PHILIPPINES / TACLOBAN HAIYAN

Eighty per cent of the people in Tacloban now have access to clean water, after the Government of the Philippines together with UNICEF and other partners restored water supply to the city. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:39
• Production Date: 19 November 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
• Geographic Subject: PHILIPPINES
• MAMS Id: U131119e

Description

STORY: PHILIPPINES / TACLOBAN HAIYAN
TRT: 1.39
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: TAGALOG/ NATS

DATELINE: 15-16 NOVEMBER, 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, little boy looking through debris for toys
2. Med shot, little boy picks up his broken toys
3. Wide shot, driving through typhoon-ravaged Tacloban
4. Wide shot, government workers collecting dead bodies
5. Med shot, dead bodies being collected
6. Wide shot, people in line for aid
7. Med shot, woman with water, sanitation supplies from UNICEF walking
8. Med shot, woman with water, sanitation supplies from UNICEF walking past line
9. Med shot, mother bathes her children
10. Med shot, UNICEF staff taking aid supplies out from plane
11. Med shot, UNICEF staff taking out aid supplies from plane
12. Wide shot, UNICEF supplies being carted out of airport
13. Wide shot, people standing in line, waiting for aid
14. Med shot, aid worker distributes water, sanitation and hygiene kits to people
15. Wide shot, church being used as evacuation center
16. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Michelle Tanawan, Resident of Tacloban:
"We came here after the typhoon when the seawater started to subside. This is where we've stayed. We have nowhere else to go."
17. Wide shot, people in line for aid
18. Med shot, Tanawan open her sanitation and hygiene kit
19. Med shot, children bathing, playing with water
20. Wide shot, mother bathes daughter
21. Close up, girl smiles as she is bathed by her mother
22. Med shot, children washing on the street

Storyline

Eighty per cent of the people in Tacloban now have access to clean water, after the Government of the Philippines together with UNICEF and other partners restored water supply to the city.

However, water and hygiene remains a challenge for people living in crowded places, especially when sanitation facilities are unable to keep up with the usage.

According to UNICEF, an estimated 13 million people is in need of support in 36 provinces. Some 3 million people continue to be displaced, with about 10 per cent of 1,415 evacuation centres are in schools or other existing buildings, and the rest in host communities or makeshift shelters.

Redemptorist Church, off the main street in Tacloban became an evacuation centre as well providing an emergency shelter to people of Tacloban, like Michelle Tanawan. "We came here after the typhoon when the seawater started to subside. This is where we've stayed. We have nowhere else to go."-says Tanawan.

Three hundred hygiene kits from UNICEF were distributed to families in the Tacloban area on Friday (15 Nov), with more distributions planned.
Redemptorist Church was one of the main locations for the distribution. Partner organization Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) handled the distribution of the blue buckets filled with hygiene products.

The hygiene kit contains water purification tablets, bars of soap, wash and laundry soap, toothbrushes, sanitary pads and a “malong” - a tube-like garment.