1. Wide shot, forklift truck driving to pick up palette
2. Med shot, forklift next to palettes
3. Close up, forklift lifts palette of chlorine jerry cans
4. Med shot, forklift drives out of shot (Image over Soundbite)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Naell Mousa, Al-Baha Chemical Company:
“Today we are loading 80 metric tonnes of hypo, sodium hypochlorite that we are sending from our plant by UNICEF to Syria. For next week also we have another shipment. For this contract it will be 7 shipments, each shipment will take 80 metric tons.”
6. Wide shot, forklift with palette drives onto truck (Image over Soundbite)
7. Med shot, forklift driving on truck (Image over Soundbite)
8. Wide shot, truck with forklift on container (Image over Soundbite)
9. Close up, container put on to the ground by forklift (Image over Soundbite)
10. Med shot, palette on floor, forklift picks up
11. Close up, forklift teeth entering under palette

FEBRUARY 2013, BEIRUT, LEBANON

12. Wide shot, packing boxes with clothes
13. Close up, hand with clothes
14. Wide shot, clothes being put into boxes (Image over Soundbite)
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Mulet, UNICEF Emergency Supply Specialist:
“What we look at is the local market, if we could procure locally winter clothes for the children. And for the Lebanon order we started with the first procurement of 15,000 winter clothes kits and then we are moving to a phase of scale up.”
16. Med shot, UNICEF Boxes being carried out of warehouse (Image over Soundbite)
17. Wide shot, warehouse with boxes and people sorting (Image over Soundbite)
18. Wide shot, people carrying boxes to truck (Image over Soundbite)
19. Close up, man carrying box (Image over Soundbite)
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Ettie Higgins, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Syria: (Skype recording – split screen with footage from Syria)
“The needs are immense and our scale-up plans are still constrained by the on-going conflict and by the security situation on the ground. But despite this, we have teams that are working in many areas of Syria including in some of the opposition-controlled areas where we’ve recently been able to access. So we take calculated risks and we ensure that we are working side by side with our partners wherever possible to deliver essential supplies and services for children.”

FEBRUARY 2012, IDLLEB PROVINCE, SYRIA

21. Various shots, (Split Skype screen) convoy of trucks
22. Wide shot, people in front of damaged building
23. Med shot, damaged car by shelled building
24. Various shots, (Split Skype screen) stills photos of aid distribution
25. Med shot, still photo of child being vaccinated
26. Med shot, child with aid box
27. Close up, still photos of convoy and truck
24. Close up, still photograph, boy in mud at camp
25. Close up, (split screen) still photos boys at camp
26. Close up, still photograph girl and baby
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Ingram, UNICEF Regional Spokesman:
“One of the biggest constraints that we are facing is lack of funding. The appeal which we made at the end of last year, as part of a much broader UN appeal, was for 195 million dollars in all. Covering the needs of the first 6 months of 2013. Up till now only 20 percent of that total has been raised. That leaves us with a massive shortfall.”

FEBRUARY 2013, BEIRUT, LEBANON

28. Wide shot, families collecting boxes of children’s clothes
29. Med shot, families registering
30. Close up, turning pages in book (Lebanon)

FEBRUARY 2013, AMMAM, JORDAN

31. Med shot, forklift driver putting palette onto truck
32. Close up, forks come out of palette
33. Med shot, men shut back door of truck
34. Wide shot, truck drives off

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On the outskirts of Jordan’s capital, Amman, chlorine is being loaded for delivery to Syria. The water treatment supplies will provide clean and safe drinking water to 10 million people for the coming 3-months.

SOUNDBITE (English) Naell Mousa, Al Baha Chemical Company:
“Today we are loading 80 metric tons of hypo, sodium hypochlorite that we are sending from our plant by UNICEF to Syria. For next week also we have another shipment. For this contract it will be 7 shipments, each shipment will take 80 metric tons.”

UNICEF has been scaling up its response to the crisis across the region. In Lebanon clothes and blankets are loaded to help children cope with the harsh winter weather.

SOUNDBITE (English), Olivier Mulet, UNICEF Emergency Supply Specialist:
“What we look at is the local market, if we could procure locally winter clothes for the children. And for the Lebanon order we started with the first procurement of 15,000 winter clothes kits and then we are moving to a phase of scale up.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Ettie Higgins, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Syria: (Skype recording – split screen with footage from Syria)
“The needs are immense and our scale-up plans are still constrained by the on-going conflict and by the security situation on the ground. But despite this, we have teams that are working in many areas of Syria including in some of the opposition-controlled areas where we’ve recently been able to access. So we take calculated risks and we ensure that we are working side by side with our partners wherever possible to deliver essential supplies and services for children.”

One achievement this week was the delivery of supplies by a joint UN mission to Idlleb province, a previously unreached area, close to the Turkish border. More children like these could be reached were it not for the lack of resources.

SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Ingram, UNICEF Regional Spokesman:
“One of the biggest constraints that we are facing is lack of funding. The appeal, which we made at the end of last year, as part of a much broader UN appeal, was for 195 million dollars in all. Covering the needs of the first 6 months of 2013. Up till now only 20 percent of that total has been raised. That leaves us with a massive shortfall.”

With limited access and funding, reaching the millions of Syrian children most at need will continue to be a serious challenge.