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STORY: UNICEF / AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE
TRT: 03:22
SOURCE: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2023, HERAT PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN
1. Various shots, community members clear stones from damaged homes
2. Various shots, 11-year-old Shukria and her mother amongst the rubble of their home
3. Various shots, Daniel Timme, UNICEF Afghanistan’s Chief of Communication, with Dennis, a young boy affected by the earthquakes, amongst rubble
4. Various shots, Rangin Noorzai with his granddaughter who was injured in the earthquake, speaking to a UNICEF-supported psychosocial counselor
5. Various shots, children receive checkups in a UNICEF supported temporary tented health facility
6. Various shots, UNICEF supported water truck brings clean drinking water
7. Various shots, children and families collect kits of household supplies like cooking equipment, distributed by UNICEF for families who lost everything in the earthquake
8. Various shots, families receive cash assistance from UNICEF
9. Various shots, children learn and play in a child-friendly space, established by UNICEF
In the 100 days since the earthquakes in Herat last October, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has converted tented health facilities into more permanent facilities in shipping containers. Almost 90,000 medical cases were treated by health and nutrition teams, nearly three-quarters of whom are women and children.
UNICEF set up 61 temporary learning spaces and 61 child friendly spaces, where almost 3,400 children, more than half of them girls, were able to continue basic education. The rehabilitation work on destroyed classrooms will begin shortly.
UNICEF continues to truck clean water to nearly 19,000 people. To help families survive the winter, 5,400 will receive cash assistance to help cover their basic needs. But much more is needed as winter’s freezing temperatures exacerbate hardships. Many families have been unable to rebuild their homes.
They urgently need healthcare, clean water and proper sanitation to prevent diseases spreading and halt further suffering. In addition, families who have lost livelihoods and crops are at risk from hunger and malnutrition.
UNICEF said today (15 Jan) it is concerned about the survival of 96,000 children in Afghanistan impacted by the earthquakes that struck the country over 3 months ago. It called for greater healthcare, clean water and sanitation services for children, amidst harsh winter conditions.
Over 1,000 people, most of whom were women and children, lost their lives in Afghanistan’s earthquakes last October. In addition, 21,000 homes were destroyed, and countless families lost livelihoods, livestock and crops. Three months on, the impact of Herat’s earthquakes lingers, with many families still living in tents or sleeping in the open despite the biting cold. To make matters worse, Herat province is now gripped by a harsh winter, threatening lives and slowing efforts to rebuild.
