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STORY: UNHCR / REFUGEES WRAP
TRT: 02:49
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 OCTOBER 2015, VINOJUG, FYR MACEDONIA / TRNOVEC, CROATIA
19\tOCTOBER 2015, VINOJUG, FYR MACEDONIA
1. Various shots, Syrian refugees at Vinojug’s refugee transit site
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Moharrab el Sahy, Syrian refugee:
“To be honest, a country that has a war doesn’t have a future for children. So we’re going to a safe country for the children.”
3. Med shot, Syrian refugees boarding train
4. Various shots, Syrian refugees lined up
5. Wide shot, volunteer piling up clothes and shoes
6. Close up, shoes on a box
7. Med shot, Red Cross medical personnel treating baby
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Slobodan Mitrovic, Red Cross Paramedic:
“The weather is getting colder and colder, we are getting more cases with the flu, problems with the little babies, with the pregnant women.”
9. Med shot, volunteer hugging Syrian boy
10. Med shot, Alexandra Krause, UNHCR Senior Emergency Coordinator, talking to Syrian refugee boys
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandra Krause, UNHCR Senior Emergency Coordinator:
“For example, we have over five volunteer NGOs registered here in Macedonia who are distributing food, and it’s all organised through volunteers who are working for free. Their food is given by private donations, and we have several organisations who are able to provide as much as 1000 food parcels per day, and they are doing that for several months now.”
19 OCTOBER 2015, TRNOVEC, CROATIA
12. Wide shot, Slovenia-Croatia border crossing
13. Various shots, Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees covered in blankets gathering at border
14. Various shots, Hussein Jije, Syrian refugee, writing on notepad
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Hussein Jije, Syrian refugee
“I just want to pass this border, if I can. Maybe I will not continue to pass any border. We are here 24 hours almost. 24 hours. And I don’t know where the bus, where the train. Why they let us here. I don’t understand.’’
16. Med shot, refugees heading towards border
17. Med shot, bus at border crossing
18. Wide shot, refugees at border crossing
19. Med shot, refugee climbing barrier
20. Pan, refugees at border
21. Med shot, refugees walking towards border
The UN refugee agency reported on Monday (19 Oct) that thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq continue to arrive at crossings in Vinojug, at the FYR of Macedonia-Greece border, and Trnovec at the Slovenia-Croatia border.
In Vinojug, close to the town of Gevgelija, UNHCR is working in partnership with local NGOs and teams of volunteers at a refugee transit centre is set up there two months ago, where it provides shelter, food and medical supplies.
The agency says that some 300,000 refugees and migrants have passed through the centre, on their way to EU countries.
Moharrab el Sahy, a Syrian refugee who was seen boarding a train at Vinojug, said “to be honest, a country that has a war doesn’t have a future for children. So we’re going to a safe country for the children.”
Slobodan Mitrovic, a Red Cross Paramedic and leader of a team of doctors and nurses who have been working around the clock to provide medical care at the transit centre said there was a spike in flu-related illnesses. “The weather is getting colder and colder, we are getting more cases with the flu, problems with the little babies, with the pregnant women,” Mitrovic said.
Alexandra Krause, a UNHCR Senior Emergency Coordinator, praised the work of the organisations who were working in the FYR of Macedonia.
“We have over five volunteer NGOs registered here in Macedonia who are distributing food, and it’s all organised through volunteers who are working for free,” Krause said.
“Their food is given by private donations, and we have several organisations who are able to provide as much as 1000 food parcels per day, and they are doing that for several months now,” she added.
Meanwhile on Monday, some 2,000 refugees and migrant arrived at Trnovec, at the Croatian border with Slovenia, after having travelled by train from Tovarnik in Serbia. Nationalities included Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi men, women and children.
Hussein Jije, one of the many Syrian refugee who arrived at the border town in the early hours of Monday, said he had been waiting for almost 24 hours, with no sign of being let through the crossing.
“I just want to pass this border, if I can. Maybe I will not continue to pass any border. We are here 24 hours almost. 24 hours. And I don’t know where the bus, where the train. Why they let us here. I don’t understand,’’ Jije said.
UNHCR reported that 5,000 migrants and refugees have entered Slovenia, after Hungary closed its borders late last week.
