LEBANON / SYRIAN REFUGEE FARMER
31-Dec-2019
00:05:11
With a bag of seeds and a lifetime of knowledge, Syrian refugee Salem has regrown his precious flowers in Lebanon to provide his family and others with a vital income. UNHCR
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STORY: LEBANON / SYRIAN REFUGEE FARMER
TRT: 5:11
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 8 AUGUST 2019, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
TRT: 5:11
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 8 AUGUST 2019, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON
SHOTLIST
1.Close up, rose picked up
2. Close up, rose pedal
3. Various shots, Salem picking up flowers.
4.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I’ll tell you one thing about roses, they are our way of greeting each other. They are our ‘’bonjour’’ or ‘’good morning or hello’’.
5.Med shot, Salem grafting rose plant in a pot.
6.Close up. Salem’s hand doing the grafting
7.Close up, Salem’s face.
8.Close up, cutting the rose plant for grafting.
9.Med shot, Salem tying the grafted plant.
10.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I started grafting the roses and this is how I increased my production.’’
11. Wide shot. Salem and his 2 daughters and wife picking up roses.
12. Close up, salem while he’s picking up roses.
13.Med shot, rose being picked up.
14.Med shot, salem filling a pot with roses.
15.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I use the roses to make rose water, jam, syrup and herbal tea.’’
16.Wide shot, Salem’s daughter picking roses.
17.Close up, roses
18. Med shot, Salem ‘s other daughter picking up roses.
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’My children love picking the roses. They compete to choose the most beautiful ones, distinguishing between the ones that are good for jam and the ones for syrup.’’
20.Wide shot, Salem’s wife going inside the house.
21.Med shot, salem’s wife Nahla cleaning the roses.
22.Close up, rose
23. Various shots, Nahla working with the roses
24.Wide shot, Salem and his family along with his worker picking roses.
25. Med shot, one of salem’s worker picking roses.
26.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I employ up to 25 workers including Syrians and Lebanese.’’
27.Various shots, Salem picking roses.
28.Wide shot, Salem giving his wife Nahla a rose after he smells it.
2. Close up, rose pedal
3. Various shots, Salem picking up flowers.
4.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I’ll tell you one thing about roses, they are our way of greeting each other. They are our ‘’bonjour’’ or ‘’good morning or hello’’.
5.Med shot, Salem grafting rose plant in a pot.
6.Close up. Salem’s hand doing the grafting
7.Close up, Salem’s face.
8.Close up, cutting the rose plant for grafting.
9.Med shot, Salem tying the grafted plant.
10.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I started grafting the roses and this is how I increased my production.’’
11. Wide shot. Salem and his 2 daughters and wife picking up roses.
12. Close up, salem while he’s picking up roses.
13.Med shot, rose being picked up.
14.Med shot, salem filling a pot with roses.
15.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I use the roses to make rose water, jam, syrup and herbal tea.’’
16.Wide shot, Salem’s daughter picking roses.
17.Close up, roses
18. Med shot, Salem ‘s other daughter picking up roses.
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’My children love picking the roses. They compete to choose the most beautiful ones, distinguishing between the ones that are good for jam and the ones for syrup.’’
20.Wide shot, Salem’s wife going inside the house.
21.Med shot, salem’s wife Nahla cleaning the roses.
22.Close up, rose
23. Various shots, Nahla working with the roses
24.Wide shot, Salem and his family along with his worker picking roses.
25. Med shot, one of salem’s worker picking roses.
26.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I employ up to 25 workers including Syrians and Lebanese.’’
27.Various shots, Salem picking roses.
28.Wide shot, Salem giving his wife Nahla a rose after he smells it.
STORYLINE
Several times a week when the roses are in full bloom, Syrian refugee Salem al-Azouq and his family rise with the dawn to hand-pick flowers in the cool morning air of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, when the vivid pink blossoms are at their most fragrant.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I’ll tell you one thing about roses, they are our way of greeting each other. They are our ‘’bonjour’’ or ‘’good morning or hello’’.
Together they wander through the rented field behind their shelter, carefully choosing the largest flowers and placing them into plastic buckets to retain their moisture, ready to be transformed into a range of sweet-smelling rose products.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I started grafting the roses and this is how I increased my production.’’
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I use the roses to make rose water, jam, syrup and herbal tea.’’
As well as providing the family with a livelihood, the harvest connects them with their homeland. For most of his life, Salem worked with his father on their farm in Damascus cultivating the renowned Damask roses that take their name from Syria’s capital city. When conflict forced Salem and his family to leave Syria and seek exile in Lebanon in 2012, he brought with him hundreds of seeds. Only 35 produced seedlings, but thanks to his experience in grafting cuttings to create new plants, he was able to expand this small nursery into the thousands of pink-flowered bushes that now grow behind his home.
Since he began cultivation in the Bekaa, Salem has been able to grow his roses without chemical fertilizers or pesticides, ensuring his final product is organic. Salem and his wife Nahla use the delicate petals to make their own sticky-sweet rose syrups and jams and fragrant rose water. They also sell dried flowers to local factories that produce rose tea.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’My children love picking the roses. They compete to choose the most beautiful ones, distinguishing between the ones that are good for jam and the ones for syrup.’’
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I employ up to 25 workers including Syrians and Lebanese.’’
Agriculture is one of the few sectors in which Syrian refugees can work legally in Lebanon, and was the second biggest source of employment for Syrian refugees last year behind construction, according to a 2018 UN study. The Bekaa Valley is Lebanon’s agricultural heartland, and hosts a greater share (37.2 percent) of the country’s nearly 920,000 registered Syrian refugees than any other region, providing struggling families with vital employment opportunities.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I’ll tell you one thing about roses, they are our way of greeting each other. They are our ‘’bonjour’’ or ‘’good morning or hello’’.
Together they wander through the rented field behind their shelter, carefully choosing the largest flowers and placing them into plastic buckets to retain their moisture, ready to be transformed into a range of sweet-smelling rose products.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I started grafting the roses and this is how I increased my production.’’
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I use the roses to make rose water, jam, syrup and herbal tea.’’
As well as providing the family with a livelihood, the harvest connects them with their homeland. For most of his life, Salem worked with his father on their farm in Damascus cultivating the renowned Damask roses that take their name from Syria’s capital city. When conflict forced Salem and his family to leave Syria and seek exile in Lebanon in 2012, he brought with him hundreds of seeds. Only 35 produced seedlings, but thanks to his experience in grafting cuttings to create new plants, he was able to expand this small nursery into the thousands of pink-flowered bushes that now grow behind his home.
Since he began cultivation in the Bekaa, Salem has been able to grow his roses without chemical fertilizers or pesticides, ensuring his final product is organic. Salem and his wife Nahla use the delicate petals to make their own sticky-sweet rose syrups and jams and fragrant rose water. They also sell dried flowers to local factories that produce rose tea.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’My children love picking the roses. They compete to choose the most beautiful ones, distinguishing between the ones that are good for jam and the ones for syrup.’’
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Al Azouq, Syrian refugee farmer:
‘’I employ up to 25 workers including Syrians and Lebanese.’’
Agriculture is one of the few sectors in which Syrian refugees can work legally in Lebanon, and was the second biggest source of employment for Syrian refugees last year behind construction, according to a 2018 UN study. The Bekaa Valley is Lebanon’s agricultural heartland, and hosts a greater share (37.2 percent) of the country’s nearly 920,000 registered Syrian refugees than any other region, providing struggling families with vital employment opportunities.
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