UKRAINE / CHILDREN

Since March 2014, over one million people have been displaced by the conflict in Ukraine. UNICEF is responding to the crisis with safe drinking water, hygiene kits, psychological support and more, the agency reported today. (UNICEF)

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:26
• Production Date: 18 December 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILD SOLDIERS; CHILD LABOUR; CHILDREN
• Geographic Subject: UKRAINE
• MAMS Id: 1269257

Description

STORY: UKRAINE / CHILDREN
TRT: 1:26
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 NOVEMEBER 2014, KHARKIV, UKRAINE

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, busy street in Kharkiv Ukraine
2. Mid shot, busy street in Kharkiv Ukraine
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) UNICEF Representative Giovanna Barberis
“UNICEF is concerned with the impact that the current situation and the ongoing conflict is having on the lives of thousands of children. We believe that approximately 1.7 million children have been affected by the conflict.”
4. Mid shot, Ukrainian refugee family cooking in IDP centre (Internally displace persons)
5. Close up, mother and baby
6. Close up, mother and baby
7. Mid shot, family walking up stairs of a IDP centre
8. Mid shot, refugees
9. Mid shot, refugees waiting for supplies
10. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) UNICEF Representative Giovanna Barberis
“Around one third of the 500,000 thousand internally displaced people are children. UNICEF is responding and we have provided humanitarian support in terms of provisional hygiene kits, drinking water, educations supplies.”
11. Med shot, man unpacking UNICEF supplies from truck
12. Med shot, UNICEF worker bringing in supplies
13. Med shot, stacking supplies
14. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) UNICEF Representative Giovanna Barberis
“Unfortunately, the needs are growing as the situation on the ground deteriorates.”
15. Wide shot, Internally displaced people waiting with packed bags in train station
16. Med shot, crying child in train station
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) UNICEF Representative Giovanna Barberis
“Many children are missing out on their education.”
18. Close up, mother comforting child
19. Wide shot, refugees waiting for supplies at IDP centre

Storyline

Since March 2014, over one million people have been displaced by the conflict in Ukraine. UNICEF is responding to the crisis with safe drinking water, hygiene kits, psychological support and more, the agency reported today.
UNICEF Representative Giovanna Barberis said “UNICEF is concerned with the impact that the current situation and the ongoing conflict is having on the lives of thousands of children. We believe that approximately 1.7 million children have been affected by the conflict.”
Barberis said that children are the most heavily affected by the crisis. “Around one third of the 500,000 thousand internally displaced people are children. UNICEF is responding and we have provided humanitarian support in terms of provisional hygiene kits, drinking water, educations supplies.”
Barberis also said that children are missing out on their education and “unfortunately, the needs are growing” as the situation in the Ukraine continues to deteriorate.
On one November day alone, 5,800 people were registered as internally displaced persons, the agency said. Amidst the uncertainty of what the harsh Ukrainian winter will bring to the conflict-affected regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, many people are making the choice to flee. There are, however, many others without the resources to leave the conflict zone, UNICEF said.
Children are most heavily affected by the crisis. They suffer psychologically, face disrupted schooling and are at risk of various diseases as a result of poor hygiene. The shelling has damaged water supply systems, which now deliver water unfit for human consumption.
UNICEF is providing safe drinking water and hygiene supplies with support from European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO). Clean drinking water and hygiene kits will be provided for 60,000 people in the coming months.
In addition, UNICEF is providing psychosocial support to displaced families. To meet the growing need, UNICEF is conducting training for 400 school psychologists and social workers to provide help to those arriving every day.
It is a rapidly evolving crisis whose full scale will only become evident in the coming months. In the meantime, UNICEF continues to scale up its efforts to respond to growing needs.