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STORY: UNICEF / UNPRECEDENTED EMERGENCY SUPPLY
TRT: 2.09
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 AUGUST 2014, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK / FILE
29 – 31 JULY 2014, BENTIU, UNITY STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, chopper landing
2. Wide shot, men unloading material from chopper
3. Med shot, man giving instructions on megaphone to UNICEF staff in uniforms
4. Wide shot, UNICEF staff carrying materials
5. Med shot, reverse view of , UNICEF staff carrying materials
6. Med shot, baby being weighed and measured
7. Close up, baby’s arm being measured
8. Wide shot, people waiting in line for aid
9. Med shot, woman scooping dry goods
10. Close up, hand scooping dry goods
25 AUGUST 2014, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Shanelle Hall, Director of Supply Division:
“Kids are facing a lot of crises in the world and, you know, we are doing our job by trying to support but it does show that at this moment in time for whatever reason kids are under a lot of stress and it’s acute. We hope that situations are mitigated and under control but the needs are really great and really we are only in the short term going to see the needs growing.”
22 MARCH 2014, NUSAYBIN CROSSING, SYRIA
12. Wide shot, truck with supplies and UN flag
13. Pan right, truck with UNICEF logo crossing Syrian border from Turkey
25 AUGUST 2014, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Shanelle Hall, Director of Supply Division:
“The scale of the response for us is a lot, we just today added two more charters going into Iraq; into Baghdad ‘cause we have access there now, so in total it will exceed 1,200 metric tons of supplies which, is that a lot, is that a little? It’s a lot. If we put it all together it would be over 20 jumbo jets full of stuff, life-saving supplies that are being sent to six counties. So, it’s, CAR, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Syria, including the neighboring countries where kids are, in Iraq and Liberia, and Palestine.”
29, 31 MARCH 2014, CONAKRY, GUINEA
15. Med shot, men loading aid onto truck
16. Wide shot, men in warehouse moving boxes of aid onto pallets
This August UNICEF shipped 1,000 metric tonnes of life-saving supplies for children caught in the world’s most urgent crises, the largest emergency supply operation in the organization’s history in a single month. The amount delivered would fill 19 cargo jumbo jets.
SOUNDBITE (English) Shanelle Hall, Director of Supply Division:
“Kids are facing a lot of crises in the world and, you know, we are doing our job by trying to support but it does show that at this moment in time for whatever reason kids are under a lot of stress and it’s acute. We hope that situations are mitigated and under control but the needs are really great and really we are only in the short term going to see the needs growing.”
Foreseeing the need to ramp up the response to conflict in Iraq and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, UNICEF secured as many chartered flights as possible. In 27 days, the organization’s Copenhagen supply hub has dispatched 33 emergency cargo loads to the world’s most troubled regions:
SOUNDBITE (English) Shanelle Hall, Director of Supply Division:
“The scale of the response for us is a lot, we just today added two more charters going into Iraq; into Baghdad ‘cause we have access there now, so in total it will exceed 1,200 metric tons of supplies which, is that a lot, is that a little? It’s a lot. If we put it all together it would be over 20 jumbo jets full of stuff, life-saving supplies that are being sent to six counties. So, it’s, CAR, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Syria, including the neighboring countries where kids are, in Iraq and Liberia, and Palestine.”
In the Central African Republic received 26 metric tonnes in medical equipment, vaccines, emergency food rations and hardware to dig water wells. Iraq’s displaced families and children in the northwest received 500 metric tonnes that included emergency food rations, water, medical supplies, tents, and ready-to-use therapeutic food.
Liberia’s effort to contain the Ebola outbreak has been strengthened by 248 metric tonnes of supplies from UNICEF such as latex gloves, safety goggles, and overalls to protect health workers, concentrated chlorine disinfectant and a range of essential medicines. State of Palestine has received 3.5 metric tonnes in supplies, mostly in the form of essential medicines for Gaza to restock hospitals and health facilities that have been damaged in the conflict.
South Sudan has received 34 metric tonnes of life-saving nutritional support and supplies, including ready-to-use therapeutic foods for vulnerable children, 50,000 of whom are at risk of dying from malnutrition. In Syria, UNICEF’s supply response, which began as cargo airlifts four years ago, has evolved into a steady pipeline of supplies that in August included 89 metric tonnes of water purification tablets and education kits.
