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SOMALIA / DOLLOW IDP CAMPS
STORY: SOMALIA / DOLLOW IDP CAMPS
TRT: 2.35
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 AUGUST 2011, DOLLOW, SOMALIA
1. Various shots, IDP camp
2. Various shots, UN High Commissioner for Refugees interacting with IDP's
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“As important as the right to seek asylum is for us all, for the international community, for the Somalis them self, to do everything they can for the Somalis to have the right to choose to leave in their on country and to build their life in their own country. And that requires first of all and that will be my first appeal for all the parties to the conflict to respect humanitarian law to grant access humanitarian aid to all areas of the territory.”
4. Wide shot, truck full of humanitarian aid arriving to the camp
5. Various shots, truck being unloaded
6. Tracking shot, group of woman queuing for aid
7. Wide shot, aid being transported on a donkey
8. Med shot, mom cooking for her children
9. Various shots, mother with her mall nourish baby receiving high energy biscuit
10. Wide shot, UNHCR staff interacting with children
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Geddo, UNHCR, Somalia:
“We are determining that this famine should be a turning point for the international community as it is for Somalia to make a difference so the Somalis can take charge of them self where they are rather than moving to another country and becoming dependent for ever on the charity of international agencies.”
12. Various shots, IDPs
13. Wide shot, child in camp
The famine in Somalia has forced thousands to leave their homes.
Many have fled to neighbouring countries such as Kenya. But hundreds of thousands are still in Somalia.
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres visited camps near Dollow, Somalia this week.
He called for a new strategy to step up humanitarian aid inside Somalia itself.
The aid effort should not be emptying Somalia of its people, he said.
SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“As important as the right to seek asylum is for us all, for the international community, for the Somalis them self, to do everything they can for the Somalis to have the right to choose to leave in their on country and to build their life in their own country.”
He also called on warring militias to free up access to aid.
SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
"And that requires first of all and that will be my first appeal for all the parties to the conflict to respect humanitarian law to grant access humanitarian aid to all areas of the territory.”
UNHCR is delivering emergency assistance packages through local implementing partners on the ground across the country.
The aim is to reach 400,000 people inside Somalia by the middle of September.
The packages consist of cooking sets, plastic sheeting and some high energy biscuits.
Woman and children are particularly vulnerable.
Many Somalis do not want to leave their country and are waiting for the rains in October in order to go back to their lands.
But to survive until then they will need help.
This is the worst famine to have struck Somalia in 60 years.
UNHCR's Bruno Geddo said the famine should mark a change in the way aid is delivered in the Horn of Africa.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bruno Geddo, UNHCR, Somalia:
“We are determining that this famine should be a turning point for the international community as it is for Somalia to make a difference so the Somalis can take charge of them self where they are rather than moving to another country and becoming dependent for ever on the charity of international agencies.”
Some 850,000 Somalis have already been forced to flee the insecurity and famine in their homeland in order to receive assistance in neighbouring countries.
As a new generation faces the future they should have a chance to face that future at home.
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