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STORY: UNHCR / WORLD REFUGEE DAY
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SOURCE: UNHCR
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LANGUAGES: SWAHILI/ ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17-19 JUNE 2023, KAKUMA, TURKANA COUNTY, KENYA
17JUNE 2023, KAKUMA, TURKANA COUNTY, KENYA
1. Aerial shots, Kalobeyei Settlement
2. Various shots, traders, people, streets, shops
3. Various shots, crops on farm, vegetables
4. Various shots, Lugazo talking to traders, crop
5. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Abdulaziz Lugazo, chairman, farm cooperative:
“We grow various vegetables like jute mallow and amaranth. We also grow kale. This has helped us expand the farm to grow groundnuts.”
6. Various shots, Lugazo talking to traders
7. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Abdulaziz Lugazo, chairman, farm cooperative:
“We started farming on 9 acres, and now we have cultivated about 21 acres.”
8. Various shots, trader counting money, paying for produce, packing vegetables, women carrying away packed vegetables
9. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Muhawe Selene, Congolese refugee, trader:
“This farm helps us put food on the table and provides us with a source of income and a way to earn a living. Without an income, the children cannot get school materials or have clothes or food. This farm helps us find produce we can buy and sell later.”
10. Various shots, woman harvesting spinach, traders selling vegetables, local market
11. Various shots, trader chopping, sorting, and selling vegetables
12. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Abdulaziz Lugazo, chairman, farm cooperative:
“Every day I wake up, I hope to ensure I don’t go hungry. That I should not lack money, and my children should not starve. I wake up every day to work so my family and neighbors don’t suffer as I eat. I want to be able to have enough and share with my neighbor so we can all live well.”
13. Various shots, Abdulaziz’s wife and son cooking, meal being stirred in cooking pot, family sharing meal
19 JUNE 2023, KAKUMA, TURKANA COUNTY, KENYA
14. Various shots, traditional dancers performing, Abdulaziz and Grandi talking
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“I've just met a refugee from Somalia called Abdulaziz, and he told me how he and the cooperative, in fact, that he leads is promoting self-reliance to the production of vegetables and fruit, which they then sell in the market, reinvesting then some of the profit into the project itself. So, this is the type of project that we really want to promote, benefiting refugees, benefiting the local community, and giving hope.”
16. Med shot, Abdulaziz and Grandi talking
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“As the slogan of this year's World Refugee Day says – Hope away from home for refugees. This is a concrete example of that.”
18. Various shots, Grandi, exhibition stands
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Kenya is one of the oldest and most traditional and good host countries in Africa and globally. They have hosted refugees for many, many decades. But I’m in Kenya also because here we are pioneering some of the most advanced approaches to refugee protection and refugee assistance, founded on self-reliance, on the inclusion of refugees in services and the economy, and on social cohesion with the local communities through appropriate, strong support given to the local community as well.”
20. Various shots, traditional dancers
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, visits Kenya to mark this year’s World Refugee Day.
Grandi was in Kakuma Refugee Camp on Monday (19 Jun), where he met refugees using their skills to grow innovative businesses.
Grandi visited the Kalobeyei Settlement in Kakuma, north-western Kenya, on Monday, where he interacted with refugees and the local community and participated in the World Refugee Day events.
This 2023 World Refugee Day theme is ‘Hope away from home – a world where refugees are always included.’
Grandi said he was very grateful to be in Kenya, which is taking an innovative approach to give refugees more hope – and more opportunities – while they are away from home.
An approach Grandi encouraged more countries around the world to emulate.
Kenya, which has hosted refugees for over 30 years, is set to roll out innovative and inclusive policies allowing some of the half a million refugees and asylum seekers it hosts to work and live with Kenyans.
This will pave the way to self-reliance, grow the local economy, and reduce dependency on humanitarian aid.
Grandi said he was using this visit to highlight to the rest of the world that more needs to be done to offer such hope, opportunities, and solutions to refugees, wherever they are and whatever the context.
The UNHCR chief, on a 4-day visit to the country, will co-host a high-level dialogue with the Government of Kenya on the new approach to refugee management in Kenya.
The dialogue will take stock of progress made in realizing solutions for refugees and asylum-seekers in Kenya and galvanize support for adopting a settlement approach, hence in the Shirika Plan, which seeks to achieve sustainable solutions for refugees.
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