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STORY: SOMALIA / PERMANENT HOMES
TRT: 2.55
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 6 JUNE 2012, GALKAYO, SOMALIA
1. Wide shot, Galkayo town
2. Med shot, camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Galkayo
3. Wide shot, IDPs walking in camp
4. Various shots, family outside a makeshift shelter in IDP camp
5. Med shot, IDP family eating outside their shelter
6. Wide shot, IDPs in the camp
7. Med shot, child standing outside a torn makeshift shelter
8. Med shot, Asri, a displaced woman, walking into her newly built home
9. Close up, Asri’s son outside the house
10. Med shot, Asri feeding her child outside
11. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Asri, internally displaced woman:
“When I came to Halabokhad I was staying in a small ‘buush’ made of plastic and clothes that I brought together. Compared to the ‘buush’, this house that I am in now is better. The reason is when it rains, we are protected. Now I have a place to stay and eat from. We are thankful to all those who made all this possible.”
12. Med shot, UNHCR and Puntland leaders cutting tape at the newly built permanent homes for IDPs
13. Close up, Halabokhad IDP housing project plaque and pan to UNHCR & Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) officials
14. Med shot, IDPs in the camp
15. Med shot, beneficiary family
16. Med shot, UNHCR Somalia Representative Bruno Geddo shaking hands with a beneficiary
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Geddo, UNHCR Somalia:
“It gives them dignity and pride in being able to own something after so many years of moving around and each time loading and leaving everything behind because the war was after them and they kept on moving.”
18. Wide shot, IDP girl walking
19. Med shot, IDPs walking in the camp
20. Med shot, NRC official handing over house keys to a family
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Hassan Khaire, Regional Director, Norwegian Refugee Council:
“It helps people to do away with the thinking that they live temporarily. Secondly, it gives them proper housing that reduces the risk they face in terms of protection. Third, it brings harmony between the host community and the IDPs.”
22. Close up, settlement construction plan
23. Wide shot, IDP gathering
24. Close up, man seated at the gathering
25. Med shot, local (host) community leader addressing gathering
26. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdullahi Mohamed Irfe, host community leader:
“The main reason that we donated this piece of land to the IDPs is because they are Somalis like us. So we consider that we are one people.”
27. Various shots, Asri doing chores in her house
28. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Asri, internally displaced woman:
“I feel extreme happiness because I know someday when I die, my children will inherit something from me.”
29. Wide shot, beneficiary family
30. Close up, keys in hand
31. Med shot, Asri walking into her newly built home
32. Med shot, IDP kids eating outside their shelter
33. Tilt down, from IDP mother holding son to house ownership certificate.
Galkayo town in northern Somalia. It is home to approximately sixty thousand displaced people escaping war and famine.
They settled in congested camps a few kilometers from the town. Their shelters made up of sticks and old cloth.
Asri and her family fled the war in Mogadishu, five years ago. At first they stayed with relatives. Then they found place of their own.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Asri, internally displaced woman:
“When I came to Halabokhad I was staying in a small ‘buush’ made of plastic and clothes that I brought together. Compared to the ‘buush’, this house that I am in now is better. The reason is when it rains, we are protected. Now I have a place to stay and eat from. We are thankful to all those who made all this possible.”
Help came from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Norwegian Refugee Council. Together they built 250 permanent houses for families here in Halabokhad.
The houses are more solid and safer, and UNHCR says the project has changed lives.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Geddo, UNHCR Somalia:
“It gives them dignity and pride in being able to own something after so many years of moving around and each time loading and leaving everything behind because the war was after them and they kept on moving.”
Displaced people are always on the move. They lack stability. Having a home, however, changes all that.
SOUNDBITE (English) Hassan Khaire, Regional Director, Norwegian Refugee Council:
“It helps people to do away with the thinking that they live temporarily. Secondly, it gives them proper housing that reduces the risk they face in terms of protection. Third, it brings harmony between the host community and the IDPs.”
In this case the host community donated the land for these houses, all in an effort to promote unity.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdullahi Mohamed Irfe, host community leader:
“The main reason that we donated this piece of land to the IDPs is because they are Somalis like us. So we consider that we are one people.”
For Asri, the future looks bright. She looks forward to raising her children here. This is now the place they call home
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Asri, internally displaced woman:
“I feel extreme happiness because I know someday when I die, my children will inherit something from me.”
UNHCR says the impact of having a proper home and even better owning it cannot be underestimated. It breaks the pattern of not belonging to a place and a community, and paves the way to a more hopeful future.
