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LEBANON / WINTER SYRIAN REFUGEES
STORY: LEBANON / WINTER SYRIAN REFUGEES
TRT: 02:48
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 8 JANUARY 2016, SAIDA, LEBANON
1. Wide shot, unfinished building
2. Various shots, family around a fire in building
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanaa, Syrian refugee:
“The winter is a bit hard. There is humidity, water drips; there is wind, a lot of wind and it’s cold during storms.”
4. Wide shot, side of the building
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanaa, Syrian refugee:
“It’s been two years that the water drips on us. Sometimes the kids wake up in the morning and there is water under their mats.”
6. Various shots, raining inside the building
7. Wide shot, Fatah sitting
8. Close up, Fatah
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Fatah Ali, Syrian refugee:
“I don’t have the means to pay, I can’t pay for my medication and for a rent, I don’t have the means. And my son can’t afford it. No one gives you an apartment for free; even if I suffer here it’s better than having to pay a rent.”
10. Med shot, rain
11. Various shots, delivery of plywood
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nisreen Jaafar, UNHCR officer:
“For this particular kind of shelter, the designated shelter assistance composes of what we call a weather proofing kit or a sealing off kit which comprises of plywood and plastic sheets that the family can themselves apply into their house or the unfinished building in order to seal the apartment off of weather conditions.”
13. Wide shot, Hanaa enters shelter
14. Various shots, family eating
15. Med shot, girl closes a window
16. Wide shot, exterior of the building
More than half of over one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in vulnerable shelters such as unfinished buildings, garages and shops.
They brave the winter in precarious conditions. UNHCR provides those refugees with a shelter kit consisting of plywood and plastic sheets to help them weatherproof their houses but the living conditions remain very difficult.
Abdul Fatah Ali and his family fled Hama in Syria five years ago. They have been living in an unfinished building in the south of Lebanon.
Abdul Fatah suffers from epilepsy and cannot work full-time to afford renting a room.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanaa, Syrian refugee:
“The winter is a bit hard. There is humidity, water drips; there is wind, a lot of wind and it’s cold during storms.”
This is a second winter that the family is living here.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanaa, Syrian refugee:
“It’s been two years that the water drips on us. Sometimes the kids wake up in the morning and there is water under their mats.”
Abdul Fatah suffers from epilepsy and cannot secure an income.
He relies on aid and the help of his working 15-year-old son.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Fatah, Syrian refugee:
“I don’t have the means to pay, I can’t pay for my medication and for a rent, I don’t have the means. And my son can’t afford it. No one gives you an apartment for free; even if I suffer here it’s better than having to pay a rent.”
UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR supports these families by providing them with some basic supplies.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nisreen Jaafar, UNHCR officer:
“For this particular kind of shelter, the designated shelter assistance composes of what we call a weather proofing kit or a sealing off kit which comprises of plywood and plastic sheets that the family can themselves apply into their house or the unfinished building in order to seal the apartment off of weather conditions.”
In this room they share to sleep, a stove helps keep the family warm…despite the drafts.
As of 30 November 2015, the UNHCR has registered more than one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon. More than 50% of them live in precarious shelters such as unfinished buildings, garages and shops.
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