| TC | YUMYUM - by Hazel Chandler | |||
| PICTURE | SOUND/Captions | |||
| 10.00.00.00 Caption on black
Night scenes of people walking and sleeping | Music and Caption Kenema, Sierra Leone, 2006. Four years after the end of a brutal conflict which lasted 11 years and left Sierra Leone the poorest country in the world. | |||
| 10.00.07.00 Caption on black | Music and Caption Over half the population is under 18 and 20% of children do not have a primary carer. Thousands of young people live on the streets. | |||
| 10.00.35.15- Slowmo CU Yumyum | Music and Caption Yumyum, 'General' of the 400 street youth in Kenema. Yumyum means Bad Man. He is 23, an ex child soldier and on the streets since he was eight years old. | |||
| 10.00.47.20-
CU slomo Yumyum | Caption Yumyum was given a small camera. He did not sell it even when it might have kept him out of prison. He refused to give it up.
He shot 100 hours of footage. Candid, brutal, honest | |||
| 10.01.01.07-
| TITLE: YUMYUM | |||
| 10.01.16.07-
footage from Yumyum's camera, boys sleeping/talking | Small caption Yumyum's camera | |||
| 10.01.22.00-
| Flashing 'rec' | |||
| 10.01.34.11-
| YY: How do you survive on the streets? | |||
| YY's camera Boy with kids sleeping around him | Boy:Some of them steal Some of them tote. Some of them steal | |||
| YY's camera boy being turned upside down | YY: He's got small change in his pocket He says he's got nothing Boy:I've got no money YY:I saw it. He does | |||
| 03.09.13- YY's camera. fighting | YY: Leave them, let them fight Blacks stop it Blacks stop. Leave it | |||
| 03.45.10 YY's camera YY washing | Boy: Hey brother, early in the morning like now you're washing and smoking. YY: It's the general who is washing. I have the power. I'm Yumyum | |||
| 03.55.09-
| Sub Heading MEETING | |||
| 04.00.02- WS Kenema town | Caption Kenema, September 2006 | |||
| 04.07.03- Paul Williams PW | Title caption Paul Williams Child Protection Officer | |||
| 04.09.19-
| Paul Williams, PW:They commit serious crimes, serious crimes Sometimes they use a knife | |||
| PW walking through market | PW: I have received a series of floggings from street children They stripped me naked, they thought I had money Late at night you'll find them sleeping in this market place On these tables where people are selling So these are hardened criminals anyway They are hard to deal with | |||
| 04.35.14- PW with YY | PW: I said you are in charge of them all In the night he goes, when he's alone here he fetches them from the street and says come lets be together He says they are thieves, they do all kinds of odd things but they are happy to receive you They will not do anything to you | |||
| 04.50.22-
| Sub heading Cameras and Arrests | |||
| 04.57.19- YY with his camera | Caption June 2007 | |||
| 05.20.08- Shots in police station | Caption That night Yumyum is arrested for stealing the camera
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| 05.26.13-
| Police Officer: This man was interrogated by my night men yesterday About this camera We were a little bit sceptical About where he got it from He had no documents | |||
| 05.39.20- writing Leaving station | PW: Write on here that you have given him the camera
PW: He's free now, they are freeing him. | |||
| 06.17.05- YY walks away | Caption Though often guilty of something, the street boys are frequently arrested for loitering, even though they have nowhere to live.
