Timecoded Transcript “Thank God I'm in
Europe”
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We got into
trouble with the police at night.
It was a
nightmare. Everything was so stressful.
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SVO : Saba, Ethiopia
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While Belgians were asleep, we had to
try to carry on. We had to try, try, try.
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It was go, go, go.
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It was too
hard.
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We
always had to make sure there were no police outside.
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SVO:
Selam , Eritrea
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Sometimes
accidents happened.
We fell over when we tried to run away.
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Bad things happened. It was a hard time.
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The Sister’s
House is like a family, a mother to me.
As if I had
found a real family.
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I thank God
for where I am now.
The future
is in God’s hands. Thank you.
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These young women have reached England illegally in
trucks.
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Like many others they have lived in overcrowded refugee
camps in Greece and Italy.
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From there they traveled to Northern Europe. Their asylum applications were turned down
over and over again.
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In
the UK they are sometimes granted asylum after all. It’s their last hope.
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TITLE: Thank God I’m in Europe
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V .O. : I came across the Sister’s House through Caroline.
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VO: She had been volunteering at this Brussels refugee shelter for a year.
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VO: I couldn’t identify
with the women she told me about.
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VO: n the summer we went to the Sister’s House for the
first time.
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VO: It's a unique initiative in Europe, set up by citizens who want to take women off the streets
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VO: and give
refugees a home for as long as they need.
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VO: They call themselves Civic Platform Brussels
Refugees.
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VO: There I met young women and girls like me: sisters
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20. About twenty and it’s only half seven.
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SVO: Halima Hanbali
Volunteer
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V.O : Their faces cannot be filmed.
These women have no ID papers at all
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VO: and are afraid of being recognized
during their stay in Belgium.
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It’s ok for the girls.
Yes, great.
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17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22…I’ve lost
count. I had twelve.
-No, I’ve lost count.
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One from downstairs is up here.
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I
don’t want to be filmed.
Ok,
but maybe your hands?
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Like
that. I’ll show you. Ok?
I’ll
show you.
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I
was in prison for three years.
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SVO
: Elsa, Eritrea
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You
were in prison in Libya ?
-Yes
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If you don’t pay them money, they put
you in prison.
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Did
they beat you? - Yes.
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If
you don’t give them money, they kill
you.
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Many
friends of mine have been killed.
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All
the girls like the Sister’s House.
Because you know, we are all under
stress.
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Here
you feel a bit more free. You feel free here. That’s why.
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V.O. :Meron was forced to leave Ethiopia for Sudan because of the violence in her country.
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She didn’t have ID papers and risked being imprisoned in Sudan.
So she had to move on.
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SVO
: Meron, Ethiopia
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From
Sudan I went to Libya. Through the Sahara. That was hard.
Very
hard.
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The
journey took 28 days. It was very, very hot.
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You
couldn’t breathe. Not at all.
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A child and a
grown-up died. In Italy I got a passport as a political refugee.
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I
worked there for three years. After three years the work stopped.
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I
couldn’t find a job anymore.
That’s
why you had to leave Italy.
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Yes,
that’s why I left.
I’m
tired. Sorry.
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Dreadful.
Come here.
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V.O. :What strikes you is
their fierce courage. The fact
that they keep going and don’t lose hope.
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Sometimes they have fiery
eyes. //Sometimes they seem worn out
from the hardship they have had to endure.
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SVO:
Tina, Ethiopia00:05:06:14 – 00:05:12:03
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I
want a good life. I want to work in Europe.
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I
want ID papers. I want a house. Because I’m
tired.
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Didn’t
they have any garlic?
When
did you start as a volunteer?
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In
December 2017, because it was very cold.
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Many
people started housing refugees then
because it was really very, very cold.
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SVO
: Françoise Lecocq, volunteer
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It
was hard for me to know that people were having to sleep outside in the park in
the
freezing cold.
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I’m from the countryside
and people there say that in winter you bring in the animals.
