The women who fish to support their families ++REPLAY++
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(28 Oct 2018) YEMEN FISHERWOMAN SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLY LENGTH: 3:23 ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Lahij, Yemen - 20 October 2018 1. Fishing boat on Red Sea seen from Lahij governorate 2. Mid of Namima Ragouh, Yemeni fisherwoman, on a small boat before going fishing 3. Boy swimming past boat 4. Close of hand on motor 5. Wide of Ragouh and her colleagues singing traditional Yemeni songs 6. Various of Ragouh fishing 7. Close of motor 8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Namima Ragouh, fisherwoman: ++CHANGE OF CAMERA FRAME IN SOUNDBITE++ "We go out at 6 o'clock and get back around 11 or 12 (noon). That's the time we spend at sea." 9. Tilt down to Ragouh fishing 10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Namima Ragouh, fisherwoman: "There's no money, we go fishing and sell what we fish for 5,000 Yemeni Riyal (20 US dollars). That is not enough for our needs, sometimes we buy fish from the market for 5,000 Yemeni Riyal and we sell it for 6000 (24 US dollars). It can't work that way, we can't even buy a boat of our own or a motor. We need a boat to be able to move and fish." 11. Ragouh and her colleagues unloading tuna fish from boat 12.The women carrying fish to market 13. Close of fish being placed on floor of market 14. Tilt up of Ragouh and her colleagues selling fish 15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salama Ali Abdulla, fisherwoman: "I start work from 6 o'clock in the morning till 2 in the afternoon, then I take a coffee break and resume work from 3.30 till 5. I have been doing this for the past 40 years, it is very tiring, I can't even stand on my feet sometimes." 16. Wide of market 17. Various of Ali Abdulla selling fish 18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salama Ali Abdulla, fisherwoman: "I look after my 10 children as well as four of my grandchildren, I don't get any help from anyone. Sometimes I sleep in the market as I don't have any energy to go home. On the days that I don't fish I rent my fridge with ice to other fishermen, the ice bag costs me 1,500 Riyal (22 US dollars)." 19. Various of fish market 20. Wide of Red Sea filmed from boat LEADIN Women have been defying conservative Yemeni social norms for decades by going to sea as fisherwomen. Many of them are now supporting families after their husbands were killed in the ongoing conflict. STORYLINE For 40 years, Namima Ragouh has left her house in the southern Yemeni port of Ras al-Ara, just after dawn, to take a wooden boat for a daily fishing journey across the Red Sea. Along with around 100 fisherwomen, she has defied conservative Yemeni social norms for decades. Without a face veil or abaya, which covers the body from top to toe, Ragouh wears colourful traditional Yemeni clothes and jumps in the boat to maintain a source of living for her six children. "We go out at 6 o'clock and get back around 11 or 12 (noon). That's the time we spend at sea," she explains. Around 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Aden, Hirak fish market is Ragouh's second home. When there is no fish, she buys from other fishermen and sells to the public, making some profit for her family. Ragouh's dream is to own a boat to become fully independent, instead of relying on other fishermen to join them on their daily expeditions. But amidst the Yemeni war - now entering a fourth year - fuel price hikes coupled with less spending power from her customers make her dream an impossible one. "There's no money, we go fishing and sell what we fish for 5,000 Yemeni Riyal (7 US dollars). That is not enough for our needs," she says. "We can't even buy a boat of our own or a motor. We need a boat to be able to move and fish," she says. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4fce80a39a5ea4a30fe36afd289b81ce
