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JORDAN / GRANDI ZAATARI VISIT
STORY: JORDAN / GRANDI ZAATARI VISIT
TRT: 02:28
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JANUARY, 2016, ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN
1. Wide shot, Zaatari Refugee
2. Wide shot, water tower and container homes
3. Wide shot, tents and containers
4. Med shot, refugees walking on the Champs Elysées
5. Med shot, High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi coming to meet the family
6. Med shot, HC sits down with Mohammed Olayan, Syrian refugee
7. Med shot, family sitting with father
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“What really are the things that you need in addition to what is already here?”
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Olayan, Syrian Refugee:
“Everything is ok, but I have 8 people. We get 160 dinar (250 dollars) this is almost enough to the 20th of the month. The last 10 days we have to work or borrow money to continue.”
10. Various shots, family
11. Med shot, HC listening
12. Wide shot, family
13. Pan right, HC arriving at the press conference
14. Wide shot, HC with Andrew Harper, Representative UNHCR, Jordan , Melissa Fleming, Spokesperson UNHCR, and Amin Awad Director MENA Region
15. Med shot, Grandi and Fleming
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“The vulnerability, the fragility of the refugees after five years of war, almost five years, almost the sixth year of war, is increasing.”
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“And the burden that is placed on the countries hosting them is increasing at the detriment of infrastructure or the economy.”
18. Med shot, Grandi and Harper
19. Wide shot, kids riding donkey in Zaatari Camp
20. Wide shot, sun setting in Zaatari
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, visited the Zaatari refugee camp today (18 Jan) after meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan. Grandi called for a far greater world effort to help refugees and refugee hosting countries as the Syrian war is about to enter its sixth year.
Three and a half years on, Zaatari camp looks settled, 79,000 people, 24,000 caravans, electricity half the day.
It’s a community of 3,000 refugee-run shops and businesses along with 9 schools and 2 hospitals. About 60 percent of the adults earn some money from work here.
On his first trip as High Commissioner for Refugees, Grandi met a Syrian Bedouin family, a couple with six children. They fled Daraa and the war in Syria three years ago.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“What really are the things that you need in addition to what is already here?”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Olayan, Syrian Refugee:
“Everything is ok, but I have 8 people. We get 160 dinar (250 dollars) this is almost enough to the 20th of the month. The last 10 days we have to work or borrow money to continue.”
At a news conference Grandi stressed that Jordan and the region are suffering from the weight and duration of the long conflict.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“The vulnerability, the fragility of the refugees after five years of war, almost five years, almost the sixth year of war, is increasing.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“And the burden that is placed on the countries hosting them is increasing at the detriment of infrastructure or the economy.”
Life is slow, but secure in Zaatari. Hundreds of thousands of other refugees are living precariously in cities and towns in Jordan. For most, as their exile lengthens, their prospects worsen.
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