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Celebrating Ukrainian athletes Parviz Nasibov and Viktoriia Kesar in Zaporizhzhia

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - AUGUST 21, 2024 - The shadows of childre are on the ground during the ceremony to award money certificates from the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council to Ukrainian athletes and a coach who represented the country at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Higher Sportsmanship School in Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine.

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China provides 80 pct of school uniform materials in Sri Lanka: minister

STORY: China provides 80 pct of school uniform materials in Sri Lanka: minister SHOOTING DATE: June 7, 2024 DATELINE: June 8, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:40 LOCATION: Colombo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the handover ceremony of school uniform materials 2. various of address by Sri Lankan Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha 3. various of address by Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong 4. various of the handover ceremony 5. various of group photo STORYLINE: About 80 percent of the school uniform materials in Sri Lanka in 2024 were provided through a Chinese grant, said Sri Lankan Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha at the handover ceremony of school uniform materials granted by China on Friday. "China is a friendly country and always our friends in need, and this kind of supply had been done before many years. I would take this opportunity once again to say thank you," said Premajayantha. Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong said China has never been absent when Sri Lanka needs help, and childre

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ChineseToday | 5-year-old girl practices Yingge dance in S China's Guangdong

(240601) -- SHANTOU, June 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhuang Enqi (L, front) attends a class at her kindergarten in Guiyu Township of Shantou City, south China's Guangdong Province, May 29, 2024. The Yingge dance, or "dance to the hero's song," is a form of folk dance popular in south China's Guangdong Province that merges opera, dance, and martial arts. Dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), this traditional dance is often performed during traditional Chinese festivals. The Yingge dance was listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. In April 2024, videos of a 5-year-old girl, Zhuang Enqi, performing the Yingge dance and interacting with a troupe of Yingge dancers garnered millions of views online. Enqi's father, Zhuang Rongqiang, is a drummer in a Yingge dance troupe in Yujiao Village. Enqi often went to the troupe's rehearsal venue with her father and developed a keen interest in the Yingge dance. Small drums, cymbals, serpent props, and Yingge sticks adapted for childre

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Israeli army withdraws from West Bank's Jenin after 3-day operation: sources

STORY: Israeli army withdraws from West Bank's Jenin after 3-day operation: sources SHOOTING TIME: May 23, 2024 DATELINE: May 24, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: RAMALLAH, Palestine CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of destroyed buildings in Jenin STORYLINE: The Israeli army pulled out on Thursday from the West Bank's Jenin and its refugee camp after three days of military operation, killing 12 Palestinians and wounding 25 others, said Palestinian security sources. Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that Israeli forces stormed the city of Jenin and its camp on Tuesday morning. During the operation, confrontations broke out, and gunfire took place between Palestinians and Israeli forces, accompanied by the sounds of explosions. Local sources and eyewitnesses said that military bulldozers destroyed the infrastructure, causing a power outage and disruptions in communications in a large part of the city. The Palestinian death toll from Israeli gunfire in Jenin rose to 12, including four childre

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Istanbul exhibition highlights conflicts in Gaza through Palestinian children's eyes

STORY: Istanbul exhibition highlights conflicts in Gaza through Palestinian children's eyes SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 4, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 5, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:47 LOCATION: Istanbul CATEGORY: SOCIETY/CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition hall in Taksim Square in Istanbul 2. various of the exhibition 3. various of Türkiye's First Lady Emine Erdogan at the opening ceremony of the exhibition STORYLINE: As visitors enter the exhibition hall at Istanbul's Taksim Square, they are greeted by an image, albeit of its childish strokes, vividly depicting a rocket-propelled grenade piercing the heart of a woman. This poignant artwork is the creation of Mona, a six-year-old Palestinian girl who lost her mother during the 2009 Gaza War. Her painting, generated into a clip of animation with the help of artificial intelligence, provides a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the most traumatic episode of her young life, offering a candid perspective seen through the eyes of a child. Mona is one of the many Gazan childre

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Afghan children chase football dream despite war, poverty

STORY: Afghan children chase football dream despite war, poverty DATELINE: May 9, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:10 LOCATION: BAMYAN, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of Afghan childre playing football 2 SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): AMIR HUSSAIN, Afghan boy 3 SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): TAZAHIR, Afghan boy 4 SOUNDBITE 3 (Dari): AHMAD BEHZAD, Provincial directorate of Physical Education and Sport in Bamyan STORYLINE: Millions of kids around the world dream of becoming football legend Lionel Messi, but Afghan boy Amir Hussain is not one of them. He has never even seen a live game of the Argentinian national football team. Hussain, 14, lives in central Afghanistan's Bamyan Valley where the famous Buddhas of Bamyan stand. Although the old-fashioned TVs, which have been used for several years there, can receive sports channels, few children in the village have the chance to stay up all night watching a football match. Despite the setback, Hussain's determination remained unshakable. At a small flat ground near his

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UN expert decries "appalling" legacy of residential schools in Canada

STORY: UN expert decries "appalling" legacy of residential schools in Canada DATELINE: March 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:37 LOCATION: Ottawa CATEGORY: EDUCATION/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): CALI TZAY, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples STORYLINE: A UN expert said on Friday that the testimonies of survivors of Canada's residential school system were appalling. Cali Tzay, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, made a 10-day official visit to Canada. After the visit, he urged the Canadian government to fully implement recommendations of a 2015 truth commission to achieve meaningful reconciliation and accountability in the country. SOUNDBITE (English): CALI TZAY, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples The current human rights situation of indigenous people in Canada cannot be fully understood without considering the legacy of residential schools and intergenerational trauma they created. Over 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit childre

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CHINA-GUIZHOU-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-GIRL-NEW SEMESTER (CN)

(220305) -- GUIYANG, March 5, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Pan Xuefei (2nd L) greets the villagers in Dadai Miao Village, Bingmei Township, Congjiang County in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 20, 2021. Pan Xuefei, a girl of the Miao ethnic group from Dadai Miao Village of Congjiang County in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Guizhou Province, is embracing her new semester at a middle school in Guizhou's capital city of Guiyang after graduating from a village elementary school. In recent years, Dadai Miao Village has seen a steady progress in people's living conditions as well as children's education. With the government's support, brand-new buildings have been built at local elementary schools and roads to and within the village have been paved. Girls' education has also received more attention from the government. Upon graduating from Dadai Elementary School in the fall of 2021, Pan Xuefei, together with nine other childre