PORTUGAL / SYRIAN REFUGEES

At an emergency EU summit in Brussels in March, Portugal announced it was willing to increase its resettlement quota of Syrian refugees from 4,500 to as many as 10,000. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:27
• Production Date: 4 April 2016
• Asset Language: Arabic
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1595157
• Parent Id: 1595157
• Alternate Title: unifeed160404a

Description

STORY: PORTUGAL / SYRIAN REFUGEES
TRT: 02:27
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / PORTUGESE / NATS

DATELINE: 14-15 MARCH 2016, PENELA, PORTGUAL

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, children in coats and hats
2. Med shot, mother puts jacket on her son
3. Close up, mother zips up jacket
4. Med shot, father walks children to school in the rain
5. Med shot, shot father and children walking to school in the rain
6. Wide shot, Samir’s children in kindergarten
7. Close up, son does jigsaw
8. Close up, Samir’s son Omar
9. Close up, Samir’s sons names in English and Arabic
10. Med shot, Samir at adult school learning Portuguese
11. Wide shot, Teacher asking Samir what he did in Portuguese
12. UPSOUND (Portugese) Samir:
“Tomorrow I will go to Coimbra.”
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samir, Syrian Refugee:
“In Penela everybody knows us. So it is much easier to communicate. This is a small family town like we have back home. I think we would have found it a lot harder in a big city.”
14. Med shot, ADFP employee helps ladies learn basket weaving
15. Close up, Samir’s wife Suzan learning weaving
16. Wide shot, lady holds up material to put plant pot
17. SOUNDBITE (Portugese) Jaime Ramos, Assistance Development & Training, ADFP:
“We saw the news and what happened with the refugees particularly from Syrian and Sudan. We realised we couldn’t ignore this problem and we started to think that we must be involved and use our resources to help the Portuguese to help these people.”
18. Various shots town of Penela
19. Med shot, Samir with his daughter in the park
20. Med shot, Samir pushes his children on swings
21. Wide shot, Samir pushing his children on swings
22. Med shot, mother puts her daughter on the slide
23. Wide shot, Samir and his wife watch children on the slide

Storyline

At an emergency EU (European Union) summit in Brussels last month, Portugal announced it was willing to increase its resettlement quota of Syrian refugees from 4,500 to as many as 10,000.

Samir and his family are among the first Syrian refugees to be resettled there. They arrived in the country November last year and are living in Penela, central Portugal. A local, non-profit organisation ADFP, is helping their integration into community.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samir, Syrian Refugee:
“In Penela everybody knows us. So it is much easier to communicate. This is a small family town like we have back home. I think we would have found it a lot harder in a big city.”

Housing, health, and education are all part of the assistance that is provided.

SOUNDBITE (Portugese) Jaime Ramos, Assistance Development & Training, ADFP:
“We saw the news and what happened with the refugees particularly from Syrian and Sudan. We realised we couldn’t ignore this problem and we started to think that we must be involved and use our resources to help the Portuguese to help these people.”

This month the Portuguese government announced they hope to take in up to 10,000 Syrian refugees.