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STORY: UNHCR / AUSTRIA FOOD BANK
TRT: 03:02
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / GERMAN / NATS
DATELINE: 20 DECEMBER 2017, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
20 DECEMBER 2017, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Various shots, Iraqi refugee Rozh Ali cutting pumpkin at the Wiener Tafel warehouse
2. Moving shot, staff loading vegetables in the warehouse
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Rozh Ali, Iraqi Refugee:
“I found Wiener Tafel very good, because all kind of people are here to help out. There are no differences between us. Arabs, Europeans, Muslims, or Christians, they are just people here who came to help.”
4. Moving shot, vegetables outside warehouse
5. Various shots, Wiener Tafel staff and volunteers working
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“We have couple of refugees coming here daily.”
7. Various shots, Rozh Ali working together with Austrians
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“And it’s a nice give and take because I’m learning also more about their culture and they not only need to take German classes to learn the language but need to speak and get involved in the daily life. And they also want to give.”
9. Various shots, Austrians and Rozh Ali cutting and packaging pumpkins
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Rozh Ali, Iraqi Refugee:
“I like to work (here) every day. First of all, it gives me an opportunity to improve my German, which is a hard language to learn. Also, I’m alone in Austria. But now in the Wiener Tafel I’ve found my big family.”
11. Various shots, Rozh and another refugee volunteer working together
12. Tilt up, vegetables stored outside of warehouse
13. Wide shot, charity truck is being loaded with vegetables
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“[They] don’t only want to be here, but they also want to participate in this life and they want to work. So, we can give them a nice possibility to help. Help other refugees. This is a nice aspect of this.”
15. Various shots, refugees selecting donated vegetables in the Ute Bock House refugee shelter
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“We try to give as much as we have. But we only can give what we get.”
17. Various shots, vegetables being pulled into Winer Tafel warehouse
18. Various shots, staff and volunteers picking donated vegetables
Wiener Tafel (Vienna Table) is Austria’s oldest food bank. Here, a small group of staff and volunteers collect food that would otherwise be thrown out and deliver it to nearly 20,000 people in shelters and homes run by 120 different social entities.
Rozh is an asylum seeker from Iraq.
He and a few other refugees are volunteers at Austria’s oldest food bank, which “upcycles” fresh but unsold food to feed the neediest.
SOUNDBITE (German) Rozh Ali, Iraqi Refugee:
“I found Wiener Tafel very good, because all kind of people are here to help out. There are no differences between us. Arabs, Europeans, Muslims, or Christians, they are just people here who came to help.”
Wiener Tafel is located in the wholesale vegetable market. The food it collects is provided to charities, which care for the homeless, single mothers and drug addicts as well as some asylum seekers.
SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“We have couple of refugees coming here daily.”
Wiener Tafel supports refugees working in its warehouse in Vienna. Refugee volunteers regularly collect, select and pack vegetables here alongside Austrian colleagues.
SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“And it’s a nice give and take because I’m learning also more about their culture and they not only need to take German classes to learn the language but need to speak and get involved in the daily life. And they also want to give.”
Rozh is a former marketing manager from Baghdad and is waiting for a response to his request for asylum in Austria.
SOUNDBITE (German) Rozh Ali, Iraqi Refugee:
“I like to work (here) every day. First of all, it gives me an opportunity to improve my German, which is a hard language to learn. Also, I’m alone in Austria. But now in the Wiener Tafel I’ve found my big family.”
It’s a win-win-win situation: helping those in need; cutting down on food waste; and building a community for locals and refugees.
SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“[They] don’t only want to be here, but they also want to participate in this life and they want to work. So, we can give them a nice possibility to help. Help other refugees. This is a nice aspect of this.”
The group provides 20,000 people with access to healthy, fresh food like those at Ute Bock House, a Viennese shelter for asylum seekers. The aim is to give Vienna’s neediest access to better nutrition and a variety of foods they can prepare themselves.
SOUNDBITE (English) Karl-Anton Goertz, Staff, Wiener Tafel:
“We try to give as much as we have. But we only can give what we get.”
Wiener Tafel is proud to call itself, “the food bank that makes good sense.”
