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SOUTH SUDAN / GRANDI APPEAL
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / GRANDI APPEAL
TRT: 02:40
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 JANUARY 2018, IMVEPI CAMP, UGANDA / 30 JANUARY 2018, LAMWO CAMP, UGANDA / 01 FEBRUARY 2018, KAKUMA CAMP, KENYA
30 JANUARY 2018, IMVEPI CAMP, UGANDA
1. Wide shot, UN High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi walking
2. Med shot, refugee children drumming
30 JANUARY 2018, LAMWO CAMP, UGANDA
3. Med shot, refugee woman cooking
4. Wide shot, South Sudanese refugee at a reception center
5. Med shot, refugees out in the open at the reception center
6. Med shot, women and children at the reception center
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“It’s a human tragedy of major proportion. This is like Syria or Yemen. These are the big humanitarian crises of the world and it is urgent to make peace; that’s the only way that stop it.”
01 FEBRUARY 2018, KAKUMA CAMP, KENYA
8. Med shot, Filippo Grandi talking to refugee family
9. Close up, refugee woman talking to the High Commissioner
10. Med shot, refugee family listening to the High Commissioner
11. Close up, refugee boys crying
12. Wide shot, UN High Commissioner talking to refugee family
13. Med shot, Filippo Grandi chat with a refugee family
14. Close up, refugee boy telling Mr. Grandi about their needs
30 JANUARY 2018, IMVEPI CAMP, UGANDA
15. Med shot, Filippo Grandi shaking hands with Lasaba Yousoto
16. Med shot, Yousoto talking to the High Commissioner
17. Wide shot, Yousoto and other refugees talking to the High Commissioner
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Lasaba Yousoto, South Sudanese Refugee:
“The first day when I arrived last year I shed tears, because it’s like my whole life has been a refugee life.”
01 FEBRUARY 2018, KAKUMA CAMP, KENYA
19. Wide shot, UN High Commissioner Filippo Grandi and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock, addressing press
20. Wide shot, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock
21. Med shot, UN officials address the media
27 MARCH 2017, KAKUMA CAMP, KENYA
22. Close up, refugee women holding a baby
23. Med shot, refugees queuing for food
24. Wide shot, refugees in room
25. Close up, refugee children waiting in a room
26. Close up, refugee child looking
27. Med shot, Filippo Grandi and Mark Lowcock talking to refugee family
28. Med shot, refugee boys looking on
29. Med shot, refugee women seated in a room
30 JANUARY 2018, IMVEPI CAMP, UGANDA
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We hope that the leaders of South Sudan remember that this conflict, what this conflict is causing to their own people, and they take the opportunities that are given to them to make peace and allow for the country to be rebuild, so that most of these people can go back to their country whenever they choose to do so.”
31. Close up, refugee girl crying
UN Refugee Chief Filippo Grandi visited South Sudanese refugees in Uganda and Kenya, calling attention to the plight of refugees from the world’s youngest nation and appealed for more aid for those displaced.
More than 2.5 million refugees have fled the war-torn nation…a number that could reach three million this year as the conflict continues.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“It’s a human tragedy of major proportion. This is like Syria or Yemen. These are the big humanitarian crises of the world and it is urgent to make peace; that’s the only way that stop it.”
The High Commissioner heard harrowing stories from refugees, now safe…but losing hope.
In Kakuma camp, 14 year-old Jacob and Simon Lino, said they witnessed the killing of close family members.
They walked for days to reach Kenya.
Traumatized, they told the High Commissioner that their only wish is for a pair of shoes.
In Uganda’s Imvepi Settlement, Grandi bonded with the 60 year-old Lasuba Yousoto.
He confided that this is his fourth time fleeing South Sudan.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lasaba Yousoto, South Sudanese Refugee:
“The first day when I arrived last year I shd tears, because it’s like my whole life has been a refugee life.”
While in Kenya the High Commissioner, along with the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock, launched a humanitarian appeal for 3 billion dollars.
Funds urgently needed to help those displaced inside and outside of the country.
Underfunding has left millions of South Sudanese lacking the basic necessities: food, water, shelter, schools.
But the High Commissioner stressed that even with funding, a political solution is the only way to truly end the suffering.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“We hope that the leaders of South Sudan remember that this conflict, what this conflict is causing to their own people, and they take the opportunities that are given to them to make peace and allow for the country to be rebuild, so that most of these people can go back to their country whenever they choose to do so.”
The High Commissioner warned that the failure to find peace in South Sudan now, is killing the future of the young nation.
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