SOMALIA / REFUGEES GRANDI

During his visit to Somalia, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited a new settlement in the southern port city of Kismayo, built for refugees who have returned to the country. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:17
• Production Date: 19 December 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FILIPPO GRANDI
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: 2063366
• Parent Id: 2063366
• Alternate Title: unifeed171219e

Description

STORY: SOMALIA / REFUGEES GRANDI
TRT: 3:17
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /SOMALI /NATS

DATELINE: 18 DECEMBER 2017, KISMAYO, SOMALIA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Grandi with people
2. Various shots, Grandi looking at settlement plans
3. Various shots, building house
4. Wide shot, school
5. Wide shot, girls outside of classrooms
6. Med shot, girls
7. Wide shot, Grandi at school
8. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“You have to make this school good for you. It’s your responsibility. Like this country is your responsibility. Remember that”
9. Med shot, student talking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“These boys and girls around me are the people that have grown up in a refugee camp. And as I told them a few minutes ago, they are not refugees anymore. What better result for UNHCR to see young people go from being refugee to being people back in their country, contributing to their country.”
11. Various shots, Farah Hassan and family inside their house
12. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Why did you decided to come back?”
13. UPSOUND (English) Farah Hassan Abdi, 24 year-old returnee:
“This is my motherland, I would like to live here for my future.”
14. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“And what will you do?”
15. UPSOUND (English) Farah Hassan Abdi, 24 year-old returnee
“ I would like to be a professor, or a doctor; a specialist who operates on people.”
16. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I wish you all the best and I am really happy to see you here.”
17. Med shot, Grandi and Farah’s family
18. Various shots, returnees
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think a lot of progress has occur, including what we see around here today, but much more is needed to make return sustainable and more importantly to make the country viable for its own people.”
20. Med shot, women walking
21. Med shot, woman holding a UNHCR flag

Storyline

During his visit to Somalia, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited a new settlement in the southern port city of Kismayo, built for refugees who have returned to the country.

There are currently more than 2 million people displaced in Somalia, both inside the country and in exile. The High Commissioner called for the international community, including development organizations and the private sector to work together to support the Somali government’s efforts to restore and rebuild the country.

The new settlement in Kismayo includes houses for 300 families, a new hospital, a marketplace and a new school.

The High Commissioner spoke with some of the students, most have returned from refugee camps in Kenya.

SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“These boys and girls around me are the people that have grown up in a refugee camp. And as I told them a few minutes ago, they are not refugees anymore. What better result for UNHCR to see young people go from being refugee to being people back in their country, contributing to their country.”

24-year-old Farah Hassan Abdi returned from Ali Addeh camp in Djibouti one year ago. He and his entire family of 10 will move into one of the first houses built for returnees.

But Farah and the other more 100,000 refugees who have returned to Somalia still face many challenges.

The High Commissioner acknowledged that despite progress, Somalia still faces insecurity, drought and a lack of basic services like water, food, healthcare and education.

SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think a lot of progress has occur, including what we see around here today, but much more is needed to make return sustainable and more importantly to make the country viable for its own people.”

The High Commissioner called for the international community, including development organizations and the private sector to work together to support the Somali government’s efforts to restore and rebuild the country.