TURKEY / AIDING SYRIAN REFUGEES

As the savings of Syrian refugees living in urban areas dwindle, soup kitchens provide much needed food assistance. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:47
• Production Date: 9 July 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: NUTRITION; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA; TURKEY
• MAMS Id: U130709f

Description

STORY: TURKEY / AIDING SYRIAN REFUGEES
TRT: 1.47
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: TURKISH / ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 14 JUNE 2013, GAZIANTEP, TURKEY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, municipality employees preparing food for Syrians
2. Wide shot, municipality employees preparing food for Syrians
3. Wide shot, municipality employees preparing food for Syrians
4. Med shot, municipality employees preparing food for Syrians
5. Wide shot, municipality employees carrying food for Syrians
6. Wide shot, Gaziantep overview
7. Wide shot, resident of Gaziantep hanging clothes
8. Wide shot, Syrians waiting in line outside distribution point
9. Wide shot, food arriving to the distribution point
10. Wide shot, people getting inside distribution point
11. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Zubeyde Talmac, Director of the Association for Solidarity and Assistance (Office of the Gaziantep Governor):
12. "The Syrians are in need of this food, because when they arrived they came with some savings, but now they are running out of it. They are not allowed to work due to lack of work permit. So they are really in need of this support.”
13. Wide shot, Syrian refugee Fatmeh Durmush receiving soup
14. Med shot, soup being poured
15. Wide shot, Syrian refugee Fatmeh Durmush receiving bread
16. Wide shot, Fatmeh Durmush walking home with the food
17. Wide shot, Fatmeh Durmush arriving home with food
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatmeh Durmush, Syrian Refugee from Aleppo:
19. "We used to cook every day; we used to have everything available. We had yoghurt, sugar, rice, tea to prepare a good meal."
20. Wide shot, Fatmeh Durmush making the eating spot ready
21. Med shot, Fatmeh Durmush pouring soup
22. Med shot, young girl drinking
23. Med shot, Fatmeh Durmush and family eating food
24. Med shot, young girl eating
25. Wide shot, family eating

Storyline

On the menu today, kuva fasulja, 5,000 portions of it. Six days a week the Gaziantep municipality serves up its rice and bean dish, for free.

The huge pots are ready for delivery to three soup kitchens. Those pots will feed the poor, most of them Syrian refugees.

More than 400,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the southern border of Turkey. A quarter of them have settled in or near Gaziantep.

SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Zubeyde Talmac, Director of the Association for Solidarity and Assistance (Office of the Gaziantep Governor):
"The Syrians are in need of this food, because when they arrived they came with some savings, but now they are running out of it. They are not allowed to work due to lack of work permit. So they are really in need of this support.”

Fatmeh Durmush makes the daily pilgrimage to wait for food for her family and then treks home to a rented house, four rooms that her family shares with three others.

Their comfortable pre-war life is only a flickering memory.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatmeh Durmush, Syrian Refugee from Aleppo:
"We used to cook every day; we used to have everything available. We had yoghurt, sugar, rice, tea to prepare a good meal."

The family has lived off their savings since they arrived five months ago, but those funds are almost exhausted.

Now, they sit and eat a soup kitchen meal, and dream of home, Aleppo, a city of riches, where everything you needed, Fatmeh says, was available from the ground to the sky. Now the ground and the sky of Syria are filled with war, and their refugee dreams are as meagre as their meals.