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PHILIPPINES / POST TYPHOON BOPHA
STORY: PHILIPPINES / POST TYPHOON BOPHA
TRT: 4.25
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / VISAYAN / TAGALOG / NATS
DATELINE: 14 MARCH 2013, BARANGAY PAPAG EVACUATION CENTER, CATEEL, DAVAO ORIENTAL
1. Wide shot, coastline and waves
2. Various, coast and palm trees
3. Various, families in tents
4. Various, felled palm trees
5. Med shot, man with planks of wood
6. Various, UNICEF officers arriving at Barangay Papag Evacuation Center, Cateel, Davao Oriental
7. Med shot, woman holding child
8. Various, children being measured and weighed at Merlin Clinic at Brgy Taytayan.
9. SOUNDBITE (Visayan) Elenita Lariba, with child Jillian, 3yrs old:
“I gave her the Eeze paste three times a day. There were times that she did not want to eat but I would force her to eat it to help her body. I brought her every Thursday for weight monitoring and to get a supply of the Eeze paste. And later, she was given Plumpy Doz and I gave that to her three times a day. Then I realized that she was and still is gaining weight!”
10. Various, children getting weighed and arms measured
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Paul Zambrano, UNICEF Nutrition officer:
“After an emergency, you see a shortage of basic supplies of food, upsurge or increase in incidence or prevalence of infectious disease. Most commonly, respiratory infections and acute watery diarrhoea. If you combine these two immediate causes, infectious disease, and poor food intake, then these are the two immediate causes in the UNICEF causal framework that immediately will push a child into malnutrition.”
12. Various, shots of destroyed school
13. Various, temporary learning space, principal showing UNICEF officers around.
14. Various, temporary learning space, students in class
15. Wide shot, classroom
16. Close up, girl crying.
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jessa Mae Dunga, 13 years old:
“My family and I were very scared ‘cause our house was shaking, then our house collapsed. We were all inside it. My father was left, and when I go back to the house to get my father, he cannot move, because he is sickly. When we reached the house of my godmother, my mother had a heart attack three times. We gave her water and I told them to be calm and don’t panic because we had a God that would save us.”
18. Various, close up of children
19. Med shot, mother kisses child in dress
20. Various, children with day care worker in classroom/daycare setting
21. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Jocelyn Butulan, day care worker:
“I thought everyone was dead when I went out. It was all destroyed. I couldn’t explain what I felt. I said: ‘Where are all my friends? Maybe they are all dead?’”
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Daphne Osena-Paez, UNICEF Special Advocate for Children:
“I just hope that they get their lives back. The children will be in my next visit. I hope I can see children happier, running around, playing freely, and not scared of nature.”
23. Med shot, UNICEF Representative Tomoo Hozumi, walking around
24. Med shot, mother with child with tents in background
25. Close up, kid with mother, UNICEF Representative behind
26. SOUNDBITE: Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF Representative:
“As far as UNICEF is concerned, as long as there is substantial needs to be fulfilled, be it survival, development and protection, we remain to be engaged in this situation.”
27. Various, children in playground
The stunning coastline of Davao Oriental used to be a hidden treasure for adventurous travelers and surfers alike until typhoon Bopha, or Pablo, as it’s locally known, struck this area, affecting a staggering 6.2 million people.
In a landscape still littered with fallen coconut trees and debris, families are still coming to terms with losing everything and having to start again.
UNICEF officers met some of the 72,000 families that were provided shelter.
And NGO partners have been carefully monitoring the condition of young children attending their weekly clinics.
The threat of malnutrition looms large. An estimated 67,000 children under five are at risk from malnutrition.
After weighing and measuring the children, those found to be malnourished are given special ready to use therapeutic food as well as counseling for the mothers.
SOUNDBITE (Visayan) Elenita Lariba, with child Jillian, 3yrs old:
“I gave her the Eeze paste three times a day. There were times that she did not want to eat but I would force her to eat it to help her body. I brought her every Thursday for weight monitoring and to get a supply of the Eeze paste. And later, she was given Plumpy Doz and I gave that to her three times a day. Then I realized that she was and still is gaining weight!”
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Paul Zambrano, UNICEF Nutrition officer:
“After an emergency, you see a shortage of basic supplies of food, upsurge or increase in incidence or prevalence of infectious disease. Most commonly, respiratory infections and acute watery diarrhoea. If you combine these two immediate causes, infectious disease, and poor food intake, then these are the two immediate causes in the UNICEF causal framework that immediately will push a child into malnutrition.”
For school age children, the typhoon’s destruction of school buildings has meant a delay in their education. But here, in Dapnan Elementary School, the principal has succeeded in getting more than 90% of the students back into school, with help from UNICEF and the Department of Education, who have provided temporary learning spaces and school packs for every child.
Still, children bear the scars of the terrifying day the storm struck.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Jessa Mae Dunga, 13 years old:
“My family and I were very scared ‘cause our house was shaking, then our house collapsed. We were all inside it. My father was left, and when I go back to the house to get my father, he cannot move, because he is sickly. When we reached the house of my godmother, my mother had a heart attack three times. We gave her water and I told them to be calm and don’t panic because we had a God that would save us.”
The storm hit the southeastern region of the Philippines, an area not used to typhoons. Many Filipinos here were unprepared for a storm of its magnitude, and are still visibly traumatised by what has happened.
Day care worker, Jocelyn Butulan, spends her days helping 3-5 year olds recover from the shock of the disaster, and through her work with children, she is coming to terms with the losses herself.
SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Jocelyn Butulan, day care worker:
“I thought everyone was dead when I went out. It was all destroyed. I couldn’t explain what I felt. I said: ‘Where are all my friends? Maybe they are all dead?’”
SOUNDBITE (English) Daphne Osena-Paez, UNICEF Special Advocate for Children:
“I just hope that they get their lives back. The children will be in my next visit. I hope I can see children happier, running around, playing freely, and not scared of nature.”
Although UNICEF has received less than 50% of the appealed amount, the agency will continue to respond to ongoing needs.
SOUNDBITE: Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF Representative:
“As far as UNICEF is concerned, as long as there is substantial needs to be fulfilled, be it survival, development and protection, we remain to be engaged in this situation.”
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