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| 06.25.07- Yumyum's gang | HC: How does it work? They bring it to you - then what do you do with it? | |||
| 06.33.09- shots of different kids in the gang | YY:I buy everything for them HC: Does he feed you? YY: Anything they get they come and give it to me But I don't keep any. I buy them clothes or food Eugene: He doesn't keep anything. Does he beat you? Kids: No Eugene: Are you happy with Yumyum? Kids: yes HC: Why? Kids: Because he takes care of us | |||
| 07.16.00 Yumyum's camera | Flashing 'Rec' | |||
| 07.16.00- YY talks to camera | It's me, Yumyum. I'm Mende. I suffer I've been on the streets since I was a small boy. From 1992, on the streets It's 14 years now. I'm big now. No mammy or pappy or gaurdian. I've got no way to make money so I gamble. I'm a thief. I'm Yumyum General Yumyum. General Yumyum. I suffer | |||
| 08.00.23- YY's camera Man attacked | Man: See what they did to me I went to steal and they stabbed me | |||
| 08.09.10- YY's camera boy being beaten | YY: You beat that old woman.You deserve 12 lashes woman: 12 aren't enough for what he's done. Give him 36 YY: I said 12 but every time he moves we start again Leave your hand. Leave your hand. Come on, be a man Boy:12 is too many, you're killing me YY: I'm not counting so you need to count. If you block me with your hand I'll start again. If you don't keep still I'll have someone hold your hands and feet.I've told you whenever someone does wrong don't take matters into your own hands or this is what happens Woman: Obey him now. You deserve this for what you have done. Don't be leniant with him. punish him like you did that other boy YY: Eleven, twelve. You're not dead. Get up, get up. | |||
| 09.57.04- Gvs Kenema | Caption: March 2008 | |||
| 10.13.16- YY arriving on a bike | Caption: Yumyum has spent several weeks in prison | |||
| 10.17.07- YY walking | YY: They arrested us and when they took us to the police station they said it was loitering | |||
| 10.29.14- KK Dog CU | Youth: This little boy-He is a notorious criminal. He's a notorious criminal. So dangerous. we love him so much. He has the art of doing things like a man | |||
| 10.46.12- Slomo KKDog | Caption KK Dog | |||
| 11.04.05- slomo CU KKDog
| Caption: KK Dog means dog to be put down 11 years old, abandoned by father and sent to Kenema by his mother to be schooled by an uncle | |||
| 11.10.24-
| Caption: The uncle was abusive and he ran away. On the streets for 4 years Occupation - thief | |||
| 11.41.15- CU A-Class | Caption : A - Class | |||
| 11.48.15-
| Caption: A-Class means brainy one. His parents were killed in the conflict 14 years old and on the streets for five years Occupation- thief | |||
| 12.01.13- A-Class | AC: Our motto, everyone of us, we steal | |||
| 12.05.12-
| Sub heading: Survival | |||
| 12.09.06- A-Class on the roof watching boys carrying loads
small boy walks upstairs | AC: We will steal your property and go and sell it and have our daily bread.That is the way we are surviving here.Some of them carry loads KK: For 200 leones (5 cents) YY:: This one does sweeping. This one carries loads Boy: This is the smallest boy among us YY:How old are you? Boy: Five, five years AC: He's the smallest among us. Sometimes, if it's raining, we sleep in the container HC:How many sleep here? AC: More than 20. Some sleep up here | |||
| 13.10.20- some of the gang Out on the street | AC: Some of us are bad. We will rape her HC:You will attack her? AC: Yes we will rape the girl.So we don't allow a little girl to stay out HC:Who would rape her? AC: My companions, even me. If I see a little girl on the streets. I will ask you what are you doing on the streets?If you say nothing I will rape you. That's why we don't allow a girl on the streets AC: Go to sleep, go to sleep | ||
| 13.58.12- A-Class where they sleep | AC: Love is blind.My girl, if I sleep on the table, if I say let's sleep on the table she will follow. So love is blind. The girls love the street boys.Some of them will go and steal their mother's money and come and give it to us to eat | ||
| 14.23.06- On the roof with some gang members at night | AC:This business is my girlfriend's to sell so I can go back to school. Because I don't have any money HC:So she's doing it for you? AC: Yes, she will sell it for me and collect the money It costs 500 leones (12 cents).We hide it from the policemen. If the police see you you are in trouble | ||
| 14.52.08- Still on roof at night | HC: They pick eachother's pockets? Eugene: Is it possible to go to sleep with money and still have it in the morning? YY: If I'd have been here first today I would have searched all their pockets. 12 to 1 the troops pass by here. We hear the sounds of the boots and we call Police, police, police. We jump down and run. The first prayers they call, we should wake up by then and scatter | ||
| 15.43.15- Daytime Gvs YY on roof
Gang walking led by YY | YY: I came this morning. The police raided around the rubbish dump Some ran away, some were arrested. I met some friends at the rubbish dump. As soon as it was day the police came and arrested us for loitering. HC: Where do they run to?
