SYRIA / ALEPPO CHILDREN

Nearly six million Syrian children are in need of urgent life-saving assistance after five years of war, according to Unicef – the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:35
• Production Date: 20 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICTS
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1801865
• Parent Id: 1801865
• Alternate Title: unifeed161220e

Description

STORY: SYRIA / ALEPPO CHILDREN
TRT: 1:35
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: MUST CREDIT UNICEF
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 3 DECEMBER 2016, JIBREEN DISTRICT, ALEPPO, SYRIA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, people disembarking from truckbed
2. Wide shot, women and children sitting on the ground
3. Close up, a little girl in a wheelchair
4. Wide shot, a little girl in a wheelchair
5. Wide shot, displaced families sitting on the ground
6. Med shot, children eating
7. Wide shot, mother combs her daughter’s hair
8. Wide shot, newly displaced families waiting for assistance
9. Wide shot, newly displaced families
10. Med shot, children drinking from a water tank
11. Med shot, children drinking and filling water bottles
12. Wide shot, a boy plays football on crutches
13. Wide shot, displaced stand in line to receive assistance
14. Various shots, a group of children during a psychosocial support activits

Storyline

Nearly six million Syrian children are in need of urgent life-saving assistance after five years of war, according to Unicef – the United Nations Children’s Fund.

More than two-thirds of Syrians in the region do not have regular access to water. Communities hosting refugees across the region are under extraordinary pressure.

At least 40,000 people fled the intense fighting in east Aleppo since 24 November. Some 7,000 displaced persons are currently housed in an industrial area and a further 2,000 in a cotton factory nearby on the outskirts of Aleppo. Others moved to the northern Kurdish dominated city district of Sheik. An estimated 16,000 people have returned to Hanano, and other areas in east Aleppo retaken recently by Government of Syria forces.

UNICEF and partners are responding with immediate life-saving assistance by trucking safe water to families in shelters on a daily basis, immunizing children and providing primary health care, screening and treatment of malnutrition in children, as well as psychosocial support and mine risk education.