SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL ORPHANS

With supplies scarce and security tense in Malakal, UpperNileState, more than 100 orphans have been relocated from the UN base there to the capital Juba. UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:41
• Production Date: 29 March 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U140329a

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL ORPHANS
TRT: 2:41
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC /NATS

DATELINE: 14,26 MARCH 2014, MALAKAL/ JUBA /SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

14 MARCH 2014, MALAKAL/SOUTH SUDAN

1. Wide shot, orphans and waiting caretakers to check in
2. Med shot, orphans
3. Wide shot, check in starts
4. Close up, manifest checking
5. Med shot, orphans and caretakers boarding UNMISS shuttle
6. Med shot, inside shuttle
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Guang Ayang, caretaker of ten orphans:
“We are faced with war, it was because of the fighting that we are now leaving, so because of the suffering here I am going and taking these orphaned children to where there is a Government and to take care of them there.”
8.Wide shot, shuttle driving through the UNMISS Protection of Civilians site Malakal
9. Med shot, passengers at Malakal airport
10. Wide shot, passengers queuing to board plane
11. Walking to board
12. Med shot, boarding
13. Wide shot, boarding
14. Wide shot, on board
15. Med shot, guardian and children seated
16. Wide shot, social worker checking seats
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Moussa Camara, UNMISS Child Protection Officer in Upper Nile State:
“In total we had two groups of 59, 59 in total we have 118 children, mothers and staff members of SOS (Save Our Souls) that left from UNMISS POC in Malakal to Juba.”
18. Med shot, plane ready to take off
19. Wide shot, plane taking off from Malakal airport

26 MARCH 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

20. Wide shot, guardian mothers and children sitting in their new home in Juba
21. Med shot, guardian mothers and children playing cards
22. Med. Shot, guardian mother holding cards
23. Wide shot, a mother preparing a child to sleep
24. Med shot, child sleeping
25. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nyanyual Lul Top, Head of Caretakers in Juba:
“These children now can watch television and the older ones are attending counseling sessions and the Director has gone find schools. We are very much concerned about our children where the younger can join Kindergarten, so they shall build the future of South Sudan”.
26. Wide shot, older orphans attending counseling sessions.

Storyline

With supplies scarce and security tense in Malakal, Upper Nile State, more than 100 orphans have been relocated from the UN base there to the capital Juba.

The 118 children and their caretakers were airlifted from Malakal on a World Food Programme (WFP) flight and relocated to the SOS children’s village in Juba.

The crisis in South Sudan’s northern state of Upper Nile where there has been ongoing conflict created difficulties in the orphanage there being run.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Guang Ayang, caretaker mother, in charge of ten orphans:
“We are faced with war, it was because of the fighting that we are now leaving, so because of the suffering here I am going and taking these orphaned children to where there is a Government and to take care of them there.”

Since the beginning of the conflict in oil rich Upper Nile State, the orphans had been moved to the Protection of Civilians site located in the UNMISS compound in Malakal.

UNMISS Child Protection Officer in Upper Nile State Moussa Camara said the relocation, which took place from 13-14 March, was made at the request of the SOS village in Juba.

SOUNDBITE (English) Moussa Camara, UNMISS Child Protection Officer in Upper Nile State:
“In total we had two groups of 59, 59 in total we have 118 children, mothers and staff members of SOS (Save Our Souls) that left from UNMISS POC in Malakal to Juba.”

Additional assistance in the form of ground transportation which enabled the safe arrival of the orphans to Juba was provided by UNMISS. The International Organisation for Migration also assisted in various logistics.

Before they moved to the UN base, the orphans and their caretakers were living at the SOS Children’s Village in Malakal.

In their new home in Juba, the children seem settled and have been receiving some counselling.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nyanyual Lul Top, Head of Caretakers in Juba:
“These children now can watch television and the older ones are attending counseling sessions and the Director has gone find schools. We are very much concerned about our children where the younger can join Kindergarten, so they shall build the future of South Sudan”.

For now the younger children will stay at home, but schools are being sought for the older ones regardless of the school term having started in mid-February. Normally schools should start at the beginning of January but due the current unrest, registrations dates were stretched and some schools are still accepting new enrolments of students. Some schools are also expected to start in April.

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