SENEGAL / LAKE

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake continues his week-long visit to Senegal, where he visits health centres in the Thies region and witnesses the daily efforts of community health workers to deliver medical care. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:20
• Production Date: 21 May 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL
• Geographic Subject: SENEGAL
• MAMS Id: U100521c

Description

STORY: SENEGAL / LAKE
TRT: 3:20
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: None
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / WOLOF / NATS

DATELINE: 19 MAY 2010, KEUR DEMBA AND THIES, SENEGAL

Shotlist

1. Pan right, women singing
2. Med shot, woman drumming
3. Wide shot, woman and child clapping
4. Med shot, woman clapping
5. Tilt down, child being weighed
6. Med shot, heath worker writing down weight
7. Med shot, board game
8. Close up, woman watching game
9. Close up, cards
10. Wide shot, women’s group
11. Med shot, women singing
12. Tilt down, handwritten sign
13. Med shot, mother and baby
14. Wide shot, vaccination room
15. Tilt down, vaccination sign to room
16. SOUNDBITE (Wolof) Anta Ndiou, Mother:
“ I came to vaccinate my baby, for her to be in better health and for her to grow up healthy.”
17. Med shot, nurse preparing vaccine
18. Close up, polio vaccination given to baby
19. Tilt down, mothers to babies
20. Pan right, injection in leg to crying child’s face
21. Med shot, Anthony Lake meeting clinic staff
22. Wide shot, doctor explaining charts
23. Wide shot, Anthony Lake talking to doctor
24. Med shot, Anthony Lake talking to women
25. Med shot, Anthony Lake lifting baby
26. Wide shot, walking in village
27. Tilt up, baby to scale
28. Various shots, Anthony Lake handing out mosquito nets
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“ We can’t wait for health systems to work their way out from the centers while people are suffering in the communities, we have to be working in the communities as well, and it showed that there are very strong communities that can create local strong health care systems through community health care workers, but they need the delivery systems to get the vaccines and the other interventions out there.”
30. Med shot, drummer
31. Wide shot, girls walking on street
32. Med shot, Anthony Lake meeting chief
33. Tilt down, women throwing bowls
34. Pan left, Anthony Lake clapping with children
35. Med shot, kids clapping
36. Wide shot, chief talking
37. Med shot, chief talking
38. Various shots, Ouri Sall ex-cutter talking
39. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“You are proof that the world can be changed one community then two communities and the 4 communities and 400 and 4000 and on and on.”
40. Close up, drumming
41. Med shot, drummer
42. Wide shot, little girl dancing
43. Tilt up, dancers feet to Anthony Lake dancing
44. Wide shot, women dancing
45. Wide shot, Anthony Lake greeting children

Storyline

Outreach health workers arrive in Keur Demba, a small village close to Senegal’s capital Dakar, to provide health care services during health day.

They weigh babies and check for signs of malnutrition or stunting. Women in the village learn about safe pregnancy and delivery practices through an educational board game as well as are counseled on family planning. The health workers also give advice on diseases, vaccinations and nutrition.

The community approach allows them to reach women like Anta Ndiou, who, like many today, has brought her four month old baby to the nearby Sampathe Health Center for vaccinations against polio, diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B.

SOUNDBITE (Wolof) Anta Ndiou, Mother:
“I came to vaccinate my baby, for her to be in better health and she’ll grow up healthy.”

UNICEF provides funding and technical support to such outreach efforts vital for preventing illnesses. Senegal was recently hit hard by a polio outbreak and there are currently 17 cases of the illness in the West African country. A country-wide campaign that aims to vaccinate the 2.2 million children under five in Senegal is underway.

UNICEF Executive Director Antony Lake, who is in Senegal for a global conference on girls education and gender equality, visited the Sampathe health center and spoke to health workers and women about health issues in the country.

Lake also visited the outreach projects in Keur Demba. He spoke to women about healthcare and access to health information and medical facilities. Given that malaria is a major threat in the area, he also handed out mosquito nets to mothers.

SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“We can’t wait for health systems to work their way out from the centers while people are suffering in the communities, we have to be working in the communities as well, and it showed that there are very strong communities which can create local strong health care systems through community health care workers, but they need the delivery systems to get the vaccines and the other interventions out there.”

In another village, Lake met with Chief Demba Diawara. The chief, along with local women and Tostan, a UNICEF supported NGO that uses a community empowerment programme, has embarked on a crusade to end practices like female genital cutting (FGC) and early forced marriage.

The chief told Lake how he has started educating people about the dangers of FGC, while Oury Sall, a former cutter, told Lake about the girls she had seen who often ended up in hospital.

SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director
“You are proof that the world can be changed one community then two communities and the 4 communities and 400 and 4000 and on and on.”

At the end of Lake’s visit, he joined women and children in a goodbye ceremony.