Syria Camps World Cup WEB
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- Syria Camps World Cup WEB
- November 30, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: SYRIA/CAMPS WORLD CUP HEADLINE: Syrian Children Compete in 'Camps World Cup' TEASER: Organizers hope the football tournament for displaced and working children will bring attention to war-torn Idlib as it faces winter PUBLISHED: 11/30/2022 at 8:59AM BYLINE: Mouneb Taim, Heather Murdock DATELINE: Idlib, Syria, Istanbul VIDEOGRAPHER: Mouneb Taim, Moawia Atrash VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, Sharon Shahid VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO __ TRT: 2:40 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: ((INTRO)) [[While fans from around the world revel at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, hundreds of children in the war-torn region of Idlib, Syria, compete in the Camps World Cup, a football tournament featuring players who are growing up in displacement camps or as child laborers. Mouneb Taim reports from Idlib, Syria, with Heather Murdock in Istanbul.]] ((NARRATOR)) After months of training, these Syrian children are competing in what they are calling the Camps World Cup, a football tournament mirroring the games in Qatar. Some players come from industrial areas, where young children work difficult and dangerous jobs. But most come from the displacement camps where half the roughly 4 million people in the Idlib region of Syria live. ((Murad al-Daj, Displaced Syrian Child)) ((Male child in Arabic)) “The war has impacted everything. We have become trapped inside these camps, and it is not possible to get out.” ((NARRATOR)) Organizers hope the games will bring international attention to the war and humanitarian crisis still going on in Idlib, one of the only parts of Syria still at war with the government of Bashar al-Assad. ((Ibrahim Al-Sarmini, Violet Organization)) ((Male in Arabic)) “We are hoping there will be a solution for the families of these children so they can return to the homes they were displaced from.” ((NARRATOR)) Parents say children growing up in the isolated camps in Idlib are suffering physical and psychological damage from war and abject poverty. They say the football tournament doesn’t fix the problems, but it does alleviate some of the pain. ((Khadija Khaled Al-Moussa, Displaced Syrian)) ((Female in Arabic)) “If there was no war, my children would have better mental health. Because of the war and the bombing, they are always afraid and cannot concentrate.” ((NARRATOR)) The children in the tournament are organized into teams named after the national teams playing in Qatar now. Some children say the training and the competition helps them envision a future without war. ((Murad al-Daj, Displaced Syrian Child)) ((Male child in Arabic)) “I have a dream, when the war ends, to participate in World Cup matches in Europe and Asia with the Syrian national football team.” ((NARRATOR)) But for families in Northwest Syria, winter is coming on rapidly. And the United Nations says rising prices, climate change and dwindling international aid are making winters harsher and more deadly every year. Families say after the Camps World Cup, dreams will once again have to wait while they are busy trying to survive. ((FOR MOUNEB TAIM, IN IDLIB, SYRIA, HEATHER MURDOCK, VOA NEWS))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: SYRIA/CAMPS WORLD CUP HEADLINE: Syrian Children Compete in 'Camps World Cup' TEASER: Organizers hope the football tournament for displaced and working children will bring attention to war-torn Idlib as it faces winter PUBLISHED: 11/30/2022 at 8:59AM BYLINE: Mouneb Taim, Heather Murdock DATELINE: Idlib, Syria, Istanbul VIDEOGRAPHER: Mouneb Taim, Moawia Atrash VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, Sharon Shahid VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO __ TRT: 2:40 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: ((INTRO)) [[While fans from around the world revel at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, hundreds of children in the war-torn region of Idlib, Syria, compete in the Camps World Cup, a football tournament featuring players who are growing up in displacement camps or as child laborers. Mouneb Taim reports from Idlib, Syria, with Heather Murdock in Istanbul.]] ((NARRATOR)) After months of training, these Syrian children are competing in what they are calling the Camps World Cup, a football tournament mirroring the games in Qatar. Some players come from industrial areas, where young children work difficult and dangerous jobs. But most come from the displacement camps where half the roughly 4 million people in the Idlib region of Syria live. ((Murad al-Daj, Displaced Syrian Child)) ((Male child in Arabic)) “The war has impacted everything. We have become trapped inside these camps, and it is not possible to get out.” ((NARRATOR)) Organizers hope the games will bring international attention to the war and humanitarian crisis still going on in Idlib, one of the only parts of Syria still at war with the government of Bashar al-Assad. ((Ibrahim Al-Sarmini, Violet Organization)) ((Male in Arabic)) “We are hoping there will be a solution for the families of these children so they can return to the homes they were displaced from.” ((NARRATOR)) Parents say children growing up in the isolated camps in Idlib are suffering physical and psychological damage from war and abject poverty. They say the football tournament doesn’t fix the problems, but it does alleviate some of the pain. ((Khadija Khaled Al-Moussa, Displaced Syrian)) ((Female in Arabic)) “If there was no war, my children would have better mental health. Because of the war and the bombing, they are always afraid and cannot concentrate.” ((NARRATOR)) The children in the tournament are organized into teams named after the national teams playing in Qatar now. Some children say the training and the competition helps them envision a future without war. ((Murad al-Daj, Displaced Syrian Child)) ((Male child in Arabic)) “I have a dream, when the war ends, to participate in World Cup matches in Europe and Asia with the Syrian national football team.” ((NARRATOR)) But for families in Northwest Syria, winter is coming on rapidly. And the United Nations says rising prices, climate change and dwindling international aid are making winters harsher and more deadly every year. Families say after the Camps World Cup, dreams will once again have to wait while they are busy trying to survive. ((FOR MOUNEB TAIM, IN IDLIB, SYRIA, HEATHER MURDOCK, VOA NEWS))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date November 30, 2022 09:51 EST
- Byline Heather Murdock
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America