SQ video – ES – Samar – Health promotion supervisor interview

Video for social media with extracts from a Health promotion supervisor interview on her experience in the Türkiye/Syria hearthquake.

MSB148424

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20230210 - Earthquake Northwest Syria – Audio Interview with Samar, MSF Health Health promotion supervisor

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB148424

Date taken / Date Recorded 10/02/2023 7:16 PM

Country Syria

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Photographer / videographer / producer Omar Haj Kadour

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m30s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 93.06 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist TEXTS

Norhwest Syria

Samar
MSF Health promotion supervisor

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I’m still shocked. I can’t come
to terms with what happened.

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I feel that the disaster
is still ongoing.

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We were asleep when
the earthquake happened.

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I was with my family: my son,
my daughter and my husband.

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It felt like doomsday.

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People were crammed
and running in crowds.

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It’s like a scene
of the judgement day.

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We could no longer feel
anything other than fear,

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terror, shivering, in the cold,
under the rain.

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My children were shaking
in front of me.

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We had no clue
what needed to be done.

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We had to make sure
our relatives were safe,

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but our building was toppling
and swaying before us.

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The internet connection
and the electricity went out.

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We could hardly use the networks
to check up on the people we know.

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We didn’t find out

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until around 9 am.

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It was confirmed that
my relatives passed away.

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We then went to Jindires.

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It was horrific.
All the buildings collapsed.

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From the outskirts of the city,

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not a single building was spared.
People were under the rubble.

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Everyone is dead.

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I hope that…

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the response will be intensified,

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and that people are rescued
from under the rubble,

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and those dead to be buried.

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Any action must be taken,

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as the area is completely demolished.

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The needs are immense.

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All people care about now is saving
people from under the rubble.

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Bulldozers and heavy machinery are
desperately needed to save people,

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otherwise it won’t be possible.

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We all got into the car and drove away,
where there were tents and people we knew.

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We sat in a tent in the middle of heavy rain
and mud, but we and our children had to be safe.

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Many parents were burying their children.
Others were under the rubble.

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No family was spared.
Every family lost one or several loved ones.

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As for my uncle’s family,
they passed away.

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We ran out of the house in our pyjamas, barefoot and terrified.

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Buildings were shaking and balconies
were falling on the cars and destroying them.

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Imagine that my family is far away
from the earthquake

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and they knew before us that
my uncle’s family passed away.

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The scene was horrible: people were running away from the buildings

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while holding on to their children.