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STORY: UNICEF / ETHIOPIA DROUGHT
TRT: 06:41
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 20, 21 JANUARY 2022, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
JANUARY 2022, AWRALYAS INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE (IDP) SITE, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
1. Various shots, IDP site in drought impacted area
2. Wide shot, mother and her toddler son in the IDP camp
3. Wide shot, men and a woman in IDP camp
4. Wide shot, mother and her baby son in IDP camp
JANUARY 2022, SAGALO VILLAGE, KEBRIDAHAR WOREDA DISTRICT, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
5. Wide shot, father and son walking across the dry land and dead cattle in the foreground
6. Wide shot, UNICEF staff member talks with drought impacted pastoralists with dead carcasses in the foreground.
7. Wide shot, carcasses in the foreground and two young people walk in the background in dry, windy and sandy conditions
8. Wide shot, women and children in the background as they look at dead livestock in the foreground
JANUARY 2022, GEBI’AS VILLAGE, SHEBELE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
9. Med shot, carcasses in the foreground and cell phone mast in the background in dry conditions
10. Med shot, carcass in the foreground and huts in the background in drought impacted area
11. Med shot, dead cow in the foreground in windy conditions
12. Med shot, dusk, dead livestock in the foreground amidst trees and dry vegetation
13. Med shot, dead livestock at dusk in drought impacted area
14. Close up, dead cow at sunset
15. Med shot, starving cow searches for food in bushes in drought impacted area
16. Various shots, starving cows walk in search of food and water in drought impacted area
JANUARY 2022, SAGALO VILLAGE, KEBRIDAHAR WOREDA DISTRICT, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
17. Med shot, sick goat struggles to walk
JANUARY 2022, BEDA’AS KEBELE WARD, DENAN WOREDA, SHEBELE ZONE SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
18. Wide shot, depleted water pond in drought impacted area
19. Wide shot, depleted water pond in drought impacted area
20. Various shots, young men scoop water in plastic containers and throw it to each other in a chain to feed their camels water from a big pot
21. Various shots, mother, Dama Mohammed, fetches water in a small jerry can from a pond
22. Wide shot, Dama Mohammed and her two children walk home with their donkeys carrying water
JANUARY 2022, SAGALO VILLAGE, KEBRIDAHAR WOREDA DISTRICT, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
23. Med shot, donkeys loaded with jerrycans passing through the dry shrubs
24. Med shot, donkeys loaded with jerrycans passing through the dry shrubs
21 JANUARY 2022, HIGLOLAY WOREDA DISTRICT, SOMALI REGION ETHIOPIA
25. Various shots, UNICEF and local government supported mobile health and nutrition teams setting up a temporary clinic
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Bashir Sheik Mohammed, Ethiopia Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF:
“UNICEF is supporting in coordination with the regional health bureau, deployed mobile clinics as part of preventing, detecting early and treating children suffering acute malnutrition. This is part of the strategy that we appreciate to minimize unnecessary deaths among children and it's a critical integrated package of life saving with sanitation, promotion, treatment of acute malnutrition and treatment of common illnesses and including vaccinations.”
27. Various shots, drought impacted women and children wait to get essential vaccinations and screening and treatment for their malnourished children
28. Various shots, UNICEF and local government supported health workers provide routine immunizations for mothers and children affected by the drought
21 JANUARY 2020, KUDUNBUR VILLAGE, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION ETHIOPIA
29. Various shots, UNICEF and local government supported mobile health and nutrition teams screening and treating children with malnutrition
30. Med shot, Iman Magan, beneficiary, weighing her baby
31. Close up shot, weighing scale
32. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Iman Magan, Drought Impacted Mother:
“My name is Iman Magan, I am from the Debele District. I left Gelile-el early this morning. There is a severe drought there. There is massive thirst, exhaustion, and many other problems. The situation is difficult. My child is suffering, and we are facing difficulties. I left Gelile-el this morning and came to Debele. I came seeking a medication for my child. He was checked up and diagnosed with malnutrition. He was given medication and nutritious meals. I was met with great care.”
33. Med shot, UNICEF supported health worker checks a young boy for malnutrition.
34. Med shot, health worker distributes ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to a mother to feed her malnourished child impacted by the drought while other mothers sit in the background.
35. Med shot, Iman Magan, beneficiary, feeds her baby RUTF
36. Close up, baby eats RUTF
37. Med shot, mother feeds a child water from a jerry can in drought impacted area
38. Med shot, UNICEF supported health worker prepares RUTF for distribution to feed children impacted by drought
39. Med shot, young boy eats RUTF
40. Med shot, young girl eats RUTF
JANUARY 2022, AWRALYAS INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE (IDP) SITE, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
41. Med shot, babies sleeping inside a tent in drought impacted area in an IDP settlement
21 JANUARY 2020, KUDUNBUR VILLAGE, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION ETHIOPIA
42. Close up, mother holds smiling baby in her arms
JANUARY 2020, BARASIJALE KEBELE, KUDUNBUR WOREDA DISTRICT) KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
43. Wide shot, water installation workers inspect the construction of a water tank at a UNICEF supported water scheme expansion project in a drought impacted area.
