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STORY: PAKISTAN / FLOODS
TRT: 1.50
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: / NATS
DATELINE: 13 SEPTEMBER 2011, BADIN DISTRICT, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
1. Pan right, cars driving through water
2. Travelling shot, people walking through water
3. Travelling shot, flooded fields and houses
4. Travelling shot, tents by the side of the road
5. Tracking shot, UNICEF Pakistan Representative, Dan Rohrmann visiting people in tents
6. Med shot, family next to a tent
7. Wide shot, family cooking
8. Pan left, car driving through water
9. Pan right, woman being carted through water
10. Various shots, people walking through water
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Rohrmann, UNICEF Pakistan Representative:
“More than a million people are affected by the floods of 2011 and where more than 100,000 people are living in camp-like situation, including in a school like this. This means of course that people had to move from far away to come here and they are occupying the school in order to get to a safe area where they can be and where UNICEF is helping with health, nutrition, water and sanitation. And as you can see, in very, very difficult conditions for everyone.”
12. Pan left, water cistern truck
13. Wide shot, supply truck
14. Close up, UNICEF supplies crate
15. Pan left, water cistern truck being connected
16. Wide shot, people filling up containers with water
17. Close up, containers being filled up
18. Various shots, woman carrying water
United Nations agencies are scaling up their assistance to flood-affected people in Pakistan, where more than five million people are urgent need of food, shelter, safe water and access to health services.
Vital emergency supplies, including hundreds of thousands of litres of clean water daily, are being rolled out to children and families left vulnerable by severe monsoon floods in southern Pakistan.
New heavy rains and persistent flood waters are contributing to a worsening disaster, with 5.4 million people now affected, including almost 2.7 million children. In Sindh, more than 300,000 people have left their flooded homes seeking higher ground. Many are now scattered across makeshift roadside camps, schools, or public buildings near their homes.
Among the most immediate needs are clean water, sanitation, health and nutrition. Children made vulnerable by displacement are at particular risk from diseases such as diarrhoea and measles, and many children are being affected by floods for a second time.
UNICEF Pakistan Representative, Dan Rohrmann, who visited Badin District yesterday to witness the disaster first-hand, said that “people had to move from far away to come here” and “UNICEF is helping with health, nutrition, water and sanitation” in what he described as “very difficult conditions for everyone.”
UNICEF is delivering around 200,000 litres of water to an estimated 40,000 people each day.
An additional 40 tankers will be deployed in the next few days, dramatically increasing the supply of clean drinking water to scattered families and helping to avoid the spread of water-borne diseases, such as diarrhoea, that place children most at risk. UNICEF has also provided initial supplies of 50,000 water purification sachets.
UNICEF has already supported the distribution of almost 60,000 insecticide-treated bed nets to severely-affected families and partners will this week deliver a further 80,000 to provide increased protection for children. Mobile teams have vaccinated 100,000 children against measles and polio, while UNICEF has dispatched today basic medicines for up to 500,000 people along with 977 newborn kits.
