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SOMALIA / JAPAN AID
STORY: SOMALIA / JAPAN AID
TRT: 2:57
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 18 DECEMBER 2010, SOMALIA
1. Med shot, pan from Hibaq to her mother, washing dishes
2. Close up, Hibaq washing dishes
3. Close up, Hibaq washing dishes
4. Med shot, Hibaq carrying dishes
5. Wide shot, IDP camp in Burao where Hibaq family lives
6. Med shot, man pushing water cart across the camp
7. Close up, Hibaq walking to school
8. Wide shot, Hibaq entering school
9. Wide shot, pupils in class at Koosaar Primary School
10. Med shot, girls row in class
11. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Hibaq Abdi, Class 6 Pupil, Koosaar Primary
”After I finish primary school, I want to go high school then to University. I want to become a doctor so I can help the people in my community.”
12. Close up, boys working on a class assignment
13. Close up, boys working on a class assignment
14. Med shot, rows of pupils with teacher
15. Close up, teacher, Koosaar Primary
16. Med shot, pan of textbooks
17. Wide shot, shelves of textbooks
18. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Faisal Ali Ahmed, teacher, Koosaar Primary:
“Before the textbooks were brought to the school, teaching was difficult and pupils had a hard time grasping the lessons. For example, the lesson that should have taken 2 days to finish took 5 days.”
19. Close up, teacher distributing textbooks to pupils
20. Close up, textbooks being distributed to pupils
21. Wide shot, pupils raising hands
22. Med shot, pupils raising hands
23. Wide shot, school with children walking
24. Med shot, Health centre
25. Med shot, women waiting inside MCH
26. Med shot, child being weighed
27. Close up, child being weighed
28. Med shot, people outside clinic
29. Med shot, women and children waiting in line
30. Close up, of health staff taking measurements and screening for malnutrition
31. Med shot, health staff measuring child’s arm circumference
32. Close up, child being injected with vaccination
33. Close up, child getting polio vaccine
34. Pan right, health worker giving ORS and Water purification tablets to a mother
35. Close up, health worker talking to mother
36. Med shot, child’s arm circumference measured
37. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Nasra Ali, Mother, Beer Village, Burao:
“Because of lack of vaccinations children used to get sick a lot. My son got the measles, which gave him rashes all over and a high fever. He had no vaccinations and because that vaccination is important for good health.”
38. Close up, ORS (Oral Rehydration Salt)
39. Close up, vaccine cooler box
40. Close up, back of Child Health Days staff
41. Med shot, health care workers with vaccine cooler boxes
42. Med shot, Health clinic sign
43. Med shot, women entering clinic
44. Med shot, tilt up from a vitamin A bottle to a mother holding her baby inside the MCH
45. Close up, baby’s face
A few years ago, Hibaq Abdi’s family fled fighting in Somalia and made their way to safety in Ethiopia, where they lived as refugees for four years. The family has since returned and settled in a camp for displaced people 12km from Burao town, northwest Somalia.
Hibaq helps her mother before going to school. She is enrolled in Koosaar Primary, half a kilometre away from her home. This morning, her first lesson is mathematics.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Hibaq Abdi Rahman, Class 6 Pupil, Koosaar Primary:
“After I finish primary school, I want to go to high school then to University. I want to become a doctor so I can help the people in my community.”
Conflict, poverty and lack of appropriate facilities as well as local authorities’ inability to sustain teacher salaries has had a serious impact on children’s enrolment and school attendance.
The headmaster’s office stores teaching and learning materials and textbooks for various grades and subjects. Most of them are supplied with funding from the Government of Japan.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Faisal Ali Ahmed, Teacher, Koosaar Primary:
“Before the textbooks were brought to the school, teaching was difficult, and pupils had a hard time grasping the lessons. For example a lesson that should have taken two days to finish, took five days.”
As a result, more than 400,000 Somali children and 10,000 teachers across the country have benefited from Japan’s contribution since 2009.
In Somalia, access to basic health care is scarce, that’s why UNICEF and its partners support key life saving interventions to Somali children and women through strengthened health services.
Children under five are screened for malnutrition, and immunised against measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and polio and receive Vitamin A supplementation.
Oral rehydration salts and water purification tablets are distributed, and women of child-bearing-age are vaccinated against tetanus.
Nasra Ali, a 35-year-old mother with seven children has brought her youngest daughter for vaccination.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Nasra Ali, Mother, Beer Village, Burao:
“Because of lack vaccination, children used to get sick a lot. My son got measles, which gave him rashes all over and high fever. He had no vaccination and because of that vaccination is important for good health.”
Medical supplies and vaccine storage equipment procured with funding from Japan have also helped UNICEF to provide the necessary support to primary health care facilities across the country, serving more than 1.8 million women and children.
In December 2010, the United Nations launched an appeal for nearly $530 million in 2011 to help humanitarian groups operating in Somalia meet the basic needs of two million of the war-ravaged country’s most vulnerable people. The appeal was intended to target the most urgent needs that could be met through humanitarian assistance.
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