(21 Jan 2008) SHOTLIST :
Mexico City's Iztapalapa Delegation - December 6, 2007
1. Medium shot of teacher Vianey Celote at blackboard
2. Tilt down of student at desk
3. Medium shot of maps on classroom wall
4. Tilt down of student with notebook
5. Medium shot of teacher with students
6. Tilt down of student's notebook
7. Wide shot street in Iztapalapa
8. Wide shot facade of the Bonampak elementary school
9. Close shot of children's feet as they wait to enter classes
10. Medium shot of children with paste on their hands from an art project
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hortensia Urrutia, mother of several children at school
"I could never sign them up when they were younger because I didn't have their birth certificates. So now, yes, they like school. Before, when they didn't go to school, they went to work at the corners of the Metro Constitucion (subway station). There they cleaned windshields, they sold chocolates, and they did all that because they didn't go to school. So now that they are coming to this school, they have stopped working, now they are studying."
12. Medium shot of mothers registering their children
13. Close shot of Silvia Basua filling out forms
14. Medium shot of Basua with mothers
15. Close shot of paperwork
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Silvia Basua, social anthropologist and activist
"We started working here in November 2001 and we detected this large problem of what is called civil accreditation, of people who do not have documents. Here it is primarily children because, who are the people who are most common in this part of the city? This area attracts a mainly indigenous population, a population of indigenous or rural origin."
17. Close shot of Basua handling documents
18. Medium shot of mother waiting with baby in registry line
19. Close shot of mother and baby
20. Medium shot of mother Carmen Bandala and teacher Vianey Celote outside of school
21. Close shot of Celote holding notebook
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carmen Bandala, mother with children at school:
"It's that her paper is incorrect. It has the name of her father, and the father, well, doesn't exist. So now we are looking into that."
23. Various of children in classroom
24. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vianey Celote, teacher
"Other public schools don't accept them because they don't have documents, or else because many of them work in the streets, they go asking for money, they wash cars and the rest. And so the years pass. Unfortunately, many parents don't worry about the education of their children and they let time pass. When they realise what's happened they are already grown and aren't accepted in any school. And well, we are here to receive them."
25. Wide shot of public school one block away as children leave for the day
LEAD IN:
The United Nations' children's NGO, UNICEF estimate that one in six children in Latin America are not registered at birth, which means they don't exist in the eyes of the authorities and are not entitled to a free education paid for by the government.
Unfortunately the majority of unregistered children are poor and are already living on the margins of society.
Now a local NGO in Mexico City is encouraging mothers to register their children, and also providing education to unregistered children, so they don't miss out on the important early years of learning.
STORYLINE:
These children are attending classes in a little yellow building in Iztapalapa, one of the most impoverished areas of Mexico City.
The lessons in reading and writing are helping some of the city's most marginalised children to stay off the streets and get an education.
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