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STORY: GREECE / GRANDI UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN
TRT: 01:14
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / FARSI / NATS
DATELINE: 23 – 24 AUGUST 2016, PETRALONA, GREECE
1. Wide shot, unaccompanied boys sitting on the courtyard
2. Various shots, unaccompanied boys eating in the shelter
3. Wide shot, Filippo Grandi talks with Waris
4. Close up, Filippo Grandi talks with Waris
5. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Your journey here was very difficult?”
6. UPSOUND (Farsi) Waris, Unaccompanied Boy: “
“Now I feel better. I am safe here. But I have bad memories of course from my past and my journey.”
7. Various shots, unaccompanied minors eating in the shelter
8. Wide shot, Filippo Grandi talking with Khalid
9. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Where are your parents?”
10. UPSOUND (English) Khalid, Unaccompanied Boy:
“Still in Syria.”
11. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“How it is in this house?”
12. UPSOUND (English), Khalid, Unaccompanied Boy:
“It is nice.”
13. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“At least a safe place, you have to be patient.”
14. Various shots, unaccompanied children sitting in the living room of PRAXIS shelter
15. Wide shot, courtyard
Unaccompanied children in Greece are a high-priority concern for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Some 1,472 are on a waiting list for a safe shelter. UNHCR has so far provided 345 temporary shelter spaces for children alone. Another 245 spaces are planned.
During his second visit to Greece since he took over as head of UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, stressed the need for EU member states to speed up legal options such as family reunification and relocation through the EU’s official relocation programme.
Waris, not his real name, lost his family at the border of Iran and Turkey. He told Grandi that he worries that they are no longer alive.
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Your journey here was very difficult?”
UPSOUND (Farsi) Waris, Unaccompanied Boy:
“Now I feel better. I am safe here. But I have bad memories of course from my past and my journey.”
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Where are your parents?”
UPSOUND (English) Khalid, Unaccompanied Boy:
“Still in Syria.”
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“How it is in this house?”
UPSOUND (English), Khalid, Unaccompanied Boy:
“It is nice.”
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“At least a safe place, you have to be patient.”
This shelter for unaccompanied boys is run by NGO Praksis. Established in 2004, it focuses on psychosocial support of vulnerable persons, including refugees and asylum seekers, unaccompanied children and migrants. The unaccompanied children’s centre provides specialized accommodation for 24 children between the ages of 8 and 17. Most of Syrian, but a number are from Afghanistan.
In the current refugee emergency, UNHCR is supporting the creation of around 600 bed places in shelters for unaccompanied children in the country, offering a package of support services.
