UNICEF / UKRAINE CHILDREN

STORY: UNICEF / UKRAINE CHILDREN
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SOURCE: UNICEF
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SHOTLIST:

OCTOBER 2022, SHYBENE, UKRAINE
1. Med shot, child inside burned out house

30 JANUARY, 2023, BORODIANKA, UKRAINE
2. Wide shot, 10-year-old Veronica visits the ruins of a high-rise building to feed stray cats

27 AUGUST 2022, IRPIN, UKRAINE
3. Wide shot, exterior of damaged school building
4. Wide shot, exterior of damaged school building
5. Wide shot, exterior of damaged neighborhood

MARCH 2022, ROMANIA
6. Wide shot, Tracking shot of a family walking towards a Blue Dot tent
7. Wide shot, Blue Dot tent
8. Med shot, A man showing transport connections on a board, Blue Dot centre, Sighetu Marmației border crossing, Romania

APRIL 2022, POLAND
9. Med shot, A mother holding a child, they are standing in a queue

MARCH 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE
10. Wide shot, UNCIEF supplies in warehouse
11. Wide shot, Forklift moving UNICEF supplies in warehouse
12. Med shot, UNICEF logistics staff check supplies

OCTOBER 2022, KHMELNYTSKYI, WESTERN UKRAINE
13. Med shot, a boy from Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, displaced by conflict
14. Med shot, beds are offered to internally displaced families taking temporary shelter at a kindergarten in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine
15. Wide shot, beds are offered to internally displaced families taking temporary shelter at a kindergarten in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine
16. Med shot, a child receiving school supplies
17. Wide shot, families receive UNICEF's winter kits, containing warm clothing, boots and blankets

AUGUST 27, 2022, IRPIN, UKRAINE

18. Med shot, First Aid trainer presenting while parents and teachers listen
19. Med shot, trainees practice first aid training: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
20. Med shot, trainees practice first aid training: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

AUGUST 2022, MYKOLAIV, UKRAINE

21. Med shot, UNCIEF supplies distributed
22. Wide shot, UNICEF supplies distributed
23. Med shot, UNCIEF supplies distributed to hospital
24. Wide shot, WIDE; residents queue to receive hygiene kits and other humanitarian supplies
25. Wide shot, resident completing paperwork for supplies
26. Med shot, UNCIEF supplies loaded into trolly

SEPTEMBER 2022, LVIV, UKRAINE

27. Med shot, Eleven-year-old Artem from Kharkiv with with the Head of the Surgery Center Andrii Dvorakevich at children’s hospital in Lviv, Ukraine
28. Wide shot, Artem getting out of bed. Artem is going through physical rehabilitation in order to learn how to walk again, after almost a month of not getting out of bed
29. Med shot, Artem going through physical rehabilitation

OCTOBER 2022, KHARKIVSKA REGION, UKRAINE

30. Wide shot, UNICEF delivering 14 generators to Ukraine’s Kharkivska region in order to ensure the running of local healthcare and water supply facilities
31. Wide shot, Hospital staff unwrapping generator. Kharkiv’s Children’s Hospital No.5

SEPTEMBER 2022, BROVARY MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINICAL HOSPITAL NEAR KYIV, UKRAINE

32. Wide shot, pregnant patient with physician. The hospital, which can care for a dozen premature babies, recently received new incubators, vacuum aspirators, ultrasound scanners, electrocardiography devices and portable TOCO transducers from UNICEF. UNICEF provided this vital equipment with the support and funding of the European Union, the governments of Spain, Italy, Norway and Japan, and USAID.
33. Med shot, pregnant patient receiving ultrasound
34. Med shot, physician reviews ultrasound
35. Wide shot, incubator at hospital
36. Med shot, premature baby in incubator
37. Wide shot, child receives electrocardiogram
38. Close-up, readout of electrocardiogram

