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UNICEF / HORN OF AFRICA UPDATE
STORY: UNICEF / HORN OF AFRICA UPDATE
TRT: 1:52
SOURCE: UNICEF / WFP / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 JULY 2011, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / FILE
FILE – WFP - 21 JULY 2011, HOWLWADAG, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
1. Tracking shot, boy carrying a bowl of food
2. Med shot, WFP providing food for hot meals
3. Med shot, young girl eating
UNICEF - 29 JULY 2011, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Afshan Khan, Director of Public Sector Alliances and Resource Mobilization, UNICEF:
“It’s only when people started crossing the borders into Kenya and into Somalia was the world able to see the severity of the situation that children really faced. The haunting images of children that were malnourished dying not only from lack of food but lack of water - in some cases dying due to measles and epidemics that could be easily fixed if we had sufficient resources to vaccinate children, to ensure they got appropriate treatment for malnutrition and the provision of clean water and sanitation.”
FILE – WFP - 21 JULY 2011, HOWLWADAG, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
5. Close up, woman
6. Med shot, young girl eating
UNICEF - 29 JULY 2011, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Afshan Khan, Director of Public Sector Alliances and Resource Mobilization, UNICEF:
“There is a moral obligation to respond in this crisis, we are all human beings, we live in a small planet, with a number of people who are all inter-connected to one another.”
FILE - UNHCR - 29, 30 JUNE 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
8. Wide shot, crowd
9. Close up, baby sleeping
UNICEF - 29 JULY 2011, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Afshan Khan, Director of Public Sector Alliances and Resource Mobilization, UNICEF:
“Children don’t choose where they are born, to whom they are born, what type of government rules them, what type of context within which they will grow up, thrive and survive, and I think UNICEF’s role is to give an equal chance and an equal opportunity for every child to grow to their full potential.”
FILE - UNHCR - 29, 30 JUNE 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
11. Wide shot, camp area with tents
12. Med shot, displaced entering camp around tent area
FILE - WFP - 21 JULY 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
13. Wide shot, Internally Displaced People (IDPs) at a hot meals distribution site surrounded by security
14. Med shot, WFP providing food for hot meals
As the crisis in the Horn of Africa worsens, UNICEF’s Director of Public Sector Alliances and Resource Mobilization Office Afshan Khan says the international community has a moral obligation to step up its response.
According to UNICEF, an estimated 1.25 million children across Southern Somalia are in urgent need of life saving interventions and 640,000 acutely malnourished. The organization has called for all actors to make saving children's lives the top priority and to urgently support all efforts to reach children in need.
In a recent interview at UNICEF headquarters in New York, Khan said “the haunting images of children that were malnourished dying not only from lack of food but lack of water” adding that “in some cases dying due to measles and epidemics that could be easily fixed if we had sufficient resources to vaccinate children, to ensure they got appropriate treatment for malnutrition and the provision of clean water and sanitation.”
To reach children as quickly as possible, UNICEF, along with its partners, has mounted a massive scale up of its operation and is using all avenues available to get supplies into the region. So far this month, the child rights’ agency has brought in enough supplementary feeding supplies for 65,000 children in the drought affected regions of Southern Somalia. These supplies are being distributed by partners on the ground.
Commenting on UNICEF’s role in the crisis, Khan said “children don’t choose where they are born, to whom they are born, what type of government rules them, what type of context within which they will grow up, thrive and survive” adding that the organization is working to “give an equal chance and an equal opportunity for every child to grow to their full potential.”
UNICEF estimates it will need USD $117 million over the next six months to reach children in all of Somalia’s drought affected areas in the south with emergency and preventative assistance.
Being the single largest agency delivering therapeutic and supplementary nutrition services in Somalia, UNICEF works through a partnership with about 60 non-governmental organizations in the South.
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