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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / CHILD MORTALITY
TRT: 3.31
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NUER /NATS
DATELINE: 29 -31 JULY 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Bentiu POC camp
2. Wide shot IDPs walking in camp
3. Wide shot flooded camp
4. Wide shot MSF hospital
5. Med shot woman with malnourished baby
6. Close up, woman with malnourished baby
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Monday Kapo, Health and Nutrition specialist:
“One of the challenges we are expecting is that we are in the middle of the rainy season so this is when we see an increment in diseases especially diarrhea diseases – this goes up, malnutrition situation is worsening. This is the hunger gap because of this displacement most of the families, they were not able to cultivate the hunger gap is expected to be a bit longer so we will have an impact also on malnutrition situation, malnutrition is worsening, diseases are also increasing.”
8. Wide shot, flooded camp
9. Wide shot, girl and baby walking through water
10. Wide shot, Veronica’s family packing up their house
11. Wide shot, Veronica and her bags
12. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Veronica Nyapar Kai:
“Life here is not good as you have seen it. We are now moving to another place because here it is getting flooded.”
13. Wide shot, Veronica and family member carrying case
14. Med shot, Community volunteer screening baby Nyagoanar
15. Med shot, Community volunteer giving ORS to Veronica
16. Wide shot, Community volunteer talking to Veronica
17. Wide shot, Veronica’s family covering belongings due as rain starts
18. Med shot, baby Nyagoanar
19. Close up, water
20. Med shot, low angle of woman washing her face
21. Wide shot, cargo helicopter
22. Wide shot, people walking through the flooded camp
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Cahyanto Water and Sanitation Specialist, UNICEF:
“Now we are able to supply 17 litre per person which is a big improvement since the past two months. And then in terms of the sanitation facilities now we are able to provide 1 latrine for 70 people which is still below the standard and now we are trying to built more latrines for the affected population.”
24. Wide shot, people walking through flooded camp
25. Med shot, Community health worker talking to woman with malnourished baby
26. Wide shot, UN peacekeeping tank
In April this year almost 38 000 people fled fighting in and around the South Sudanese city of Bentiu to a local UN camp – more than twenty children were dying each week from diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia.
A response by aid agencies in providing healthcare, clean water and proper sanitation has helped halve this number, but as the rainy season advances, the risk of disease increases.
SOUNDBITE (English) Monday Kapo, Health and Nutrition specialist:
“One of the challenges we are expecting is that we are in the middle of the rainy season so this is when we see an increment in diseases especially diarrhea diseases – this goes up, malnutrition situation is worsening. This is the hunger gap because of this displacement most of the families, they were not able to cultivate the hunger gap is expected to be a bit longer so we will have an impact also on malnutrition situation, malnutrition is worsening, diseases are also increasing.”
Veronica and her family are moving to higher ground.Their house was submerged a few days ago, and as the rainclouds loom once again, she knows they must move quickly.
SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Veronica Nyapar Kai:
“Life here is not good as you have seen it. We are now moving to another place because here it is getting flooded.”
As she packs her few belongings she brought with when she fled from fighting in her village, community volunteers come round to screen her children and educate people about how to stave off malnutrition and keep children healthy.
Her youngest daughterb Nyagoanar has diarrhea.
She’s given oral rehydration salts and told to go to the clinic if her situation doesn’t improve.
The rain starts again – this means more flooding and more children like Nyagoanar likely to contract diarrhea.
SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Cahyanto Water and Sanitation Specialist, UNICEF:
“Now we are able to supply 17 litre per person which is a big improvement since the past two months. And then in terms of the sanitation facilities now we are able to provide 1 latrine for 70 people which is still below the standard and now we are trying to built more latrines for the affected population.”
The conditions here are incredibly challenging for the people who live here and for the those trying to help them.
Its a race against time to provide clean water and sanitation facilities for thousands of people crammed into this swamp-like camp where supplies can only be brought in by helicopters.
