SOUTH SUDAN / FORE VISIT

New Executive Director of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Henrietta Fore visited South Sudan where she “saw first-hand how four years of a man-made conflict have left children sick, hungry and on the brink of death.” UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:01
• Production Date: 18 January 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICTS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 2077535
• Parent Id: 2077535
• Alternate Title: unifeed180118g

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / FORE VISIT
TRT: 02:01
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN / EMBARGOED FOR 00:01 GMT FRIDAY 19 JANUARY 2018
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 18 JANUARY 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, the entrance of Al Sabbah children’s Hospital – the only children’s referral hospital in South Sudan
2.Wide shot, Fore greeting head of the hospital
3. Various shots, Fore talking to nutrition nurse
4. Various shots, malnutrition children
5. Various shots, Fore talking mothers
6. Wide shot, Fore talking to doctor
7. Close up, malnutrition child
8. Various shots, Fore talking to mothers outside
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF):
“It’s a dire situation now for the people of South Sudan. As you know, the war has been going on for four to five years now and as result, four million people are fleeing because of violence. Of those four million people, more than half are children. So, two and a half million children have fled the violence. For children, it has been a horrendous time. The violence has led to loosing family members, it led to being separated from other family members, long journeys across the country where they just lived on grass or waterlilies. So, it is the time when we can really help the children of South Sudan and the world needs to pay attention to that.”

Storyline

New Executive Director of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Henrietta Fore visited South Sudan where she “saw first-hand how four years of a man-made conflict have left children sick, hungry and on the brink of death.”

From 17 to 19 January 2018, newly appointed UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore travelled to South Sudan to view first-hand UNICEF-supported programme sites and to review the organization’s work in the Eastern and Southern Africa region.

Executive Director Fore met with other heads of United Nations agencies and UN representatives, bilateral partners, NGO representatives, children and families, and UNICEF staff.

Fore also visited displacement and protection sites and health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and education sites during her trip. This is Fore’s first field visit as UNICEF Executive Director.

Wrapping her visit, the Executive Director said for children, the four years of conflict “has been a horrendous time” and that now “is the time when we can really help the children of South Sudan and the world needs to pay attention to that.”

Her tenure as UNICEF’s seventh Executive Director began on 1 January 2018.