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STORY: UNICEF / PAKISTAN FLOOD CHILDREN
TRT: 01:20
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
SEPTEMBER 2022, JHAL MAGSI DISTRICT, PAKISTAN
1. Various shots, UNICEF crossing over bridge, damaged road, flood waters, destroyed homes
2. Med shot, UNICEF officer assisting older man, water tank
3. Various shots, children filling up water container, water tank
4. Med shot, girls looking at camera
5. Wide shot, children, temporary camp
6. Wide shot, local woman walking towards a hand washing station
JUNE 2023, PAKISTAN
7. Aerial shots, flooded and dry fields, tractor along river, cracked earth, homes with flooded fields
8. Aerial shots, boy walking peninsula, flooded waters
9. Aerial shots, boy walking through dry-cracked earth neighborhood.
One year after historic floods devastated Pakistan and a national state of emergency was declared, millions of children continue to need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today (25 Aug).
Recovery and rehabilitation efforts remain underfunded.
This season’s monsoon rains are worsening already challenging conditions for flood-affected communities, tragically claiming the lives of 87 children across the country.
UNICEF estimates there are still 8 million people, around half of whom are children, who live without access to safe water in flood-affected areas.
Over 1.5 million children require lifesaving nutrition interventions in flood-affected districts, while UNICEF’s current appeal of US$173.5 million to provide life-saving support remains only 57 percent funded.
Last year’s floods submerged one-third of the country, affecting 33 million people, half of whom were children.
Vital infrastructure was damaged or destroyed – including 30,000 schools, 2,000 health facilities, and 4,300 water systems.
The climate-related disaster deepened pre-existing inequities for children and families in affected districts.
One-third of children were already out of school before the floods, malnutrition reached emergency levels, and access to safe drinking water and sanitation was worryingly low.
Since August 2022, thanks to support from the international community, UNICEF and partners have reached 3.6 million people with primary health care services; enabled access to safe water for 1.7 million people in areas where water networks were damaged or destroyed; reached over 545,000 children and caregivers with mental health and psychosocial support; and supported education for over 258,000 children.
Over the past twelve months, UNICEF has screened 2.1 million children for severe acute malnutrition – a condition where children are too thin for their height - and admitted 172,000 children for lifesaving treatment.
Yet the needs continue to outstrip the resources required to respond.
UNICEF called on the Government of Pakistan and partners to increase and sustain investment in basic social services for children and families.
