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IRAQ / ERBIL REFUGEES JOBS
TITLE: IRAQ / ERBIL REFUGEES JOBS
TRT: 3:33
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 – 13 NOVEMBER, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Med shot, Dr Mohammed Squeezing on his patient’s hand
2. Med shot, Dr Mohammed checking the patient’s leg
3. Close up, face of the patient laying inside her bed
4. Various shots, Dr Mohammed is putting electric machine to stimulate nerves and muscles
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“In each session, I do a check-up on the patient, and if his/her nerves need stimulation I use a machine that stimulates the nerves and I make them perform physical therapy exercises.”
6. Close up, Dr Mohammed writing prescription for patient
7. Med shot, Patient standing on helper with Dr. Mohammed helping her
8. Close up, leg of patient kicking a bag part of the exercise
9. Med shot, Mohammed helping the patient walk inside her house
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“It is a good thing that I can work. I can provide for myself and my family. If I couldn’t work, I wouldn’t be able to live here.”
11. Wide shot, exterior, Erbil city
12. Close up, Governor Nawzat Mawlood’s face
13. Med shot, Governor sitting behind his desk writing
14. Close up, governor’s face
15. Med shot, people on Erbil’s street
16. Various shots, street scenes from Erbil
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nawzad Mawlood, Erbil Governor:
“They were an added value to our talents. They brought new cultures, new ideas, that enrich the city in different work fields.”
18. Various shots, street scenes
19. Med shot, Dr. Mohammed driving his car
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“I do home visits because I can’t allow a poor person to pay for a taxi ride to the hospital and that’s expensive. “I am productive and helping people.’
21. Med shot, Dr. Mohammed coming inside a house of a patient
22. Med shot, Dr. Mohammed and refugee helping patient stand up
23. Close up, Dr Mohammed helping patient walk
24. Close up, legs of the patient while she was trying to walk
25. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“Money is the last objective, it is just a mean to pay for the rent, the expenses and the school.”
26. Med shot, another patient being examined by Dr. Mohammed
27. Close up, Dr. Mohammed’s face
28. Close up, Dr. Mohammed holding legs of patient to stand up
29. Med shot, Patient standing up with the help of Dr. Mohammed part of the exercises
30. Med shot, Dr. Mohammed and his son coming inside room to start with his son’s homework
31. Close up, Dr. Mohammed’s face showing images on the book for his son
32. Close up, Dr. Mohammed’s son
33. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“The city welcomed us and the Kurdish authorities worked hard to accommodate us.”
34. Various shots, street scenes of Erbil
In the city of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, refugees have unrestricted access to the labor market. Mohammed, a refugee from Syria, works as a doctor helping other refugees.
The city of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq today hosts 120,000 refugees and 600,000 IDPs. It offers them shelter and basic services but also provides them with unrestricted access to the labor market even in independent professions such as medicine, pharmacy, engineering and others. The governor of Erbil, Nawzad Hadi Mawlood, has been instrumental in the open-door policy of the city, believing in refugees as an added value to the economy and culture of the city.
UPSOUND Mohammed: “Squeeze as much as you can”
Mohammed is a general physician and physical therapist. His patient Bahia suffered from a stroke.
“In each session, I do a check-up on the patient, and if his or her nerves need stimulation I use a machine that stimulates the nerves and I make them perform physical therapy exercises.
Mohammed is a Syrian refugee practicing in the city of Erbil.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“It is a good thing that I can work. I can provide for myself and my family. If I couldn’t work, I wouldn’t be able to live here.”
Many host countries restrict refugees’ labour. But in the city of Erbil, many professions are accessible. Nawzad Hadi Mawlood is the governor of Erbil. He is an advocate of refugee integration.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nazwad Hadi Mawlood, Erbil Governor:
“They were an added value to our talents. They brought new cultures, new ideas, that enrich the city in different work fields.”
Mohammed works in a private clinic in the morning and and visits refugee patients at home in the afternoon.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“I do home visits because I can’t allow a poor person to pay for a taxi ride to the hospital and that’s expensive.”
“I am productive and helping people. Money is the last objective, it is just a mean to pay for the rent, the expenses and the school.”
Mohammed fled Syria with his family in 2013.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Issa, Syrian Refugee:
“The city welcomed us, and the Kurdish authorities worked hard to accommodate us.”
Like Mohammed, most refugees in the KRI chose to live in cities. Erbil hosts today 120,000 refugees and 600,000 IDPs. It provides them with shelter, work, and services. But most importantly, refugees say, it feels like home.
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