(27 Nov 2001)
1. Wide shot of orphanage with just one child in playground
2. Child playing on slide
3. Children running across playground
4. Children crowding together to see camera
5. Women seen through window
6. Various of orphans outside
7. Various of children crowding to see camera
8. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Shaikarosh, Headmaster of Kabul Islamic Orphanage:
"We got food from the government, before the war we received some good funding and also NGOs helped us a lot. Now we are hoping with a lot of journalists here, we are hoping that the NGOs will come back and help us."
9. Various of girls queuing to receive food
10. Food being dished out onto plates
11. Various of girls eating
12. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Nargus, girl in orphanage:
Question: "When did you lose your father?"
Answer: "During the time of the fighting with the Taliban"
13. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Sidiq, boy in orphanage:
Question: "When did you lose your father?"
Answer: "During the fighting."
14. Various of boys eating
15. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Ruhama, Teacher at orphanage:
"We need a stove and some warm clothes. It's getting very cold and we have nothing to keep the children warm."
16. Football on ground outside - pulls out to wide showing line of children
17. Various close-ups of boys standing in line
18. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Aurahman, boy in orphanage:
"Before we had school lessons but during the Taliban we had Islamic lessons."
19. Various of children standing looking at camera
STORYLINE:
Eight hundred children live here in the Kabul Islamic Orphanage.
Four hundred of them are between the ages of 3 and 12, 400 between the ages of 12 and 18.
Most of them have lost at least one parent - some have lost both.
For those children to have lost a father, their mothers may have remarried, but often the new spouse doesn't want the children from the previous marriage.
Many of the children have brothers and sisters who also live in the orphanage.
They say the most important thing they need right now is food.
But the orphanage is also very low on medicines and school supplies.
At the orphanage children learn how to read and write.
They also teach tailoring and carpet-making classes so the children have marketable skills.
A few of the older children get selected to learn english.
The headmaster of the school hopes this means they have a chance at taking jobs as government officials.
When the U-S bombing began the orphanage closed down, for about 45 days, and the children were sent to stay with other families.
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