March 05, 2018•Update: March 05, 2018
By Zehra Melek Cat
ISTANBUL
TRT World has launched the second phase of its training program, titled journalism for juniors, for the Syrian refugee children at the Harran refugee camp.
The second phase of the program, which began on March 2, is part of a project -- titled "world citizens” -- that has made a global call for conscience.
In a statement, TRT’s Managing Director Ibrahim Eren said they have put trust in those who are said to be “lost generation” because they fled their homeland due to a civil war there.
“Turkey is a great example for the world that opened arms for thousands of children who fled their country after being denied their human rights. The TRT World by organizing this project is taking part in the country’s efforts to help the refugees,” he added.
In the program, trainees got a chance to meet Jamal Abdullah, a senior researcher in the TRT Word and multi-disciplinary masters degrees holder.
It said mobile journalism, storytelling, and basics of journalism will be covered in the training program.
The trainees will start writing original stories at their camps after they are equipped with productive storytelling, digital news creation, social media usage and authenticating news credibility so that they can voice their stories by themselves.
On the first day of the training, Abdullah, who was raised in a refugee camp, met the trainees and shared his experiences.
Despite all the difficulties he faced in his childhood, he has got three masters degrees in international relations, political sociology political science, and managed to become academician at the Oxford University.
Abdullah -- who is fluent in Arabic, English French -- gave a lecture on “building the future” and motivated the students to have a great vision no matter what the situation is.
Hanna, a student who participated in the training, said she was 13 years old when began in Syria and that was the time when she decided to be a journalist.
She added that the training program has made her more determined to become a journalist.
Syria has been locked in a devastating civil war since March 2011, when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
While UN officials say hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict, Syrian regime officials say the death toll is closer to 10,000.
