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UNICEF/ REFUGEES MIA FARROW
STORY: UNICEF/ REFUGEES MIA FARROW
TRT: 2.50
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: English /
DATELINE: 19 JUNE 2013, NEW YORK / FILE
FILE - 14 APRIL 2013, BAB AL SALAMA, SYRIA
1. Various shots, Syrian refugee children palying at the Bab Al Salama refugee camp in Syria (shots over Mia Farrow’s voice)
FILE - 28 AUGUST 2011, DADAAB CAMP/ KENYA
2.Med shot, family talking with Mia Farrow in a tent (shots over Mia Farrow’s voice)
FILE - 19-20 FEBRUARY 2012, KASAMBONDO, NYUNZU, MUKAWA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
3. Med shot, Mia Farrow-Farrow with a group of children
FILE - 14 FEBRUARY, GOZ BEIDA, CHAD
4. Various shots, Chad Mia Farrow Visits- close up of young man’s face
FILE – DATE UNKNOWN, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
5. Various shots, tight shot of boy in a face mask
FILE – DATE UNKNOWN, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
6. Various shots, group of armed guards
FILE - 15 JANUARY 2013, BAALBECK, LEBANON
7. Med shot, Children singing and clapping hands
19 JUNE 2013, NEW YORK
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF:
“There’s such resilience in children that even in most dire circumstances children will play, children will engage. Children love to see their photograph on the back of your camera. They’re ready to play hand games and imitate you. Older children who you can talk to will tell you how much they miss their homelands and the things they used to do. These are traumatized children mainly, the refugee community, the displaced people. They’ve seen things that no child should have to see. And yet children have that wonderful thing of being able to live in the moment, so you never leave the company of children feeling hopeless.”
FILE - 15 JANUARY 2013, BAALBECK, LEBANON
8. Pan right, from mothers holding children to Mia helping with boxes of aid
FILE - 14 APRIL 2013, BAB AL SALAMA, SYRIA
9. Med shot, children inside tent
FILE - 14 JANUARY 2012, WADI KHALED AND BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
10. Med shot, child talking to Mia
11. Pan left, from filed to Mia standing in the field
19 JUNE 2013, NEW YORK
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF:
“They miss the dignity of having control over your life and not having to stand in line for a scrap of bread, or a ration of food. The anxiety of not being secure about anything and not having anything. These were relatively newly displaced people so they were fresh from their losses and just the thing of women really over and over saying there’s no dignity in our lives in standing in line and waiting for handouts.”
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF:
“What I’m amazed is, I’ve never met a weak woman in those circumstances. I’ve never met a weak mother. Fierce mothers protecting their children. That kind of strength that gets them through unimaginable circumstances.”
FILE - 28 AUGUST 2011, DADAAB CAMP/ KENYA
14. Tilt down, from mother to child with NG tubes
15. Med shot, Mia photographing mother and child
16. Close up, picture of emaciated children
FILE – DATE UNKNOWN, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
17. Various shots, Mia Farrow inside plane
FILE – DATE UNKNOWN, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
18. Wide shot, crowd running
19. Various shots, looted and burnt huts
19 JUNE 2013, NEW YORK
20.SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, Goodwill Ambassador, UNICEF:
“I wear this around my neck my first trip to Darfur in 2004 and I met a woman named Halima and she had a row of five of these around her neck and she insisted that I take it. I met her under a bush and you don’t want to take anything from somebody who is fleeing. And she was literally in flight, looking for a refugee camp. And she said no I want you to have it for your safety and she said take it. She had been wearing it when her village was attacked and her children were torn from her arms. Three of her five children killed and her husband. Village on fire, the worst things. And she put it in my hand and she said tell people what is happening here. Tell them. Tell them we’ll all be slaughtered. Tell them we need help.”
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow has added her voice to those calling for more protection and support for the world’s more than 45 million refugees.
Ms. Farrow, who has worked with UNICEF since 2000, is particularly dedicated to the needs of children affected by armed conflict. In January of this year, she visited Syrian refugees who are sheltering in Lebanon.
A new report by UNHCR says that the escalating conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic is contributing to the fact that the numbers of refugees and displaced people are the highest they’ve been in 18 years.
“The strongest impression that I took away was how they long to go home. They miss people. They miss the dignity of having control over your life and not having to stand in line for a scrap of bread, or a ration of food,” Ms. Farrow said.
However, she stressed that, no matter what hardships and pain they suffer, children are resilient.
“Children have that wonderful thing of being able to live in the moment, so you never leave the company of children feeling hopeless,” she said.
Ms. Farrow, who has visited the Sudan as well as many other countries in her work with UNICEF, paid tribute also to the mothers she has met, even those who have suffered unimaginable tragedy.
“I’ve never met a weak woman in those circumstances. I’ve never met a weak mother,” she said.
And she called for more support for aid agencies who are meeting the needs of the forcibly displaced.
“At least help them have a life that’s endurable for now. Of course we want to see better peace-solving methods so there is less displacement, less suffering – but our focus here is to try and make things better for those people to whom the worst has happened and all has been lost.”
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