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Syria-Home Reconstruction
Homs, Syria - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV)
1. Street
2. Various of destroyed buildings, ruins
3. Dog on street
4. Shokri Saba, local resident, repairing house
5. Damaged building
6. Wall after repair
7. Saba working
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shokri Saba, local resident (starting with shot 7/partially overlaid with shot 9):
"There's nothing left in the house. The floor of the kitchen was broken and blown up together with the walls. The balcony was also damaged. We have fixed the balcony but there are still many holes caused by blasts in the house."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
9. Various of bricks on balcony
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
10. Various of interior of house
11. Various of Saba repairing house
12. Stuff on floor
13. Various of worker tiling wall
14. Broken building seen from window
15. Various of tiles, wires for socket
16. Interior of house
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shokri Saba, local resident:
"I have to stop once again. I think I have to wait until spring or summer when I can get some loans from the bank or work out other solutions."
18. Various of Saba making drinks
With the improvement of the security conditions in Syria, some Syrians are returning home but they find it difficult to rebuild their homes due to external sanctions and price hikes.
Homs, 162 kilometers away from the Syrian capital Damascus, used to be the country's third largest city. But years of war have reduced it to ruins.
Now the sound of electric drills from the ruins is telling people that the reconstruction work has begun.
Shokri Saba, 61, is a retired teacher in the city and he received the evaluation from the government on the conditions of his house in 2019. The evaluation says he can rehabilitate his house as its main structure is good.
Saba still remembered the scene when he returned to his home for the first time.
"There's nothing left in the house. The floor of the kitchen was broken and blown up together with the walls. The balcony was also damaged. We have fixed the balcony but there are still many holes caused by blasts in the house," said Saba.
Saba spent nearly 8,200 U.S. dollars on repairing his house last year. Forty percent of the money came from his pension and the rest was donated by charity organizations.
But rises in the prices of construction materials like tiles and cement posed challenges to his repair work.
He said he needed to figure out other ways to continue his work so that he could have a cozy house as soon as possible.
"I have to stop once again. I think I have to wait until spring or summer when I can get some loans from the bank or work out other solutions," said Saba.
Syria-Home Reconstruction
Dateline : Recent
Location : Syrian Arab Republic
Duration : 2'17
Homs, Syria - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV)
1. Street
2. Various of destroyed buildings, ruins
3. Dog on street
4. Shokri Saba, local resident, repairing house
5. Damaged building
6. Wall after repair
7. Saba working
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shokri Saba, local resident (starting with shot 7/partially overlaid with shot 9):
"There's nothing left in the house. The floor of the kitchen was broken and blown up together with the walls. The balcony was also damaged. We have fixed the balcony but there are still many holes caused by blasts in the house."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
9. Various of bricks on balcony
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
10. Various of interior of house
11. Various of Saba repairing house
12. Stuff on floor
13. Various of worker tiling wall
14. Broken building seen from window
15. Various of tiles, wires for socket
16. Interior of house
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shokri Saba, local resident:
"I have to stop once again. I think I have to wait until spring or summer when I can get some loans from the bank or work out other solutions."
18. Various of Saba making drinks
With the improvement of the security conditions in Syria, some Syrians are returning home but they find it difficult to rebuild their homes due to external sanctions and price hikes.
Homs, 162 kilometers away from the Syrian capital Damascus, used to be the country's third largest city. But years of war have reduced it to ruins.
Now the sound of electric drills from the ruins is telling people that the reconstruction work has begun.
Shokri Saba, 61, is a retired teacher in the city and he received the evaluation from the government on the conditions of his house in 2019. The evaluation says he can rehabilitate his house as its main structure is good.
Saba still remembered the scene when he returned to his home for the first time.
"There's nothing left in the house. The floor of the kitchen was broken and blown up together with the walls. The balcony was also damaged. We have fixed the balcony but there are still many holes caused by blasts in the house," said Saba.
Saba spent nearly 8,200 U.S. dollars on repairing his house last year. Forty percent of the money came from his pension and the rest was donated by charity organizations.
But rises in the prices of construction materials like tiles and cement posed challenges to his repair work.
He said he needed to figure out other ways to continue his work so that he could have a cozy house as soon as possible.
"I have to stop once again. I think I have to wait until spring or summer when I can get some loans from the bank or work out other solutions," said Saba.
ID : 8133121
Published : 2020-01-19 10:21
Last Modified : 2020-01-19 17:48:00
Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland/Orient TV/Syria Alshaab TV/Zanoubia TV/Alhurra TV/ANN TV/Al Jazeera/Al-Arabiya TV
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