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GERMANY / SYRIAN REFUGEES
STORY : GERMANY / SYRIAN REFUGEES
TRT 3:10
SOURCE UNHCR
LANGUAGE : GERMAN / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE 13, 14, 15 NOVEMBER, 2014 WACHTERSBACH,GERMANY
1.Medium shot, women crying on the window
2. Medium shot, Ahmed cries while saying farewell to his relatives
3. Wide shot, Ahmed packs bags in the boot of a car
4. Medium shot, Family gets into the car
5. Close up, Ahmed and Abdu
6. Medium shot, Family access the car
7. Close up, Family members look on as family enters car
8. Wide pan, Family drives off
9.SOUNDBITE (Arabic): AHMAD, ABDU´S FATHER
‘We were living in the same house together all of us and then all of a sudden we had to travel, of course it was difficult, but then you see you have a future ahead of you for you and your children can enter into a new phase of your life. ¨
9. Various shots, Ahmed, Abdou and the little sister walking
10. Close up, Abdu in the kindergarten with his cochlear implants
11. Close up, Abdu busy on a table playing a game
12. Wide pan, Children singing with the teacher
13. Close up, Ahmed and Abdu talking
14. Various shots of Ahmed at his school
15. SOUNDBITE: (German) TIM SCHNEIDER, INTEGRATION OFFICER, CITY OF WACHTERSBACH
“The Khawan family is an exemplary family, especially because Mr. Khawan who helps with translatings. We want to help refugees learn from each other, which is why we asked Mr .Khawan to help us with new arrivals in Wachtersbach. Mr. Khawan is going to school and trying hard to integrate. “
16. Various shots, Ahmed’s parents in the flat playing with the children
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) AHMAD, ABDU´S FATHER, “Thank God that they are here, but thanks to Germany foremost for bringing them here to join us. There are so many people that are forced to arrive illegally by sea or air, but they made it so we could arrive in a peaceful manner.¨
18. Wide pan, Family walks away through autumn forest
Ahmad Khawan and his family are from Aleppo Syria. Before the war, he worked as an ironmonger, he had a good life and was able to support his wife and two small children. They fled their home in 2012 when the war arrived to Aleppo, finding refuge in neighbouring Lebanon. There Ahmad joined his mother, brothers and sisters, all the family members crammed into a small flat in Beirut , waiting to return to Syria.
Ahmad was able to find sporadic work in Lebanon which kept them going, but he knew there was no future for him and his family, especially for his son Abdu, who was born deaf. In Syria Abdu had one cochlear implant but his hearing aid was old. Ahmad couldn´t afford to pay for a second cochlear implant which would give Abdu the ability to hear from both sides.
In August 2014, the family heard they had been accepted for resettlement in Germany under the Humanitarian Assistance Programme.
Ahmad said, “We were living in the same house together all of us and then all of a sudden we had to travel, of course it was difficult, but then you see you have a future ahead of you for you and your children can enter into a new phase of your life. ¨
They arrived in Wachtersbäch a month later. Ahmad´s son Abdu underwent a second operation and he can now hear almost 90% with his new hearing aids. After attending a school for the hearing impaired, Abdu now goes to the local nursery with his sister Ruha (4 years old), both are learning German.
Ahmad is about to graduate from language school and hopes to find work in the town. His father and brother recently arrived in Germany as part of family re-unification programme. For the first time since the war began in Syria, Ahmad feels hope for their future.
Ahmad said “Thank God that they are here, but thanks to Germany foremost for bringing them here to join us. There are so many people that are forced to arrive illegally by sea or air, but they made it so we could arrive in a peaceful manner.¨
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