Music | ||
| 16.37.08- Boy injured | YY: What happened to you? Eugene: He went to steal. The window was closed. As soon as he prised the window and put his arm inside. They chopped his hand . They stabbed him with a knife | ||
| 17.02.02- Watching the market from the roof YY doing hair etc | AC: It's cat HC:Do they ever steal your food? Woman:They steal all the time. Anything I put out they take it AC: Now he's making his hair ratty | ||
| 18.13.14- YY's camera | FLASHING 'REC' | ||
| 18.14.08- YY's camera Boys at night | Boy: I am a sufferer Let me talk. Wait for me YY:It's 3 am and I came to meet these boys. They sleep here and I came to wake them up. They sleep on this verandah. They are all sufferers. Today, what did you do? Boy:I ate cassava on the streets . We've got nothing to do. YY: What do you want to do? Boy: We steal cassava from the streets YY: Where are the other boys sleeping? Boy: Yumyum, I swear to god if he doesn't take the coat off I will hit him YY: Take it off. Take it off. Come here. Come here. Leave him. Leave him. What happened? Where did you get the coat? Boy: A boy called Temeni gave it to me. It's mine. They tried to steal it when I went to the toilet | ||
| 19.26.00- YY's camera. Youth with weapon | Youth: Guys came to fight me. They roughed me up. If you don't believe me, look at the weapon I've got to damage someone. If I meet you I will damage you Then search you. Then shove you away | ||
| 19.43.05- YY's camera looking around a room | Youth: There's condoms here Woman: Yumyum, this man wants me to have sex with him for 2000 leones (50 cents). He says he's your brother and to ask you Youth: All over, there's used condoms, cigarettes all sorts of things. | ||
| 20.07.11- yumyum's camera Youth talking | Youth: All the money that I've got I put inside here And I wrap my feet like this. Some street guys would take my slippers so I take them off and put them like this | ||
| 20.21.04- Yumyum's camera. YY talking | YY: This is what I threaten people with, scissors. If you've got money you'll give it to me | ||
| 20.35.08- Tracking shots and GVs | CAPTION September 2008 | ||
| 20.51.23- KK Dog | CAPTION K.K. Dog | ||
| 20.53.17-
| KK: I'm smoking. I've got nowhere to sleep I'm sleeping right over.. AC: He's in the cold room KK: The police arrested me. See here, they boxed my eyes Youth: The police they beat this guy They beat him up.They removed this boys teeth KK: Bang, bang. It was too much AC: Yumyum travelled to Bo | ||
| 21.33.23- A-Class talking | CAPTION A -Class | ||
| 21.36.06-
| AC: Because of some conflict, Yumyum ran. He had a conflict with two girls in the market. We were sleeping here last Tuesday. So many police. They came and arrested us as for me I escaped from the police station. They wanted to Jail Yumyum But we started talking to them saying don't do that HC: So what happened to him? AC: He's run away from this town. If he hears you are here he will come | ||
| 22.37.17- Tracking and Yumyum in Bo | HC: Hello Yumyum. How are you? YY: I've not got money for transport. I want to go back | ||
| 22.54.21- Yumyum arguing on the street | Eugene: As soon as Yumyum got back they started shouting when they saw Yumyum in the market . Keep your bags, you should hold your bags. He's back, he's going to steal your bags. At one point he went too the lady and said Patricia, Stop, I don't like that kind of thing I am not a thief. I am a changed man. Then she started abusing him and his (dead) mother saying bad words to him. Then Yumyum grabbed her and people came between them . He stopped. Then she went to the police | ||
| 23.53.10- Prison shots | Youth: Please leave something for us HC: What do we do? Do we knock? Prison guard: Hold on please. Just a few minutes please, I'm counting HC: Counting? Counting what? Prisoners? Guard: yes | ||
| 24.15.01- Yumyum laughing with the guys | CAPTION Yumyum would have stayed in prison but we pay his fine of $50 and $100 compensation to the market women | ||
| 24.23.18-
| YY: K.K. Dog- do you want that tooth removed?We're going to pull it out. We'll get a rope. K.K. Dog, we'll pull it out | ||
| 24.57.09- Night time roof shots conversation between various youths | AC: In the rainy season, street boys suffer a lot Youth: Have you ever eat dog? Are you eating dog? Can you eat dog? Is that the right question? It says here on the test paper, "are you eating dog?" No I can't. That's what you write- the answer. Is it not correct? What did you answer? I said no I can't No you can't? You are right No I can't. No I didn't No I didn't? Yes. I didn't eat dog, simple Are you eating dog? No I don't eat dog don't eat dog. That's the question they asked me If a man asks you, are you eating dog? The answer that goes with this question are you eating dog? If they say are you eating dog You say no I didn't Other people eat but I didn't But I don't. I don't eat dog | ||
