Mogadishu University Students Address The Role of Youth in Peace Building and Poverty Alleviation

STORY: MOGADISHU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
ADDRESS THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN PEACE

BUILDING AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION
DURATION: 3:04
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LANGUAGE: SOMALI/NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: AUGUST 2015, MOGADISHU,SOMALIA
SHOT LIST
1. Wide shot, Universal Guest House Hall
2. Med shot, Participants listening to the key speakers
3. Wide shot, Guest speaker addressing the participants
4. Med shot, Key speakers listening
5. Close up, Guest speaker addressing the participants
6. Wide shot, Participants listening
7. Med shot, Participants listening
8. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI), IFRAH M. AHMED, MINISTRY OF WOMEN
AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT.
As you know the youth are the future of this country and Somalia is facing
huge challenges. So its important for the youth to know that they can take
part in the development of the country and the peace of the country and
even the alleviation of poverty and that is what the youth were discussing
here today what is good for Somalia.
9. Wide shot, Guest speaker addressing the participants
10.Med shot, Guest speaker addressing the participants
11.Close up, participants listening
12.SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI), ENG. ABDIRAHAMAN OMAR YARISOW,
SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.
I wish to thank the youth who took part in this debate today and how they
actively took part and I would like to urge them to be ambassadors for
Somali youth who are not present here and the youth who will get an
opportunity to watch this. They need to know that each and every Somali
youth has to stand up for the youth rights because their unity is crucial and
if they are united I believe they can do a lot,
13.Wide shot, participants listening
14.Med shot, participants listening
15.Close up, participant presenting his points during the debate
16.Med shot, participants listening
17.Close up, participants listening
18.Med shot, Key speaker listening
19.Close up, participant presenting his points during the debate
20.SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI), AHMED OSMAN, CHAIRMAN, CENTER

FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT.
We will try our level best so that we can develop the youth and that is
why this program put a lot of emphasis on youth development so that
they take part in peace building and poverty alleviation, because if you
reduce poverty in the country then peace will come.
21.Wide shot, Participant asking the key speakers questions
22.Med shot, Participants listening
23.SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI), KAFIA SHEIKH BASHIR, MOGADISHU
UNIVERSITY 4TH YEAR STUDENT.
I wish to urge the Somali youth to take part in the ongoing
development in order for us to get out of the problems we are facing
the youth have to actively take part in ongoing programs and to unite in
order to bring change because I believe we can bring change.
24.Wide shot, Participants listening
25.Med shot, Laptop
26.Close up, Laptop
27.Wide shot, Key speaker giving the closing remarks
Story
Somali youth are expressing optimism that poverty and unemployment in
Somalia can be reduced through quality education and youth empowerment.
Local university students and experts took part in a workshop in Mogadishu
that culminated in a brainstorming session on the future of youth in Somalia.
At least 40 students from Mogadishu University took part in the deliberations
that was graced by a Senior Communications Advisor in the Ministry of
Information, Engineer Abdirahman Omar Yarisow.
The students singled out unemployment as the biggest challenge facing the
youth. They also appealed for support in matters related to education.
Chief guest Eng. Yarisow said, I wish to thank the youth who took part in this
debate today and how they actively took part and I would like to urge them to
be ambassadors for Somali youth who are not present here and the youth
who will get an opportunity to watch this and they need to know that each and
every Somali youth has to stand up for the youth rights because their unity is
crucial and if they are united I believe they can do a lot,
The workshop was organized by the Center for Youth Empowerment and
Development (CYED) with support from the United Nations Support Mission in
Somalia (UNSOM).
The chairman of CYED Ahmed Osman pledged continued support to the
youth by saying,
We will try our level best so that we can develop the youth and that is why
this program put a lot of emphasis on youth development so that they take
part in peace building and poverty alleviation, because if you reduce poverty
in the country then peace will come.
Fourth year Finance and Banking student at Mogadishu University Kafia
Sheikh Bashirat made a passionate plea to the youth to be agents of positive
change.
I wish to urge the Somali youth to take part in the ongoing development in
order for us to get out of the problems we are facing. The youth have to
actively take part in ongoing programs and to unite in order to bring change
because I believe we can bring change, Kafia stressed.
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ADDRESS THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN PEACE

20.SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI), AHMED OSMAN, CHAIRMAN, CENTER

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