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CHAD / MIA FARROW
STORY: CHAD / MIA FARROW
TRT: 2.37
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 FEBRUARY 2012, MAO, CHAD
1. Wide shot, Mia stepping off plane in Mao
2. Med shot, Mia meeting local delegation in Mao
3. Wide shot, donkeys carrying hay
4. Close up, boy
5. Med shot, boy in tree
6. Wide shot, passing houses
7. Wide shot, mother and child
8. Close up, child
9. Close up, child’s leg
10. Med shot, Mia Farrow touching child
11. Med shot, baby being handed to Ms Farrow
12. Med shot, mother with child
13. Wide shot, women in clinic with their children
14. Med shot, child
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“This little girl is on the mend, but when she was admitted she was near death’s door. Across the Sahel, which we are in now, in Western Chad, more than a million babies are at risk of starving in the next months. It’s the desertification of this area, and the children suffer. So without help this little girl wouldn’t be sitting in my arms.”
16. Wide shot, Mia Farrow in UNICEF warehouse
17. Wide shot, Mia reading label and UNICEF worker explaining plumpy nut
18. Close up, Mia holding plumpy nut
19. Wide shot, Mia and entourage looking at field
20. Wide shot, men working in field
21. Med shot, rake tending to field
22. Tilt up, from water in filed to worker
On her second official trip to Chad as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Mia Farrow arrived to witness first-hand the devastating effects of years of drought on the country’s children. In 2012, over 1 million children will suffer from severe acute malnutrition, an estimated 127,000 in Chad alone.
For years Chad has endured conflict and instability and the effects are clearly visible.
The impact on the country’s health system has been devastating. In addition, access to safe drinking water and sanitation services is among the lowest in the world causing diarrhoea and with it, malnutrition.
In Mao, a small town in Western Chad, Farrow visited a therapeutic feeding centre. She spoke to the many mothers and held their emaciated children. The cries of starving infants were everywhere. Some children were too weak to even cry.
One of the mothers who came to the centre just in time is Awa Abakar who brought in her son two weeks ago. She explains that after her son had been suffering from diarrhoea, fever and rapidly losing weight he was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. Fortunately thanks to the intensive care he is given at the centre he is now getting better.
Millions of children are at risk of severe malnutrition due to an emerging food and nutrition in the Sahel.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Farrow, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador:
“This little girl is on the mend, but when she was admitted she was near death’s door. Across the Sahel, which we are in now, in Western Chad, more than a million babies are at risk of starving in the next months. It’s the desertification of this area, and the children suffer. So without help this little girl wouldn’t be sitting in my arms.”
UNICEF and partners have been working with the government of Chad to identify and respond to the crisis; last year alone 68,000 children under five were treated for severe acute malnutrition through therapeutic feeding centres, like the one in Mao.
Farrow also visited a small garden on the outskirts of Mao where the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization is eking out a small oasis of crops like onions and potatoes amidst arid desert land.
Farrow left Mao with an urgent plea to the world to respond to a crisis that UNICEF fears may only get worse.
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