| 26.22.05- night scenes | SUB HEADING BEST LAID PLANS | ||
| 26.30.01- night scenes
26.39.08-
Yumyum walking | CAPTION In order for Yumyum, K.K. Dog and A-Class to get off the streets, first they must find somewhere to live CAPTION Yumyum is easy to find a room for. Being 'General' gives him some standing in the community | ||
| 26.51.00- Yumyum in house | CAPTION Yumyum has never been to school so cannot read or write. There are few options and he decides he wants to be a mechanic. | ||
| 26.56.18- Yumyum talking | Eugene: Yumyum, I have found you a place in Freetown at a garage where you can learn. We'll give you $50 a month. 150,000 leones allowance every month. What do you think? Are you ready to leave all your friends?You have to think carefully. YY: I am ready right now. Eugene: You're ready right now?Never mind you're leaving your friends? YY: I'm tired of living on the streets . I want to learn something. If someone will help me I will go. Eugene: And he promises nothing illegal will happen there. He'll abide by the laws of the garage | ||
| 27.45.17- Yumyum walking at night | CAPTION But overnight Yumyum changes his mind about being a mechanic | ||
| 27.59.09- Yumyum in the morning | I'm not able to do mechanic's work. If I go there I won't be able to do it. If I leave everyone and go far up country. It's not going to be easy | ||
| 28.12.07- Market and fish | CAPTION His next idea is to invest in a fish cooperative which, on the surface, seems legitimate | ||
| 28.21.15- Market woman | In the beginning he gave me 800,000 ($200). I distribute to petit traders And make 250,000.After two weeks the money becomes 1 million 50 thousand. 250,000 ($60) profit YY: When I've saved 600,000 I'll go into business for myself HC: Selling what? Selling fish? Eugene: He wants to sell shoes | ||
| 28.45.05- Yumyum on the roof twisting hair | CAPTION Whilst not lacking in enthusiasm, Yumyum, for whom money has been easy come, easy go, has no idea about business and other are quick to exploit him
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| 28.57.17- KK Dog at night | CAPTION K.K. Dog | ||
| 28.59.11-
| KK: My mother wanted me to come here to a relative. He was to teach me but the man beat me And when he beat me I ran away here. I want to go to school . Eugene: Where's your father? KK: I think my papa's in the village but it's eight years since I left. I don't know if he's still there. My mother died Eugene: They used to beat him up. They used to starve him That's why he ran away. But he says if he's got someone to pay school fees for him, he'll go back . He'll go back to that man and start going to school . Does the man agree? KK: Yes I'm sure | ||
| 29.59.15- Uncles house daytime | CAPTION K.K. Dog changes his story every day but repeatedly says he wants to go to school. He has an uncle he can stay with who previously threw him out. | ||
| 30.06.12- entrance to the uncles house
| CAPTION The Uncle | ||
| 30.08.06- The uncle in his house | Uncle: Hello, Come in Eugene: He says he wants to go to school . He says you beat him and made him run away . Uncle: It's not true. Some of it is true. I didn't beat him. I hate him. I don't like him if he had money he could keep it. I didn't drive him away. Any child from Kenema who doesn't learn But who goes on to the streets -That's it. If he goes to the street he doesn't come back . He's become a thief Eugene: If he were to come back would you accept him?So he can go to school ? Uncle: If you pay for everything. Before I say yes, I'm not going to say no I'll say yes but we have to have an agreement | ||
| 30.58.15- Black | CAPTION The School | ||
| 31.04.18- Headteacher in his office | Teacher: A lot of other schools in the town are grumbling about them. When they're in school they don't attend properly. They don't attend regularly.But since school is to reform them. We will not reject them. We should bring them home. They are our children. We want to see them be good boys tomorrow KK.My name is Allusine, Mohamed Sesay | ||
| 31.40.19- KK Dog outside his uncles house | CAPTION 3 days later... | ||
