UN / PALESTINE CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL

According to the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), for the first time in eleven years, Palestine refugee students in Yarmouk camp in Syria are going back to school in the camp. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:07
• Production Date: 12 September 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST - UNRWA
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS; EDUCATION; REFUGEE CAMPS
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 3088121
• Parent Id: 3088121
• Alternate Title: unifeed230912j

Description

STORY: UN / PALESTINE CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL
TRT: 1:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

12 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Some good news for once from our colleagues at the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East – better known as UNRWA. The Agency says that for the first time in eleven years, Palestine refugee students in Yarmouk camp in Syria are going back to school in the camp.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The school year was opened on 3 September at a recently rehabilitated school in the camp after years of forced displacement.
To help children prepare for school, UNRWA distributed school bags and basic stationery. Students also receive psychosocial support activities to develop their social and emotional capacities and support their well-being.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. Wide shot, journalists
8. Wide shot, briefing room

Storyline

According to the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), for the first time in eleven years, Palestine refugee students in Yarmouk camp in Syria are going back to school in the camp.

Briefing journalists today (12 Sep) in New York, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “the school year was opened on 3 September at a recently rehabilitated school in the camp after years of forced displacement.”

He added, “to help children prepare for school, UNRWA distributed school bags and basic stationery.”

Dujarric concluded, “students also receive psychosocial support activities to develop their social and emotional capacities and support their well-being.”