1. Various shots, children inside Posyandu Plus, integrated health centre singing
2. Med shot, Misrina and Bunga sitting together on floor
3. Various shots, children singing and playing
5. Med shot, health workers consulting with mothers
6. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Salliati, care giver, Posyandu Plus Centre:
“We hold sessions here from Monday to Saturday, when we have lessons and games and also give out a nutritious lunch.”
7. Med shot, young child being given immunization
8. Med shot, toddler being measure for height
9. Wide shot, pregnant woman undergoing ante-natal health check
10. Med shot, disabled mother, Ainul Mardiah with her daugher Zaidah
11. Various shots, mother interacting with child
12. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Ainul Mardiah, disabled:
“Before this place was built, I wouldn’t have been able to have a baby.”
13. Wide shot, children in playground of Mata Ie Elementary School
14. Wide shot, contractors working with UNICEF overseeing pumping of water from new bore well
15. Various shots, children testing the water and contracts discussing progress on new bore well project
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Teuku Reza, officer, UNICEF:
“They never got fresh water. Insufficient water supply. That’s why we’re involved.”
17. Wide shot, contractors working drilling machine and starting to bore
18. Tracking shot, sewage sludge treatment plant at Jawa on the outskirts of Aceh
19. Wide shot, staff inspecting effluent at end of process which is clean enough to be discharged into environment
20. Wide shot, children being picked up and taken home from the Posyandu Plus Centre

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Growing up healthy and growing up loud.

In Aceh, Indonesia, the post-tsunami children, enjoying a better start in life than previous generations.

Friends Misrina and Bunga - born just weeks after the tsunami and approaching their fifth birthdays, they attend one of the integrated health and early child development centres, built by UNICEF and its partners, as part of the unprecedented reconstruction effort here.

SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Salliati, care giver, Posyandu Plus Centre:
“We hold sessions here from Monday to Saturday, when we have lessons and games and also give out a nutritious lunch.”

In addition to immunizations and regular health checks, the Centres also provide ante-natal services for expectant mothers, as well as breast feeding counseling.

For Ainul Mardiah that help has proved vital.

SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Ainul Mardiah, disabled:
“Before this place was built, I wouldn’t have been able to have a baby.”

Born without arms, she has overcome her disability to become mother to eighteen month old Zaidah.

The schools these children will go on to attend, will also be healthier places than they were before the tsunami.

At the Mata Ie Elementary School, contractors working in partnership with UNICEF are just finishing a bore well to solve its shortage of fresh water, one of many such improvements made at schools throughout Aceh.

SOUNDBITE (English) Teuku Reza, officer, UNICEF:
“They never got fresh water. Insufficient water supply. That’s why we’re involved.”

To improve hygiene and sanitation generally in the community, UNICEF has been supporting many initiatives including this sewage treatment plant – with sludge being removed to leave an effluent clean enough to be returned to the environment, and feed these wetlands.

All part of the continuing effort to ensure the post-tsunami generation can enjoy the best possible start.