| 31.42.22- KK Dog crying | YY: Are you happy with your uncle?Now you are with your uncle, are you happy? KK: No, someone told him I went to smoke Marijuana and he shouted at me. Yesterday in the streets Eugene: Someone told on you? KK: Yes Eugene: What did you do? KK: Nothing Eugene: Is it true? Don't lie. KK: No it's not true YY: You weren't gambling? Yesterday I went to A-Class for my money. This is what happened before. Someone told tales on me. Before they said I would go and cause trouble on the streets. Thats why I left before and now it's all starting again YY: Do you want us to come for you? KK:That's not why I'm crying YY: What now?And talk like a man KK: There's an old woman, she's my grandmother | ||
| 33.01.13-
| CAPTION Of all of them, Yumyum said K.K.Dog would never leave the streets. He loved gang life and getting high too much. | |||
| 33.07.23-
| CAPTION But he was also just a child looking for someone to love him | |||
| 33.13.09-
| KK: I want to go and see my brother YY:What do you want to do now? KK: It's been eight years since I saw my family | |||
| 33.36.01- With the Uncle | Eugene: He says that yesterday people came to you and said he was going to the streets. That he smoked marijuana And actually when he went there he went to collect some money that one girl owed him Uncle: You know what I don't like? When someone doesn't take me seriously, I will hit him. I warned him not to go on the streets Because he's in bad company Eugene: Don't stop him going to the streets because his only friends are there. But you could tell him, he can go there as long as he sleeps at the house and doesn't smoke there Because he has promised me that he isn't going to smoke again Uncle: I don't want him to gamble again Eugene: He wont stop him going to the streets he can go and see his friends But he can't gamble or smoke marijuana. So that's why he shouted at him | |||
| 34.36.18- Aclass and Yumyum walking | CAPTION A-Class is always very clear he wants to go back to school. He was a good student before his parents were killed in the conflict. | |||
| 34.42.14-
| CAPTION But finding somewhere to live proves difficult | |||
| 34.51.12- A Class looking at a property | AC: I went to see that woman who said she would help. She's not serious about finding a place for me. She's not going to find a place for me So I decided to find a place for myself Man: This is a big house. So the money you will pay I will take 50,000 ($15)To fix the doors. I'll finish the toilets for them also. Come and see AC: If they do the maintenance on the place I will like it That place we just saw The chief doesn't want us there | |||
| 35.44.09- argument with the landlord | CAPTION The chief decides he doesn't want street youth living in his area. We don't get our deposit back | |||
| 35.49.16- A Class walking | CAPTION We look at several more places before finding one that accepts A-Class | |||
| 35.54.12- Teachers home | CAPTION Next we visit A-Class' old teacher | |||
| 35.57.17-
| CAPTION The Teacher | |||
| 36.00.11-
| Teacher: He started attending at the school for a month or so. After a month and a half he disappeared He didn't tell me he was going anywhere And today I am seeing him after a very long time HC: Why did you disappear? AC: I had problems Teacher: But you should have told me your problems. I listen. I'm your class master. I admitted you. Next academic year we'll enrol him again. He will start fresh. I want to believe he can do well | |||
| 36.49.06- | CAPTION April 2009 | |||
| 36.57.06- night shots of the streets | CAPTION Yumyum has, once again, spent time in jail for loitering. The police have shaved his head. | |||
| 37.04.18-
| CAPTION The fish cooperative has gone belly up. | |||
| 37.10.24- Yumyum at night | YY: The woman we gave the money to She went twice to get the fish But then she never came back. She took our money | |||
| 37.23.19- Yumyum buying flip flops | CAPTION The final investment is in flip-flops which Yumyum says he has sold before | |||
| 37.29.20-
| Man: Do you want a mix of them all? | |||
| 37.33.15- Yumyum in class | CAPTION Yumyum also asks to go to literacy classes as long as he doesn't have to sit in a classroom | |||
| 38.00.19-
| YY: I want to learn I am not a thief I am not a thief | |||
| 38.13.16- A Class at night | CAPTION A-Class | |||
| 38.15.19-
