Out Of Afghanistan: Integrating and making friends (ep 3 of 3)
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Presenter - Stuart Ramsay
Producers - Anne-Marie Bullock with Dominque van Heerden
Digital production - David Chipakupaku
Sound design - Will Chalk
Editor - Paul Stanworth
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| 0:00.0 | August 2020 and it's been a year since the emergency evacuations from Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban. |
| 0:12.6 | 15,000 people were evacuated from Kabul Airport to the UK in just two weeks of Operation Pitting. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Sky News, Chief Correspondent, Stuart Ramsey, |
| 0:22.4 | and at the time, we reported on those chaotic flights to safety. |
| 0:26.5 | In this podcast, out of Afghanistan, we're asking what happened next? |
| 0:30.9 | What happened to those suddenly starting life over on the other side of the world? |
| 0:34.9 | It is not easy to make good friends in different places like UK. |
| 0:41.3 | We didn't have anyone and we were very alone. |
| 0:44.3 | I didn't think she would say, Lettis Meet, |
| 0:46.3 | because some people, they don't give you her time. |
| 0:50.3 | In the previous episodes, we heard about the support available to Afghans here in the UK, |
| 0:55.6 | through Shabano, a mother who struggled to get her daughter, Malali, and nephew to safety through |
| 1:00.7 | Kabul Airport. They now live in Bristol, reunited with her husband, Yusuf. We also met |
| 1:07.4 | Afzal and his wife. They were expecting their fourth child when they had to leave Afghanistan. |
| 1:13.2 | Their baby daughter was born safely in Britain. The family of six were still living in a hotel, |
| 1:18.8 | but now they have a home of their own. In this episode, we're finding out about integration. |
| 1:24.9 | How do you make friends in a new place with a different language, |
| 1:27.9 | different culture and different social structures? And what makes it easier for some to settle, |
| 1:33.7 | but harder for others? |
| 1:43.6 | Last time we were in Bristol, a busy, diverse city. |
| 1:47.8 | But when the Home Office asked local authorities across the UK to offer accommodation, |
| 1:52.3 | it meant some families were placed in more remote parts of the country. |
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