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1 UNICEF video news package English voice-over mono mix Running Time 2 15 Narrator Name Kun Li Vaharai, on Sri Lanka s east coast - more than 45,000 people fled their homes when fighting intensified between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and government forces. Most families left with nothing but the clothes on them, but they are afraid to go home as shelling continues to the north. At the local hospital about 40 percent of patients are suffering from diarrhoea or dysentery Today, 30 doctors and nurses are transported in to give assistance up until now, Doctor Varatharajah has been the only doctor working here. He had to flee from the fighting himself. Dr T Varatharajah: When I came here I heard that seven people had been injured by shells and they were in Vaharai Hospital. No other aid organizations were here at the time, so I decided to stay and help treat the people. There is water for washing, but drinking water has to be driven in by truck flies are becoming a big problem, there s 1. Wide shot (tracking), Tents at Vaharai camp for internally displaced people 2. Wide shot, tents, mother with child walks by 3. Close up, small boy with mother 4. Wide shot, Vaharai hospital, external 5. Medium shot, close up mother with emaciated child, Vaharai hospital 6. Close up, nurse with medicines 7. Medium shot, Dr T Varatharajah, giving out health cards 8. SOUNDBITE: (Tamil) Dr T Varatharajah: When I came here I heard that seven people had been injured by shells and they were in Vaharai Hospital. No other aid organizations were here at the time, so I decided to stay and help treat the people. 9. Wide shots, elderly lady being helped to sit down) 10. Wide shots, children, women washing around well in IDP camp 11. Medium shot, close up flies flying around young boys 12. SOUNDBITE: (Tamil), Anuwarna Varnakulasingham, 10 years old: "We had to leave in the night because of the shelling. We travelled here through the jungle and we hid in tunnels under the road." 9. SOUNDBITE: (Tamil), Sivanayaham Vasanthy, 23 years old:

2 little to do during the day and the upsurge in conflict is on everyone s mind: Anuwarna Varnakulasingham, 10 years old: We had to leave in the night because of the shelling. We travelled here through the jungle and we hid in tunnels under the road. Sivanayaham Vasanthy, 23 years old: I was picking up a bundle of grass when a shell exploded. I fell down and my parents took me to hospital. "I was picking up a bundle of grass when a shell exploded. I fell down and my parents took me to hospital. 10. Various shots of UN aid convoy arriving at Vaharai. 11. Close up: boy waiting for supplies 12. Wide shot, father holding small child in line at Vaharai hospital. UNICEF and other UN agencies, help the government bring in provisions and equipment here jerry cans and mosquito nets are unloaded. What people long for is a chance to go home - but they fear that home isn t safe and so they stay. International version split track Running Time 2 11 Vaharai, on Sri Lanka s east coast - more than 45,000 people fled their homes when fighting intensified between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and government forces. Most families left with nothing but the clothes on them, but they are afraid to go home as shelling continues to the north. At the local hospital about 40 percent of 1. Wide shot (tracking), Tents at Vaharai camp for internally displaced people 2. Wide shot, tents, mother with child walks by 3. Close up, small boy with mother 4. Wide shot, Vaharai hospital, external 5. Medium shot, close up mother with emaciated child, Vaharai hospital 6. Close up, nurse with medicines 7. Medium shot, Dr T Varatharajah, giving out health cards 8. SOUNDBITE: (Tamil) Dr T

3 patients are suffering from diarrhoea or dysentery Today, 30 doctors and nurses are transported in to give assistance up until now, Doctor Varatharajah has been the only doctor working here. He had to flee from the fighting himself. Dr T Varatharajah: When I came here I heard that seven people had been injured by shells and they were in Vaharai Hospital. No other aid organizations were here at the time, so I decided to stay and help treat the people. There is water for washing, but drinking water has to be driven in by truck flies are becoming a big problem, there s little to do during the day and the upsurge in conflict is on everyone s mind: Anuwarna Varnakulasingham, 10 years old: We had to leave in the night because of the shelling. We travelled here through the jungle and we hid in tunnels under the road. Sivanayaham Vasanthy, 23 years old: I was picking up a bundle of grass when a shell exploded. I fell down and my parents took me to hospital. Varatharajah: When I came here I heard that seven people had been injured by shells and they were in Vaharai Hospital. No other aid organizations were here at the time, so I decided to stay and help treat the people. 9. Wide shots, elderly lady being helped to sit down) 10. Wide shots, children, women washing around well in IDP camp 11. Medium shot, close up flies flying around young boys 12. SOUNDBITE: (Tamil), Anuwarna Varnakulasingham, 10 years old: "We had to leave in the night because of the shelling. We travelled here through the jungle and we hid in tunnels under the road." 9. SOUNDBITE: (Tamil), Sivanayaham Vasanthy, 23 years old: "I was picking up a bundle of grass when a shell exploded. I fell down and my parents took me to hospital. 10. Various shots of UN aid convoy arriving at Vaharai. 11. Close up: boy waiting for supplies 12. Wide shot, father holding small child in line at Vaharai hospital. UNICEF and other UN agencies, help the government bring in provisions and

4 Video news footage 1 Running Time 1:57 equipment here jerry cans and mosquito nets are unloaded. What people long for is a chance to go home - but they fear that home isn t safe and so they stay. 1. Wide shot (truck right) passing unicef tents 2. long shot of mother and son near tents 3. long shot of women washing clothes and drawing water from a well 4. long shot of girls bathing 5. medium close up of young boy 6. long shot pan right of health center 7. medium shot of woman and child 8. close up on emaciated child 9. close up of medicines and woman 10. close up of doctor handing out forms Video news footage 2 Running Time 1:02 1. long shot of woman helping another 2. medium shot of old woman 3. close up on young boy 4. close up of young child 5. close up of a cast 6. long shot of trucks rolling through 7. long shot of men unloading trucks 8. medium shot of man rolling big package 9. close up of young boy with pad 10. close up of father and son UNICEF PSA Note to NewsMarket:

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