GREECE / SYRIAN SINGLE MOTHER

Thousands of women with children are now at Greece’s northern border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, some waiting for weeks, hoping to be allowed northwards. Life in the makeshift Idomeni camp is a daily struggle.UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:02
• Production Date: 14 March 2016
• Asset Language: Arabic
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1582097
• Parent Id: 1582097
• Alternate Title: unifeed160314f

Description

STORY: GREECE / SYRIAN SINGLE MOTHER
TRT: 2:03
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC/ NATS

DATELINE: 8 MARCH 2016, INDOMENI, GREECE

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, refugees and migrants waiting at the border crossing
2. Med shot, mother and child looking at razor fence
3. Wide shot, tents
4. Various shots, refugee women and children in Idomeni camp
5. Med shot, Nisrine Shiko
6. Close up, Nisrine Shiko sitting with child in arms
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisrine Shiko, Syrian Refugee:
“I feel it is impossible to live here with my children. I can’t bear it. I have been here for ten days. I haven’t had a single nights rest. They sleep, I don’t.”
8. Various shots, Nisrine looking at family photos
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisrine Shiko, Syrian Refugee:
“It’s difficult with five children. Yesterday when it rained, my children were all soaked, the blankets were soaked. I dried my children, I put them to bed. And I haven’t slept since.”
10. Various shots, Nisrine Shiko queuing up for food, receiving rations
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisrine Shiko, Syrian Refugee:
It’s hard. I was a housewife before and my husband was everything to me. And now I am both mother and father at the same time. It’s very hard.
12. Various shots, Nisrine feeding her children
13. Med shot, food line
14. Med shot, man next to tent
15. Med shot, Nisrine and family huddled around fire
16. Close up, fire
17. Wide shot, smoke rising over camp at sunset

Storyline

Women and children, thousands of them, waiting in Idomeni camp near the border of Greece and FYRoM.

Women whose husbands, fathers, brothers are dead, missing or in another country.

Nisrine Shiko is a Syrian refugee. She is here with her five children. Her husband was killed by a bomb in Aleppo three years ago.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisrine Shiko, Syrian Refugee:
“I feel it is impossible to live here with my children. I can’t bear it. I have been here for ten days. I haven’t had a single nights rest. They sleep, I don’t.”

Tuesday marks Syria’s fifth year of war. The latest UNICEF report says that one in three Syrian children have known nothing but war.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisrine Shiko, Syrian Refugee:
“It’s difficult with five children. Yesterday when it rained, my children were all soaked, the blankets were soaked. I dried my children, I put them to bed. And I haven’t slept since.”

The war in Syria has created 2.4 million child refugees, many have been killed or recruited into the war. And for Nisrine and others like her, countless widows.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisrine Shiko, Syrian Refugee:
It’s hard. I was a housewife before and my husband was everything to me. And now I am both mother and father at the same time. It’s very hard.”

UN brokered peace talks resumed on Monday in Geneva to try to end this conflict that has killed more than 250,000 people.