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What They Took With Them — Transcript

by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 829 words · 127 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:13wallet empty wallet wallet money coins
  2. 0:16pennies torch whistle laser pointer seen
  3. 0:18more clearly out at Sea three bags one
  4. 0:21bag ruck sack truck yellow plastic bag
  5. 0:24for paper cell tape till waterproof and
  6. 0:26yellow cards for refugees and national
  7. 0:28ID Army service record and an
  8. 0:31information booklet from the government
  9. 0:33diploma Electronics certificate from
  10. 0:35high school passport if you've got one
  11. 0:36you can take expensive one-way ticket
  12. 0:38fake flag flag national flag flash drive
  13. 0:42laptop phone mobile phone number phone
  14. 0:44number phone number SIM card spare one
  15. 0:45phone phone smartphone with Skype and
  16. 0:47FaceTime headphones charger charger
  17. 0:49overseas adapter house
  18. 0:52keys house
  19. 0:54keys house
  20. 0:58keys we have suffered so much I want to
  21. 1:01study so that I can become someone
  22. 1:04again painkillers painkillers
  23. 1:06seasickness tablets walking stick
  24. 1:08walking stick white cane crutches
  25. 1:10wheelchair syringes to use an emergency
  26. 1:12bandages bandages toilets toothpaste
  27. 1:14toothbrush and toothpaste nail clipper
  28. 1:16comb shampoo and hair gel barber
  29. 1:18equipment and sunscreen ointment for
  30. 1:19sunburn tablets for Sun's epilepsy one
  31. 1:21every day and all vaccinations recorded
  32. 1:24to date for the baby and face whitening
  33. 1:27cream I want my skin to be white and my
  34. 1:30hair to be spiked I don't want them to
  35. 1:32know I'm a
  36. 1:34refugee what if somebody spots me and
  37. 1:36calls the police because I'm illegal but
  38. 1:40not if I'm
  39. 1:41white that's right isn't
  40. 1:43it traditional clothing warm clothing
  41. 1:46baby clothing favorite clothing dirty
  42. 1:48clothing wet clothing layered clothing
  43. 1:49pants pants sewing machine it's my life
  44. 1:51it's my blood for dresses change of
  45. 1:53clothes one pair of Flowery jeans that I
  46. 1:55wore to a party and won't wear again
  47. 1:57till I go to another one one shirt one
  48. 1:59shirt and one miss sandal pair of shoes
  49. 2:01pair of shoes new never worn a hijab a
  50. 2:03gift from a friend my favorite scarf
  51. 2:05with the skulls on I just love the color
  52. 2:07my turban my turban's my guardian now it
  53. 2:09protects my identity and my faith
  54. 2:12without it I'm vulnerable head scarf
  55. 2:14from someone who died in the conflict a
  56. 2:15hat for the baby and socks for the baby
  57. 2:17one nappy just one and sanitary tows
  58. 2:19sports jacket for warm and some have a
  59. 2:21life jacket too and some
  60. 2:24don't the most painful thing about being
  61. 2:26a refugee is that you wake up one day to
  62. 2:29find you've lost all of your Liberty and
  63. 2:31can no longer decide on your life it's
  64. 2:34like everything is closed in your face
  65. 2:37so there's nothing else but the
  66. 2:39sea there's nothing but the sea there's
  67. 2:42a way to get out and be
  68. 2:46free cigarettes carton packet lighters
  69. 2:49pip milk sterile water bottled water
  70. 2:52water water everywhere halfly to bottle
  71. 2:54for a one we trip bottled oil lemons
  72. 2:56lemons dates dates dates dates biscuits
  73. 2:58crackers crackers crackers be a 10 tea
  74. 3:00set for the others on the boat we're
  75. 3:02thirsty tired and afraid I'll make some
  76. 3:04tea that's what we do we make a family
  77. 3:07baby food marshmallows bread that wasn't
  78. 3:09fully baked the man who threw us out
  79. 3:10wouldn't let us finish
  80. 3:13up metal cooking pot to make some dinner
  81. 3:16for the children one man only brought a
  82. 3:17cup I'd have been ashamed to ask every
  83. 3:19day for a cup just to take a drink of
  84. 3:21water people get tired of being asked
  85. 3:23for things all the time and eventually
  86. 3:25they will say no now I have my own cup
  87. 3:28it gives me Independence
  88. 3:30no matter where I go plastic carpets rug
  89. 3:32rug pillow animal skin tent a piece of
  90. 3:34mortar from the house piece of soil from
  91. 3:36the garden wrapped in fabric sacred soil
  92. 3:38sacred books sacred text rosary and
  93. 3:40prayer beads rosary prayer beads Rosary
  94. 3:43my headdress hides the key to a small
  95. 3:45metal chest containing all of the
  96. 3:46essentials for a wedding ring ring charm
  97. 3:49ring mother's wedding ring I lost mine
  98. 3:50in the bombing so my mother gave me hers
  99. 3:52my earrings I make jewelry all the
  100. 3:54jewelry of my people it symbolizes
  101. 3:56Freedom no one tells me what to wear
  102. 3:58heart necklace neace Virgin Mary
  103. 4:00necklace bracelet bracelet bracelet no
  104. 4:03the bracelet is not my favorite thing
  105. 4:05that's Nancy she's my doll the night we
  106. 4:07fled my mother put her on my bed so we
  107. 4:09would not forget her but in all the rush
  108. 4:11she did get left behind I don't mind
  109. 4:13she'll keep watch watch digital and
  110. 4:16analog family portrait photos photos
  111. 4:19photo of my father memories of my father
  112. 4:22I have nothing for my home everything
  113. 4:25was broken in the
  114. 4:26struggle we were out in just 10 minutes
  115. 4:32they destroyed the house around my sick
  116. 4:34bed the neighbors heard me shout and
  117. 4:37came and carried me out I carried both
  118. 4:39my children in baskets swinging from a
  119. 4:42pole across my shoulders and I carried
  120. 4:44my virginity out at Sea we rubbed
  121. 4:46ourselves in vomit so the Pirates
  122. 4:48wouldn't touch
  123. 4:52us I escaped with my
  124. 4:56children sister brother husband wife
  125. 5:00with My
  126. 5:01Soul with my
  127. 5:03smile with my life

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