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TITLE: JORDAN / MALALA REFUGEES
TRT: 1.54
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 16 FEBRUARY 2014, HADALAT BORDER AREA, NORTH-EASTERN JORDAN
1. Med shot, Malala looking at refugees arriving
2. Wide shot, refugees arriving
3. Med shot, Malala and her father greeting refugees
4. Pan left, refugees arriving
5. Med shot, Malala and her father greeting refugees
6. Wide shot, refugees entering Jordan
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Malala Yousafzai, Education Activist:
"I could see little children with no shoes and with dirty clothes and all the suffering from pain because they started walking since four o’clock in the morning."
8. Pan right, Malala and her father walking by
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ziauddin Yousafzai, Father of Malala Yousafzai:
"It's a big difference when you hear about something and when you see something. I could not control my tears. We cried."
10. Various shots, Malala and her father talking with refugees
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Syrian Refugee from Al-Taybeh:
"The trip was bitter. We practically died until we reached here. The car got stuck three times."
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Syrian refugee from Yarmuk:
"The people there are suffering a lot. There's no food, no medical care, children are dying, men are being killed."
13. Wide shot, UNHCR staffer talking to new arrivals
14. Close up, refugee girl
15. Med shot, refugees being loaded onto truck
16. Close up, Malala looking at refugees as they are being loaded onto trucks
17. Pan left, refugee boy being lifting onto the truck
18. Various shots, Malala and her father looking at truck as it leaves
19. Wide shot, truck with refugees driving off
Teenage activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai on Saturday (16 Feb) visited the Jordanian border crossing at Hadalat where hundreds of Syrian refugees cross each day. The number of Syrians seeking refuge in Jordan has increased in recent days due to intensified fighting in their villages.
Malala Yousafzai is known for her suffering and flight from her own country but on this day she is here to witness the flight of others.
In 2012, Malala miraculously survived a shot to the head. Gunmen attacked the schoolbus she was on in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat. It was reprisal for publicly denouncing Taliban rule.
Now in exile, Malala devotes her life to helping those in need.
SOUNDBITE (English) Malala Yousafzai, Education Activist:
"I could see little children with no shoes and with dirty clothes and all the suffering from pain because they started walking since four o’clock in the morning."
Her father travelled with her. Together they spoke to refugees...
SOUNDBITE (English) Ziauddin Yousafzai, Father of Malala Yousafzai:
"It's a big difference when you hear about something and when you see something. I could not control my tears. We cried."
They learned that these families took only what they could on their backs; about the destruction of their homes, about having no choice but to leave.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Syrian Refugee from Al-Taybeh:
"The trip was bitter. We practically died until we reached here. The car got stuck three times."
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Syrian refugee from Yarmuk:
"The people there are suffering a lot. There's no food, no medical care, children are dying, men are being killed."
UNHCR puts the number of refugees in Jordan at more than 650,000 and expects it to increase significantly this year.
The Malala Fund aims to launch an educational programme in Jordan to provide young refugee children with a brighter future.
It will put an emphasis on education in the hopes of giving Syrian refugee children a better future.
As Malala and her father say goodbye, new arrivals are taken by truck to temporary shelters.
