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STORY: LEBANON / GUTERRES
TRT: 2.42
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2014, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
1. Wide shot, tented settlement
2. Medium shot of Um Mohammed putting blankets away inside tent
3. Wide shot, Mohammed tidying up
4. Mohammed’s second eldest daughter sweeping floor
5. Close up, daughter’s face
6. Close up, broom
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammed, Syrian Refugee:
"I don't want to see her work, but what can we do. She comes home tired, you know, like any worker. She is young girl. Not fit for work. This is the first time she has ever worked."
8. Wide shot, Um Mohammed’s family sitting down
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Um Mohammed, Syrian Refugee:
"In Syria, they used to only study, like other pupils, they slept, ate and studied. That was it, no work."
10. Wide shot, Guterres walking in the tented settlement alongside Helen Clark
11. Close up, Guterres walking
12. Guterres sitting down inside Um Mohammed’s tent asking her about situation in her hometown, Raqaa.
13. UPSOUND (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: “How is the situation in Raqqa now?”
14. Wide shot, Guterres sitting down inside the tent
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
"With the hundreds of thousands of Syrians living here, Syria has become the worst humanitarian tragedy of our time. The suffering of the Syrian people is something we were never able to foresee few years ago."
16. Wide shot, Gueterres speaking to media
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
"The impact on the daily life of the Lebanese, on their salaries, on their rents, the impact on their school system, the health system, the infrastructure, water, electricity, all this requires massive solidarity from the international community, and Lebanon has the right to ask the international community to share this burden."
18. Close up, potatoes at local vegetable packaging factory employing Syrian refugees and Lebanese workers
19. Wide shot, potatoes on sorting machine belt
20. Um Mohammed and her daughter inside their tent
21. Close up, Um Mohammed’s son
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammed, Syrian Refugee:
"I want them to be in good health and live a safe life, I don't want them to be indebted to anyone or to have debts."
23. Close up, Um Mohammed’s hands smoothing blanket
24. Wide shot, Um Mohammed walking
Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, the agriculture is the only income source to those in desperate need.
Um Mohammed and her husband cannot find work but their but their 12 year old daughter, Rahaf has.
For 6 hours a day, for less than a dollar an hour Rahaf picks vegetables in the fields nearby.
What she earns is the only income for her, her parents and four siblings.
As they await her return, they worry about her safety.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammed, Syrian Refugee:
"I don't want to see her work, but what can we do. She comes home tired, you know, like any worker. She is young girl. Not fit for work. This is the first time she has ever worked."
Back home in Raqaa, Syria, the family had a different life.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammed, Syrian Refugee:
"In Syria, they used to only study, like other pupils, they slept, ate and studied. That was it, no work."
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterras was in Lebanon in a bid to highlight the on-going plight of Syrian refugees.
He visited the tented settlement where Um Mohammed lives.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: "With the hundreds of thousands of Syrians living here, Syria has become the worst humanitarian tragedy of our time. The suffering of the Syrian people is something we were never able to foresee few years ago."
Mr Guterres was keen to highlight the effect the crisis was having on host countries.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: "The impact on the daily life of the Lebanese, on their salaries, on their rents, the impact on their school system, the health system, the infrastructure, water, electricity, all this requires massive solidarity from the international community, and Lebanon has the right to ask the international community to share this burden."
Some Syrian refugees have benefited from projects like this vegetable packaging factor that employs both Lebanese and Syrian staff.
But with more than one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon it’s hard to reach everyone.
Despite her situation, Um Mohammed remains hopeful that her children will have a better future than the one they now face.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammed, Syrian Refugee:
"I want them to be in good health and live a safe life, I don't want them to be indebted to anyone or to have debts."
For now the family have to survive on what little they can get and on the hope that things will soon get better.
