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STORY: UNICEF / SUDAN VIOLENCE FAMILIES FLEEING
TRT: 01:44
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09 JULY 2024, GEDAREF CITY, STATE OF GEDAREF, SUDAN
1. Various shots, centre for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
2. Med shot, woman organizing suitcases
3. Wide shot, Nasra Islan, UNICEF Programme Coordinator, setting vaccination station
4. Close up, vaccination team preparing vaccines
5. Med shot, baby and mother, vaccination station
6. Wide shot, vaccination
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nasra Islan, Programme Coordinator, UNICEF:
“This is a temporary child friendly space. So far, 400 children have been registered here, of which they are receiving several services, including mental and psychosocial support, case management, family tracing and unification. As we have seen, many of these children and families are missing their loved ones here. We also doing a number of recreational activities to support the children, relieve the trauma of everything they have seen in their long journey. As you can see here, we have the children doing sports, inside there we have children also doing some drawings and also talking to the social workers.”
8. Wide shot, people walking
9. Wide shot, children jumping rope outside
10. Med shot, children playing
11. Close up, child drawing
12. Various shots, children playing inside shelter
13. Wide shot, children inside shelter
Due to the escalation of hostilities in Sinja, Sennar State, families have fled recent clashes to Gedaref. An estimated 50,000 people have already arrived in Gedaref localities, with many more expected. Many have been displaced more than once since the war began in Sudan in April 2023.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nasra Islan, Programme Coordinator, UNICEF:
“This is a temporary child friendly space. So far, 400 children have been registered here, of which they are receiving several services, including mental and psychosocial support, case management, family tracing and unification. As we have seen, many of these children and families are missing their loved ones here. We also doing a number of recreational activities to support the children, relieve the trauma of everything they have seen in their long journey. As you can see here, we have the children doing sports, inside there we have children also doing some drawings and also talking to the social workers.”
UNICEF and partners are responding to the needs of the new displaced communities including supplying water, hygiene kits, soap water purification tablets and constructing temporary toilets. Providing psychosocial support, family tracing and reunification, identifying, and registering unaccompanied minors, creating safe learning spaces for children to play and formulate routines. Families have also received tarpaulins for the much-needed shelter from the scorching sun.