| AC: Since you left I have a lot of difficulties. My girlfriend's sick since she had our baby. She has a big sore on her foot. They have done an operation two times. We used to have a bed. A-Class pawned it. He pawned everything. Everything is gone. HC: Did you sell the school books as well? AC: No I didn't sell them HC:You thought when she had the baby that her parents would take her back AC: Because she is very sick they wont take her. HC: Because she was sick? AC: Yes, They asked me to do everything, forever | |||
| 39.34.05- shopping for baby clothes | CAPTION Despite having a sick girlfriend and a new baby, A-Class has been doing the lessons set for him over summer. Now he wants to enrol at the school. | |||
| 39.55.01- Teacher's place
Aclass getting books and uniform | Teacher: We arranged lessons for him. English language, mathematics and biology. At times he absented with no justifiable reasons AC: I was helping a girl with a baby, who was sick Teacher: Whose baby? AC: It's mine Teacher: You can't be a father at the same time as going to school especially at your age, it will be very difficult. Do you want to go to school or be with your wife? AC: I want to go to school Teacher: Will you be able to give your attention? Concentrate fully on your education?Can you leave all your other activities and concentrate on your studies and academic work AC: I give my promise HC: Please give him a chance Teacher: Yes, alright | |||
| 41.13.12- Gvs rubbish dump | CAPTION K.K.Dog | |||
| 41.15.17- KK Dog in car | KK:I don't have any trouble HC: are you doing your school work? KK: Yes I am doing my school work | |||
| 41.23.22- The uncles KKDog buying uniform | Eugene: So the arrangement we will make now that we have tested him for three months. He's going to try and we will buy the school uniform so he can continue going to school now. Are you ok with that? | |||
| 42.11.20- Yumyum's camera Boys on tables asleep | CAPTION flashing REC | |||
| 42.49.04- Yumyum's camera Tearing of clothes | YY: He's tearing his trousers. He stole 500 leones (12 cents) Youth: You stole from me. Every time I see you in good trousers I will tear them for you . Boy: Do you think when you tear them the money will appear? | |||
| 43.47.22- walking across rubbish dump | CAPTION November 2009 | |||
| 43.51.12-
| CAPTION Yumyum and K.K.Dog have fled to nearby town Bo due to increasingly frequent arrests for loitering | |||
| 43.59.05- KK Dog | HC: What are you doing here? KK: I don't know what happened HC: Is Yumyum here somewhere? KK: I don't know where he is I'm on my own here. | |||
| 44.19.17- leaving the rubbish dump | CAPTION It turns out Yumyum has already returned to Kenema and the only reason K.K. Dog hasn't is because he has no clothes or money for the fare | |||
| 44.38.14- KK Dog in the car | HC: What happened to school? KK: what happened to school? HC: Yes, why did you stop going? KK: The uncle couldn't take care of me That's why I went back to the streets. When I went to town he said I was smoking marijuana And of course I am not smoking marijuana. He was shouting at me- shouting at me. That's the reason I went back to the streets again. I want to go to my dad. I want to go to my dad. It's a long time since I saw my dad HC: Do you know where your dad is? OK | |||
| 45.22.10- Driving to Kenema | CAPTION Despite his insistence to the contrary it is likely that K.K.Dog was on the streets smoking marijuana | |||
| 45.28.00-
| CAPTION But he still desperately wants someone to look after him | |||
| 45.36.05- The uncles house | Eugene: What happened with Allusine at the house? Uncle: Nobody beat him. Nobody drove him away. Nobody made him go hungry. Allusine is a very difficult child to take of. You need to find another way. I don't want him | |||
| 45.56.21- walking down street | CAPTION K.K.Dog's father lives in a village two days journey away. An aunt offers to take him | |||
| 46.02.15- the dentists | CAPTION K.K.Dog is ashamed of the gap in his teeth and doesn't want to see his father again unless it can be fixed | |||
| 46.16.24-
| CAPTION 2 days later... HC: smile, lets see. | |||
| 46.45.20- A-Class with baby | CAPTION A-Class | |||
| 46.52.10- A Class with papers | AC: This is my first term examination, biology. I did well. In the first test I got 71% In the exam I got 32%. I only failed one paper but I do nine subjects | |||
| 47.06.10- Teacher s house | Teacher: He's doing fine. Because he goes to school. He attends school And equally I monitor his academic work, his activities. Actually he's improving. I don't want to praise him more but he's improving Compared to the way he was intially. He's doing fine | |||
| 47.27.00- Yumyum at the pharmacy with his bad hand | CAPTION Yumyum is not doing so well. He's been in and out of prison often for something one of the other gang members did or for loitering | |||
