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STORY: SYRIA / GRANDI HOMS
TRT: 02:13
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 JANUARY 2017, AL-MAIDIYA AND AL-KHALIDIYA DISTRICTS, OLD HOMS, SYRIA
1 Various shots, of destroyed parts of Homs
2. Med shot, UN High Commissioner for Refugees arriving at shelter
3. Med shot, Grandi talking to local UNHCR colleague about the shelter
4. Med shot, Grandi walking up the stairs of the shelter to visit families
5. Wide shot, Grandi speaking to two displaced individuals who live at the shelter
6. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations (UNHCR):
“And here what are the main problems or needs?”
7. Close-up, displaced woman
8. UPSOUND (Arabic) Rabea al-Rifae, displaced Syrian, speaking in background:
“Services, services.”
9. Close-up, Rabea
10. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations (UNHCR):
“How is the heating organised?”
11. Close-up, Rabea signalling they just put more clothes on
12. Close-up, Grandi
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabea al-Rifae, displaced Syrian:
“We live here like other people who lost their homes.”
14. Wide shot, Grandi talking to displaced residents
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabea al-Rifae, displaced Syrian:
“I wish to go back home, to return to normal life, to work.”
16. Wide shot, Grandi talking to staff at community centre for returnees
17. Close-up, Grandi talking to social worker
18. UPSOUND (Arabic) Social worker:
“We help 1500 youth who suffer from panic because there are many empty neighborhoods, they walk around, always checking what’s behind them.”
19. Wide shot, Grandi walking into nursery inside community centre
20. UPSOUND (Arabic) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations (UNHCR):
“Alsalam Aleekum.”
21. Various shots, Grandi playing with a child
22. Pan left, young people playing pass the ball with Filippo Grandi
23. Various shots, children taking photos with Filippo Grandi doing thumbs up
24. Various shots, destroyed buildings in Homs’ old city
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, today (31 Jan) witnessed first-hand, what he said was the immense scale of urgent humanitarian needs in Homs, Syria.
Fighting in Homs, until it ended in April 2014 took a heavy toll on the Old City, leaving it in ruins. Still, residents have been returning to try to rebuild their lives.
Rebuilding 4 years of damaged infrastructure might come with time.
But fixing the lives of people destroyed by war is a much bigger task.
United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees visited Homs for the first time since the war started.
He stopped at a shelter offering a home to those who lost theirs.
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations (UNHCR):
“And here what are the main problems or needs?”
UPSOUND (Arabic) Rabea al-Rifae, displaced Syrian, speaking in background:
“Services, services.”
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations (UNHCR):
“How is the heating organised?”
No heating, just layers of clothes, signals Rabea who has been displaced for over 4 years.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabea al-Rifae, displaced Syrian:
“We live here like other people who lost their homes.”
But years of brutal war have left much to heal.
At a local community centre funded by UNHCR, Filippo Grandi heard about programmes that help the vulnerable.
UPSOUND (Arabic) Social worker speaking to Filippo Grandi:
“We help 1500 youth who suffer from panic because there are many empty neighbourhoods, they walk around, always checking what’s behind them.”
Grandi was shown the empty and damaged parts of the city.
An apocalyptic landscape, but living among the rubble is the future of Homs.
The next generation is calling for help to turn the page.
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