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WEST BANK / VIOLENCE
STORY: WEST BANK / VIOLENCE
TRT: 2.39
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 FEBRUARY, 2009, NABLUS, OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
1. Med shot, Fatima climbs stairs
2. Med shot, Fatima visits Maha
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maha Qatouny, mother injured by stray bullet:
“A bullet came through the window, entered my back and went out through my abdomen. I was seven months pregnant.”
4. Wide shot, counselling session for young boys
5. Med shot, boys drawing
6. Close up, drawing
7. Close up, boys face
8. Close up, boy
9. Med shot, boys drawing
10. Med shot, counsellor working with boys
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mustafa Oumar, Director, YMCA Nablus:
“In order to enable le to carry out psychological and social interventions and to work with victims of trauma, they must be professionally qualified, trained and provided with the skills to carry out emergency, psychological and social interventions. We have succeeded in creating a qualified team, which is able to intervene in emergency and crisis situations.”
12. Wide shot, children play leapfrog
13. Med shot, girls at playgroup
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Caiveau, ECHO West Bank and Gaza:
“In general the psycho social projects work that ECHO is funding in the Palestinian territory work at three levels. First of all and primary with children directly, to provide them with opportunities to play, with psycho social support. We are working then with caretakers, in schools, families, to give them the tools to understand the way that children react to the crisis, to the violence.”
15. Med shot, girls singing
16. Med shot, girls singing
17. Med shot, Maha Qatouny
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maha Qatouny, Mother:
“Fatimah helped me. She became my friend. I got used to her, she helped a lot. Thank God, it’s better now, I feel better now.”
19. Med shot, girls playing
20. Med shot, girls playing
21. Wide shot, girls in playground
22. Close up, girl
23. Close up, girl
Fatima Alshopy is a social worker. And this is the number one refugee camp in Nablus, in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Fatima’s visiting Maha Qatouny, a 32-year-old mother of three who recently suffered a terrible injury.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maha Qatouny, mother injured by stray bullet:
“A bullet came through the window, entered my back and went out through my abdomen. I was seven months pregnant.”
UNICEF works with local partners in Nablus, and the wider West Bank to provide psychological support to Palestinians so that they can deal with the effects of constant violence.
The project backed by ECHO, the European Commission Humanitarian aid department, helps to train counsellors.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mustafa Oumar, Director, YMCA Nablus:
“In order to enable le to carry out psychological and social interventions and to work with victims of trauma, they must be professionally qualified, trained and provided with the skills to carry out emergency, psychological and social interventions. We have succeeded in creating a qualified team, which is able to intervene in emergency and crisis situations.”
The program includes also provides spaces for children to play and study in safety.
These children at the Beitfourik village, in East Nablus, have a place to come twice a week where they can play and study in safety.
SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Caiveau, ECHO West Bank and Gaza:
“In general the psycho social projects work that ECHO is funding in the Palestinian territory work at three levels. First of all and primary with children directly, to provide them with opportunities to play, with psycho social support. We are working then with caretakers, in schools, families, to give them the tools to understand the way that children react to the crisis, to the violence.”
Fatimah’s visits have helped Maha to come to terms with the grief and the shocking loss of her unborn baby.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maha Qatouny, Mother:
“Fatimah helped me. She became my friend. I got used to her, she helped a lot. Thank God, it’s better now, I feel better now.”
ECHO and UNICEF’s work has meant that their local partners can now provide a co-ordinated approach to helping Palestinian families cope with the effects of violence.
Through this work they remain committed to planting the seed of hope in young minds.
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