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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / HUMANITARIAN APPEAL
TRT: 02:06
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / LOKORU / NATS
DATELINE: 15 MAY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE - UGANDA
1. Wide shot, refugees at transit centre
2. Med shot, refugees carrying belongings
15 MAY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
3. Wide shot, Geneva Appeal event
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“South Sudan is one of the greatest tragedies of our time.”
FILE - UGANDA
5. Wide shot, refugees at transit centre
6. Close up, refugees lined up for assistance.
7. Various shots, refugees receiving assistance
8. Close up, hungry child being feed
9. SOUNDBITE (Lokoru) Cecilia Obere, South Sudanese Refugee:
“There is a serious drought in South Sudan. There is no rain and there is a lot of hunger. We also have a lot of insecurity.”
10. Various shots, refugee sitting by cooking pot
11. Wide shot, people walking carrying mattresses
12. Wide shot, refugees sitting among makeshift tents
15 MAY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
13. SOUNDBITE (English) David M. Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“If we get the funding we need we can stave off the danger of famine spreading, but we urgently require additional resources to save lives and pull the country back from the brink.”
FILE - UGANDA
14. Various shots, Christine Achan, South Sudanese Refugee walking
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Achan, South Sudanese Refugee:
“May be they killed him. Because those people they gunned down many people there.”
16. Close up, baby Angwech yawning
17. Wide shot, Christine seated with her family
18. Med shot, refugees being given food
19. Med shot, refugees eating
20. Close up, woman collecting water from tap
21. Wide shot of people fetching water
15 MAY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi High Commissioner for Refugees:
“The fact that the appealing is only 14 percent funded really is very telling about how we are failing them and the host countries if we don’t accelerate this support.”
FILE - UGANDA
23. Wide shot, refugees walking
24. Med shot, refugee children
25. Close up, refugee child with hands on head
26. Med shot, refugee children lining up for food
27. Close up, refugee child
28. Med shot, refugee child carrying mattress
29. Med shot, refugees sitting together
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) today (15 May) urged donors to step up support for desperate refugees fleeing South Sudan. Humanitarian agencies are seeking USD 1.4 billion to provide life-saving aid to South Sudanese refugees in the six neighbouring countries until the end of 2017.
The South Sudanese refugee response plan so far remains only 14 per cent funded.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees:
“South Sudan is one of the greatest tragedies of our time.”
The South Sudan crisis has forced nearly 1.8 million people to flee. Women and children are bearing the brunt of the conflict. The refugees have sought in neighbouring countries. They desperately need help.
SOUNDBITE (English) Cecilia Obere, South Sudanese Refugee (Lokoru)
“There is a serious drought in South Sudan. There is no rain and there is a lot of hunger. We also have a lot of insecurity.”
It’s an emergency engulfing an entire region. Refugees are fleeing across six countries. In less than a year the population of South Sudanese in Sudan has increased by more than half. In Uganda, the number has tripled.
SOUNDBITE (English) David M. Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“If we get the funding we need we can stave off the danger of famine spreading, but we urgently require additional resources to save lives and pull the country back from the brink.”
Nearly 90 percent of those fleeing are women and children.
Christine arrived and delivered a healthy baby girl. But her husband is missing.
SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Achan, South Sudanese Refugee:
“May be they killed him. Because those people they gunned down many people there.”
Baby Angwech joins over one million other South Sudanese children who are now refugees.
Humanitarian agencies are racing to provide food, shelter, water, basic necessities but funding is an issue.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi High Commissioner for Refugees:
“The fact that the appealing is only 14 percent funded really is very telling about how we are failing them and the host countries if we don’t accelerate this support.”
The conflict in South Sudan has ravaged the country and its people. The needs are great.
