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STORY: JORDAN / SYRIA BOY WITH CANCER
TRT: 2.34
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 19 MAY 2014, MARKA, JORDAN
1. Various shots, Sameh looking out the window
2. Wide shot,children playing
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Sameh, cancer patient:
“When I get out under the sun, I get dizzy. I fall and sometimes I faint.”
4. Various of Sameh drawing with his sisters
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Sameh, cancer patient:
“When we were in Syria, I said I wanted to open a bookshop. My friend’s father owns a bookshop and we used to hang out there so I said when I grow up I will open my own bookshop.”
6. Various shots, family eating
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Alaa, Sameh’s uncle:
“He doesn’t have fear inside of him. He says I want to grow up and have a family. He even thinks what he is going to name his children.”
8. Med shot, Sameh walking out the door
9. Close up, Sameh walking down the stairs
10. Wide shot, children playing outside
11. Various shots, Sameh watching the children play
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Sameh, cancer patient:
“I hope to regain my health so I can go back to Syria and play with my friends.”
13. Wide shot, children playing
14. Wide shot, Sameh watching children play
Sameh was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of three.
Multiple surgeries in Syria have yet to eliminate the tumor.
Now 14 years old, he can’t play outside like other kids his age.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Sameh, cancer patient:
“When I get out under the sun, I get dizzy. I fall and sometimes I faint.”
Sameh is highly sensitive to light and sound which intensify his already excruciating headaches.
So he spends most of his time indoors. His favorite pastime is drawing with his sisters.
When he fled to Jordan with his family in January of last year, his condition worsened.
He couldn’t walk, see or eat properly.
UNHCR helped by covering the costs of two new surgeries to try to remove the mass in his head.
In the meantime, Sameh dreams about the future, like any other 14 year-old.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Sameh, cancer patient:
“When we were in Syria, I said I wanted to open a bookshop. My friend’s father owns a bookshop and we used to hang out there so I said when I grow up I will open my own bookshop.”
Sameh’s family does what they can to help the boy.
His uncle Alaa first went to Lebanon from Syria where he found a job in construction.
But when news came that Sameh got sick again, he came to Jordan to help take care of him.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Alaa, Sameh’s uncle:
“He doesn’t have fear inside of him. He says I want to grow up and have a family. He even thinks what he is going to name his children.”
When the sun sets, Sameh gets to go outside and watch the kids play.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Sameh, cancer patient:
“I hope to regain my health so I can go back to Syria and play with my friends.”
Next step in Sameh’s treatment is yet another scan to assess the size of the tumor and what steps to take next.