44. Med shot, water installation workers gather at a partially constructed water tank at a UNICEF supported water expansion project in a drought impacted area.
45. Med shot, UNICEF Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Specialist Mohammed Khalifa walks towards a partially completed water trough for animals to drink water from at a UNICEF supported water expansion projected in a drought impacted area.
46. Med shot, UNICEF Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Specialist Mohammed Khalifa inspects a nearly completed water trough for animals to drink water from at a UNICEF supported water expansion projected in a drought impacted area.
JANUARY 2020, ALEN KEBELE, KORAHE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
47. Wide shot, two water trucks bringing in water to drought impacted area
48. Med shot, man stands on water truck pouring water from a hose.
JANUARY 2022, GEBI’AS VILLAGE, SHEBELE ZONE, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
49. Med shot, dusk at a drought impacted area.
Three consecutive failed rainy seasons have brought on severe drought in Ethiopia’s lowland regions of Afar, Oromia, The Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ (SNNPR) and Somali regions drying up water wells, killing livestock and crops and pushing hundreds of thousands of children and their families to the brink.
Awralyas Internally Displaced People site is hosting around 2,000 drought affected people.
Men, women and children gather together with animal carcasses in the background in Sagalo village, as strong wind blows dust all over the place.
The drought has resulted in chronic shortage of animal feed and water, forcing the pastoralist communities to migrate very far from their usual movement patterns. The loss of cattle is very visible in drought affected areas of the Somali region.
Gebi’as village 23 km northeast from the town of Gode, is one of the hardest drought-hit areas in Somali region. Animal carcasses are scattered around the dry field, which was once was a grazing land. The number of livestock dying from lack of food and water is staggering and increasing by the day.
In Beda’as kebele, the water pond is depleted due to the drought. This important source of water for communities and their livestock is shrinking day by day.
Dama Mohammed, fetches water in a small jerry can from a pond in Beda’as kebele, near the town of Denan. Her two children are helping her so they can take home the water for her cows which are too weak to make the journey. The children are also giving water to the camels.
Over 155,000 children in the lowlands of Somali and Oromia regions have dropped out of school so they can help fetch water - often travelling long distances - or look after other children while their caregivers try to find water for their families and cattle. Children who are out of school are at risk of exploitation or are being pushed into dangerous coping mechanisms.
In drought impacted areas in Somali region,170,000 malnourished children and 100,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women need urgent nutritional support.
Last year, in Somali region over 100,000 severely malnourished children were admitted for treatment across the whole region – not just drought impacted areas.
This year, in Somali region, the projected number of severely malnourished children is estimated to be at over 250,000 due to multiple causes namely conflict, drought, and economic downturn.
UNICEF and partners plan to reach an estimated 155,000 severely malnourished children with treatment throughout 2022 across the entire region of Somali.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bashir Sheik Mohammed, Ethiopia Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF:
“UNICEF is supporting in coordination with the regional health bureau, deployed mobile clinics as part of preventing, detecting early and treating children suffering acute malnutrition. This is part of the strategy that we appreciate to minimize unnecessary deaths among children and it's a critical integrated package of life saving with sanitation, promotion, treatment of acute malnutrition and treatment of common illnesses and including vaccinations.”
To date, in the drought-impacted areas in Oromia and Somali regions, some 4.4 million people are currently facing critical water shortages.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Iman Magan, Drought Impacted Mother:
“My name is Iman Magan, I am from the Debele District. I left Gelile-el early this morning. There is a severe drought there. There is massive thirst, exhaustion, and many other problems. The situation is difficult. My child is suffering, and we are facing difficulties. I left Gelile-el this morning and came to Debele. I came seeking a medication for my child. He was checked up and diagnosed with malnutrition. He was given medication and nutritious meals. I was met with great care.”
It is also projected that in 2022, an estimated 850,000 children will be severely malnourished across the four regions due to multiple causes namely conflict, drought, and economic downturn.
In response, UNICEF, in close coordination with the local authorities, is working to provide life-saving assistance to those desperately in need. This includes the rehabilitation of boreholes and water schemes, emergency water trucking, treatment of severely malnourished children and providing emergency education and child protection support.
UNICEF’s drought response appeal for impacted areas in Ethiopia is USD $31 million in addition to the overall humanitarian appeal of USD $351 million. This specific funding will target more than 2 million vulnerable people in Afar, Oromia, SNNPR and Somali regions.
