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Iraq-Bus School
Baghdad, Iraq - Jan 21, 2019 (CCTV - No Access Chinese mainland)
1. Debris
2. Various of children
3. Various of children studying in school bus
4. Decorations in school bus
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Firas al-Baiyati, head, "Gate of Justice" (starting with shot 4/partially overlaid with shot 6):
"Actually, how can I have something move and go to the children. The schools we cannot, take one school for many places. But maybe something can have wheels, so the bus maybe can provide them with, you know, a little space, to be children."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
6. Various of school bus
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
7. Children walking out of bus
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara Bsim, student:
"My name is Sara Bsim, before coming to this 'bus school', I'd never been to school before."
9. Boy wearing slippers
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali (no full name given), student (starting with shot 9):
"I'm Ali, I'm seven years old. I used to collect trash everywhere."
11. Various of children having class in bus
12. Various of children playing outside of bus
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara Bsim, student (starting with shot 12/ending with shots 14-15):
"I can read and write English and Arabic now. And I've made new friends here, especially the teachers. I want to be a teacher in the future and teach other children at school."
14. Children playing
15. Sara singing in front of class
16. Various of children having class in bus
17. Children clapping
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Firas al-Baiyati, head, "Gate of Justice" (starting with shot 17/partially overlaid by shot 6/ending with shots 19-20):
"Those children will be something dangerous in the future. Those children will be victims of the terrorist groups. Those children never be treated with love. When they feel there's love in this bus, they'll be so eager to have the motivation to learn."
19. Various of Firas playing with children
20. Children
21. Children laughing and playing
22. Children standing near debris
In a forgotten slum in the southeast of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, a glimmer of hope shines in the hearts and minds of dozens of displaced children as a non-governmental organization turned a large old bus into a mobile school.
The school bus, cheerfully referred to as the, "Hope Bus," had its seats removed and replaced with 20 school desks for as many as 50 pupils and was also furnished with colorful curtains, toys, a television set and a blackboard.
Children studying at this school are aged from six to ten and most of them were street kids who had never had access to a formal education before.
"My name is Sara Bsim, before coming to this 'bus school', I'd never gone to school before," said one of the young students.
"I'm Ali, I'm seven years old. I used to collect trash everywhere," said a young boy.
The bus idea was proposed by Firas al-Baiyati, a lawyer and the head of the "Gate of Justice," the NGO that operates the school bus.
Firas said at first he thought over how to have something movable to the children. A traditional school cannot, definitely, so he considered something with wheels - the bus.
The organization chose to stop the mobile bus at the al-Rasheed camp which shelters thousands of poor families.
The children in the bus use the same textbooks as the government schools. They are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, science and English.
They also receive psychological support and practice sports and artistic activities in the field where the bus stops.
"I can read and write English and Arabic now. And I've made new friends here, especially the teachers. I want to be a teacher in the future and teach other children at school," said Sara, one of the students.
The NGO has reached an agreement with the Iraqi education department to let children transfer to public schools after they finish the eight month preliminary course on the school bus.
The organization also plans to open 12 more mobile schools across the provinces liberated from the IS militant group.
"Those children will be something dangerous in the future. Those children will be victims of the terrorist groups. Those children never be treated with love. When they feel there's love in this bus, they'll be so eager to have the motivation to learn," Firas said.
In the future, the Hope Bus will move to other areas to plant new seeds of education for more groups of Iraqi children.
Iraq-Bus School
Dateline : Jan 21, 2019
Location : Baghdad,Iraq
Duration : 2'36
Baghdad, Iraq - Jan 21, 2019 (CCTV - No Access Chinese mainland)
1. Debris
2. Various of children
3. Various of children studying in school bus
4. Decorations in school bus
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Firas al-Baiyati, head, "Gate of Justice" (starting with shot 4/partially overlaid with shot 6):
"Actually, how can I have something move and go to the children. The schools we cannot, take one school for many places. But maybe something can have wheels, so the bus maybe can provide them with, you know, a little space, to be children."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
6. Various of school bus
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
7. Children walking out of bus
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara Bsim, student:
"My name is Sara Bsim, before coming to this 'bus school', I'd never been to school before."
9. Boy wearing slippers
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali (no full name given), student (starting with shot 9):
"I'm Ali, I'm seven years old. I used to collect trash everywhere."
11. Various of children having class in bus
12. Various of children playing outside of bus
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sara Bsim, student (starting with shot 12/ending with shots 14-15):
"I can read and write English and Arabic now. And I've made new friends here, especially the teachers. I want to be a teacher in the future and teach other children at school."
14. Children playing
15. Sara singing in front of class
16. Various of children having class in bus
17. Children clapping
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Firas al-Baiyati, head, "Gate of Justice" (starting with shot 17/partially overlaid by shot 6/ending with shots 19-20):
"Those children will be something dangerous in the future. Those children will be victims of the terrorist groups. Those children never be treated with love. When they feel there's love in this bus, they'll be so eager to have the motivation to learn."
19. Various of Firas playing with children
20. Children
21. Children laughing and playing
22. Children standing near debris
In a forgotten slum in the southeast of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, a glimmer of hope shines in the hearts and minds of dozens of displaced children as a non-governmental organization turned a large old bus into a mobile school.
The school bus, cheerfully referred to as the, "Hope Bus," had its seats removed and replaced with 20 school desks for as many as 50 pupils and was also furnished with colorful curtains, toys, a television set and a blackboard.
Children studying at this school are aged from six to ten and most of them were street kids who had never had access to a formal education before.
"My name is Sara Bsim, before coming to this 'bus school', I'd never gone to school before," said one of the young students.
"I'm Ali, I'm seven years old. I used to collect trash everywhere," said a young boy.
The bus idea was proposed by Firas al-Baiyati, a lawyer and the head of the "Gate of Justice," the NGO that operates the school bus.
Firas said at first he thought over how to have something movable to the children. A traditional school cannot, definitely, so he considered something with wheels - the bus.
The organization chose to stop the mobile bus at the al-Rasheed camp which shelters thousands of poor families.
The children in the bus use the same textbooks as the government schools. They are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, science and English.
They also receive psychological support and practice sports and artistic activities in the field where the bus stops.
"I can read and write English and Arabic now. And I've made new friends here, especially the teachers. I want to be a teacher in the future and teach other children at school," said Sara, one of the students.
The NGO has reached an agreement with the Iraqi education department to let children transfer to public schools after they finish the eight month preliminary course on the school bus.
The organization also plans to open 12 more mobile schools across the provinces liberated from the IS militant group.
"Those children will be something dangerous in the future. Those children will be victims of the terrorist groups. Those children never be treated with love. When they feel there's love in this bus, they'll be so eager to have the motivation to learn," Firas said.
In the future, the Hope Bus will move to other areas to plant new seeds of education for more groups of Iraqi children.
ID : 8101299
Published : 2019-01-22 11:51
Last Modified : 2019-02-08 16:16:00
Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
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