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SOUTH SUDAN / PEACEKEEPERS CLEANUP
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN/PEACEKEEPERS CLEAN-UP
TRT: 3:02
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 8 JUNE 2019, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Tilt down, Marabou storks flying against the sun to peacekeepers cleaning
2. Various shots, peacekeepers in trench
3. Tilt up garbage to peacekeepers approaching
4. Various shots, peacekeepers picking garbage
5. Wide shot, Shearer and Juba deputy mayor collecting garbage
6. Tilt-up from garbage bag to show peacekeepers
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Thiik Thiik Mayardit, Juba city’s Deputy Mayor for Physical Infrastructure and Development
“When you keep the garbage - and it is the rainy season it will cause a lot of problems especially cholera. If that happens it will cause a lot of problems because many people live in areas where there are no hospitals or clinics.”
8. Various shots, peacekeepers cleaning
9.SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UNMISS:
“Just looking at the streets where we have been picking up rubbish – it looks so much better than it did before, so I am feeling very good about coming here and helping out with the deputy mayor, we both got our gloves on and we have been picking the rubbish together.”
10. Various shots, peacekeepers cleaning outside of UNMISS compound
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Yong Kuai Korwel, Environment Section, UNMISS:
“We are very happy that many people turned out today for the cleaning exercise,” said Yong Kuai Korwel from the Mission’s Environment Section.
12. Various shots, Shearer planting a tree
The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) launched its ‘Umuganda Camp Cleanliness Campaign’ to make the Mission’s camps and the surroundings cleaner, greener, healthier and more environmentally efficient.
It’s an opportune time for UNMISS to launch this clean-up exercise, just a couple of days after the global World Environment Day, which is marked annually on June 5th.
‘Umuganda’ takes up from Rwanda and can be translated as “coming together in common purpose to achieve an outcome.”
Among the peacekeepers collecting garbage that is choking drainage across the city, this Saturday (8 Jun) is Juba city’s Deputy Mayor for Physical Infrastructure and Development, Thiik Thiik Mayardit, who hopes to have the clean-up exercise weekly.
SOUNDBITE (English) Thiik Thiik Mayardit, Juba city’s Deputy Mayor for Physical Infrastructure and Development:
“When you keep the garbage - and it is the rainy season it will cause a lot of problems especially cholera. If that happens it will cause a lot of problems because many people live in areas where there are no hospitals or clinics.”
Alongside him is the Head of UNMISS, David Shearer, who offered to see how UNMISS could support the campaign on a regular basis, acknowledging the beauty of Africa’s youngest capital city.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UNMISS:
“Just looking at the streets where we have been picking up rubbish – it looks so much better than it did before, so I am feeling very good about coming here and helping out with the deputy mayor, we both got our gloves on and we have been picking the rubbish together.”
For this first Umuganda day, the clean-up exercise was conducted simultaneously in two UNMISS compounds and stretched out into a couple of city streets. All sorts of garbage, from plastic bottles to plastic bags and more, was collected from the roadsides and trenches and piled into black garbage bags.
SOUNDBITE (English) Yong Kuai Korwel, Environment Section, UNMISS:
“We are very happy that many people turned out today for the cleaning exercise,” said Yong Kuai Korwel from the Mission’s Environment Section.
As part of the clean-up exercise, UNMISS personnel also planted trees.
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