An open letter from a mother who has escaped the conflict in Sudan-English

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB186999

Date taken / Date Recorded 09/01/2024 5:13 AM

Country South Sudan

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m35s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 521.92 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Dear world
A vous tous et toutes,

Scene 3 [0:06 – 0:15]
Narrator (V.O.): “I have been at the hospital for three weeks, watching over my eight-year-old son and my five-year-old daughter, both suffering from malnutrition.”

Cela fait trois semaines que je suis à l'hôpital et que je veille sur mon fils de huit ans et ma fille de cinq ans, l’un et l’autre souffrant de malnutrition.

Scene 4: [0:16 – 0:20]
[We see man coming home to his family, 5 children run up to him and Marta is carrying a baby on her hands to welcome her husband.
Narrator (V.O.): Our home was full, and children were running and playing all over the place.

Notre maison était toujours pleine, les enfants couraient dans tous les sens et jouaient.
Scene 5:
Text on Screen: April 15, 2023
15 avril 2023
Scene 6: [0:21 – 0:30}
[We see bombs and dead bodies]
Narrator (V.O.): Everything was okay until we heard the bombs and gunshots; neighbours and people we knew were dying.

Tout allait bien jusqu'à ce que les bombes et les coups de feu retentissent.

Nos voisin·e·s et nos connaissances mourraient.
Scene 7: [0:31 – 0:41]
[We see Marta and her children on bus]
Narrator (V.O.): We decided to leave. My husband stayed behind, and my six children and I embarked on a journey to South Sudan, the country we had originally migrated from.

Nous avons alors décidé de partir. Mon mari est resté sur place, et mes six enfants et moi avons entrepris un voyage vers le Soudan du Sud, le pays d'où nous sommes originaires.

Scene 8: [0:44 – 0:54] Text on screen: Alagaya refugee camp, Sudan

Camp de réfugié·e·s d'Alagaya, Soudan
[We see the baby, the three years old and the nine-year-old children sick with a fever and Marta standing next to them helpless]
Narrator (V.O.): The children started to fall sick, the baby, the three-year-old and the nine-year-old; they got a fever they had measles.

Les enfants ont commencé à tomber malades, le bébé, l'enfant de trois ans et celui de neuf ans. Ils avaient de la fièvre et la rougeole.

Scene 9: [0:56 – 0:58]
[Close up on Marta’s face crying]
Narrator (V.O.): They died.

Ils sont morts.
[Close up on Marta closing her eyes]
(Fade to black)
Scene 10: [0:59 – 1:05]
[Close on Marta opening her eyes, we see in her eyes the reflection of three tombs]
Narrator (V.O.): I had to bury my three children far from home, far from where we were going. Far from anyone they knew.

J'ai dû enterrer mes trois enfants loin de notre maison, loin de l'endroit où nous devions nous rendre. Loin de toutes celles et ceux qu'ils connaissaient.
Scene 11: [1:07 – 1:11]
[Marta standing center frame with all her children surrounding her, then the three dead children start fading away from the frame]
Narrator (V.O.): I have lost three children, and the other two are fighting for their lives.
J'ai perdu trois enfants et les deux autres luttent pour leur vie.
Scene 12: [1:13 – 1:24]
Narrator (V.O.): As soon as my children feel better, we will continue our journey. We would need a lot of courage and help to survive during the coming difficult days to start a new life in South Sudan.
Dès que mes enfants se sentiront mieux, nous poursuivrons notre voyage. Nous allons avoir besoin de beaucoup de courage. Et nous aurons besoin d'aide pour survivre pendant les jours difficiles qui s'annoncent et pour commencer une nouvelle vie au Soudan du Sud.
Scene 13: [1:25 – 1:28]
Narrator (V.O): Yet my house will still be half full.

Dorénavant, ma maison restera à moitié pleine.

Scene 14: [1:29 – 1:33]
[Close-up on Marta writing: Your fellow human being, Marta Kaliba]
Narrator (V.O): Your fellow human being, Marta Kaliba
Votre semblable, Marta Kaliba