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PAKISTAN / SINDH FLOODS
STORY: PAKISTAN / SINDH FLOODS
TRT: 2.00
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / PASTHO / NATS
DATELINE: 10-26 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR DISTRICT, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
10 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR DISTRICT, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
1. Wide shot, aerial view from helicopter o bottles of water being dropped to stranded people
2. Zoom in, stranded people in house seen from helicopter
26 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR DISTRICT, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
3. Wide shot, boat in water
4. Tracking shot, kids standing in water and watching
5. Med shot, tractor passing by with a family on it
6. Wide shot, Sukkar Camp with people standing in line
7. Med shot, Zainab and her twins
8. SOUNDBITE (Pastho) Zainab, flood victim:
“I was in my house when the flood came. We had to walk for five days barefoot and then we reached here. I had birth pangs and I was taken to the hospital where I gave birth to my twins.”
10 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR DISTRICT, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
9. Close up, one of the twins
26 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR DISTRICT, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
10. Close up, Zainab’s face
11. Med shot, girl pouring water into a bucket
12. Med shot, man showing his registration card and many people behind him also showing their registration cards
13. Med shot, same man at his home with aid
14. SOUNDBITE (Pastho) Zukekha, flood victim:
“We face great loss, everything is lost. Here we have got blankets, utensils, soap, cloth, we have got these things.”
15. Various shots, unloading truck with relief goods
16. Wide shot, family sitting on the ground
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasir Ayaz Khan, UNHCR Pakistan:
“We reached 2450 families provided them with non-food items, which include plastic sheets, jerry cans, mosquito nets and blankets.”
18. Med shot, elder woman with hands praying
19. Wide shot, men walking through water
20. Wide shot, mosque in the flooded water
21. Close up, baby Daria
22. Various shots, people inside the water carrying a box
For weeks, thousands of people in Pakistan’s Sindh Province were stranded by the floods waters.
They relied on army helicopters and humanitarian agencies to reach them with aid.
Those who could flee, fled by foot, boat, tractor to camps and spontaneous settlements.
Almost a million people were on the move including Zainab and her family.
SOUNDBITE (Pastho) Zainab, flood victim:
“I was in my house when the flood came. We had to walk for five days barefoot and then we reached here. I had birth pangs and I was taken to the hospital where I gave birth to my twins.”
Living conditions are difficult, especially for newborns, but Zainab is thankful for the food and water her family receives.
As people arrive they are registered and given some relief items.
Zukekha and her husband came to Sukkur with nothing.
SOUNDBITE (Pastho) Zukekha, flood victim:
“We face great loss, everything is lost. Here we have got blankets, utensils, soap, cloth, we have got these things.”
Two hundred and seventy relief camps have been set up in the Sukkar area alone and more may be needed as people continue to arrive.
SOUNDBITE (English)Yasir Ayaz Khan, UNHCR Pakistan:
“We reached 2450 families provided them with non-food items, which include plastic sheets, jerry cans, mosquito nets and blankets.”
While people wait for the waters to recede, some make the best of the situation.
Others will always be reminded of the floods of 2010. This young baby is called Daria, which in the local dialect means River.
The sheer magnitude of this crisis seems almost unimaginable but yet the struggle to survive prevails.
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