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STORY: UNICEF / CHILD REFUGEES
TRT: 01:53
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 GMT, 20 JUNE, 2017; CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14-15 MAY, 2017, WEST NILE, UGANDA / 19 MAY, 2017, BIDI BIDI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, UGANDA
1. Wide shot, displaced children look on
2. Med shot, child sitting and playing
3. Wide shot, displaced persons lining up to enter bus
4. Wide shot, displaced persons lining up to enter bus
5. Med shot, displaced persons lining up to enter bus
6. Wide shot, child looks out bus window
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Imei, Refugee:
“We don't intend to leave South Sudan. But now because of the hard conditions, the insecurity that is happening in our country, so we have to leave. You can't stay there when you've seen a knife that wants to slaughter you. Can you stay where there is very sharp knife? You can't.”
19 MAY, 2017, BIDI BIDI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, UGANDA
8. Close up, a hoe striking the soil
9. Wide shot, three men working the field with hoes
10. Med shot, a man works the field with a hoe
11. Med shot, a man works the field with a hoe
12. Wide shot, three men stand and talk in the field with hoes
13. Med shot, two men stand and talk in the field with hoes
14. Med shot, three men stand and talk in the field with hoes
15. Close up, man’s hand as he talks
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Awan, Local Resident:
“That concept we had of them being hostile, we kept away from them - we couldn't share certain things, you couldn't even move to their places. We kept ourselves together because we never wanted any problem. So with time we saw them, they were very good people - they were not actually the people we thought they were.”
17. Wide shot, huts in the village
18. Wide shot, family in front of hut in the village
19. Wide shot, children preparing meal in front of their home
Ahead of Uganda’s International Solidarity Summit on Refugees, UNICEF noted that 86 percent of all refugees in Uganda are women and children.
No country in the world has taken more refugees over the past 12 months than Uganda.
Indeed, Uganda is now Africa’s leading refugee-hosting country, having jumped from the eighth largest refugee-hosting country in the world in mid-2016 to the third largest today, after Turkey and Pakistan.
As more than 1,000 children continue to flee South Sudan, on average every day in search of safety, the region’s refugee crisis has become a children’s crisis, UNICEF said today, on World Refugee Day.
SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Imei, Refugee:
“We don't intend to leave South Sudan. But now because of the hard conditions, the insecurity that is happening in our country, so we have to leave. You can't stay there when you've seen a knife that wants to slaughter you. Can you stay where there is very sharp knife? You can't.”
Since violence erupted in South Sudan in December 2013, more than 1.8 million people have crossed into neighboring countries. In just one year the population of refugees in Uganda has more than doubled from 500,000 to more than 1.25 million, making Uganda now host to the fastest growing refugee emergency in the world.
The Government of Uganda, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and other humanitarian partners on the ground are working tirelessly to respond to the more than 740,000 refugees who have arrived in Uganda since July 2016. Such dramatic numbers are placing excessive pressure on State and host community resources, especially social services that are critical to children’s well-being.
The Government of Uganda and the United Nations are appealing for $8 billion in funding for both emergency response and resilience interventions to Uganda’s refugee and refugee-hosting population over the next four years. Within this appeal, UNICEF in Uganda requires nearly $50 million in 2017 as well as $30 million in each year from 2018-2020 to provide critical health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education, early childhood development, adolescent development, and child protection interventions, to both refugee and host community children.
While refugee children in Uganda enjoy the full existing legal, physical and social protection system as the host population and use the same social services as them, UNICEF said more must be done to fully operationalize this agenda for action across the region, especially keeping families together, helping all uprooted children stay in school and stay healthy, and acting on the causes that force children to flee in the first place.
SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Awan, Local Resident:
“That concept we had of them being hostile, we kept away from them - we couldn't share certain things, you couldn't even move to their places. We kept ourselves together because we never wanted any problem. So with time we saw them, they were very good people - they were not actually the people we thought they were.”
On World Refugee Day, UNICEF is also reiterating its call to governments to adopt its six-point agenda for action to protect refugee and migrant children and ensure their well-being, which was launched ahead of the G7 Summit in Italy in late May.
