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FAO in Syria: Regaining normalcy amidst conflict

FAO and the Syria Veterinary Medical Association carried out an animal health campaign earlier this year to protect 1.3 million sheep and goats, and 65,000 cattle from highly contagious diseases. The three-month campaign has benefitted more than 200,000 livestock owners. This initiative was possible thanks to the support of USA.

Duration 1m47s

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Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 10/06/2017 1:19 PM

File size 322.13 MB

Unique ID UF2T3S

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UNFAO Source FAO Video

Shotlist LOCATIONS: Al Ghezlaneye, Syria

SHOT: 18 July 2017

SOUND: Natural, Arabic

TRT: 1’47”

SOURCE: FAO

ACCESS: ALL

SHOTLIST

1. Veterinarian preparing spray for parasites control

2. Various of veterinarian spraying parasiticides on sheep

3. Wide of children

4. Various of veterinarian giving treatment to sheep

5. Various Abu Hasan feeding sheep

6. Abu Hasan giving water to sheep

7. SOT Abu Hasan - internal displaced people (Arabic): We left our village because of the armed conflict, we moved to this area and been here for four years

8. Wide of Abu Hasan and his children

9. SOT Abu Hasan - internal displaced people (Arabic): We worked very hard to rebuild our life here

10. Pan of tents

(Audio as incoming)

11. SOT Um Yazan – internal displaced people (Arabic): Look at the children, our life is difficult here, we live in tents and the weather is very hot here, no electricity and no cold water, our life is hard here

12. Veterinarian giving treatment to sheep

(Audio as incoming)

13. SOT Um Yazan – internal displaced people (Arabic): Thank god the treatment protected our sheep from diseases, There are no diseases now. Thanks to the vets who took care of this.

14. Um Yazan milking a sheep

15. Um Yazan carrying milk

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Script In Syria, over half of the population has been forced from their homes since the conflict erupted in 2011.

Conflict has had a severe impact not only on people but also on the livestock on which they depend.

The number of cattle has decreased by more than 30 percent in recent years, whilst the number of sheep and goats decreased by 40 percent.

Abu Hasan and his family were forced to leave Eastern Ghouta- an area ravaged by war for the past four years, some 15 kilometres from Syria’s capital, Damascus.

Hasan, a father of 14 children, has been trying to establish a proper living situation through the cattle he owns since they are displaced 4 years ago.

“We left our village because of the armed conflict – we moved to this area and been here for four years,” explains Hasan.

“We worked very hard to rebuild our life here,” he adds.

Um Yazan comes from Mansoura, in Eastern Ghouta, was forced to leave her place with her husband and six children to AL Ghezlaneye after her area was attacked.

They left everything behind, except some of their sheep. This was two years ago.

Since then, they have been living in tents, in extremely precarious conditions. There is no infrastructure, no electricity, no water.

“We sewed tents. This is where we live with our four children…Look at my children…our life is difficult here…Living in tents. It gets very hot in here,” she adds with despair.

She and her children are trying to work to earn some money. They sometimes sell vegetables. They make about US 50 cents (300 Syrian pounds) a day. Enough to buy some bread, oil and sugar.

The family’s main source of livelihoods are the sheep.

“They don’t give us that much milk but we are grateful for what we have,” explains Um Yazan.

Delivering veterinary services has been seriously restricted. Vaccination campaigns and programmes to prevent or curb diseases are only possible in the safer areas. Facilities for vaccines’ production have been severely damaged, which has led to a shortage of vaccines.

In view that livestock can be a matter of life and death for people living in rural communities as they depend on them for their very survival, protecting the remaining of animals is critical.

“Thank God that the treatment protected our sheep from diseases. There are no diseases now. Thanks to the vets who took care of our animals. They saved us money. We couldn’t have afforded to pay for a vet,” says Um Yazan.

FAO and the Syria Veterinary Medical Association carried out an animal health campaign earlier this year to protect 1.3 million sheep and goats, and 65,000 cattle from highly contagious diseases. The three-month campaign has benefitted more than 200,000 livestock owners. This initiative was possible thanks to the support of USA.

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