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STORY: SAHEL REGION / NUTRITION UPDATE
TRT: 2.16
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 DECEMBER 2011, NEW YORK / FILE
FILE - DAKAR, SENEGAL, 21 JULY 2011
1. Med shot, woman in the millet field, standing on parched earth
2. Pan left to right, woman picking millet in the dry field
FILE - LAKE CHAD, CHAD, APRIL 2011
3. Med shot, man breaking up soil in the field
FILE - MARADI DISTRICT, NIGER, 4 JUNE 2010
4. Close shot, malnourished child sleeping
5. Close shot, malnourished child
FILE - DAKAR, SENEGAL, 21 JULY 2011
6. Tilt up, from malnourished children to mothers holding them in their lap
7. Close shot, child’s feet as he is examined for malnutrition
8. Med shot, doctors holding up baby being examined for malnutrition
FILE - MARADI DISTRICT, NIGER, 4 JUNE 2010
9. Wide shot, men sweeping the ground
10. Wide shot, women sweeping the ground
NEW YORK, 21 DECEMBER 2011, UNITED STATES
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Werner Schultink, Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF:
“The part of the population which suffers most and who are likely to face the most serious consequences for the rest of their lives are the very young children and they are innocent.”
FILE - MARADI DISTRICT, NIGER, 4 JUNE 2010
12. Med shot, children playing with a rope
13. Wide shot, women and children standing outside a hut
14. Med shot, children sitting outside hut
NEW YORK, 21 DECEMBER 2011, UNITED STATES
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Werner Schultink, Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF:
“We have the technology and the knowledge to treat these children who suffer from severe acute malnutrition very effectively. If we identify them, if we get to them quickly enough, we can really cure them and prevent them from dying.”
FILE - DECEMBER 2010, CHAD
16. Close up, emaciated child
17. Tilt down, emaciated child sitting next to his mother in hospital ward
18. Close shot, malnourished child refuses to drink milk offered by his mother
FILE – 2010, ZINDER PROVINCE, NIGER
19. Wide shot, UNICEF worker walks across camp
20. Pan left, from UNICEF workers to child being given a peanut based paste used for treating malnutrition
21. Close up, mother feeding malnourished child
NEW YORK, 21 DECEMBER 2011, UNITED STATES
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Werner Schultink, Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF:
“ So we need to undertake actions to bring that level of chronic under nutrition down - and that also can be done by relatively simple things - if mothers would breastfeed more frequently, if the hygiene situation would improve, if hand-washing would improve, if effective diarrhea treatment would improve, if better provision of let’s say simple package of vitamins and minerals would be provided at low-cost, you would already achieve a great reduction of this chronic under nutrition.”
FILE - 4 JUNE 2010, MARADI DISTRICT, NIGER
23. Med shot, mother breastfeeding child
24. Tilt up, from chart to worker talking about personal hygiene
25. Med shot, woman washing her hands
FILE - AUG-SEPT 2010 - KAYES DISTRICT, MALI
26. Med shot, health worker holding a bottle of medication and talking to woman in village
FILE - CHAD, DECEMBER 2010
27. Tilt down, from health worker to mother and child
FILE – 2010, ZINDER PROVINCE, NIGER
28. Close up, Plumpy’nut ready to use therapeutic food used for treating malnutrition
29. Med shot, mother feeding child Plumpy’nut peanut-based paste for treating malnourishment
30. Close up, child eating Plumpy’nut
31. Pan right, from mother to child eating Plumpy’nut
UNICEF estimates that over one million children in the Sahel region of Africa will face severe and life threatening malnutrition during the coming year. The organization is preparing to meet what it describes as a "huge challenge" and is already ordering therapeutic foods and distributing emergency stocks.
The agency's West and Central Africa office says the biggest caseload, with an estimated 330,600 children under-five at risk of severe and acute malnutrition is Niger, where the government has issued an alert stating over half of the country's villages are vulnerable to food insecurity.
SOUNDBITE (English), Werner Schultink, Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF:
“The part of the population which suffers most and who are likely to face the most serious consequences for the rest of their lives are the very young children and they are innocent.”
Hundreds of thousands of lives could be lost if the international community doesn’t act now.
SOUNDBITE (English) Werner Schultink, Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF:
“We have the technology and the knowledge to treat these children who suffer from severe acute malnutrition very effectively. If we identify them, if we get to them quickly enough, we can really cure them and prevent them from dying.”
UNICEF is working with partners on the ground to prevent a wide-scale emergency.
SOUNDBITE (English) Werner Schultink, Chief of Nutrition, UNICEF:
“So we need to undertake actions to bring that level of chronic under nutrition down - and that also can be done by relatively simple things - if mothers would breastfeed more frequently, if the hygiene situation would improve, if hand-washing would improve, if effective diarrhea treatment would improve, if better provision of let’s say simple package of vitamins and minerals would be provided at low-cost, you would already achieve a great reduction of this chronic under nutrition.”
UNICEF urgently needs an initial $65,700,000 primarily for nutrition and health interventions and supplies. But this amount will be increased substantially to ensure sustainable interventions over the course of the coming year. These will involve not only enhanced nutrition and health programs but also provision of clean water, sanitation at feeding centers as well as emergency education and protection for children displaced with their families.
