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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / MILLION REFUGEE CHILDREN
TRT: 0:48
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: RECENT, KARIANDOGO / LAMWO, UGANDA
1. Med shot, children waiting on queque
2. Close up, child’s face
3. Med shot. children seated
4. Med shot, children covering themselves with blankets on the ground
5. Wide shot, young boy walking, carrying mattress
6. Wide shot, children and people walking in transit camp
7. Med shot, children seated reading a book
8. Close up, child’s face
9. Close up, young girl
10. Close up, young boy
11. Close up, little girl
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported today that more than one million children have now fled South Sudan where ever-escalating conflict is ravaging the country.
Children make 62 per cent of more than 1.8 million refugees from South Sudan, according to the latest UN figures. Most have arrived in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Sudan.
Inside South Sudan, more than one thousand children have been killed or injured since the conflict first erupted in 2013, while an estimated 1.14 million children have been internally displaced.
Nearly three quarters of the country's children are out of school -- the highest proportion of out-of-school children in the world. The trauma, physical upheaval, fear and stress experienced by so many children account for just part of toll the crisis is exacting.
Children remain at risk of recruitment by armed forces and groups and, with traditional social structures damaged, they are also increasingly vulnerable to violence, sexual abuse and exploitation.
More than 75,000 refugee children in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and DRC have crossed South Sudan’s borders either unaccompanied or separated from their families. Refugee families fleeing to neighbouring countries in search of shelter and safety are facing a double catastrophe this rainy season, with children most at risk from the health and protection risks associated with inadequate shelter.
Much greater support is needed to ensure that every refugee family has somewhere safe to live, as well as urgent humanitarian assistance including food, water, protection, education and medical care.UNICEF’s appeal for South Sudan and South Sudanese refugees in the region - which calls for USD 181 million to address the acute needs of refugees until the end of the year - is currently only 52 percent funded. UNHCR staff are at the frontline of the crisis, meeting South Sudanese refugees as they flee across borders and providing lifesaving assistance but chronic underfunding in 2017 is putting critical services at risk. The UNHCR funding appeal for South Sudan situation of USD 781.8 million is only eleven percent funded.
