OCHA / ALEPPO GRIFFITHS EARTHQUAKE

Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths traveled to Aleppo at the end of a three-day visit to areas of Türkiye and Syria hit by the 6 February earthquake. OCHA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:41
• Production Date: 13 February 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: MARTIN GRIFFITHS
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: EARTHQUAKES; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 3010712
• Parent Id: 3010712
• Alternate Title: unifeed230213g

Description

STORY: OCHA / ALEPPO GRIFFITHS EARTHQUAKE
TRT: 01:41
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNOCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 13 FEBRUARY 2023, ALEPPO, SYRIA

Shotlist

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“The trauma of the people we spoke to was visible and this is a trauma which the world needs to heal.”
2. Wide shot, debris removal.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“And the reason we’re here, is because we want to raise money for the brave organizations which are helping these people of Aleppo, these people of Syria.”
4. Med shot, Marting Griffiths walking from the site of heavy earthquake impact
5. Wide shot, school in Dahret Awad neighborhood converted to shelter run by local NGO Al Ihsan
6. Wide shot, children playing in courtyard
7. Various shots, Martin Griffiths talking to a family whose house was destroyed in the impact and who had temporarily relocated in the school
8. Various shots, square in Dahret Awad neighborhood hosting tents for people who lost their homes or can’t return to them
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fekriye, displaced by the earthquake:
“What we need the most is clothing, food, and heating. Me and three families are staying in this tent. Mattresses and blankets just like my sister said. Yesterday was cold, very very cold. We have nothing. Even those whose houses have not collapsed - they are so afraid to go back.”

Storyline

With a visit to Aleppo, Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths ended on Monday a three-day visit to areas of Türkiye and Syria hit by the 6 February earthquake.

Speaking to journalists, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs said that the trauma of the people he spoke to “was visible” and this “is a trauma which the world needs to heal.”

Griffiths added, “And the reason we’re here, is because we want to raise money for the brave organizations which are helping these people of Aleppo, these people of Syria.”

Fekriye, one of the people displaced by the earthquake, said that what her and her family needs the most is clothing, food, and heating.

“Me and three families are staying in this tent. Mattresses and blankets just like my sister said. Yesterday was cold, very very cold. We have nothing. Even those whose houses have not collapsed - they are so afraid to go back,” said Fekriye.