Khartoum woman shelters Syrian refugees

(6 Dec 2015) SUDAN SYRIA REFUGEES SOURCE: AP TELEVISION RESTRICTIONS: MIDDLE EAST EXTRA CLIENTS ONLY DURATION: 5:18 SHOTLIST AP Television Khartoum, Sudan - 21 November 2015 1. Mid of Mariam, a Syrian refugee, standing in queue to receive aid 2. Close of Mariam's face 3. Various of Mariam pushing boxes of aid on a trolley and walking down the street 4. Various of the shack Syrian refugee Mariam and her daughters live in with Sudanese woman Fatemah 5. Various of Mariam fixing the walls of the shack 6. Various of Mariam's youngest daughter, 3-year-old Hanada, who needs a heart valve replacement operation, blowing a vuvuzela 7. Mid of Mariam walking out of the makeshift kitchen in the shack carrying a gas canister 8. Wide of Mariam carrying the gas canister outside the shack 9. Mid of Mariam carrying the canister with the help of her eldest daughter, 12 year old Heba 10. Wide of Mariam's children, Heba and Haya, carrying the gas canister out to the main street 11. Various of Mariam and Fatemah inside the makeshift kitchen preparing food 12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mariam Mahmoud, Syrian refugee living in Khartoum: "I have suffered a lot. I sell hibiscus tea on the street to provide for my children. The landlord at the place where we used to live asked me to move out, so I had to leave with no place to go. I met Fatemah a year or a year and a half ago. I used to sit with her as she sold falafel on the street, and we talked." 13. Various of Mariam in makeshift kitchen preparing food 14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mariam Mahmoud, Syrian refugee living in Khartoum "When she (Fatemah) saw me carrying luggage with my daughters, she asked me where I was going to go, and I told her that I had no idea, that the landlord at my house had asked me to leave, and I had no one to turn to. She told me to come and live with her, even though her house is a small shack but it was all she could provide. All my thanks to her, she did all she could, so I came here and stayed with her." 15. Wide of Mariam, her daughters and Fatemah sitting outside the shed 16. Mid of Fatemah and Mariam chatting 17. Mid of Mariam and Fatemah talking, girls in background 18. Close of Mariam talking 19. Wide pan across the yard outside the shack, pan right to Mariam and Fatemah and girls sitting and chatting 20. Mid of Mariam's daughters 21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatemah Hussein, Sudanese woman who shares her shack with Mariam's family: "Mariam used to rent a house but the landlord evicted her. I met her on the street with her children carrying luggage, I asked her what was wrong and she told me she had been kicked out of her house. I asked her where she was planning to go and she told me she didn't know, since she had no-one to go to here, no brother, mother or sister. I told her I didn't know what to do to help her, but if she could settle for my living situation, she could come and live with me. Mariam said she didn't mind and she came with me, and we've been living together." 22. Mid of Mariam fixing Hanada's hair 23. Close of Mariam and her daughter Hanada 24. Various of Mariam's eldest daughter, Heba, cleaning the yard outside the shed 25. Mid of Mariam sitting lost in thought, next to her youngest daughter Hanada 26. Wide of Mariam sitting with Hanada in the yard outside the shed LEADIN: In a tiny ramshackle dwelling in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, two women and three girls are making a home together. Four of them are refugees from Syria, and their host is Fatemah, a local resident whose kindness has given a destitute single mother and her three daughters a roof over their heads. STORYLINE: Syrian woman Mariam and her daughters fled their troubled homeland two and a half years ago, hoping to make a decent life for themselves in Sudan. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ef1701c40650df855bde5c3a43dcdffb Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork