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STORY: UKRAINE / BORN INTO CONFLICT
TRT: 1.46
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 9 – 10 SEPTEMBER 2014, SLOVIANSK, UKRAINE
1. Various shots, Slaviansk city
2. Various shots, Andrei with baby Sasha near the crib
3. Various shots, demolition caused by fighting
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei, Displaced Person:
“When she gave birth, we took her home after 3 days. After one day she got sick, had a fever. She was shaking the whole noght under the warm blanket.”
5. Med shot, Andrei and Natasha taking care of baby Sasha
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei, Displaced Person:
“Sometimes I come and she is in good condition. Then we come back home, call her and she has a temperature. When we talk in the morning usually she says that she had a very high temperature overnight.”
7. Med shot, Andrei, Natasha and baby Sasha in living room with family
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei, Displaced Person:
“We all baby-sit. Natasha feeds him. I swing him, walk with him. Natasha is taking care of him when he wants to sleep. I help as well, of course.”
9. Various shots, Andrei and Natasha giving medicine to baby Sasha
10. Various shots, baby Sasha at the doctor’s
11. Med shot, baby Sasha sleeping in his crib
In Slaviansk, this city of 115,000, the wounds of a brutal battle in July are still open.
Sasha is a baby born in this scarred city, a baby born in conflict.
Andrei is his father and when Aliona, his mother, was 8 months pregnant the couple fled the fighting in their town of Gorlivka so that she could give birth safely. That decision almost killed her, but not because of battle.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei, Displaced Person:
“When she gave birth, we took her home after 3 days. After one day she got sick, had a fever. She was shaking the whole noght under the warm blanket.”
Sasha was fine, but his mother, along with four other women giving birth in the hospital, had picked up a dangerous infection. Two of the women died.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei, Displaced Person:
“Sometimes I come and she is in good condition. Then we come back home, call her and she has a temperature. When we talk in the morning usually she says that she had a very high temperature overnight.’
Now Andrei and his sister-in-law Natasha share the task of caring for Sasha.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei, Displaced Person:
“We all baby-sit. Natasha feeds him. I swing him, walk with him. Natasha is taking care of him when he wants to sleep. I help as well, of course.’
The baby, like his mother, is getting medical attention. But he will not have a birth certificate until his mother is able to register him. And without it he’s in limbo -- still not eligible for other aid.
At a recent visit to the clinic the doctor pronounces the baby, born an internally displaced person, very healthy.
That’s good news for a father who says he worries all the time, and hardly sleeps.
But Sasha does. And when his mother finally recovers, his father hopes the baby born in conflict will go home.
