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PAKISTAN / PROTECTION
STORY: PAKISTAN / PROTECTION
TRT: 2.19
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SIGN / SINDH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 7 OCTOBER 2010, SINDH, PAKISTAN
1. Wide Shot, men women and children sitting out in the open in Sindh
2. Wide Shot, group of children standing at a gate
3. Close up, young girl
4. Close up, young boy and girl.
5. SOUNDBITE (Sign Language) Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old:
“When the flood waters came we were sleeping. We woke up to people screaming. We did not have time to pick up anything. We had time only to run with the water in full pressure behind us.”
6. Wide shots, young girls busy drawing and painting outside the camp
7. Med shot, Rehana engaged in artwork with a social worker.
8. Wide Shot, Children engaged in workshop activities with social worker Noor Memon
9. SOUNDBITE (Sign language) Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old:
“When we first came here, we were very depressed. Then some aid workers opened a child center and asked all the children to participate.”
10. Pan left, Social Worker Noor Memon conducting a workshop with children on Child Protection
11. SOUNDBITE (Sindh) Noor Memon, Tardeep Rural Development Program, District Child Rights Officer:
"When Rehana first came she was very scared of all she and her family had gone through and had no confidence. She felt she was not a good person, because she could not speak or hear like the other children. We began to work closely with her to help her overcome her fear and gain back her self-esteem.”
12. Med shot, Rehana
12. SOUNDBITE: Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old:
“At the center, the workers are very kind. We get to play, and draw, and we even get dolls to play with. I had a doll in my village, but the floods washed her away.”
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jabeen Fatima Abbas, UNICEF Child Protection Specialist:
“Some people are going back to their original places but still they are going back, they don’t have homes, they don’t have the infrastructure, and it is expected that they will be here for some time, maybe a couple of months more. So we need to upscale them, we need to have more Child Friendly spaces, especially to the children who are hard to reach in areas which are not accessible.”
14. SOUNDBITE: Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old:
“I love the center. They even teach us writing and alphabets. In the village, my mother says I can't go to school because I can't speak or hear. So I don’t want to go back to my village. I want to stay here.”
15. Wide shot, two girls sitting on the floor playing a game, with a third girl running over their hands.
In a country where child protection is already a neglected issue, thousands more children in Pakistan continue to be put at risk as a result of the displacement caused by the flood crisis.
The floods have enhanced vulnerability risks for children who already face the threat of violence, abuse, exploitation, and nearly all have witnessed death and the destruction of their schools and homes.
SOUNDBITE (Sign language) Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old: “When the flood waters came we were sleeping. We woke up to people screaming. We did not have time to pick up anything. We had time only to run with the water in full pressure behind us.”
UNICEF and their partners are assisting affected children and families and a critical part of the effort, involves setting up of safe spaces for children and women to ensure safety and a sense of normalcy in their lives once again.
The ‘child friendly spaces’ provide life skills and recreational activities as well as much needed psycho-social support. Here UNICEF has promoted a gender balance and especially encourages the participation of young girls.
SOUNDBITE (Sign language) Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old: “When we first came here, we were very depressed. Then some aid workers opened a child center and asked all the children to participate.”
SOUNDBITE (Sindh) Noor Memon, Tardeep Rural Development Program, District Child Rights Officer:
“When Rehana first came she was very scared of all she and her family had gone through and had no confidence. She felt she was not a good person, because she could not speak or hear like the other children. We began to work closely with her to help her overcome her fear and gain back her self-esteem.”
SOUNDBITE (Sign language) Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old:
“At the center, the workers are very kind. We get to play, and draw, and we even get dolls to play with. I had a doll in my village, but the floods washed her away.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jabeen Fatima Abbas, UNICEF Child Protection Specialist:
“Some people are going back to their original places but still they are going back, they don’t have homes, they don’t have the infrastructure, and it is expected that they will be here for some time, maybe a couple of months more. So we need to upscale them, we need to have more Child Friendly spaces, especially to the children who are hard to reach in areas which are not accessible.”
SOUNDBITE (Sign language) Rehana Arshad, deaf-mute 12-years-old: “I love the center. They even teach us writing and alphabets. In the village, my mother says I can't go to school because I can't speak or hear. So I don’t want to go back to my village. I want to stay here.”
Although humanitarian assistance has addressed child protection, much more is needed to be done on key issues such as tracing missing and separated children, providing psycho-social care for traumatized children, preventing social discrimination and abuse.
UNICEF urges the international community to continue their support to further the creation and implementation of protective environments to equip these communities to better deal with the many risks they face.
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