3 Aug 2011

NIGERIA / POLIO ERADICATION

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is supporting community efforts in Nigeria to immunize every child in the country. Nigeria is one of the four countries in the world where the disease is still endemic. UNICEF

Posted at: August 3, 2011 1:37 pm

Duration: 02:38

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STORY: NIGERIA / POLIO ERADICATION 
TRT: 2.38
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / HAUSA / NATS
		 
DATELINE: 15 MAY - JUNE 25, 2011, KANO, KANO STATE, NIGERIA

SHOTLIST:

1. Tracking shot, man on motorbike turning into roadside workshop
2. Tracking shot, man affected by polio moving around his mechanics workshop
3. SOUNDBITE (English)  Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"My name is Aminu Ahmad. This is our workshop, 80 percent are disabled persons. We are doing work like anybody."
4. Med shot, young polio affected man rolling through oncoming traffic
5. SOUNDBITE (English)  Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"Because all the time if you are going out you will see young, young, young polio victims. It's not happy."
6. Med shot, young Polio affected man moving though traffic on "skateboard"
7. Med shot, man welding
8. Med shot, welding sparks
9. Med shot, men sharing and drinking sodas
10. SOUNDBITE (English)  Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"If you go out you will see our people, some are cutting iron, some are doing welding after this we put them on the street we are starting selling."
11. Tilt up, wheelchairs parked on side of the road  
12. Close up, wheelchair
13. Close up, baby and mother
14. Close up, baby with mother
15. Med shot, mother holing baby being immunized
16. Med shot, polio affected men moving in traffic
17. SOUNDBITE (English)  Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"But now maybe remain small. In 1 year or 2 years Nigeria will eradicate all polio"
18. Tilt up, reveal women being addressed in classroom
19. Close up, women listening
20. Wide shot, Aminu and others greeting Chief
21. Med shot, Aminu speaking to crowd through loud hailer
22. Med shot, woman holding up baby  
23. Wide shot, large group of women immunizing children
24. Med shot, man holding child being immunized
25. Med shot, man holding child
26. SOUNDBITE (English)  Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"We disabled people are doing something, because we with polio go to the house to house to advise people give your children out to be immunized." 
27. Tracking shot, vaccinators feet walking through village
28. Wide shot, vaccinators
29. Med shot, vaccinators entering house
30. Med shot, Interior of house with mother and child
31. Med shot, vaccinators walking to another house
32. Med shot, Interior of house with another mother and child
33. Close up, child being vaccinated
34. Med shot, Aminu walking through palace gates
35. Wide shot, Emir's Palace Kano
36. SOUNDBITE (English)  Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"We have come to tell the Emir of Kano and senior counselors about what we are doing next because we get support now."
37. Wide shot, Aminu greeting counsellors at the Palace
38. Med shot, Palace guards in robes and turbans
39. Wide shot, Interior meeting at on Emirs
40. Close up, one of the Emirs 
41. Med shot, mother and child
42. Wide shot, community meeting in village
43. Close up, old man listening
44. Med shot, Interior of women entering room
45. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Mother in Gidam Mallamai:
"They came here because we did not immunize our children, but now we have agreed to vaccinate against polio and will take our children."
46. Wide shot, group of women
47. Med shot, Emir vaccinating child
48. SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahamd, polio victim:
"Today I am fortunate to witness the Chief bring his daughter for vaccination; this day will go down in our history."
49. Close up, baby being held aloft
50. Med shot, interior vaccinators marking children thumbs and leaving house

STORYLINE:

Aminu Ahmad was crippled by polio as a child. Today he is a successful business owner in Kano, northern Nigeria.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"My name is Aminu Ahmad, this is our workshop, 80 percent disabled persons, we are doing work like anybody."

Aminu employs young men affected by polio.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"Because all the time if you are going out you will see young, young, young polio victims. It's not happy."

In his workshop apprentices can learn skills and earn money.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"If you go out you will see our people, some are cutting iron, some are welding, some are painting, after this we put them on the streets to sell."

One of their best selling products is an innovative wheelchair for those affected by polio. To protect future generations from the disease, Aminu is part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.  Since 1988 an estimated five million children who would otherwise have been paralysed are walking because of this eradication effort.

But Nigeria is one of just four countries globally where polio remains endemic.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"But now maybe remain small in one year or two years Nigeria will eradicate all polio."

Nigeria has made remarkable progress and to reach the final goal of eradicating polio by the end of 2012, Aminu and a network of volunteers, are raising awareness of polio vaccination in high risk areas, and convincing parents to immunize their children.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"We disabled people are doing something, because we with polio go to the house to house to advise people give your children out to be immunized."

In Nigeria the support and leadership of traditional and religious leaders is important in reaching every child with the vaccine, so Aminu has come to a meeting at the Emirs Palace in Kano.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"We have come to tell the Emir of Kano and senior counsellors about what we are doing next because we get support now."

In high risk areas more than 30 percent of children were not being protected with the vaccine, but now with an intensified communication campaign things are beginning to change.

SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Mother, Gidam Mallamai, Zamfara State
"They came here because we did not immunize our children, but now we have agreed to vaccinate against polio."

Now on campaign days, communities celebrate.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aminu Ahmad, Chairman of Kano Polio Victims Association:
"Today I am fortunate to witness the Chief vaccinate his daughter, this will go into our history."

If all children can reached and protected through immunization, the world can eradicate polio – it would be the first disease to be totally wiped out since small pox in the 1970s.