JORDAN / BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIN

UNFPA is providing life-saving reproductive health services to the more than 120,000 Syrian refugees in the Za’tari camp in Jordan. APTN

 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:37
• Production Date: 19 April 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND - UNFPA
• Subject Topical: FAMILY PLANNING; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
• Geographic Subject: JORDAN
• MAMS Id: U130419j

Description

STORY: JORDAN / BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIN
TRT: 2:37
SOURCE: APTN
RESTRICTIONS NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2013, ZA’ATARI CAMP, JORDAN

Shotlist

1. Med shot, children in front of armoured vehicles.
2. Med shot, people walking in street. Cars moving.
3. Med shot, UNFPA Executive Director (ED) Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin greeting officials.
4. Med shot, UNFPA ED entering building.
5. Med shot, UNFPA ED views medical examination. Female nurse examining a female refugee’s blood pressure.
6. Close up, blood pressure being taken.
7. Med shot, UNFPA ED being led through the camp.
8. Med shot, female refugees and one baby waiting.
9. Close up, baby in mother’s lap.
10. Med shot, UNFPA worker talking to female refugees.
11. Wide shot, UNFPA worker talking to female refugees
12. SOUNDBITE (English) UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin:
“We’re involved in the camp to provide services to women and girls. First, to look after their dignity. Make sure that they get services. For pregnant women, provide them antenatal car. Make sure they deliver safely. Make sure their babies are also safe.”
13. Med, women wait in line.
14. SOUNDBITE (English) UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin:
“And for the young girls we train them, consult them. Provide them support so that they can also develop into responsible adults.”
15. Med shot, UNFPA worker explaining to ED that this is a handcrafts area.
16. Med shot, young girls working on handcrafts.
17. Close up, hands knitting.
18. Close up, UNFPA ED talking to the girls making handcrafts.
19. Close up, bracelets and necklaces made by young girls.
20. Med shot, UNFPA ED visiting with young girls.
21. Close up, UNFPA ED talking to a young girl.
22. Med shot, UNFPA ED entering car.
23. Med shot, UNFPA ED’s car leaving.
24. Close up, sign for UNFPA Women and Girls Center
25. Med shot, women in front of the UNFPA medical annex.
26. Close up, women’s faces.
27. Wide shot, camp grounds

Storyline

There are currently more than 1.3 million registered Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt. The majority are living in host communities, outside of camp settings, which is putting strains on local services. In excess of 6.5 million people also need humanitarian assistance inside Syria, including 4.3 million internally displaced persons.

UNFPA is providing life-saving reproductive health services across the region, including within the Za’atari Camp located in Jordan. This camp hosts more than 120,000 refugees. UNFPA runs two reproductive health clinics and three safe spaces for women and youth in Za’atari.

Together with Jean-Louis De Brouwer, the Director of the European Commission’s humanitarian aid agency (ECHO), Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UNFPA’s Executive Director inaugurated UNFPA’s clinic and women’s centre in the camp’s latest extension.

SOUNDBITE (English) UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin:
“We’re involved in the camp to provide services to women and girls. First, to look after their dignity. Make sure that they get services. For pregnant women, provide them antenatal car. Make sure they deliver safely. Make sure their babies are also safe.”

UNFPA’s clinics provide antenatal, delivery and postnatal care while also offering family planning services. It is estimated that there are currently more than 3,000 pregnant women in the camp. Nearly 300 women also attend awareness sessions each day in UNFPA’s safe spaces, where they discuss how to prevent and counter gender-based violence. Psychosocial counselling is provided to women, youth and adolescents as well as men, in groups or individually. Since the beginning of 2013, there have been 350 self-reported cases of gender-based violence in camps and communities, which have received life-saving services from UNFPA’s partners. Young refugees are also being trained by UNFPA to work with other young people within their communities to raise awareness about reproductive health issues and help prevent child marriage and human trafficking.

SOUNDBITE (English) UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin:“And for the young girls we train them, consult them. Provide them support so that they can also develop into responsible adults.”

There are currently more than 400,000 refugees in Jordan and it is estimated that they will reach 1.2 million by the end of 2013. UNFPA has 9 clinics and 3 mobile teams within communities and at two other refugee sites.