JANUARY 2023, KYIV, UKRAINE

39. Wide shot, Spilno Child Spot at Kyiv’s railway station. Doctors, psychologists, and social workers are here to meet with parents and children. Spilno Child Spots can be found in over 20 cities across Ukraine and are visited by 61,000 children per month
40. Med shot, Spilno Child Spot staff with visitor
41. Med shot, Spilno staff with supporting material
42. Med shot, Spilno staff with child. Professional teachers, animators and psychologists conduct masterclasses and play developmental games with the children

NOVEMBER 2022, KHARKIV, UKRAINE

43. Wide shot, children in Spilno center in a Kharkiv metro station
44. Med shot, child participating in various psychosocial activities
45. Med shot, children participating in various psychosocial activities
46. Med shot, children learn how to protect themselves from mines and unexploded ordnance
47. Wide shot, children learn how to protect themselves from mines and unexploded ordnance

STORYLINE:

Almost one year since the escalation of the war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, a generation of children has experienced 12 months of violence, fear, loss and tragedy. There is not a single aspect of children’s lives that the conflict has not impacted, with children killed, injured, forced from their homes, missing out on critical education and denied the benefits of a safe and secure environment.

“Children in Ukraine have experienced a year of horror,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “Millions of children are going to sleep cold and scared and waking up hoping for an end to this brutal war. Children have been killed and injured, and many have lost parents and siblings, their homes, schools and playgrounds. No child should ever have to bear that kind of suffering.”

An economic crisis, with a vast number of families reporting a significant loss of income, along with an energy crisis triggered by the war have been devastating to the well-being of children and families.

A recent UNICEF survey saw 80 percent of respondents noting a deterioration of their economic situation, while UNICEF analysis suggests the percentage of children living in poverty has almost doubled from 43 percent to 82 percent. The situation is especially acute for the 5.9 million people who are currently displaced within Ukraine.

The war is also having a devasting impact on the mental health and wellbeing of children. An estimated 1.5 million children are at risk of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues, with potential long-term effects and implications.

Children and families’ access to basic services have been devastated. More than 1,000 health facilities are reported to have been damaged or destroyed by shelling and airstrikes, with such attacks killing and causing serious injuries to patients – including children – as well as to medical personnel, and restricting access to care.

Thousands of children fleeing conflict across the country are missing vital vaccines to protect them from polio, measles, diphtheria and other life-threatening diseases.

Since February 24 2022, UNICEF, thanks to the support of the international community, has provided learning supplies to 770,000 children, engaged 1.4 million children in formal and non-formal education, provided mental health and psychosocial support to 2.9 million children and caregivers, provided gender-based violence response services to 352,000 women and children, provided access to safe water for 4.6 million people, provided healthcare services to 4.9 million people, and provided multi-purpose cash assistance to 1.4 million people inside Ukraine and 47,494 households in neighbouring countries.

“Children need an end to this war and sustained peace to regain their childhoods, return to normalcy and begin to heal and recover,” said Russell. “Until that happens, it is absolutely critical that children’s mental health and psychosocial needs are prioritized. This should include age-appropriate actions to provide nurturing care, build resilience, and especially for older children and adolescents, give them opportunities to voice their concerns.”

Further compounding this issue, the war has disrupted education for more than five million children, denying children sense of structure, safety, normality and hope the classroom provides. Limited access to schools come after two years of lost learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and more than 8 years of education disruption for children living in eastern Ukraine.

UNICEF continues to call for principled, safe, rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access, an end to attacks on children and the infrastructure they rely on, including schools, hospitals and water and sanitation systems; the avoidance of use of schools in this conflict; and to stop the use of explosive weapons in populated areas, directly responsible for killing and maiming hundreds of children. Above all, UNICEF continues to advocate for an end to hostilities.

In December 2022, UNICEF launched its annual Humanitarian Action for Children Appeal. UNICEF requires USD 1.1 billion to address the immediate and longer-term needs of 9.4 million people, including 4 million children, both inside and outside Ukraine who remain deeply impacted by the war in Ukraine. Funding will enable UNICEF to provide, sustain and expand critical services in health, nutrition, child protection, gender-based violence, water and sanitation, and social protection alongside government relief and recovery efforts. It will ensure timely preparedness for additional internal displacements and refugee movements.