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STORY: KENYA / SOMALI REFUGEES
SOURCE: UNHCR
TRT: 2.14
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 17 JUNE 2010, DABBAB, KENYA
1. Close up, vulture atop a tree
2. Wide shot, vulture atop a tree, another bird in flight
3. Med shot, UNHCR staffer with bullhorn from the back
4. Wide shot, Deck’s hut
5. Wide shot, Deck sitting in hut
6. Close up, Deck's book in his hand
7. Close up, Deck reading
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“My name is Deck Abdullahi Ali and I am from Somalia. My whole family we left Somali because of war which broke out in-between two big tribes which we opposing each other.”
9. Various shots, Deck sitting to eat with his brother
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“I have been in the refugee for almost 18 years, through walking on foot we have arrived here.”
11. Pan left, refugee camp
12. Various shots, general views of camp
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“We are living harsh environment where you cannot move, where you cannot raise your voice. You can't be in a freedom.”
14. Wide shot, people lined up by gate
15. Med shot, police closing gate on refugee
16. Med shot, boy looking through gate
17. Wide shot, people under trees
18. Close up, of woman sitting by tree
19. Med shot, Decks mother sitting in hut
20. Various shots, Deck with his brother and mother
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“Most important thing that can help me get out of this camp is education and I am hoping to work hard to score a good grade, to get scholarship for the developed countries.”
22. Med shot, students taking notes in class
23. Med shot, teacher pointing at black board
24. Med shot, Deck in class
25. Close up, Deck in class
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“I am not the only person who is dreaming, whose dream is too see become Somalia peace. If my prayers come true, I will be the leader of Somalia, Inshallah. If God say that my own target that I am learning at school, if I am finished and I get scholarship from other country, so obviously that I don' t suppose to sit, sit in developing countries because they don't belong to me, it belong to somebody else. My own country is waiting me.”
27. Med shot, Deck his soccer shoes
28. Wide shot, children running in open land
29. Wide shot, Deck in the middle of a circle that is made by young children with a soccer ball
30. Wide shot, Deck kicking soccer ball into goal
Life for Somali refugees in neighbouring Kenya can be extremely harsh. In a place where over 260, 000 people live in camps, surviving is a challenge.
Deck Abdullahi Ali is a young refugee living in one of those camps.
SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“My name is Deck Abdullahi Ali and I am from Somalia. My whole family we left Somali because of war which broke out in-between two big tribes which we opposing each other. I have been in the refugee for almost 18 years, through walking on foot we have arrived here.”
The conflict took the lives of his two sisters and his father. Only, Deck’s, his mother and his two brothers escaped to Dabaab.
SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“We are living harsh environment where you cannot move, where you cannot raise your voice. You can't be in a freedom.”
Dabaab, in northwestern Kenya a hundred kilometres from the Somali border, is the largest refugee camp in the world. The size of a small city, it receives hundreds of new refugees every week.
For Deck, the only way out is a scholarship to another country. His brother, a teacher, helps him study. But there are too few places for far too many.
SOUNDBITE (English) Deck Abdullahi Ali, Somali Refugee:
“Most important thing that can help me get out of this camp is education and I am hoping to work hard to score a good grade, to get scholarship for the developed countries.”
Deck finishes high school this year. He hopes to study law, and then return to Somalia to bring justice and leadership to his country.
“I am not the only person who dreaming, who dream is too see become Somalia peace. If my prayers come true, I will be the leader of Somalia, Inshallah. If God say that my own target that I am learning at school, if I am finished and I get scholarship from other country, so obviously that I don' t suppose to sit, sit in developing countries because they don't belong to me, it belong to somebody else. My own country is waiting me.”
According to UNHCR, more than 1.4 million people are internally displaced in the Horn of Africa country, while 600,000 Somalis live as refugees in neighbouring countries. After Afghanistan and Iraq, Somali is the third largest refugee-producing country in the world.