| 47.38.01-
| CAPTION He has a badly infected hand that needs urgent treatment | |||
| 47.45.01-
| Chemist: Are you not a man? YY: My heart. HC: He needs to rest | |||
| 47.55.13-
| CAPTION His thumb is infected down to the bone and the chemist fears he might lose it | |||
| 48.01.09-
| Chemist: He's in very serious pain | |||
| 48.14.15- still having his hand done | CAPTION There is little left for Yumyum in Kenema. For the first time he shows signs of being ready to leave permanently | |||
| 48.24.13- Yumyum outside in the field | Eugene: What happened to the shoes you were selling? YY: I was selling the shoes in Blama village. On fridays I would go and sell with the market people. So I would always sell the shoes there on Fridays. When I came back on the Friday there was a raid going on. The police caught me and took the money. They framed me for breaking into a shop | |||
| 48.55.17- slomo CU Yumyum | CAPTION This story checks out. The police have confiscated his money | |||
| 49.01.12-
| CAPTION With nothing left in Kenema for him except the possibility of being arrested and ending up in jail permanently, Yumyum moves to capital- Freetown | |||
| 49.46.08- Yumyum packing up | Woman: He's not been any problem. He's crying,he's crying. God bless you son. Don't cry. Now go, Byebye | |||
| 50.08.19- Gvs Kenema | CAPTION September 2010 | |||
| 50.13.05- walking | CAPTION K.K.Dog got to his father's village but his father was dead. He stayed with an uncle for a while but is now back on the streets in Kenema. | |||
| 50.20.17- KK Dog | KK: My uncle is a farmer. In the rainy season he has nothing. They're struggling in the rainy season. When the food I took ran out I went to bed hungry. My uncle said, before you starve, maybe Kenema town would be better for you. I didn't want to suffer. He said if I got something I could go back (to the village) Eugene: What happened to your teeth? KK: I went to the river to wash. In the village you wash in the river. The river was deep. I nearly drowned and my teeth fell out | |||
| 09/05/51 arrival in village | CAPTION K.K.Dog is always determined to find someone to go and live with. He hears of another uncle in a village five hours outside Kenema | |||
| 51.28.04- Another uncle | Eugene: I'm Eugene. This is Hazel. He's the younger brother of his mother. When he was born, he was there Uncle: He was on the streets and I wanted to take him but I had nothing. But now I am happy to take him Eugene: What does he need to go to school? Uncle: Uniform, pencil, book. Do you see this one?They have the same mummy and daddy. He's his brother | |||
| 52.03.05- village shots | CAPTION Yumyum thinks that if K.K.Dog stays in the village it will be because it is isolated and hard for him to leave | |||
| 52.17.10- driving back to Kenema Aclass in car | CAPTION Everything seemed to be going well for A-Class. But after completing a year in school there now seems to be confusion around registering for the new term. | |||
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| AC: The principal, he called my name. My name's not registered I don't have the paper (receipt) I never saw it. | |||
| 52.31.17-
| CAPTION The Teacher | |||
| 52.57.07- The teachers house | HC: I'm confused. I thought I'd paid for his books, and the boarding school Teacher: and the school fees HC: But now I hear the school fees aren't paid and he's not on the register. Teacher: He is. What happened was.. This is the receipt for the boarding school for a year and also the school fees for a whole year. Maybe he doesn't want to help himself. I don't know but I told him I paid his school fees. So you are supposed to start attending. He just has the problem. I'm always in school. He's the problem. Look at this receipt. He's paid up. I'm not going to give them to him. Eugene: You need to get a photocopy of them . Take a photocopy of it Teacher: and return the original to me. I will do it myself. AC: I love school mum | |||
| 53.31.07- getting in car and driving to school | CAPTION We go to see the principal to find out why A-Class isn't on the register. But Eugene is suspicious of the teacher and decides to bring him with us | |||
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| Eugene: Hazel. Do you want to go in the front? He's coming with us. | |||
| 53.43.19- at the school | CAPTION As soon as we get to the school the teacher runs away. | |||
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