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PAKISTAN / WINTER
STORY: PAKISTAN / WINTER
TRT: 2:20
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / PUNJABI / NATS
DATELINE: FEBRUARY 2011, PAKISTAN
1. Med shot, raging river waters
2. Med shot, men wading through waist high water
3. Wide shot, women walking across bridge
4. Pan right, river to damaged bridge
5. Wide shot, aerial view of snowy mountain range
6. Wide shot, helicopter approaching
7. Med shot, 2 men sitting
8. Med shot, helicopter landing
9. Med shot, people looking on
10. Med shot, children outside hut
11. Med shot, people helping to unload helicopter
12. Med shot, people unloading
13. Med close up, boy receiving supplies
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucio Melandri, Emergency Coordinator UNICEF:
“This region has been already affected by earthquake and now floods and a difficult period in winter time. Snowfall and very cold conditions have made life difficult for women and children in this region.”
15. Med shot, village of Kharan Khas
16. Med shot, villagers
17. Med shot, boys walking across mountainous terrain
18. Med shot, children running across snowy plain
19. Wide shot, helicopter arriving
20. Med shot, villagers unloading supplies
21. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Ghulam Muhammad, 16, resident of Karan Khas village:
“Floods and snowfall has made life very difficult for us. All roads are finished and it is 14 to 15 hours trek. Women and children can die on the way if they are ill. There is scarcity of food, warms clothes.”
22. Med shot, children on dusty pile
23. Wide shot, children
24. Med shot, inside helicopter
25. Wide shot, helicopter in air
26. Wide shot, people in field
27. Wide shot, helicopter
28. Med shot, villagers with supply
29. Wide shot, children against sunlight
30. Med shot, children
The north western region of Pakistan was hit hard by the catastrophic floods of 2010. As a result much of the region’s infrastructure was damaged, leaving roads and bridges inaccessible; now heavy snow fall has made life harder yet.
United Nations (UN) helicopters have provided a critical lifeline for the 230,000 people, including 145,000 children and over 41,000 women, who live in this region. UNICEF with support of other UN agencies, government counterparts and local NGOs have been able to distribute health and nutrition supplies to 1,000 families.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lucio Melandri, Emergency Coordinator, UNICEF:
“This region has been already affected by earthquake and now floods and a difficult period in winter time. Snowfall and very cold conditions have made life difficult for women and children in this region.”
The small village of Karang Khas, tucked deep into a small valley in the Hindukush range, is one of the villages that had been rendered inaccessible by roads and the harsh winter has made conditions worse. The arrival of UN helicopters is met with great anticipation by the villagers who are eager to help unload supplies.
SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Ghulam Muhammad, 16, resident of Karan Khas village:
“Floods and snowfall has made life very difficult for us. All roads are finished and it is 14 to 15 hours trek. Women and children can die on the way if they are ill. There is scarcity of food, warms clothes.”
Karang Khas is just one of many towns left inaccessible by the floods. UN helicopters are dispatched to deliver supplies to another town in the region in an effort to get help to the most vulnerable families in the hardest to reach areas here.
Delivering UNICEF supplies from food rations to winter kits as well as nutritional supplements and electric generators has been critical to the survival in this remote region of the world.
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