TURKEY / FORE SYRIAN REFUGEES

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore has concluded a two-day trip to Gaziantep, Turkey, where she visited the humanitarian logistics hub in Bab Al Hawa on the border with Syria. She also toured a Syrian refugee camp in Kahramanmaras. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:10
• Production Date: 9 March 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: HENRIETTA FORE
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA; TURKEY
• MAMS Id: 2538942
• Parent Id: 2538942
• Alternate Title: unifeed200309a

Description

STORY: TURKEY / FORE SYRIAN REFUGEES
TRT: 02:10
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 5 MARCH 2020, HATAY, TURKEY

Shotlist

1. Various shots, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore visiting UN Hub for transshipment of UNICEF WASH and NFIs to Syria
2, Various shots, Fore at Cilvegözü / Bab Al Hawa, Turkey – Syria border
3. Various shots, Fore visiting Kahramanmaras Temporary Accommodation Center, in Turkey
4. Various shots, Fore attending a Turkish class with first graders
5. Various shots, Fore visiting the Child Friendly Space and playing a ‘Child Rights’ game with children
6. Various shots, children living in Kahramanmaras Temporary Accommodation Center

Storyline

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore has concluded a two-day trip to Gaziantep, Turkey, where she visited the humanitarian logistics hub in Bab Al Hawa on the border with Syria. She also toured a Syrian refugee camp in Kahramanmaras.

The visit comes amid an increasingly dire situation in northwest Syria, with some 600,000 children displaced just in the past three months. At the Bab Al Hawa border crossing, Fore saw trucks being loaded with winter clothes, jerry cans, hygiene items, high-energy biscuits and other essential supplies destined for children in northwest Syria. Since the beginning of the year UNICEF has sent in 100 trucks to the northwest.

“Sending aid across Syria’s borders has been a lifeline for vulnerable families,” Fore said. “Nine years since the conflict started, five million children still need aid. We must help them at all costs. We are deeply grateful to our local partners on the ground for their heroic work – sometimes despite the personal toll on them and their families.”

At the Kahramanmaras camp, Fore visited a family who has been calling Turkey home for eight years. The children, aged seven to twelve, go to school and the father works in construction. Although they are safe and well-settled, they still dream of going home.

The camp currently hosts more than 11,000 people, half of them are children. It offers schooling for 3,700 children and training opportunities for young people.

“Turkey has generously hosted millions of Syrian children since the war began,” Fore said. “It is essential that this support continues.”