ROHINGYA / MONSOON ROAD WORKS

As the monsoon looms, workers are in a hurry to pave the main arterial road cutting through the largest Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar district, South-eastern Bangladesh which houses more than 570,000 refugees. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:07
• Production Date: 9 April 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEE PROTECTION
• Geographic Subject: BANGLADESH; MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 2125095
• Parent Id: 2125095
• Alternate Title: unifeed180409b

Description

STORY: ROHINGYA / MONSOON ROAD WORKS
TRT: 2:07
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 26 MARCH 2018, KUTUPALONG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, COX’S BAZAR DISTRICT, BANGLADESH

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, people preparing land for road
2. Various shots, heavy machinery at work
3. Wide shot, truck unloading bricks
4. Med shot, pile of bricks
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joao Sobral, Site Planner, UNHCR:
“As the monsoon approaches, we are trying to ensure the main access to Kutuaplong can continue during the rainy season.”
6. Various shots, people lining the road with bricks
7. Wide shot, truck unloading sand on the road
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joao Sobral, Site Planner, UNHCR:
“We want to ensure that the trucks can continue to come because as the rains come, this artery it will become completely muddy and it will impossible to have the dumpers, the 10 metre trucks coming. We need to ensure not only the access but also all the site drainage.”
9. Various shots, people building a road

Storyline

As the monsoon looms, workers are in a hurry to pave the main arterial road cutting through the largest Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar district, South-eastern Bangladesh which houses more than 570,000 refugees.

The works, funded by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR in a close cooperation with the Bangladesh government authorities, are vital before the monsoon season gets underway. The access road is key for humanitarian agencies working in the Kutupalong-Balukhali settlement – the largest refugee settlement in the world.

SOUNDBITE (English) Joao Sobral, Site Planner, UNHCR:
“As the monsoon approaches, we are trying to ensure the main access to Kutuaplong can continue during the rainy season.”

The project to pave nearly eight kilometres of the main road, requires nearly eight million bricks. The work has included widening the road to 18 feet, and putting in three layers of bricks – including two layers of herringbone design, where bricks are laid on their side at 45-degree angle.

SOUNDBITE (English) Joao Sobral, Site Planner, UNHCR:
“We want to ensure that the trucks can continue to come because as the rains come, this artery it will become completely muddy and it will impossible to have the dumpers, the 10 metre trucks coming. We need to ensure not only the access but also all the site drainage.”

Another road, which provides access to new land recently allocated by the Bangladesh government and will be used to resettle thousands of families most at risk of landslides and flooding, is also be paved before the monsoon season arrives.