WORLD CUP / CHILD-FRIENDLY SPACES

At the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, UNICEF sets up child-friendly spaces, where children can play and get help if they are ever separated from their families, or exposed to more serious problems such as violence, sexual exploitation and trafficking. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:04
• Production Date: 18 June 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CRIMES; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; LEISURE; SPORTS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH AFRICA
• MAMS Id: U100618e

Description

STORY: WORLD CUP / CHILD-FRIENDLY SPACES
TRT: 2:04
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 JUNE 2010, SOWETO, 16 JUNE 2010, JOHANNESBURG; SOUTH AFRICA

Shotlist

16 JUNE 2010, JOHANNESBURG; SOUTH AFRICA

1. Wide shot, center stage in a FIFA Fan Fest in Johannesburg
2. Med shot, South African soccer fans blowing horns, called “vuvuzela” and dancing around
3. Close up, a match being played live at the Fan Fest
4. Wide shot, crowd watching the game
5. Med shot, children playing with vuvuzelas
6. Wide shot, fans watching a game
7. Med shot, more supporters for South African national team
8. Med shot, fans
9. Wide shot, fan right, UNICEF sign outside a child-friendly space
10. Close up, the sign of child-friendly space
11. Close up, a dancing balloon man outside the space
12. Wide shot, pan right, interior of the space with toys and furniture set up for the children
13. Med shot, a staff working at the space tending to a child who got separated from his family
14. Med shot, the staff speaking to the child
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rona Steffens, Social Worker:
“We have two banding stations at the gate. Each child will have a band with a telephone number of their parent. So if that child comes in to the site we’ll phone the number on the band and that parent can come and collect the child. We also have some childcare monitors walking around the park telling people what our site if for.”
16. Wide shot, a UNICEF tagging station near the Fan Fest entrance
17. Close up, a young boy receiving a band on his wrist
18. Wide shot, a staff of the space walking around the park
19. Close up, the child and an adult receiving bands
20. Med shot, staff at the station giving children wrist bands
21. Med shot, pan down, staff registering the children
22. Close up, staff doing registration of the children
23. Close up, pan down, UNICEF poster on the Red Card campaign

12 JUNE 2010, SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Aida Girma, UNICEF Representative in South Africa:
“This is a very historic moment for South Africa and indeed the entire continent and we are mindful that an event of this magnitude also increase the risk for child abuse and exploitation. So for this reason that UNICEF together with the government and society has out together comprehensive child protection measures.”

16 JUNE 2010, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

25. Wide shot, the UNICEF staff speaking to the child and his family member who just came to collect him
26. Close up, the boy eating at the space
27. Wide shot, pan right, centre stage and the fans
28. Close up, a sign for the child-friendly space next to the Fan Fest logo
29. Med shot, children playing with vuvuzelas
30. Med shot, fans watching the game
31. Close up, a boy blowing a vuvuzela

Storyline

As the most watched sporting event, the FIFA World Cup is expected to attract more than one billion television viewers around the world.

Across the host country South Africa, fan parks, also known as FIFA Fan Fests, are set up for an estimated half a million visitors, plus hundreds of thousands of South African citizens.

Aside from live TV and entertainment, a number of the Fan Fests also feature child-friendly spaces like this.

Here, children can play and get help if they ever get separated from their families, or being exposed to violence and abuse.

SOUNDBITE (English) Rona Steffens, Social Worker:
“We have two banding stations at the gate. Each child will have a band with a telephone number of their parent. So if that child comes in to the site we’ll phone the number on the band and that parent can come and collect the child. We also have some childcare monitors walking around the park telling people what our site if for.”

Before the opening match kick off, UNICEF launched the Red Card campaign, supporting leaders of the tourism and hospitality industry in signing the International Code against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aida Girma, UNICEF Representative in South Africa:
“This is a very historic moment for South Africa and indeed the entire continent and we are mindful that an event of this magnitude also increase the risk for child abuse and exploitation. So for this reason that UNICEF together with the government and society has out together with comprehensive child protection measures.”

As the first African nation ever to host the World Cup, the global football championship could provide children with the opportunity to learn about their world, and help harness the power of sport to promote children’s rights.