 million children were reached with the Fund’s COVID-19 emergency responses in 2020-2021.
Over the next four years, ECW and its strategic partners have committed to reaching 20 million crisis-impacted children and adolescents.
To achieve this goal, ECW seeks to mobilize a minimum of US$1.5 billion from government donors, the private sector, and philanthropic foundations.
The funding will provide access to safe and protective learning environments for incoming refugee girls and boys and support the host communities.
The new grant brings ECW’s total investments to support vulnerable children’s education in Chad to over US$41 million.
Since the conflict erupted in Sudan on 15 April, over 200,000 people have crossed the borders to the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan to flee the violence.
UNHCR estimates that this number could reach 860,000 because of the escalating conflict.
Incoming refugees are in precarious conditions and need urgent assistance and empowerment. Almost 70 percent of pre-registered refugees are children.
Without access to safe and protective learning environments, uprooted girls and boys face higher risks of child marriage, sexual violence, exploitation, hunger, recruitment into armed groups, and attacks.
The new 12-month First Emergency Response grant will be implemented by UNHCR and its partners in close coordination with the Government.
Before the new crisis erupted, Chad was already hosting Africa's fourth-largest refugee population.
The Government’s progressive policy on refugee inclusion within the national education system serves as a model example for the whole region.
Despite the Government’s efforts, successive shocks and crises affecting the country – including climate-induced disasters, large-scale internal displacement, and the Lake Chad and Central African refugee crises – have eroded the delivery of basic services. Chad’s education performance indicators are among the lowest in sub-Saharan Africa, with 56 percent of primary school-aged children out-of-school.
Across the country, the education system is strained and lacks resources and qualified personnel. Overstretched capacities must urgently be strengthened to meet the needs of the newly uprooted children and further support host communities.
The new grant comes as ECW’s initial contribution to the $445 million inter-agency Regional Refugee Response Plan, launched by UNHCR and 134 partners to address the Sudan refugee regional crisis in the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.
ECW is working with its partners to mobilize further support against this appeal.
ECW’s total investments in Chad have reached over 830,000 children since 2017, focusing on refugee and internally displaced children, host communities, girls, children with disabilities, and other vulnerable children.
ECW’s holistic support has enhanced school infrastructure, school feeding, quality learning materials, mental health and psychosocial services, teacher training, and inclusive education approaches.
An additional 1.1 million children were reached with the Fund’s COVID-19 emergency responses in 2020-2021.
Over the next four years, ECW and its strategic partners have committed to reaching 20 million crisis-impacted children and adolescents.
To achieve this goal, ECW seeks to mobilize a minimum of US$1.5 billion from government donors, the private sector, and philanthropic foundations.
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