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STORY: PORTUGAL / IRAQI PALESTINIAN REFUGEES
TRT: 01:37
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15, 16 MARCH 2017, BATALHA, PORTUGAL
1. Wide shot, portrait of the family together standing outside their home
2. Various shots, portraits of family members
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taqia, Grandmother, Palestinian-Iraqi Refugee:
“The people here are all nice, and they love us and we love them. We are so grateful.”
4. Various shots, Taqia doing exercise class
5. Various shots, children at local school
6. Various shots men working at the ceramics factory
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Duret, Taqia´s Son in Law, Palestinian-Iraqi Refugee:
“We are happy to be together as a family. We eat together, we stay up together, together, we go out together and we are entertaining each other.”
8. Various shots, volunteer teacher at family home giving Portuguese lessons
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cintia Silva, Councilwoman of Batalha:
“We are very glad to have received these two families of refugees and everything has gone very well with them. They are part of our community, now they are our friends, and it is nice to help people.”
10. Various shots, family and Cynthia eating together.
In September 2015, the Mayor of Batalha, a small town in central Portugal, decided it was time that his community to help refugee families. He called together the local factories, the head of education and healthcare for the municipality and proposed that their town take in 2 families.
He knew that, in order for resettlement to be successful, it would have to be a community effort. Six months later, a Palestinian-Iraqi family was informed they would be resettled there.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taqia, The Grandmother, Palestinian-Iraqi Refugee:
“The people here are all nice, and they love us and we love them. We are so grateful.”
Grandmother Taqia never misses her exercise classes.
The children are at school.
All three men have jobs at the local ceramic factory.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Duret, Taqia´s Son in Law, Palestinian-Iraqi Refugee:
“We are happy to be together as a family. We eat together, we stay up together, together, we go out together and we are entertaining each other.”
Every week, a volunteer teacher comes to their home to teach them Portuguese.
SOUNDBITE (English) Cintia Silva, Councilwoman of Batalha:
“We are very glad to have received these two families of refugees and everything has gone very well with them. They are part of our community, now they are our friends, and it is nice to help people.”
Two families, one community, now joined together.
