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STORY: SUDAN / ETHIOPIA NEWBORN REFUGEE
TRT: 2:41
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: TIGRINYA /NATS
DATELINE: 1-4 DECEMBER 2020, VILLAGE 8 /HAMDAVET, SUDAN
4 DECEMBER 2020, VILLAGE 8, SUDAN
1. Close up, baby
2. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“My hope is that my baby will be able to return home safely.”
3. Wide shot, Nigsty with her baby
4. Close up, Nigsty’s face
5. Close up Nigsty’s eyes
6. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“When we left, I was hungry and tired. I was also pregnant. Sometimes I fell in the middle of the road and sometimes I would walk without resting.”
7. Med shot, Nigsty with her baby
8. Close up, Nigsty and baby
9. Med shot, Nigsty with her husband and baby
10. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“I thought about how my life was in danger and thought I was going to die on the way. It was hard for me. There were many complications in my pregnancy. I did not expect to deliver the baby safely.”
1 DECEMBER 2020, HAMDAVET, SUDAN
11. Wide shot, refugees sheltering in crowded area
12. Wide shot, refugees lining up
13. Med shot, child holding a plate
4 DECEMBER 2020, VILLAGE 8, SUDAN
14. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“My daughter's umbilical cord was not well. She has not been vaccinated yet.”
15. Close up, baby
16. Med shot, Nigsty and her husband
17. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“My husband worked on a farm as a truck driver. I was a housewife. We had a good life. My husband was the breadwinner and I would cook and clean. We had a good life.”
18. Med shot, Nigsty and her husband playing with their baby
19. Tilt down, Nigsty’s husband to baby’s hand
20. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“I want my country to have peace and to go back home with my family to our land.
21. Wide shot, Nigsty’s family in settlement housing unit
Nigsty was about to become a mother when conflict forced her out of her home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Heavily pregnant, she walked for three days and delivered a baby girl in Sudan, where it was safe. What does the future hold for a young family forced to flee their home?
SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“When we left, I was hungry and tired. I was also pregnant. Sometimes I fell in the middle of the road and sometimes I would walk without resting.”
Over 52,000 Ethiopians have fled to Sudan, following conflict in Tigray. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and other humanitarian agencies are helping them - providing food, shelter, healthcare, water and sanitation. But the needs are overwhelming and there is a real concern of outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Many of the refugees are women and children.
SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“I thought about how my life was in danger and thought I was going to die on the way. It was hard for me. There were many complications in my pregnancy. I did not expect to deliver the baby safely.”
Currently many refugees remain in overcrowded conditions without proper facilities and there continues to be a shortage of medicines and other supplies. There is a huge demand for family tracing and reunification, education and child friendly spaces, and nutritional programmes.
SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“My daughter's umbilical cord was not well. She has not been vaccinated yet.”
UNHCR and Sudanese authorities have moved thousands of refugees from border points to Um Rakuba camp, situated some 70 kilometres away from the Ethiopian border. However, many say they prefer to remain near the border to wait for family members still in Ethiopia, or in hopes they will be able to return home soon.
SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Nigsty, Ethiopian refugee:
“My husband worked on a farm as a truck driver. I was a housewife. We had a good life. My husband was the breadwinner and I would cook and clean. We had a good life.”
At Village 8 the transit centre near the Lugdi crossing, refugees can access clean water in nearby communities and are using a number of existing temporary shelters.
