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STORY: UKRAINE / CHILDREN
TRT: 01:53
SOURCE: UNICEF
LANGUAGE: UKRAINIAN / NATS
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 11:30 GMT, 7 APRIL, 2017; CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
DATELINE: 6 MARCH, 2017, AVDIIVKA, DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE
6 MARCH, 2017, AVDIIVKA, DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE
1. Wide shot, damaged apartment block
2. Close up, pull focus on damaged apartment block
3. Close up, pull focus on another damaged apartment block
4. Wide shot, Diana in class at school number 7 in Avdiivka
5. Med shot, children in class
6. Med shot, behind Diana looking at teacher
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Diana, 11-year-old Girl:
“My biggest dream is that there is peace in Avdiivka. Those who left come back and we will have the same life as when I was in first and second grade.”
9 MARCH, 2017, HRANITNE VILLAGE (ON CONTACT LINE NEAR MARIUPOL), DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE
8. Wide shot, damaged building in village
9. Med shot, 17-year old Dasha walking down stairs into cellar
10. Wide shot; downstairs into cellar
11. Close up, shot of cellar
12. Close up, shot of cellar floor
13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Dasha, 17-year-old Girl:
“When you are sitting here you don’t know if you are ever going to be able to get out of here.”
14. Med shot, Dasha watches as her mother shovels coal
15. Med shot, Dasha watches mum shovel coal
16. Med shot, Dasha and mother in garden
17. Med shot, Dasha walking in garden
18. Wide shot, classroom at school
19. Med shot, Dasha in class at school
20. Close up, Dasha listening to teacher
21. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Dasha, 17-year-old Girl:
“I want to get a good education and to get into college because I want a good future for my family and for myself.”
22. Med shot, Teacher pointing at board
23. Close up, Dasha writing in book
More than 200,000 children, or 1-in-4, in the two regions most severely affected by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine require urgent and sustained psychosocial support to address the trauma of living through more than three years of violence.
The 200,000 children in critical need of support live in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, within 15 kilometres of each side of the ‘contact-line’ that divides government and non-government-controlled areas and where fighting is most intense.
Children nearest the ‘contact-line’ have been living in chronic fear and uncertainty due to sporadic shelling, unpredictable fighting and dangers from landmines and other unexploded ordinance.
Many risk their safety to get an education.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Diana, 11-year-old Girl:
“My biggest dream is that there is peace in Avdiivka. Those who left come back and we will have the same life as when I was in first and second grade.”
Seven schools were damaged during the most recent escalation of violence in February and March 2017, and more than 740 schools – 1 in 5 in eastern Ukraine – have been damaged or destroyed since the conflict began in 2014.
Parents, teachers, school directors and psychologists continue to report striking behaviour changes in children as young as three years old. Symptoms include severe anxiety, bed-wetting, nightmares, aggressive behaviour and withdrawing from families and communities.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Dasha, 17-year-old Girl:
“When you are sitting here you don’t know if you are ever going to be able to get out of here.”
The majority of the 200,000 children in need of sustained psychosocial support in eastern Ukraine are not receiving adequate care. Services are stretched and underfunded. Dedicated social workers, psychologists and specially trained teachers are working around the clock. However, as the conflict drags on, additional investments are required to meet these children’s needs.
SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Dasha, 17-year-old Girl:
“I want to get a good education and to get into college because I want a good future for my family and for myself.”
UNICEF is appealing for US$31.2 million to support children and families affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This includes US $5.5 million for child protection services and psychosocial support. So far UNICEF has received less than a third of its funding requirements and child protection is critically underfunded.
Last year, UNICEF reached approximately 200,000 children with psychosocial support through community protection centres, mobile teams and school-based social workers and psychologists, but the need for longer-term care is outpacing available resources.
