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SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL AID
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL AID
TRT: 2:24
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 8 FEBRUARY 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, displaced people queuing
2. Wide shot, humanitarian workers preparing non-food aid distribution
3. Wide shot, humanitarian worker carrying aid boxes
4. Med shot, sleeping mate
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rebecca Nyok, Displaced person of Jonglei State:
“I came here on 23 January empty handed. I left all my properties behind. I came only with my children, my husband and nothing else. I just received some aid items. I don't know what they are but at least now I have something to call my own.”
6. Various shots, displaced people
7. Med shot, displaced mother with her baby
8. Wide shot, displaced mothers with children
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riak Tourie, Displaced person of Jonglei State:
“This is the first assistance we have received since we arrived here, over nine days ago. We used to sleep on the ground, but now we have a sleeping mat to sleep on and soap to wash our clothes with. This we have received from this organization.”
10. Med shot, displaced person cooking
11. Wide shot, displaced people
12. Close up, child next to pans with food
13. Close up, food
14. Close up, child face and flies
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Mildra Ouma, UNHCR official in South Sudan:
“The process has started and our distribution for the ten thousand targeting the most vulnerable has already began and it will go on for the next couples of days and we believed that other cluster members are going to bring in the remaining items so we can complete for the entire displace population.”
16. Wide shot, humanitarian worker distributing aid
17. Wide shot, displaced people receiving aid
UNHCR and partners have started handing out aid items to thousands of people in Malakal where insecurity and widespread looting have prevented distribution.
In Upper Nile State, there are over 150,000 people -the largest concentration of displaced population- who have been forced to flee.
This is the first aid to be distributed in Malakal, an area that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the country’s recent conflict.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rebecca Nyok, Displaced person of Jonglei State:
“I came here on 23 January empty handed. I left all my properties behind. I came only with my children, my husband and nothing else. I just received some aid items. I don't know what they are but at least now I have something to call my own.”
Overall insecurity and looting of humanitarian facilities prevented UNHCR and other agencies to deliver aid until now.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riak Tourie, Displaced person of Jonglei State:
“This is the first assistance we have received since we arrived here, over nine days ago. We used to sleep on the ground, but now we have a sleeping mat to sleep on and soap to wash our clothes with. This we have received from this organization.”
People find shelter where they can. This is a deserted school. Classrooms are now communal bedrooms, and the school playground is the cooking and washing area.
To reach the city of Malakal, most walked for hours, some said they took boats to cross the White Nile, while others swam.
In the first few days, aid was distributed to over 3,000 people with more to come.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mildra Ouma, UNHCR official in South Sudan:
“The process has started and our distribution for the ten thousand targeting the most vulnerable has already began and it will go on for the next couples of days and we believed that other cluster members are going to bring in the remaining items so we can complete for the entire displace population.”
According to UN estimates, there are around 38,000 displaced people in Malakal, including some 28,000 sheltered in a UN base.
The crisis has also forced into exile over 130,000 South Sudanese into neighboring Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan.
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