Islam helps give orphans' lives structure

Описание: (3 Dec 2009)
Abay Village, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan, November 28th , 2009
1. Mid shot boys praying
2. Mid shot boy saying prayers
3. Pan close shot boys praying
4. Close shot Elmurad praying
5. Wide children and helper in mosque
6. Pan Elmurad and other boys
7. Wide shot Amina Adjibayeva with children
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian), Amina Adjibayeva, Director of Parzant Children's Home:
"They were throwing knives at each other. There was terrible bullying, they were taking children to the bathroom and beating each other. They were throwing scolding water on each other. And then one day I said: 'Children. A river has two banks. So, on the left bank there's the gate, it's open, please go. I'm tired. I was myself an orphan. And the right bank, is Islam. Because Islam brings order'".
9. Mid shot Amina gives Elmurad a hug
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian), Amina Adjibayeva, Director of Parzant Children's Home:
"And when they accepted Islam, they became Muslim and there were praying five times a day. Five times a day they would wash their hands and faces and their expression changed they became - good!"
11. Mid shot Elmurad in girl's lap
12. Close shot Elmurad washing face
13. Mid shot boy at computer
14. Close shot hand on mouse
15. Close shot computer screen
16. Mid shot boys watching TV
17. Mid shot boys watching TV
18. Mid shot Ali and Ilyas with Amina
19. SOUNDBITE (English), Ali, University student:
"Here you can see a lot of boys and girls from every nation. For example, Russian guys, Uighur guys, Kazakh guys. But they have the same religion. It's Islam. Only because of that, I think they are like a family."
20. Mid shot girl putting food on table
21. Mid shot children eating
22. Wide shot children eating at table
23. Close shot Elmurad eating
24. Mid shot Makhtumhan Adjibayeva at sewing machine
25. Close shot sewing machine
26. SOUNDBITE (Russian), Makhtumhan Adjibayeva, Amina's biological daughter
"I've been in this orphanage since I was three years old. And since I began to understand that I was living in this orphanage with my mother I was not treated any differently. Me and my sisters, we've all been raised here."
27. Wide Parzant Children's Home, pan to children playing in yard
28. Mid shot Elmurad Islamov playing
29. Mid shot children running
30. SOUNDBITE (Russian), Arai Besimkhoja, Orphan
"When I grow up I want to go to college to study to be a doctor to help the little children and help Apashka so that they don't get ill."
31. Mid shot girls praying
32. Pan close shot girls praying
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Islam, which was suppressed during Communist rule in Kazakhstan, is experiencing something of a revival.
In one orphanage, children are being taught the Quran as a way to live a more peaceful and disciplined life.
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The children of Parzant Family Home orphanage pray five times a day.
The forty children all wear Islamic dress and headscarves. Older boys and some of the younger ones can recite from the Quran.
Elmurad is the youngest orphan at Parzant.
He was just a baby when he was brought to the home, and now he is three.
But everyone gives him lots of attention, and he seems to enjoy taking part in the group prayers.
Parzant is known as a 'family style' home.
The majority of the forty young people who live here are school and pre-school age.
All must come and wash, before doing 'namaz' in a prayer room that functions as a mosque.
According to government figures there are more than 16,000 children living in children's homes and orphanages in Kazakhstan, the vast majority of them are state-run secular institutions.

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