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You
don’t leave the animals outside. So I think that you don’t leave people outside
either.
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V.O.: It’s winter. We are on our way to Maximilian
Park.
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Here the refugees meet and spend the night when they have nowhere to go.
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You have to be very careful. Cameras
are not welcome.
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Too much negative coverage in the media has made the refugees bitter.
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Hi guys. How are you? Did you sleep in
the park last night?
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Is this yours? This blue canvas?
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No, someone is sleeping there.
He’s still there. He is sleeping inside.
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You know him? No, I don’t know him.
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Why don’t you go to the station to
warm up a little?
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The police chased us out of there.
They had big guns.
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Ah, the soldiers chased you away!
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Are you sick?
Yes, since yesterday. It’s a problem.
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Oh terrible. Yes, that’s a big problem
because it’s very cold.
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Yes, I know. It’s such a terrible
thing.
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For Christ’s sake.
VO: Here there are rats running around.
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VO : Mud, rubbish and dirt everywhere. This is how they have to
live here.
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Hello. Hi
guys.
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VO.: WE meet Halima , volunteer at the Sister’s House.
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May God give you strength. You have a lot of courage.
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She had to leave two children behind.
One is eight years old, the other nine.
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Two boys.
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Look where they’re living.
They come to seek a better life.
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SVO : Halima Hanbali, volunteer
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What they get is worse than back home. It’s quite
unbearable.
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It’s quite unbearable. Intolerable.
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VO : We have an appointment at the Hub
where different NGOs and the Citizens’
Platform BXL Refugees.
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provide assistance
to the refugees.
A couple of the girls invite us along.
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Get in line please. Please. Please.
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VO : We follow the girls upstairs.
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Here the Civic Platform supplies
clothing.
Twice a week sisters can come and take whatever they need.
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All the clothes have been donated and are free.
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SVO : Women’s Space, Civic Platform
BXL Refugees
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Are you sure?
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What colour do you like?
Black also?
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VO : Meron has been in Belgium for 15
months. Almost every day she tries to
reach England illegally, in a truck.
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How
are you?
Fine
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Please
sit down
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VO:
She is exhausted. We are allowed
in.
This is unheard of.
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So,
what can I do for you today?
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SVO
: Kim Keating, Doctors of the World
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19 – 09:05:18
I
need a doctor because I have pain in my eyes, ears, head and teeth.
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Has
it been recently or is this a pain you have had for a long time?
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– 09:16:07
How
long have you had this pain? -Three months.
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SVO : Nikhat Kiros Sereke, Doctors
Without Borders
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Are
you alone here, or with a partner or friends?
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No,
I have nobody except the Sister’s House.
If
it’s full we sleep in the park.
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Are
you taking a chance for the UK or are you going to try to stay here?
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I
think I’m going to ask for asylum here. Until now I have always tried to go to
the UK.
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I’m tired of trying. I’m tired.
There
are lots of services here at the Hub.
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We’ll try and get you to see a doctor
or a dentist...
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...about the pain in your mouth…
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So tired.
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Migrant women and refugee women are very
vulnerable to exploitation.
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They
are very often raped and tortured.
These
women have never been able to trust anybody.
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They
have been abused, often for so many years that it takes a lot for them to open
up.
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If
we feel that we can help the girls in any way, even if it’s just for one day,
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SVO:
Kim Keating, Doctors of the World
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if
we can change their circumstances, find them a safe place, find them a family,
get
them off the streets,
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give
them the treatment that they need,
just
to make the next 24 hours better.
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V.O
: Merwet, Elisabeth and Sanae want to call the children they had to leave with
their families.
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If
you have your family on the phone, let them know where you are.
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SVO
: Anne Etienne, Belgian Red Cross, French-speaking section
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I
hope and I know it will not happen, but if you have to lose contact
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they’ll know that you were in Brussels last
time you called.
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VO
: It’s the only time they can hear their children’s voices, even just for a minute.
