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DRC / LAKE
STORY: DRC / LAKE
TRT: 2.04
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NANDE / NATS
DATELINE: 4 MARCH 2011, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
1. Close up: landscape outside window
2. Wide shot, Anthony Lake comes out of helicopter
3. Pan left, people surrounding the helipad
4. Wide shot, Anthony Lake plays with kids
5. Zoom out, RRMP banner
6. Wide shot, women receiving vouchers
7. Close up, man hands voucher
8. Tilt down, people looking at vouchers
9. Close up, vouchers
10. Wide shot, man counting vouchers
11. Wide shot, man and woman buy items
12. SOUNDBITE (Nande) Kavuo Bagula, returnee:
“I intend to buy a blanket to protect my child from the cold, and an umbrella to protect him from the sun. I would like to thank UNICEF and its partner for assisting us as we lost everything when our village was looted”
13. Pan left, man standing near items
14. Close up, Anthony Lake talks to beneficiaries
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF:
“In this and in other ways, it’s important to concentrate on the women, especially in areas where they have been so abused, to make sure that they are getting choice. But I’ve been impressed in talking a certain number of families to see that the men are here as well, and the men and the women when I asked them, were sharing the decisions about what to buy, which is a step forward”
16. Wide shot, man and woman buy items
17. SOUNDBITE (Nande) Kikule Kalekere, returnee:
“We’ve decided to buy a radio set, dishes, and clothes for my wife and my children”
18. Wide shot, women walking with heavy bundles
19. Zoom out, Anthony Lake talks to UNICEF guy and group
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF:
“Equity means you’re reaching the most vulnerable people, and then reintegrating them into their societies. And this is a much better way, it seems to me, of that kind of reintegration, and treat them as normal people, having them think of themselves as normal people who can go to the market rather than victims who rely on handouts from the international community”
21. Pan right, women, boy and man near items
During his three-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake travelled to Mutondi, South Lubero to visit a voucher fair that serves over 1,500 beneficiaries.
Instead of cash, beneficiaries are given vouchers to purchase essential household items at this fair. Since nobody knows better than the beneficiaries themselves what they actually need, families are given the possibility to choose which helps them better.
Customers at Mutondi’s fair are returnees like Kavuo Bagula who lost all her belongings when fleeing from conflict.
SOUNDBITE (Nande) Kavuo Bagula, returnee:
“I intend to buy a blanket to protect my child from the cold, and an umbrella to protect him from the sun. I would like to thank UNICEF and its partner for assisting us as we lost everything when our village was looted”
UNICEF and its partners such as the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Lubero gave away such vouchers to the female heads of families to empower women.
As in a typical village market, families choose from a variety of items such as mattresses, clothes and kitchen sets, displayed by the local vendors as the fairs are also meant to boost the local economy.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF:
“In this and in other ways, it’s important to concentrate on the women, especially in areas where they have been so abused, to make sure that they are getting choice. But I’ve been impressed in talking a certain number of families to see that the men are here as well, and the men and the women when I asked them, were sharing the decisions about what to buy, which is a step forward”
Kavuo Bagulo and her husband came to the fair together. The previous days they had extensively discussed what they needed to buy to improve their situation.
SOUNDBITE (Nande) Kikule Kalekere, returnee:
“We’ve decided to buy a radio set, dishes, and clothes for my wife and my children”
Conflict in eastern DRC affected hundreds of thousands of people and displaced over 1.7 million since the end of 2008.
With its Rapid Response to Movements of Population (RRMP), UNICEF and its partners addressed the consequences of both displacement and return by covering basic needs related to water, education and Non-Food items.
The objective of the rapid response mechanism is to improve the living conditions while reducing vulnerability among the most vulnerable, and increasing access to equity.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF:
“Equity means you’re reaching the most vulnerable people, and then reintegrating them into their societies. And this is a much better way, it seems to me, of that kind of reintegration, and treat them as normal people, having them think of themselves as normal people who can go to the market rather than victims who rely on handouts from the international community”
In eastern DRC, conflicts continue to affect men, women and children. Poverty and everyday violence have dire effects on the most vulnerable.
Abuse, lack of access to education and basic services are a reality for millions of Congolese families across the country.
From February 2010 and January 2011, the RRMP assisted over 1.30 million people in the DRC.
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