LIBERIA / EBOLA FOOD AID

As the number of confirmed cases in Liberia continues to grow, the World Food Programme (WFP) is providing food to holding centres for people suspected of having the disease. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:32
• Production Date: 5 September 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: NUTRITION; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES
• MAMS Id: 1160485

Description

STORY: LIBERIA / EBOLA FOOD AID
TRT: 1.32
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 3 SEPTEMBER 2014, DOLO’S TOWN, MARGIBI COUNTY LIBERIA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, entrance to the quarantined area of Dolo’s Town guarded by police and the military
2. Med shot, people entering the restricted area being checked for body temperature
3. Various shots, people gathered in the school yard waiting to receive WFP food.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Frank-Neufville, WFP Liberia:
“They are finding it difficult to get food because they are no allowed to get out, so as a result, we are providing food to them.”
5. Med shot, people queuing at WFP food distribution
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry Peabody, Airport worker:
”Our main worry is when are they going to lift the ban on us and the quarantine and when are we going to get back to work, we have been quarantined and we cannot work, we don’t have any money for ourselves now.”
7. Close up, cisterns of chlorinated water for hand washing before the food distribution
8. Various shots, people queuing to get their food ration
9. Wide shot, village

Storyline

As the number of confirmed cases in Liberia continues to grow, the World Food Programme (WFP) is providing food to holding centres for people suspected of having the disease.

WFP is currently scaling up its response to the Ebola virus to provide assistance to more than one million people affected by the outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

So far, more than 140,000 people have received food assistance in the three countries.

SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Frank-Neufville, WFP Liberia:
“They are finding it difficult to get food because they are no allowed to get out, so as a result, we are providing food to them.”

People are finding it difficult to deal with the reality of living under quarantine. Jerry Peabody is an airport worker and the father of six children.

SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry Peabody, Airport worker:
”Our main worry is when are they going to lift the ban on us and the quarantine and when are we going to get back to work, we have been quarantined and we cannot work, we don’t have any money for ourselves now.”

WFP is also concerned about the knock-on effect of the restrictions on movement on trade, farming, harvesting of crops and the transfer of food from farms to markets. Recent assessments indicate staple food prices are on the rise.

WFP urgently needs US$70 million to continue its response to the Ebola emergency.