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LEBANON / GRANDI BEKKA VALLEY
STORY: LEBANON / GRANDI BEKKA VALLEY
TRT: 02:55
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 FEBRUARY 2017, BEKKA VALLEY, LEBANON
04 FEBRUARY 2017, BEKKA VALLEY, LEBANON
1. Wide shot, Grandi arriving at settlement
2. Various shots, Grandi walking through settlement
3. Various shots, Grandi speaking to officials
4. Tracking, Grandi walking through settlement
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
‘’Here in Lebanon we calculate that there are 400 refugees that were completely ready to be resettled in the United States. They have sold their belongings; sometimes they have given up their permits to stay here because they were ready to go and now they have to sort of rewind everything and wait for another indefinite period of time, especially the Syrians.’’
6. Wide shot, Grandi meeting with family in tent
7. Med shot, mother and child in tent
8.Wide shot, Grandi sitting with family in tent
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
‘’We must bring more help. I say this to government, donor government, but I say this also to the general public to individuals, to private companies, we must continue to be generous and there are many ways that we can give to this effort. I mean also financial assistance, even small, is always very useful.’’
10. Various shots, refugees in settlement
11. Med shot, man in wheelchair
12. Wide shot, refugees standing by river bank
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
‘’Of the children of refuges in Lebanon, only about a half go to school, we need to inject more resources.’’
14. Wide shot, UNHCR and Lebanese officials entering school
15. Various shots, student band playing music
16. Wide shot, Grandi listening to music with Lebanese Education Minister Marwan Hamadeh
17. Close up, Grandi sitting among children
18. Wide shot, Grandi and Hamadeh in classroom
19. Wide shot, classroom
20. Close up, notebook
21. Med shot, boys in classroom
22. Med shot, Grandi and Hamadeh in classroom
23. Med shot, Grandi speaking to girl
24. Close up, boy writing
25. Med shot, Grandi sitting among students
United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi said more help was needed to support refugees displaced by the violence in Syria adding that “even small” donations were very useful.
Over the weekend, Grandi visited a refugee settlement in the Lebanese Bekka Valley after ending his first visit to Syria since the beginning of the conflict. The settlement is housing some 60 families most of whom are agricultural workers. He said some 400 refugees in Lebanon were ready to resettle in the United States but were blocked by the recent executive order issued by the new American administration.
The High Commissioner also visited a school in the area with Lebanese Education Minister Marwan Hamadeh where he was briefed on a local plan to educate Syrian refugee children in morning and afternoon shifts. Grandi praised Lebanon’s support for Syrian refugee children, and called for continued international assistance for their education and health. He said more resources needed to be injected into educating refugee children as “only about a half go to school.”
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