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ETHIOPIA / HENDRICKS
STORY: ETHIOPIA / HENDRICKS
TRT: 2.01
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25, 26 OCTOBER 2010, JIJIGA, SHIRE, ETHIOPIA
25 OCTOBER 2010, JIJIGA, ETHIOPIA
1. Wide shot, Maiaini Camp in northern Ethiopia
2. Tracking shot, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Barbara Hendricks arriving in Mainini refugee
3. Various shots, refugees
4. Various shots, Barbara Hendricks with translator and Somali refugee Idil Sahal Hassan in her hut
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Hendricks, Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR:
“The cause for refugees is something I have become attached to. I think
it is a just one because people become refugees because of abuses of
human rights and I think to promote human rights is the most important
thing we can do in order to live in harmony together on this earth.”
25 OCTOBER 2010, SHIRE, ETHIOPIA
8. Various shots, Barbara Hendricks interacting with refugees in Aw Barre refugee camp
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Hendricks, Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR:
“We need to have more political will to find really lasting solutions for that problem within these countries. We need to try to get the funding so that those people remaining in the camps will have what they need - water, food, education, healthcare and the possibility for resettlement when repatriation is really out of the question.”
10. Various shots, Barbara Hendricks singing to a class of Somali
refugees in a school at the UNHCR camp
11. Wide shot, students applaud
12. Close up, Barbara Hendricks
The United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador and renowned soprano Barbara Hendricks earlier this week toured Ethiopia in order to bring greater attention to the tens of thousands of refugees living in camps in the country.
Nearly three thousands Somali refugees have crossed into Ethiopia this year to escape the violence that is wracking their homeland.
On Monday (25 October) Hendricks, who is UNHCR's longest-serving Goodwill Ambassador, travelled to the town of Jijiga near the Ethiopia-Somalia border where she met with some of the 80,000 Somali refugees now sheltering in Ethiopia.
Among those the Swedish-American classical singer met was Idil Sahal Hassan, who arrived at Jijiga's Sheder camp two weeks ago with her two children. She recounted how her husband had been killed in an explosion at the Mogasdishu hotel where he was working and her eldest son shot dead by members of an anti-government militia. Fleeing with her remaining children, she arrived at the UNHCR-run camp exhausted and destitute.
SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Hendricks, Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR:
“The cause for refugees is something I have become attached to. I think it is a just one because people become refugees because of abuses of human rights and I think to promote human rights is the most important thing we can do in order to live in harmony together on this earth.”
On Tuesday (26 October) Hendricks visited the Aw Barre refugee camp
near the Somali border where she met a Somali school teacher who fled with his family to escape militant extremists and hasn’t been able to return home.
SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Hendricks, Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR:
“We need to have more political will to find really lasting solutions for that problem within these countries. We need to try to get the funding so that those people remaining in the camps will have what they need water, food, education, healthcare and the possibility for resettlement when repatriation is really out of the question.”
While visiting a school at the UNHCR camp, Hendricks delighted a class of Somali refugees’ students with a song.
Ethiopia hosts more than 140,000 refugees with the largest group coming from Somalia followed by Eritrea and Sudan.
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