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STORY: UNICEF / TIGRAY DROUGHT
TRT: 04:44
SOURCE: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / TIGRINYA / NATS
DATELINE: 26 FEBRUARY 2024, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA / 27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA / JANUARY 2024, DUBTI WOREDA, AFAR REGION, ETHIOPIA
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
1. Various shots, Tigray region affected by drought, close up of ground.
27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“I’m here in Tigray in February, at a time where families should be enjoying the fruits of their crops to sustain themselves and their families.”
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
3. Wide shot, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Ted Chaiban greeted by health worker with UNICEF staff and beneficiaries
27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“But in Tigray, like in much of Ethiopia from North to South, we’re facing the results of an El Nino-driven drought, of different disease outbreaks, including cholera, of the knock-on-effect of COVID and conflict and the coping mechanisms of family are at the absolute stretch.”
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
5. Close up, Chaiban listens to a woman with a baby on her back while she speaks to UNICEF staff
27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“We need to support children and their families now during this upcoming lean season which is going to stretch into September to avoid the worst.”
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
7. Med shot, mothers and caregivers get registered by health workers
27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“We need to be able to support health extension workers to be able to treat children against severe acute malnutrition and other childhood illnesses. We need to be able to get food aid to the 6.5 million individuals that are in need of food aid now.”
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
9. Various shots, mother holds her baby as she gives information to the health worker
27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“We need to be able to have water systems in place that both provide clean drinking water for families but also allow them to have household-based food security activities to sustain themselves.”
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
11. Med shot, Chaiban visits the registration and waiting areas, UNICEF staff explains procedures
27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“UNICEF has been a key partner of Ethiopia for the last 70 years. We’re here working in health, in nutrition, in education, in water sanitation and hygiene, and child protection to support the population. We are appealing for 535 million dollars and every dollar that you contribute makes a real difference for children and their families.”
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
13. Various shots, mothers and caregivers wait with their babies to get screened
27 FEBRUARY 2024, MEKELLE, TIGRAY REGION, ETHIOPIA
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“We cannot forget Ethiopia. We need to be here during this difficult time for children and their families.”
26 FEBRUARY 2024, DERA HEALTH CENTER, ATSBI WOREDA, EASTERN ZONE, REGION, ETHIOPIA
15. Various shots, Chaiban with a mother and her baby waiting in a queue
16. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Eyerusalem Atsbeha, Drought-Impacted Mother:
“My name is Eyerusalem Atsbeha.”
17. Med shot, Chaiban playing with baby
18. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Eyerusalem Atsbeha, Drought-Impacted Mother:
“We are in a drought. We used to get it from farmers but now there is no grain.”
19. Med shot, Chaiban talks with UNICEF staff in the health center’s checkup room
20. SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Eyerusalem Atsbeha, Drought-Impacted Mother:
“There are strong winds and cholera because there isn’t enough water in the area.”
21. Med shot, Chaiban talks with UNICEF staff in the health center’s checkup room
22. Wide shot, Chaiban talks to health workers and UNICEF staff
23. Close up, baby sleeps in the arms of her mother
24. Med shot, mother carries her baby on her back
25. Wide shot, mothers and caregivers sit in a row outside at the health center
26. Medium shot: Mothers/caregivers wait with their children congregate at the health center waiting to get health and nutrition services.
27. Med shot, mothers and caregivers queue outside with their children, in front of the registration table 28. Various shots, mothers and caregivers stand outside in the sun with their children
29. Wide shot, mother carrying her child on her back walks away
JANUARY 2024, DUBTI WOREDA, AFAR REGION, ETHIOPIA
30. Various shots, women walk on rocky terrain with their children.
31. Wide shot, people outside UNICEF supported Mobile Health and Nutrition Team site (MHNT)
32. Wide shot, health workers prepare medicines/supplies to be given out to children and mothers
33. Med shot, health worker examines a baby held in its mother’s arms
34. Close up, health worker measures a baby’s Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC)
35. Med shot, health worker measures a baby with a MUAC tape
36. Close up, health worker measures a baby with a MUAC tape
37. Med shot, health worker gives medicine to mothers
38. Wide shot, health workers at MHNT provide health and nutrition services
39. Med shot, health worker hands a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) sachet to a mother
40. Med shot, health worker gives a bunch of RUTF to a mother
41. Various shots, mothers and children sit and wait
42. Med shot, mother holding her child is handed medical supplies
43. Med shot, health worker administers a vaccination to a nursing child
44. Med shot, three women cradling their babies wait to receive health and nutrition services
45. Wide shot, beneficiaries sit under tarp
During a five-day visit to Ethiopia, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Ted Chaiban, urged the international community to immediately scale up their support for children and families to avert a deepening humanitarian catastrophe throughout the country.
Chaiban visited one of the hardest-hit drought areas in Tigray where malnutrition rates have surpassed the emergency threshold.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“I’m here in Tigray in February, at a time where families should be enjoying the fruits of their crops to sustain themselves and their families.”
To further complicate the situation, there is a public health emergency taking place across the nation with outbreaks of cholera, measles, dengue fever and malaria.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“But in Tigray, like in much of Ethiopia from North to South, we’re facing the results of an El Niño-driven drought, of different disease outbreaks, including cholera, of the knock-on-effect of COVID and conflict and the coping mechanisms of family are at the absolute stretch.”
UNICEF, in strong collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia and other partners, are working tirelessly to respond to the crises, providing nutritional support, as well as access to safe water, routine immunization, education and child protection services. But much more needs to be done.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“We need to support children and their families now during this upcoming lean season which is going to stretch into September to avoid the worst.”
“We need to be able to support health extension workers to be able to treat children against severe acute malnutrition and other childhood illnesses. We need to be able to get food aid to the 6.5 million individuals that are in need of food aid now.”
“We need to be able to have water systems in place that both provide clean drinking water for families but also allow them to have household-based food security activities to sustain themselves.”
The UN in Ethiopia is seeking US$3.24 billion, and UNICEF is appealing for US$535 million to ensure children get the help they so desperately need.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF:
“UNICEF has been a key partner of Ethiopia for the last 70 years. We’re here working in health, in nutrition, in education, in water sanitation and hygiene, and child protection to support the population. We are appealing for 535 million dollars and every dollar that you contribute makes a real difference for children and their families.”
“We cannot forget Ethiopia. We need to be here during this difficult time for children and their families.”
Ethiopia is facing multiple emergencies, including the El Niño-driven drought that has hit Tigray and Afar regions and other parts of northern, central, and southern Ethiopia and children and their families are in need of humanitarian assistance.
SOUNDBITE (Tigrinya) Eyerusalem Atsbeha, Drought-Impacted Mother:
“My name is Eyerusalem Atsbeha.”
“We are in a drought. We used to get it from farmers but now there is no grain.”
“There are strong winds and cholera because there isn’t enough water in the area.”
For 2024, it is projected that almost one million children will suffer from acute malnutrition and around 350,000 pregnant and lactating women will be malnourished. In addition to the drought, there is a public health emergency with disease outbreaks, largely triggered by climatic hazards.
