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STORY: LEBANON/AYA ONE MILLION REFUGEE CHILDREN
TRT: 1.50
SOURCE: UNICEF/UNHCR/WFP
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 4 AM GMT ON 23 AUGUST 2013
LANGUAGE: ARABIC/NATS
DATELINE: 19 JULY, 1-12 AUGUST 2013, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON/FILE
FILE – UNHCR - 6 SEPTEMBER 2012, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
1. Wide shot, Bekaa valley
2. Wide shot, Syrian refugees outside of host family's house
3. Various shots, refugee children in camp
4. Wide shot, refugee kids playing
FILE – UNICEF - APRIL 2013, IRBID, JORDAN
9. Wide shot, in classroom
10. Wide shot, in classroom
11. Med shot, teacher talking to class
12. Med shot, teacher writing on board
19 JULY, 1-12 AUGUST 2013, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
15. Various shots, Aya inside her tent reading
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya, Syrian refugee:
“I want to be a pediatrician. Any children can come to me without money, I will not ask them money or anything else. I will write them a prescription and give them medicines. I will also give them an injection.”
FILE - 5 JUNE 2013 - WFP- BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
17. Wide shot, Syrian refugees entering the municipality
18. Close up, elderly Syrian refugee waiting to register with the municipality
19. Close up, passport
20. Med shot, head of municipality talking people
14 APRIL 2013, ZA'ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN
21. Wide shot, inside vaccination tent
22. Close up, boys face
23. Close up, needle going into arm
24. Close up, boys face
25. Med shot, child receiving polio
19 JULY, 1-12 AUGUST 2013, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
26. Med shot, Aya playing with her disabled sister
27. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya, Syrian refugee:
“I love Syria, and I miss Syria. I loved my friends and playing with my sisters. We used to play together. We used to ride a bicycle together and play with toys. I also miss my uncles.”
FILE - 5 JUNE 2013 - WFP- BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
28. Med shot, distribution of WFP food parcels
29. Close up, boxes of food assistance
30. Close up, food
31. Med shot, food distribution
With Syria’s war well into its third year, the number of Syrian children forced to flee their homeland as refugees has now reached one million.
According UNICEF and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), children make up half of all refugees from the Syrian conflict. The latest figures show that some 740,000 Syrian child refugees are under the age of 11.
Aya is an eight-year-old girl who fled Syria together with her father and seven siblings. They all live together in a makeshift tent in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. She has not been to school for two years and has little prospect of going soon, still she plans for her future.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya, Syrian refugee:
“I want to be a pediatrician. Any children can come to me without money, I will not ask them money or anything else. I will write them a prescription and give them medicines. I will also give them an injection.”
UNICEF ensures that children have access to schooling. More than 118,000 children have been able to maintain their education inside and out of formal schools.
Meanwhile, Syrian children all around the region are coping with the memories of their school and friends back home.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya, Syrian refugee:
I love Syria and I miss Syria. I loved my friends and playing with my sisters. We used to play together. We used to ride a bicycle together and play with toys. I also miss my uncles."
UNICEF and UNHCR say that more remains to be done. The Syria Regional Refugee Response plan, which called for (USD)$3 billion dollars to address the acute needs of refugees until December of this year is currently only 38 per cent funded.
