UGANDA / SOUTH SUDANESE CHILDREN

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said more than half of the children arriving in Uganda from South Sudan are exhausted, ill, stressed and many severely traumatized after a gruelling journey to safety. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:54
• Production Date: 31 May 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN; CONFLICT SITUATION; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN; UGANDA
• MAMS Id: 1897759
• Parent Id: 1897759
• Alternate Title: unifeed170531e

Description

STORY: UGANDA / SOUTH SUDANESE CHILDREN
TRT: 01:54
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14-15 MAY, 2017, WEST NILE, UGANDA

Shotlist

14-15 MAY, 2017, WEST NILE, UGANDA

1. Tilt up, chickens to man on motorcycle being stopped at a checkpoint
2. Med shot, policeman at checkpoint
3. Wide shot, man on motorcycle being stopped at a checkpoint
4. Tilt up, man on motorcycle with two kids
5. Close up, sticker on motorcycle that reads ‘God Bless South Sudan’
6. Wide shot, mother and three children look into field
7. Close up, baby being cradled by mother
8. Med shot, mother and two kids sit on ground
9. Med shot, child sitting and playing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mystica Acheng, early childhood development expert, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“So once there is conflict, you find that even the violence, the stress; if the mother is stressed, that stress infiltrates the unborn baby. So while the child is in the womb that child is already stressed. So when that child is born in a stressful environment, you see, it limits the potential. So why early childhood development is very important in this context, because we are promoting integrated childhood development that has a range of intervention. It has family strengthening, so the family strengthening, so the family strengthening has the element of psychosocial support.”
11. Wide shots, displaced persons lining up to enter bus
12. Wide shot, child looks out bus window
13. Med shot, displaced persons lining up to enter bus
14. Wide shot, displaced children outside buses

Storyline

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said more than half of the children arriving in Uganda from South Sudan are exhausted, ill, stressed and many severely traumatized after a gruelling journey to safety.

UNICEF said over two thousand refugees stream into Uganda every day from South Sudan as renewed violence in July last year forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, the majority of whom are women and children.

UNICEF early childhood development expert Mystica Acheng said conflict toxic stress which is very dangerous for brain development among children. She said the stress faced by mother could even affect unborn children in the womb. She noted that when a child is born in a stressful environment, “it limits the potential.”