KENYA / DROUGHT AID

More than 100,000 refugees have made the dangerous trek from Somalia to the Dadaab camps since June. Along the way, they have little access to safe water and diarrhoea is common. For those already weakened by malnutrition, it can be deadly. UNICEF and partners are providing refugees with safe water while they're in transit inside Kenya and once they've settled in the camps or host communities. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:16
• Production Date: 27 October 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: KENYA
• MAMS Id: U111027d

Description

STORY: KENYA / DROUGHT AID
TRT: 1:16
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SOMALI / NATS

DATELINE: 11 - 13 OCTOBER 2011, DADAAB AND WAJIR, KENYA

Shotlist

1. Med shot, Nadhifa Mohamed sitting with her child
2. Med shot, Pan left to right, Stabilization Center run by The International Rescue Committee, supported by UNICEF
3. Med shot, UNICEF staff speaking with Nadhifa Mohamed
4. Close up, Mohamed sleeping on hospital bed
5. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Nadhifa Mohamed, Refugee:
“I walked all the way from Somalia to come here to the refugee camp. When I got here, my baby got sick and I brought him to this hospital. We’ve been here for the last six days.”
6. Close up, malnourished child eating therapeutic food
7. Med shot, baby with drip on hospital bed
8. Close up, malnourished child in mother’s lap
9. Med shot, pan left to right, Stabilization Center for malnourished children, mothers watching their children
10. Wide shot, refugees at Dadaab camp, waiting to be registered
11. Wide shot, children standing amidst newly built tents for refugees
12. Med shot, low angle, man wheeling jerry cans to fill water
13. Wide shot, pan right to left, newly built camps for refugees at Dadaab
14. Med shot, girl walking with her little brothers
15. Med shot, shift focus, from refugees to barb wire
16. Wide shot, pan right to left, pastoralists with goats in Riba village outskirts of Dadaab
17. Med shot, camels walk towards water point provided by UNICEF, Riba village
18. Close up, camel drinking water
19. Med shot, camels drinking water
20. Wide shot, man walking past water tank provided by UNICEF
21. Wide shot, tilt up, from child in the village and to huts and a woman standing in front
22. Med shot, camels
23. SOUNDBITE (Somali), Mahamud Sheik Hassan, Pastoralist:
“Before, I had 20 camels but due to the drought, I’m left with only 10. But now we have water for the camels, and I hope the ones that are left will survive.”
24. Wide shot, pastoralists with camels in the village, herders standing in a group in the background
25. Med shot, herder hitting camel with stick
26. Wide shot, pan right to left, camels

Storyline

Nadhifa and her son Mohamed spend long days in a crowded stabilization centre for refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camp. They fled conflict and famine in Somalia. Like most children here, Mohamed was both malnourished and severely dehydrated when they arrived.

SOUNDBITE (Somali) Nadhifa Mohamed, Refugee:
“I walked all the way from Somalia to come here to the refugee camp. When I got here, my baby got sick and I brought him to this hospital. We’ve been here for the last six days.”

The International Rescue Committee runs the centre with support from UNICEF. Thanks to the therapeutic feeding and rehydration it provides, Mohamed is slowly growing stronger. But many others are not so fortunate

In fact, 100,000 refugees have made the dangerous trek from Somalia to Dadaab since June.

UNICEF and its partners provide refugees with safe water while they’re in transit inside Kenya, and once they’ve settled in the camps or host communities. But with over 450,000 people now living in Dadaab and security concerns affecting the aid efforts, resources are stretched.

Beyond the camps, water access is also vital for the nomadic herders and pastoralists of northern and eastern Kenya.

In Riba village, north of Dadaab, herders water their camels in a large field. It’s the only watering point for hundreds of kilometres.

The water here is drawn and stored with the help of equipment and tanks supplied by UNICEF.

Yet it may not be enough to sustain the livelihoods of the pastoralists. The long drought has dried up the land, taking a toll on their herds.

SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mahamud Sheik Hassan, Pastoralist:
“Before, I had 20 camels but due to the drought, I’m left with only 10. But now we have water for the camels, and I hope the ones that are left will survive.”

Herders gather their animals as the sun sets over Riba. A timeless scene, clouded by a stark reality: Amidst a cycle of rapidly recurring droughts and conflict, time is running out for millions like them in the Horn of Africa