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NIGER / UNICEF CASH TRANSFER
STORY: NIGER / UNICEF CASH TRANSFER
TRT: 3.02
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / HAUSA / NATS
DATELINE: 26 OCTOBER 2011, GAWOUNAWA, ZINDER DISTRICT, NIGER
1. Wide shot, the Isaka family in the field
2. Close shot, Sahero picking up the millet
3. Close shot, Sahero putting millet on pile
4. Med shot, Picking up the harvest
5. Med shot, Halima playing with her baby
6. Close shot, baby’s face
7. Wide shot, Sahero leaving the crop
8. Med shot, Halima picking up the grains from the ground
9. Close shot, pan up. Halima picking up the grains on the ground
10. SOUNDBITE (Hausa), Halima Isaka, Mother:
“This year’s harvest was so bad that it will not even last us 3 months. When my husband goes to harvest our millet crop I try to look to gather up as many of the fallen grains as possible. Today I was able to get almost two full bowls of millet, which was enough for one family meal.”
11. Close shot, baby’s face
12. Close shot, Halima looking at the men working
13. Wide shot, Halima gathering leaves in the bush
14. Close shot, Halima gathering leaves in the bush
15. Close shot, Halima gathering leaves in the bush
16. SOUNDBITE (Hausa), Halima Isaka, Mother:
“Before we received this money we were forced to go out into the bush to gather leaves so we can feed our family and our children…if we are lucky we cooked the leaves with a very small amount of millet soup, but still went to bed hungry.”
17. Med shot, Halima washing the leaves
18. Close shot, Halima washing the leaves
19. Close shot, pan up, Halima working at home
20. Med shot, Halima looking at men packing up millet
21. Wide shot, Men working the millet
22. Med shot, Man singing
23. Wide shot, Village scene at the well
24 Wide shot, Woman of the village washing clothes
25. Med shot, Women gathering in village centre
26. Close shot, pan up, UNICEF staff calling women for distribution
27. Med shot, pan right, Women getting in line for distribution
28. Close shot, Halima waiting with her baby
29. Med shot, Helene Kouyate (UNICEF) talking to the community leaders
30. Wide shot, Women at the distribution site
31. SOUNDBITE (English), Helene Kouyate, UNICEF Nutrition Officer:
“We would like that women play a role in the family. They are mothers, they have these kids and they are responsible for these kids. They are the ones who are struggling for food to nourish, to feed their children and we would like to empower these women.”
32. Close shot, women waiting
33. Close shot, Mother feeding her baby
34. Close shot, pan down, UNICEF distribution worker taking women’s fingerprints
35. Med shot, Women on line for distribution
36. Med shot, Halima getting fingerprinted
37. Close shot, Halima’s face
38. Close shot, Halima getting cash
39. Wide shot, village market
40. Med shot, Sahero walking to the millet seller
41. Close shot, the millet
42. Med shot, Sahero getting the millet in a bag
43. SOUNDBITE (Hausa), Halima Isaka, Mother:
“As soon as I received the money I gave it to my husband who went to the market to buy a stock of millet and our family started having proper meals again. The money is a huge help for us because before we had cash transfer we didn’t know where to turn or what we were going to do. This project has been a life-saver.”
44. Med shot, pan up, Sahero paying in cash for the bag of millet
45. Close shot, Halima sifting millet flour
46. Med shot, Halima feeding her baby
47. Wide shot, Halima with all her children
48. Med shot, pan up, Woman working in the field
49. Wide shot, Women singing and pounding
UNICEF implemented a cash transfer programme for vulnerable families in Niger in late 2011 to help protect millions from severe malnutrition.
Like much of Africa’s Sahel region, that land-locked, mostly desert nation is facing a food crisis caused by cycles of drought, poor harvests and rising food prices.
At the end of the farming season in October 2011, Halima Isaka did not have enough food to feed her children. The current harvest was so bad she did not expect it to last even three months.
When her husband harvested their millet crop, she tried to gather as many grains that have fallen in the dirt as she can. She got almost two bowls – “enough for one family meal,” she said.
To combat the food insecurity, UNICEF devised the cash transfer programme with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the European Community Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO), the government and other partners.
More than 20,000 vulnerable households in the Magaria region are provided a monthly cash payment of 20,000 CFA, or approximately USD$40 dollars, for three months to purchase food.
Halima explained that before the programme, she and other mothers were “forced to go out into the bush to gather leaves to feed our family and children” for food. “If we were lucky, we cooked the leaves with a very small amount of millet soup, but still went to bed hungry,” she said.
According to Helene Kouyate, UNICEF Nutrition Officer, the programme is targeting mothers because they “they are responsible for these kids. They are the ones who are struggling for food to nourish, to feed their children and we would like to empower these women.”
Having received the cash, Halima sent her husband to the market to buy millet. Finally, her family “started having proper meals again.”
She stressed that for her family, “this project has been a life-saver.”
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