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It
is very hard for them.
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How are your children? Are they well?
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Good.
Mum
is sick. Very, very sick.
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SVO
: Elisabeth, Sudan
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Now
she’s very sick. Her eyes.
She
cannot go to the doctor.
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No
money.
Yes,
it’s difficult.
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Thank
you girls. It was precious.
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Number
5.
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When
we started working in the park,
we
wanted to get the women somewhere safe.
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– 00:12:10:07
When
the girls come to us and register for the night, by around 3 or 5pm we already
know
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if we'll have enough beds for the
night or not.
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SVO
: Delpine Demanche, Sister’s House coordinator
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If
we see that we don’t, we contact the families that we know can accommodate the
women for the night.
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Together we see what can be done.
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Women
with children we prefer to send either to the social emergency centre
or the Red Cross.
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For
the men, we have the Porte d’Ulysse emergency shelter.
Every
night we can accommodate 350 people.
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I
think my biggest wish is to see a true European reception policy
and
an end to the Fortress Europe bidding war
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– this thing of ‘them’ and ‘us’.
It
would be better to stick with the values
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we
were taught at school when we were young.
You don’t really find them in what we
see here every day.
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VO
: It’s winter and freezing cold.
The
women line up in front of the
Sister’s House
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– 00:13:19:23
where they have been able to get hold
of a bed for the night.
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Ok,
welcome.
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Number
2557
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– 00:13:32:11
Number
297 and 255. Ok.
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– 00:13:34:20
Number
348
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– 00:13:36:10
Ok,
welcome.
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37:10 – 00:13:38:10
Number
255
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-00:13:40:07
Welcome.
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– 00:13:46:18
Number
348
ok.
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– 00:13:52:01
Wait,
wait, wait
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Ok.
Alright.
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– 00:14:00:05
Are
you alright?
Are
you tired?
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– 00:14:07:10
Yes,
because I slept outside for a week.
I
kept trying, no chance. I tried, no chance.
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– 00:14: 09:06
Outside
it’s too cold and raining.
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– 00:14:15:11
Right
now I’m sick also, but what can I do?
Yes,
I’m trying to go to the UK.
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I
do not give up. You know?
You
want something to eat?
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– 00:14:29:05
I
left my country five years ago.
I
went to Turkey. From Turkey to Greece.
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SVO:
Helen, Eritrea
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– 00:14:33:07
From
Greece to Italy.
From
Italy to France and here.
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– 00:14:38:11
Greece
did not give me papers.
That’s
why I came here.
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– 00:14:44:12
I
went to the Hub, registered and then came here.
Before
I didn’t know about this place.
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– 00:14:47:21
I slept in the park.
You
know, in the park there is too much rain also.
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– 00:14:50:18
It’s
dangerous.
Yes,
too many boys also.
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– 00:14:53:11
I’m
afraid.
Afraid
of?
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– 00:14:56:10
Yes,
too many boys.
There
are a lot of boys there.
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– 00:14:59:15
Before
I didn’t know this life, you know?
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– 00:15:07:21
I
have to try. I want to go to the UK,
because
if I have my fingerprints taken in Belgium,
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:06 – 00:15:09:14
they won’t give me papers anyway.
I know that.
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SVO
: Merwet, Ethiopia
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– 00:15:14:24
In
short, I have to start my life from the beginning.
Then
life will be different for me.
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Chicken,
chicken, chicken.
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– 00:15:24:14
V.O.
: Volunteer Marina Blitz has brought leftovers from a supermarket.
They are free.
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25:00 – 00:15:30:20
V.O
. Thanks to the collection of unsold
food the Civic Platform is able to keep the Sister’s
House open.
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VO:
The Civic Platform was founded out of
necessity,
because
Belgium refuses to take responsibility
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for
people who do not exist in its administration.
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Oh
great. -Wow.
The tomatoes too
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Lemons as well. They will
be glad.
