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KENYA / GRANDI KAKUMA CAMP VISIT
STORY: KENYA / GRANDI KAKUMA CAMP VISIT
TRT: 1:55
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 JUNE 2016, KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, KENYA
13 JUNE 2016, KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, KENYA
1. Various shots, huts
2. Med shot, refugees sitting
3. Close up, man
4. Various shots, children
5. Wide shot, workers digging
6. Close up, Kalobeyei settlement map
7. Med shot, man explaining map to Grandi and delegation
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“This is really a new way of working for UNHCR, that does not simply provide what we used to call care and maintenance which means day to day survival of the refugees, but we want to establish a more long term sustainable model that can benefit both the refugees and the local community.”
9. Med shot, Grandi walking with delegation through Kalobeyei
10. Med shot, Grandi speaking to family
11. Med shot, family
12. Close up, Grandi
13. Various shots, new arrival refugees
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“For the civilians life continues to be very, very tough. And once peace is achieved, or a measure of peace, development will also be the big challenge in a country that has almost no infrastructure.”
15. Med shot, Grandi meets students
16. Various shots, people in Kakuma market
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said it was building a new site to relieve overcrowding in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.
The camp is home to over 200,000 refugees primarily from South Sudan. Since 2013, the camp has doubled in size after civil strife broke out in the neighboring country.
The Kalobeyei settlement being built would follow a new model where refugees share services, farm the land and businesses with the local population.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited Kakuma and the new construction site earlier this week. He said this was a “new way of working for UNHCR” which established a more sustainable model for both the refugees and the host community.
Against the backdrop of the intention to close Dabaab, UNHCR said the Kenyan government supported this model.
Grandi met with families a family who recently fled violence in South Sudan just last month. He said lasting peace will be the first step to a long-term solution and one that peace was achieved “development will also be the big challenge in a country that has almost no infrastructure.”
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