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GENEVA / ROHINGYA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
STORY: GENEVA / ROHINGYA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
TRT: 2:33
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2017 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot of Press Room
3. Wide shot of Podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Spokesperson, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The scale of the emergency has surpassed the initial projections. Humanitarian partners are now revising the response plan to account for additional needs and expect that funding requirements for the next six months could rise to some 200 million dollars.”
5. Medium shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Despite every effort by those on the ground, the massive influx of people seeking safety has been outpacing capacities to respond and the situation for refugees has still not stabilised. Many of those who have arrived recently are suffering trauma, despite having found refuge in Bangladesh. Many are still exposed to extreme hardship.”
7. Close up, journalist
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Edwards, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The immediate focus has to remain on fast, efficient, and substantial increase of support to those desperately in need.”
9. Medium shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“We are working to send new consignment related to water, sanitation, and hygiene supplies because the first thing you see when you are there in the settlements is the large number of children and you see that the families are looking for a place to stay, to set-up, with bamboos and tarpaulins, and they need immediately safe water.”
11. Medium shot, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“What I saw on the ground was quite shocking, you see children drinking dirty water, clearly there are not enough latrines. We all know how children are vulnerable to water borne disease, how diarrhoea will aggravate nutrition, malnutrition, I’m sorry. And how malnutrition makes children vulnerable to disease. And this is my next point - the disease. It is really a race against the clock.”
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14. Medium shot, journalists
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Despite efforts by humanitarian aid agencies in Bangladesh, the massive influx of Rohingya from Myanmar seeking safety across the border “has been outpacing capacities to respond” and the situation for refugees has still not stabilised, said the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Speaking to reporters today (26 Sep) in Geneva, Spokesperson of Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian (OCHA) Affairs Jens Laerke said “the scale of the emergency has surpassed the initial projections,” adding that “humanitarian partners are now revising the response plan to account for additional needs and expect that funding requirements for the next six months could rise to some 200 million US dollars.”
UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards said many of the recently arrived refugees are “suffering trauma, despite having found refuge in Bangladesh. Many are still exposed to extreme hardship.”
He added that “the immediate focus has to remain on fast, efficient, and the substantial increase of support to those desperately in need.”
As of 26 September 2017, humanitarian partners had received 43 per cent of the $77 million required in the initial response plan.
The revised plan by OCHA is expected to be finalized by the end of the month and will target around 1.2 million people with assistance, including new refugees, previously arrived refugees, and their host communities.
Recalling his recent visit to Bangladesh, UNICEF spokesperson Christophe Boulierac said “what I saw on the ground was quite shocking, you see children drinking dirty water, clearly there are not enough latrines.”
He added “we all know how children are vulnerable to water borne disease," emphasizing that diarrhoea can aggravate malnutrition and "malnutrition makes children vulnerable to disease.”
Boulierac said “it is really a race against the clock.”
The population in the Kutupalong and Nyapara camps has now doubled, so have the needs for clean drinking water.
Boulierac said “we are working to send new consignment related to water, sanitation, and hygiene supplies because the first thing you see when you are there in the settlements is the large number of children and you see that the families are looking for a place to stay, to set-up, with bamboos and tarpaulins, and they need immediately safe water.”
UNHCR reported the construction seven additional deep tube-wells, 13 shallow tube-wells, and 116 latrine chambers in the two camps. Over the last week, UNHCR and partners have distributed hygiene kits to approximately 1,900 women, with an average of 9,900 people having received daily hot meals through community kitchens. Another 2,600 refugees received other hot meals, with 4,700 people having received high energy biscuits.
During his visit to Bangladesh this past weekend, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi discussed the importance of working towards solutions with Bangladeshi authorities.
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