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Release Date: February 2007 Programme No. 1061 Duration: 3’01’’ Languages: English, French and Spanish
FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL PRODUCTION ARE BOOMING IN AFGHANISTAN
VIDEO AUDIO
PLAYERS ARE LINING UP,
MATCH IN ACTION
SOCCER BALL
PRODUCTION
SOUNDBITE MOHAMMAD
HASHIM, DISABLED
VETERAN
NARRATION
Football enthusiasm is growing in Afghanistan. During the Taliban regime, the only activities allowed on the football fields were public executions. Five years later, Afghanistan is kicking up some success – and has already climbed to 173rd^ place out of the 204 member countries of the international football association FIFA.
While players are trying to improve their skills, ball production is also in high gear. An Afghan investor started the Itifaq Sports Company, employing 900 disabled veterans and 450 war widows. Most of them had difficulties before in finding jobs and making ends meet.
MOHAMMAD HASHIM: (PASHTO)
“Working here has a positive effect on our lives. Unemployment is a disease. Unemployment creates many problems for
U.N. IN ACTION
MISS NASRIN, WAR WIDOW
FILE FOOTAGE ZABULI
PRIZE
SOUNDBITE MOHAMMAD
ARIF, GENERAL MANAGER
AFGHAN ITIFAQ SPORTS
UN blue ball parts
Handing out balls to high school
Christopher Alexander handing out balls and talking to students
people. I avoided that by working here.”
NARRATION:
Miss Nasrin is a war widow and has five children to support. Now she earns money and can buy food.
Itifaq Sports Company won a prestigious prize awarded to businesses that help improve the country’s precarious employment situation. General Manager Mohammad Arif:
MOHAMMAD ARIF: (PASHTO)
“As you can see these people working here, we still face many problems. We have not enough facilities here and local transportation is difficult, that’s why most of our employees work from their homes and we pay them for the number of balls they bring us.”
NARRATION:
Now Itifaq has designed a new ball – in UN blue with the Afghan flag. Seven hundred of these balls were distributed to orphans, inmates and high school students in Kabul, who didn’t have footballs to play with before.
Christopher Alexander, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Afghanistan, made sure all students got a ball for intensive training.
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: (ENGLISH)
