23 Apr 2012

ECUADOR / JOLIE

Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie returned to the rural areas of Ecuador over the weekend, visiting the Provincencia community of 24 Afro-Colombian refugee families who fled their country almost 20 years ago. UNHCR

Posted at: April 23, 2012 11:12 am

Duration: 02:27

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STORY: ECUADOR / JOLIE
TRT: 2.27
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21, 22 APRIL 2012, PROVINCENCIA AND BARRANCA BERMEJA, ECUADOR

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special envoy walking in the Jungle
2. Wide shot, Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special saying hello to local community of Providencia Ecuador
3. Wide shot, Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special stepping in class room
4. Med shot, participant to meeting with Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special
5. Wide shot, Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special and Colombian refugees interacting in class room
6. Wide shot, refugees in class room
7. Close up, billboard class room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy of the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR:
"I come here and I see how some people are treated or I see some of the restrictions and my heart breaks and I wish I could express to all the people of Ecuador how much it means to people who are here and please to be tolerant and understanding that these are people who suffered so much violence, no body wants to become refugee no body wants to be away from there home, no body want to be living on borrowed land and having to beg for a visa every year  and not be able to know what there life is gone a be what there childrens life  if they are gone be able to access any jobs any medical, their life is so unstable and they are suffering through this only because they have to, so the more people can be tolerant open and kind the better the situation will be because it is simply a humanitarian situation these people are here simply to survive."
9. Wide shot, Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special Envoy walking in Baranaca Bermera
10. Wide shot, Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special Envoy interacting with Rosa
11. Close up, feet in mud
12. Tracking shot, Angelina Jolie UNHCR Special and Rosa with UNHCR staff from back walking towards Rosa's house

STORYLINE:

Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie returned to the rural areas of Ecuador over the weekend, visiting the Provincencia community of 24 Afro-Colombian refugee families. These refugees fled their country almost 20 years ago.

UNHCR has helped build a primary school for this isolated community.  But there are many other needs for them and other refugees.

Ecuador hosts over 55,000 refugees and 21,000 asylum-seekers.

And it receives over a thousand new applications each month from people fleeing the violence in Colombia.

SOUNDBITE (English) Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy of the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR:
"I come here and I see how some people are treated or I see some of the restrictions and my heart breaks and I wish I could express to all the people of Ecuador how much it means to people who are here and please to be tolerant and understanding that these are people who suffered so much violence, nobody wants to become refugee nobody wants to be away from their home, nobody want to be living on borrowed land and having to beg for a visa every year  and not be able to know what their life is going to be, what their children's life,  if they are going to be able to access any jobs, any medical, their life is so unstable and they are suffering through this only because they have to. So the more people can be tolerant open and kind the better the situation will be because it is simply a humanitarian situation these people are here simply to survive."

In the hamlet of Barranca Bermeja, the Special Envoy visited a women's meeting house that she help to fund.

This was Jolie's third visit to the region, but her first in her new role as Special Envoy of the High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.

Filed under 13.01.00 - PROTECTION OF AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ECUADOR UNHCR - Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.