PAKISTAN / DISPLACED

Since the beginning of this year more than 200,000 people - over half of them children - have been registered as displaced in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. They fled amidst renewed insecurity in the region and many of them are now facing an uncertain future. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:15
• Production Date: 18 June 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: PAKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U120618g

Description

STORY: PAKISTAN / DISPLACED
TRT: 2:15
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / PASHTUN / NATS

DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2012, PAKISTAN

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, displaced people in line
2. Med shot, inside tent
3. Med shot, displaced people in line
4. SOUNBITE (Pashtun) Noor Jahan, displaced person:
“There was bombing everywhere. That destroyed everything in our village. We lost our fields, our cattle and all our earnings. My son was hit and he died. Everywhere there was chaos. We left our homes empty-handed.”
5. Med shot, father and children
6. Various shots, children
7.Med shot, children carrying a bucket
8.Med shot, children getting water
9. Med shot, family carries water buckets back to house
10. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Rafil Afridi, displaced person:
“We have lots of problems. There are lots of mosquitoes, stomach problems, it’s dirty everywhere, there are no proper latrines, no place to bathe, no clean clothes. It’s very hot, we have no fans and we sleep on the floor.”
11. Med shot, Rafil with his children
12. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Shazeen, 6 years old, Rafil’s daughter:
“There are no schools nearby. We can’t go to school and study because there is no money for school. At night it is very difficult. When we sleep the mosquitoes walk on top of us. They bite us everywhere.”
13. Med shot, people getting water
14. Med shot, children on mothers’ arms
15. Med shot, child getting food on mother’s lap
16. Med shot, latrines
17. Med shot, woman washing hands

Storyline

Since the beginning of this year more than 200,000 people, over half of them children, have been registered as displaced in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. They fled amidst renewed insecurity in the region and many of them are now facing an uncertain future.

Noor Jahan has vivid memories of her recent ordeal and it has clearly taken a toll:

SOUNBITE (Pashtun) Noor Jahan, displaced person:
“There was bombing everywhere. That destroyed everything in our village. We lost our fields, our cattle and all our earnings. My son was hit and he died. Everywhere there was chaos. We left our homes empty-handed.”

For one of Noor’s neighbors, Rafil Afridi, his wife and his six children, life has been equally difficult since leaving their home. They first registered as displaced at Jalozai camp where they were given essential supplies from food to UNICEF hygiene kits, jerry cans and buckets.

Instead of living in one of the camps for displaced people the family has found a vacant one room brick house. But living conditions are hard.

SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Rafil Afridi, displaced person:
“We have lots of problems. There are lots of mosquitoes, stomach problems, it’s dirty everywhere, there are no proper latrines, no place to bathe, no clean clothes. It’s very hot, we have no fans and we sleep on the floor.”

Rafil’s children suffer too.

SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Shazeen, 6 years old, Rafil’s daughter
“There are no schools nearby. We can’t go to school and study because there is no money for school. At night it is very difficult. When we sleep the mosquitoes walk on top of us. They bite us everywhere”

While the security situation in the region has improved UNICEF still needs an additional US$35 million to sustain humanitarian assistance for the displaced children and women living in the area. The most urgent funding is needed for nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene.