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STORY: PAKISTAN / AMOS 2
TRT: 1.52
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 9, 8 SEPTEMBER 2010, GHAUSPUR, SUKKUR, CASHMORE, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
9 SEPTEMBER 2010, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
1. Pan right, cameramen
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“I think that we need to scale up our efforts at every single level.”
3. Pan right, cameramen
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“We need to improve and increase our coordination. We need to ensure that the coordination with the government of Pakistan is working effectively, because we need to make sure we are not duplicating our efforts.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“What I hope to do is to raise awareness of the continuing needs here in Pakistan, the number of people who have been affected by this crisis, the fact that we have an ongoing emergency disaster situation in some parts of the country because the flooding has continued, but that we also have to help people to get back into their homes and to restart economic activity.”
8 SEPTEMBER 2010, GHAUSPUR, SUKKUR, CASHMORE, PAKISTAN
6. Various shots convoy
7. Various shots, Amos in camp talking with survivors
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“We are talking about nearly 20 million people who are affected by this.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“The most important message is the impact this is having on the people of Pakistan. If you walk around the camps, even just going across parts of the country just yesterday which are still cut off, where people still have not got access to the very basic things they need.”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“We must remember this; that every crisis has a human face and it is a human tragedy here in Pakistan, and we as a UN community have a role to play, but the world as a whole has a role to play.”
11. Wide shot tent with children
12. Med shot, tent with boy and girl
The top United Nations humanitarian official today cautioned that the international attention on the devastating flood disaster in Pakistan is dwindling even before the millions of people affected have received adequate relief and others are awaiting assistance to rebuild their lives.
In Nowshera, she visited the Khandar camp, where nearly 400 families are living in tents and are regularly receiving water, food and other basic necessities. She spoke with female heads of households who described to her the days in late July and early August when walls of water swept through the province, demolishing more than 200,000 houses and affecting over 4.3 million people.
One man told Ms. Amos that the water had now receded and that he needed help to go back to his farm before the end of the current crop planting season.
Floods in Pakistan since late July have already created one of the largest humanitarian crises the UN and its humanitarian partners have ever responded to, and flood waters are still spreading, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which Ms. Amos heads.
Aid agencies have mobilised resources to reach millions of people throughout the 160,000 square kilometres of land affected by the floods. Some UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are, however, running out of funds.
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