UZBEKISTAN / DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Through a partnership with the European Commission, UNICEF is seeking to reduce the risks posed by natural and man-made disasters in Uzbekistan. More than 300 schools in 36 vulnerable communities are now working to assess and mitigate the risks of disasters and to develop ways they can respond. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:21
• Production Date: 14 May 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: UZBEKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U090514b

Description

STORY: UZBEKISTAN / DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
TRT: 2.21
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN, UZBEK, NATS

DATELINE: 25 MARCH, 2009, FERGHANA, UZBEKISTAN

Shotlist

1. Med shot, school children in class working at Secondary School No.3
2. Close up, children doing group work
3. Close up, teacher calls for duck, cover and hold emergency drill
4. Med shot, two children showing emergency drill
5. Close up, heavy equipment repair canal following mudflow/floods
6. Wide shot, heavy equipment repair canal
7. Close up, teaching chart with earthquake photos
8. Med shot, school boy explaining drill plus nat sound
9. Zoom in, school girl
10. Wide shot, classroom with children
11. Med shot, teacher
12. Close up, school girl listening to teacher
13. Close up, chart of disaster risk reduction project
14. Med shot, teacher calling for all pupils to do drill
15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Tokhtasin Yusupov, Disaster Risk Reduction Project, Ferghana:
“In our community and for this school, the major threats are mudflows and landslides, but most dangerous of all are earthquakes. This school is now a model for all others and I believe it will really change the disaster prevention culture.”
16. Med shot, teachers and first aid staff carrying pupil
17. Close up, first aid staff member practices attending to injuries
18. Med shot, pupil's face
19. Pan, physics formula chart to disaster chart on blackboard
20. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Hushnoza Orifjonova, 13, school girl:
“We learned about the inter-connecting forces that cause disasters, which happen a lot in our region. If a quake strikes, without panicking we simply drop cover and hold.”
21. Med shot, girl in field speaking to mother
22. Close up, mother's face
23. Pan, two mothers and their children in field
24. Wide shot, two mothers and their children in field
25. Med tracking shot, teachers and first aid staff lifting pupil into stretcher

Storyline

These school children near Ferghana, Uzbekistan are training for an experience that hopefully they'll never have to live through - a destructive earthquake. Uzbekistan is prone to earthquakes as well as landslides, flooding, mudflows and man-made disasters. A powerful earthquake could kill or injure large numbers of children in schools.

SOUND UP SCHOOL BOY EXPLAINING DRILL

This eight year old pupil explains that when an earthquake hits, it's best to seek a safe spot in a room and to drop, cover and hold. It's important information children will take home to share with their families and communities.

Through a partnership with the European Commission, UNICEF is seeking to reduce the risks posed by natural and man-made disasters. Across Uzbekistan over 300 schools in 36 vulnerable communities are now working to assess and mitigate the risks of disasters as well as develop ways they can respond.

SOUNDBITE (Russian) Tokhtasin Yusupov, Disaster Risk Reduction Project, Fergana:
"In our community and for this school, the major threats are mudflows and landslides, but most dangerous of all are earthquakes. This school is now a model for all others and I believe it will really change the disaster prevention culture."

Under the project, UNICEF and the European Commission are helping Uzbekistan's emergency services to co-ordinate their disaster response planning with education and health departments. Schools are also reinforcing training drills by integrating the study of natural disasters throughout their curriculums, so when the project ends the knowledge is passed on.

SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Hushnoza Orifjonova, 13, school girl:
“We learned about the inter-connecting forces that cause disasters, which happen a lot in our region. If a quake strikes, without panicking we simply drop cover and hold."

So far the emphasis of the pilot project is on children and women in the most vulnerable Uzbek provinces. Hopefully, not only will people in these communities be better prepared and protected, but local education authorities in Uzbekistan will be able to assist in local risk reduction and respond to natural disasters.