These are cherry tomatoes.
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It all came from the
Delhaize supermarket.
This came from the bakery
and this from Delhaize.
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Thank you.
Good night and thanks.
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We now have 26 girls. Eight
will go to families
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and two other girls are
still in the park and will be arriving soon. Yes.
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One girl
called me, but I didn’t understand a word.
She says she’s Megrit or
Magnit.
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I don’t know. And her
friend.
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Have a good night.
Bye! Bye sweety.
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Bye bye.
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VO : The girls the Sister’s
House cannot accommodate
are being picked up by host
families for the night.
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– 00:16:37:02
VO: Another
girl leaves for yet another
family.
194.
00:16:42:13
– 00:16:46:01
VO : In the meantime, at
the Sister’s House…
195.
00:16:48:05 – 00:16:53:05
VO
: One of the beds has collapsed.
Let’s
hope a solution will be found soon.
196.
00:16:56:15
– 00:17:03:02
Incredible.
A new sofa bed has arrived in record time.
We are 40 000.
197.
00:17:03:16 – 00:17:06:11
40 000?
we are 40 000 people on the
Civic Platform.
198.
00:17:05:06 – 00:17:10:02
SVO: Adriana Costa Santos,
Sister’s House coordinator
199.
00:17:05:15 – 00:17:11:02
So when you ask 40 000
people for something, you get it.
200.
00:17:11:12 – 00:17: 16:16
I’ll show
you something. I sent this message: ‘Looking for a Sister’s sofa’.
201.
00:17:17:06 – 00:17:26:03
A gentleman even answered:
‘If you don’t find a sofa, it’s
Christmas time.
202.
00:17:26:11 – 00:17:32:07
So if each of us gives €5, we are 40
000 – we can easily buy a new sofa.
203.
00:17:34:01 – 00:17:40:20
Adriana, how
many members does the platform have?
We have around 15 000
active volunteers.
204.
00:17:41:04 – 00:17:47:16
That means 15 000 people are
contributing actively. On social media we have 40 000 people in different
groups,
205.
00:17:48:05 – 00:17: 55:09
47 000 people on the platform and
around 30 000 people who comment and share messages.
206.
00:17:56:16 – 00:18:00:00
VO : We ask Adriana for her
greatest wish.
207.
00:18:00:23 – 00:18:05:05
For Belgium to activate the
sovereignty clause of the Dublin Regulation.
208.
00:18:05:14 – 00:18:11:18
Meaning that Belgium would decide to
take on the asylum applications of people on its territory.
209.
00:18:12:15 – 00:18:20:00
The asylum seekers would
then be able to apply without being forced back to other countries.
210.
00:18:21:23 – 00:18:27:24
That’s my greatest wish.
Apart from that I have small wishes for lots of different individuals.
211.
00:18:28:24 – 00:18:32:15
I wish the girls could forget many of
the things they have had to go through
212.
00:18:33:04 – 00:18:36:15
or least be able to move past them.
213.
00:18:39:02 – 00:18:43:06
Did you go to school before
you came here?
214.
00:18:57:00 – 00:19:00:05
VO: It’s half eleven.
The night shift starts.
215.
00:19:08:09 – 00:19:10:15
VO: Libya was very traumatising for Segen.
216.
00:19:11:00 – 00:19:14:09
She became a
slave because she did not have the money to pay the ransom.
217.
00:19:15:00
– 00:19:18:22
I am finally
free from Libya. It was so difficult for us.
218.
00:19:15:07-
00:19:20:06
SVO: Segen,
Ethiopia
219.
00:19:19:06 –
00:19:21:05
They kill,
they take everything.
They hit you.
220.
00:19:22:03 –
00:19:28:04
They smoke
and afterwards they use you as an ashtray.
We are not
ashtrays. We are humans.
221.
00:19:28:17
– 00:19:35:17
They
mutilated me. My body... So much happened.
222.
