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STORY: PAKISTAN / FLOODS
TRT: 2.10
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / URDU / NATS
DATELINE: 15 OCT 2012, JACOBABAD, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
1. Various shots, Jacobabad district covered with flood water
2. Various shots, buildings submerged in water
3. Wide shot, men walking through water
4. Med shot, UNICEF emergency team reaches a Baloch Khan Mirali village by boat
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohammad Amin, Displaced by Floods:
“We still have about a foot of water standing in our village. Some of our elders are still there. We are worried for them.”
6. Pan right, IDP camp
7. Med shot, UNICEF officials at the Temporary Learning Center for children
8. Med shot, boys chatting
9. Med shot, UNICEF officials surveying sanitation facilities provided by the organization
10. Pan right, health center set up by UNICEF
11. Various shots, class in session at a Temporary Learning Center
12. SOUDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Director of UNICEF’s Office of Emergency Programmes:
“We are now looking at the next phase as the water recedes. Basically looking at issues of malaria, bed nets have been ordered to address the situation of malaria, starting to look at rehabilitation of schools as the water recedes and the infrastructure needs support and seen how we can support with partner UN agencies, families going back to their villages of origin.”
13. Med shot, family displaced by the floods in IDP camp
14. Wide shot, people in boats in the village
15. Close up, woman displaced by floods
16. Close up, woman displaced by floods
Struck by massive floods for the third year in a row, huge parts of Pakistan are under water again. UNICEF reports on families caught in a cycle of floods in the Sindh Province, waiting for some respite from nature's fury
They say lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice, but in Pakistan’s Sindh Province, disaster has struck not twice but thrice.
This is the third year of massive flooding in the country. Similar scenes have played out before, a similar loss and tragedy.
Villages have been turned into islands, crops destroyed, houses submerged. For families yet to recover from the devastating floods of 2010, the torture seems unending.
A team of UNICEF officials assessed the damaged and met with some of the 3 million affected in Sindh Province.
SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohammad Amin, Displaced by Floods:
“We still have about a foot of water standing in our village. Some of our elders are still there. We are worried for them.”
Stranded and displaced by the waters, nearly 700 in this camp can do nothing but wait. UNICEF and its local partners have reached out to families in the area with basic services like clean drinking water, sanitation facilities, and health centers where children are screened for malnutrition and given vaccinations.
Since schools are closed, temporary learning centers have been established to fill the gap and provide a comfort zone for children unsettled by a cycle of floods.
SOUDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Director of UNICEF’s Office of Emergency Programmes:
“We are now looking at the next phase as the water recedes. Basically looking at issues of malaria, bed nets have been ordered to address the situation of malaria, starting to look at rehabilitation of schools as the water recedes and the infrastructure needs support and seen how we can support with partner UN agencies, families going back to their villages of origin.”
As winter creeps in, the next few months are likely to bring brutal challenges. And with the floods waters still standing in their way, the idea of a home is already becoming alien to too many.
