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STORY: NIGERIA / SANITATION
TRT: 1:42
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: APRIL 2010, CROSS RIVER, NIGERIA
1. Wide shot, tracking shot from vehicle
2. Various shots, Esther with villagers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Etowa, Community Activist:
”When we came into the communities it was not a small thing. It was a talk of war.”
4. Various shots, Esther in village
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Etowa, Community Activist:
”As we walk round their communities, we let them see their problem for themselves, not us coming to tell them. You needed to see what was there. And they themselves were ashamed.
6. Various shots, Esther walks around village
7. Various shots, Esther meets community
8. Various shots, children wash at tap
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Etowa, Community Activist:
”So throughout this year nobody die from cholera, nobody die, I feel happy, its like the sky is my limit.”
10. Various shots, children wash at tap
In the Cross River state of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, the challenges that disadvantaged and excluded communities face are many.
Open Defecation Free (ODF) communities are what Esther and her companions at Women Empowerment and Rights Initiative (WERI) want to achieve.
It is part of an effort supported by the European Union (EU), UNICEF and the Nigerian government to bring safe water and sanitation to poor communities.
SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Etowa, Community Activist:
”When we came into the communities it was not a small thing. It was a talk of war.”
It is part of an effort supported by the Nigerian government, UNICEF and the EU to bring safe water and sanitation to communities.
SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Etowa, Community Activist:
”As we walk round their communities, we let them see their problem for themselves, not us coming to tell them.”
The goal is to have people commit to dig and maintain their own latrines.
Part of the success is to get families to use toilets, but also to protect water sources from contamination.
SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Etowa, Community Activist:
”So throughout this year nobody die from Cholera, nobody die, I feel happy, its like the sky is my limit.”