00:19:36:01
- 00:19:37:12
It’s so difficult…
223.
00:19:39:19
– 00:19:43:00
...for me.
It's too hard, you know.
224.
00:19:43:22 – 00:19:49:12
Sometimes I want to be on
my own.
I lost my money, I lost my
time, I lost…
224.
00:19:50:09 – 00:19:53:04
It’s too hard, you know.
225.
00:19:54:18 – 00:19:58:18
When I cannot sleep at the
Sister’s House,
I go and sleep in the park.
226.
00: 19:59:11 – 00:20:05:11
It’s so difficult. You know.
It's so cold, the weather.
No shelter.
227.
00:20:05:23 – 00:20:12:00
No food. Here it is like
home
I only want ID papers.
228.
00:20:13:01- 00:20:19:11
When they give me papers, I
can relax.
I will say again and again: ‘Thank God, I’m so
happy’.
229.
00:20:20:01 – 00:20:22:05
After that I
can die.
I don’t
care.
230.
00:20:22:20
- 00:20:25:14
Yes, it’s my life.
231.
00:20:43:04 – 00:20:50:05
Hello Sister. Hello, good
morning.
Hello, how are you? Good
morning.
232.
00:20:50:15 – 00:20:55:15
Good morning. How are you?
Fine?
Good.
233.
00:20:56:15
– 00:21:03:08
Cold? A bit cold – mmh?
Cold?
Yes. You know, I slept
outside for a week.
235.
00:21:03:19
– 00:21:07:21
And
it’s cold outside.
236.
00:21:10:01
– 00:21:15:00
Ok,
get some sleep.
She
has a fever.
237.
00:21:22:23
– 00:21:29:19
Two days ago I slept in the
police station.
You what?
238.
00:21:24:22
– 00:21:29:09
SVO
: Inez, Ethiopia
239.
00:21:29:17
– 00:21:31:19
Police
station.
Ah yes?
240.
00:21:32:03 – 00:21:35:20
One day and one night.
One night?
241.
00:21:36:13 – 00:21:46:05
Yesterday
I saw a girl from the park. She got
on
the train and once she was on board they arrested her.
242.
00:21:47:01
– 00:21:53:13
Later,
near the trucks, they catch you
and
keep you in handcuffs until you get to prison.
243.
00:21:54:18
– 00:21:58:18
They
handcuff you, yes.
I
don’t know if I could do that.
244.
00:21: 57:15 – 00:22:03:07
SVO : Françoise Lecocq,
volunteer
245.
00:21:59:05
– 00:22:04:00
You
are so strong.
This
is our life. We have to run for our future.
246.
00:22:04:12
– 00:22:11:10
You cannot go back, yes.
You have to go straight ahead, yes.
247.
00:22:17:03 – 00:22:20:19
VO : Right after we stopped
shooting,
the coronavirus paralysed the country.
248.
00:22:21:05 – 00:22:22:23
For weeks thirty young
women were in lockdown.
They couldn’t even reach
the few trucks which went to England.
249.
00:22:26:22 – 00:22:33:00
In the meantime the
contract between the Elsene municipality
in Brussels and the Civic Platform
has ended.
250.
00:22:33:12 – 00:22:37:09
The Sister’s House had to
move
and is now temporarily located in spaces
251.
00:22:37:18 – 00:22:38:00
kindly provided by a medical centre in Brussels.
The Civic Platform BXL
Refugees
252.
00:22:42:19
– 00:22:49:10
is urgently looking for a new place. Otherwise
by September the sisters
will once again be on the
street.
253.
00:23:35:17 – 00:23:44:02
I want to work. I want a
change in my life.
This is not a life.
254.
00:23:44:10 – 00:23:47:10
A film by Caroline van
Gastel
Saar Van Eyck
www.tara-arts.org
255.
00:23:48:00 – 00:23:50:07
With special thanks to
Civic Platform Bxl Refugees
With support from Fonds
Pascal Decroos
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