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KENYA / SOMALI REFUGEES
STORY: KENYA / SOMALI REFUGEES
TRT: 1:46
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 7 AUGUST 2011, DADAAB DAGAHALEY OUTSKIRTS, KENYA
1. Various shots, tents
2. Med shot, refugee women at a water point
3. Tracking shot, women queuing for registration.
4. Med shot, women walking in the camp.
5. Cutaway, Mariane
6. Med shot, Mariane walking out of the hut with her baby
7. SOUNDBITE (Somala) Mariane Mahalim Hussein, Somali refugee:
“I left Somalia because of hunger and drought. On the sixth day of my journey I started experiencing labor pains at night and gave birth on the vehicle with help of my husband and a another lady we were traveling with.”
8. Various shots, Mariane with her baby inside the tent
9. SOUNDBITE (Somala) Mariane Mahalim Hussein, Somali refugee:
“On that trip, women were suffering a lot. I remember there was a lady in our vehicle who gave birth to twins and one of them died…”
10. Various shots, Fatuma walking
11. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Fatuma Guhat Robo, Somali refugee:
”We were travelling on the donkey cart when bandits attacked us on the way.They beat us and took all we had.”
12. Various shots, Fatuma washing utensils in her house
13. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Fatuma Guhat Robo, Somali refugee:
“My baby died. I carried his body for a day to bury him at the camps.”
14. Med shot, Fatuma sweeping.
15. Wide shot, burial site.
16. Various shots, refugees carrying a body.
17. Various shots, prayers at the grave side.
18. Various shots, refugees burying a body.
This is the outskirts of the Dadaab refugee complex of camps.
Two years without rain have forced thousands of Somalis to come here leaving their lands and their country.
For many the journey takes days, sometimes they travel on foot, sometimes by cart or vehicle.
Mariane Mahalim Hussein is the mother of three.
It took her and her husband six days to get from Ufro in southern Somalia to here.
Her journey was particularly difficult, she was pregnant.
SOUNDBITE (Somala) Mariane Mahalim Hussein, Somali refugee:
“I left Somalia because of hunger and drought. On the sixth day of my journey I started experiencing labor pains at night and gave birth in the vehicle with help of my husband and a another lady who was traveling with us.”
Mariane described how the vehicle broke down and how she was scared because she could hear hyenas nearby.
She and her baby did arrive safely, but other women did not share her fate.
SOUNDBITE (Somala) Mariane Mahalim Hussein, Somali refugee:
“On that trip, women were suffering a lot. I remember there was a lady in our vehicle that gave birth to twins and one of them died.”
Fatuma Guhat Robo had four children, the youngest only five months old.
She travelled from Hager for 20 days to get to Dadaab, a trip she says, that was very dangerous.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Fatuma Guhat Robo, Somali refugee:
”We were travelling on the donkey cart when bandits attacked us, on the way, beat us and took all we had.”
Her husband was hurt in the attack, and a tragedy befell her five month old son.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Fatuma Guhat Robo, Somali refugee:
“My baby died. I carried his body for a day to bury him at the camps.”
For Fatuma giving her dead child a proper burial was important and so she persisted.
At the camp there was help, burials are an everyday event, her son was buried in this graveyard.
Children are particularly vulnerable but adults and older people are also at risk, this burial was for a 31 year old young man who died after his four children and wife died all, it was said by the locals, because of the famine.
These Somalis are burying another victim of the worst drought and famine the region has seen in over 50 years, knowing there will be more.
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