DRC / GRANDI VISIT

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging the international community not to forget about the plight of millions of displaced people across the region. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:08
• Production Date: 11 April 2018
• Asset Language: English; French; Kiswahili
• Personal Subject: FILIPPO GRANDI
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
• MAMS Id: 2126986
• Parent Id: 2126986
• Alternate Title: unifeed180411a

Description

STORY: DRC / GRANDI VISIT
TRT: 3:08
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: FRENCH /ENGLISH /KISWAHILI /NATS

DATELINE: 5 – 8 APRIL 2018, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Shotlist

5 APRIL 2018, KINSHASA, DRC

1. Pan left, Grandi arrives
2. Various shots, Grandi meeting refugees
3. Close up, blind refugee speaking
4. Wide shot, refugee entrepreneur showing his products
5. Med shot, Grandi speaking with entrepreneur
6. Various shots, Hulem speaking
7. Med shot, Grandi and Hulem holding award
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Hulem, Refugee from Central African Republic:
“Thanks to that, when I got my high school diploma I said to myself, I have made it”

7 APRIL 2018, MULONGWE, DRC

9. Pan left, refugee site
10. Various shots, refugees walking amongst huts

5 APRIL 2018, KINSHASA, DRC

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“This is a very hospitable country, with open borders, ready to take in people from neighbouring countries that have been in trouble for decades. But it is also a country that has it’s own problems, that has produced refugees, sometimes in the same countries from where refugees come here.”

7 APRIL 2018, MULONGWE, DRC

12. Various shots, Grandi visiting refugees
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“This is not a rich area, it is a poor area and yet refugees share many resources together with the local community”
14. Various shots, Daisy Skitu speaking to Grandi
15. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Daisy Skitu, Burundian Refugee:
“We need more help so as women we can be able to uplift ourselves and help those who don’t have.”

8 APRIL 2018, GOMA, DRC

16. Various shots, Grandi with refugees at transit center
17. Pan right, Grandi walking through transit center
18. Wide shot, refugee children
19. Close up, refugee child

Storyline

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging the international community not to forget about the plight of millions of displaced people across the region.

During the four-day trip, the High Commissioner met with refugees who found safety inside the DRC, as well as displaced people inside of the country. He called for renewed global efforts to find solutions to the complex displacement crises affecting Congo and its neighbours

The Democratic Republic of Congo hosts over 540,000 refugees, while also having several million people internally displaced and over 700,000 Congolese living as refugees in neighbouring countries. During his visit to the country, UN High Commissioner for Refugees offered praise to the country for continuing to keep its borders open, while also acknowledging the large number of displaced Congolese inside the country. The High Commissioner called for more global attention and funding for one of the world’s most complex, and forgotten, humanitarian crises.