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SOURCE: UN NEWS
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 9 JANUARY 2023, ADEN GOVERNORATE, YEMEN
1. Various shots, Dr. Aida Hussein Seddiq, the consultant pediatrician at Al-Sadaqah Hospital in Aden Governorate, provides medical attention and does the MUAC measurements for Habiba Saad, a 16- month-old who suffers from severe malnutrition
2. Various shots, Salamah Abdu feeds her daughter Habiba Saad through a syringe plunger holding her in her arms. A health worker supports Salamah Abdu
20 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Hawkins, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Yemen:
“I think there are three factors that drive malnutrition, and malnutrition is common right across Yemen. The first factor is the conflict and the consequences of conflict. The second factor is the economic collapse that has taken place over the past eight years. But the third, I think, is critical, is the social division. People have moved around, their traditional livelihoods have been interrupted, the way that they have lived and worked has been problematic.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 2022, YEMEN
4. Various shots, water trucks delivering to rural camp
20 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Hawkins, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Yemen:
“I think there are three things. One is immediate assistance, something called the RRM, which gives relief assistance immediately within the first 72 hours. It gives food, it gives hygiene kits and dignity kits. So, you know, 3,500 families have received these kits and able to sustain their immediate lifestyle.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN – 2023, YEMEN
6. Med shot, health worker prepares a syringe to vaccinate a girl against measles
7. Med shot, health worker vaccinates a male child against measles
8. Wide shot, health worker vaccinates checks her records on immunized children in the governorates of Aden and Sayoun
20 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Hawkins, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Yemen:
“But right across the country, we're looking at expanding the primary healthcare system. So, we're now working 3,200 primary healthcare clinics across the country, where immunization is one of the most important parts. Outreach from those centres to communities is always very difficult. The terrain is inhospitable, and being able to move into communities who are very traditional and have very little understanding of vaccination becomes more and more constrained.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - MARCH 2022, AQAQA DISTRICT, TAIZZ GOVERNORATE, YEMEN
10. Wide shot, girl studying from notebook
11. Close up, girl studying from notebook
20 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
12.SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Hawkins, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Yemen:
“The impact of all of this in the generations ahead is going to be profound. The cost of not having an educated generation coming through, especially around literacy and numeracy, is really going to impact on the future development of the country. But I think the biggest impact is on those children themselves. Their rights to education has been compromised. UNICEF, UNESCO, and other organizations together with the Ministries of Education in all parts of the country are trying to do our best. It's not enough. There's a crisis for the future of Yemen materializing now, and we need to do more to ensure that children are able to learn, become numerate, become literate, and be able to contribute positively to the future of this country.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - DECEMBER 2022, AL-HUDAYDAH GOVERNORATE, YEMEN
13. Various shots, child receiving hygiene kits distribution at Al-Alili Camp, Al Khawkhah District, Al-Hudaydah Governorate
20 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
14.SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Hawkins, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Yemen:
“Women, girls and boys take a disproportionate impact on conflict. One is the imperative that the Yemeni peace agreement comes to a conclusion that the international community supports both Sana'a and Aden in their negotiations to be able to bring about peace and sustainable peace to this country. The second is the continued investment, not only in the humanitarian response, whether it's food, whether it's cash, whether it's primary healthcare, whether it is some sort of learning in one form or another, to keep investing in that to fulfill the potential of people in this country.”
FILE – UNICEF – CREDIT ON SCREEN - 9-10 JANUARY 2023, THERAPEUTIC FEEDING CENTRE IN AL-SADAQAH HOSPITAL, ADEN, YEMEN
8. Various shots, UNICEF Nutrition Officer Lina Albaz with mother and child
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Yemen, Peter Hawkins, said that conflict, economic collapse and social division are the key factors that are driving malnutrition amongst children across Yemen.
Speaking from Sana'a via video link, the UNICEF representative to the country said that recent flood have affected thousands of people in Yemen.
He said that UNICEF is providing immediate assistance (RRM), “which gives relief assistance immediately within the first 72 hours. It gives food, it gives hygiene kits and dignity kits.”
“3,500 families have received these kits and able to sustain their immediate lifestyle,” Hawkins added.
On UNICEF’s effort to address diseases such as cholera and measles, the UNICEF official said, “right across the country, we're looking at expanding the primary healthcare system. So, we're now working 3,200 primary healthcare clinics across the country, where immunization is one of the most important parts. “
He added, “Outreach from those centres to communities is always very difficult. The terrain is inhospitable, and being able to move into communities who are very traditional and have very little understanding of vaccination becomes more and more constrained.”
According the UNICEF, over 4.5 million children are out of school, and 1.3 million displaced children face overcrowded classrooms and under-resourced teachers.
Hawkins reiterated, “The impact of all of this in the generations ahead is going to be profound. The cost of not having an educated generation coming through, especially around literacy and numeracy, is really going to impact on the future development of the country.”
He continued, “But I think the biggest impact is on those children themselves. Their rights to education has been compromised. UNICEF, UNESCO, and other organizations together with the Ministries of Education in all parts of the country are trying to do our best. It's not enough. There's a crisis for the future of Yemen materializing now, and we need to do more to ensure that children are able to learn, become numerate, become literate, and be able to contribute positively to the future of this country.”
The UNICEF official also highlighted, “Women, girls and boys take a disproportionate impact on conflict. One is the imperative that the Yemeni peace agreement comes to a conclusion that the international community supports both Sana'a and Aden in their negotiations to be able to bring about peace and sustainable peace to this country.”
“The second is the continued investment,” Hawkins added, “not only in the humanitarian response, whether it's food, whether it's cash, whether it's primary healthcare, whether it is some sort of learning in one form or another, to keep investing in that to fulfill the potential of people in this country.”
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