NIGER / MALIAN REFUGEES COVID-19

Malian refugees in Niger are making reusable masks to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. A group of tailors, mostly women, who were trained through livelihood programs run by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) are already making about 40 masks a day and plans are underway to scale up production. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:36
• Production Date: 1 May 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; REFUGEES; VIRUSES
• Geographic Subject: MALI; NIGER
• MAMS Id: 2544196
• Parent Id: 2544196
• Alternate Title: unifeed200501d

Description

STORY: NIGER / MALIAN REFUGEES COVID-19
TRT: 0:36
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: APRIL 2020, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

APRIL 2020, NIAMEY, NIGER

1. Med shots, refugee making mask on sewing machine
2. Close up, hand on fabric going through sewing machine
3. Wide shot, refugee making mask on sewing machine
4. Close up, refugee making mask
5. Wide shot, woman on sewing machine
6. Close up, woman wearing mask

FILE - OUALLAM, NIGER

7. Wide shot, refugees walking in settlement
8. Wide shot, shelter in refugee settlement

APRIL 2020, NIAMEY, NIGER

9. Close up, refugee making mask on sewing machine

Storyline

Malian refugees in Niger are making reusable masks to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. A group of tailors, mostly women, who were trained through livelihood programs run by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) are already making about 40 masks a day and plans are underway to scale up production.

The Government of Niger adopted measures to halt the spread of the virus. Next to a curfew and the complete isolation of the capital city, authorities made it compulsory to wear face coverings in the capital city, Niamey to fight the virus.

UNHCR has been working with refugees on programs of socio-economic inclusion which encompass a broad range of livelihood activities including tailoring. Some of the refugees trained through these initiatives are now taking part in the health response, making masks for refugee and host communities.

UNHCR said it wanted to help scale up production by donating sewing machines to meet the high demand for masks.

Fleeing violence and conflict in northern Mali, close to 60,000 Malian refugees are now living in Niger, in one of the four sites in the regions of Tillabery and Tahoua, which border Mali and Burkina Faso, in western Sahel or in big cities such as the capital Niamey, where they gradually have started to rebuild their live.