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KENYA / NEW CAMP
STORY: KENYA / NEW CAMP
TRT: 4:28
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 26 AUGUST 2011, DADAAB DAGAHALEY OUTSKIRTS AND IFO 2 CAMP, KENYA
1. Wide shot, Dagahale outskirts camp
2. Med shot, activities at the camp, a man walking with his family
3. Various shots, woman demolishing her shelter ii the outskirts
4. Med shot, husband transporting their belongings to collection center
5. Med shot, buses waiting to transport refugees
6. Various shots, refugees arriving at the collection center
7. Med shot, refugees confirming their names on the list at the entrance
8. Various shots, Shuriye at bus
9. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Shuriye Salat Farah, 30-years-old, Father of four children:
“Here there is a lot of fear at night, thugs are allover (moorgaar,jiri), also hyenas and other wild animals. We don’t have houses, so when we go out to get materials to make houses the local people here really disturb us.”
10. Med shot, Shuriye boarding the bus with his family
11. Various shots, bus with Shuriye and other refugees traveling
12. Med shot, bus arriving
13. Various shots, UNHCK staff
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Henok Ochalla, Emergency Response Coordinator, UNHCR:
“Life on the outskirts was not really good, people were living in unacceptable condition, they were not having enough access to shelter, water and sanitation, education was something we were not able to provide at all, they did not have enough security coverage because they were living in a spontaneous settlement, the government security authorities working in Dadaab had no obligation to provide security in this areas were people were living prior to the relocation to this sites.”
15. Med shot, Henok walking with refugee children
16. Med shot, Shuriye registering before being shown his new home
17. Med shot, Shuriye walking to be shown his new home in Ifo 2
18. Med shot, Shuriye being shown his new home
19. Med shot, Shuriye smiling after seeing his tent and opens it
20. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Shuriye Salat Farah:
“Am so happy, I didn’t have such a house where I came from. We had a lot of problems. Now I got a good house and the agencies welcomed me so well.”
21. Various shots, aerial views of Ifo 2
22. Various shots, Shuriye and family putting his belongings into his new home
Some of the makeshift camps on the outskirts of the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya offer little in the way of comforts to the people fleeing famine in Somalia.
They are overcrowded. There is not enough water.
And they can be dangerous as well.
Now, though, there is somewhere else to go.
A new camp, known as IFO 2, opened two weeks ago in the largest refugee settlement in the world.
Some 5,700 people have moved there already.
It’s a journey many more are anxious to make.
And the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, aims to move 30,000 people to the new camp by November.
They are arranging the transfer of hundreds each day.
Shuriye Salat Farah is the father of four. He lost all his livestock in the famine.
His family is one of the first to go.
They are looking forward to a safer place.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Shuriye Salat Farah, 30-years-old, Father of four children:
“Here there is a lot of fear at night, thugs are allover (moorgaar,jiri), also hyenas and other wild animals. We don’t have houses, so when we go out to get materials to make houses the local people here really disturb us.”
The trip to the new camp is by bus.
It’s 10 km away.
But at journey’s end, things are better.
There is water and clean toilets and there will soon be a school for the kids.
SOUNDBITE (English) Henok Ochalla, Emergency Response Coordinator, UNHCR:
“Life on the outskirts was not really good, people were living in unacceptable condition, they were not having enough access to shelter, water and sanitation, education was something we were not able to provide at all, they did not have enough security coverage because they were living in a spontaneous settlement, the government security authorities working in Dadaab had no obligation to provide security in this areas were people were living prior to the relocation to this sites.”
UNHCR continues to register people for the new camp.
When they arrive, families are given non food items like blankets and other supplies
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Shuriye Salat Farah:
“Am so happy, I didn’t have such a house where I came from. We had a lot of problems. Now I got a good house and the agencies welcomed me so well.”
Shuriye‘s family lost everything they owned in the famine.
It’s not a lot but they have a new home for now.
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