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SYRIA / DAMASCUS AID
STORY : SYRIA / DAMASCUS AID
TRT: 2:38
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2016, MOADAMIYEH, RURAL DAMASCUS, SYRIA / 23 SEPTEMBER 2016, TURKISH – SYRIA BORDER / 25 SEPTEMBER 2016, MADAYA, SYRIA
25 SEPTEMBER 2016, MADAYA, SYRIA
1.Various shots, sid convoy entering Madaya
2. Various shots, unloading WFP food rations
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jakob Kern, Syria Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We finally got this convoy rolling into Madaya and we are unloading as you see now. People here complain that winter is coming they don’t have clothes, they don’t have fire wood, they don’t have wood to cook, they’re actually burning carpets, they’re burning furniture just to cook and also to produce fuel.”
4. Jakob Kern talking to Madaya residents
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jakob Kern, Syria Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“When I asked what do you want to convey to the world, we want the siege lifted, we want to start a normal life again. They’re saying what did we do wrong that we are in this situation.”
23 SEPTEMBER 2016, TURKISH – SYRIA BORDER
6. Various shots, 40 Trucks carrying WFP food moving into the border area before entering Syria
7. Various shots, building that Izdiharis lives in
22 SEPTEMBER 2016, MOADAMIYEH, RURAL DAMASCUS, SYRIA
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Izdihar, Moadamiyeh resident:
“We have been forced to use these tires to make fuel, since they contain petroleum although it is a very harmful way to make fuel and causes respiratory problems that could lead to death in children with breathing problems. And this is in order to keep alive.”
9. Various shots, WFP convoy driving through Moadamiyeh, food being off loaded
The World Food Programme (WFP) delivered life-saving food assistance on Sunday (25 Sep) to besieged families in the Four Towns of Madaya and Zabdani in Rural Damascus and Foaa and Kefraya in Rural Idlib as part of a joint interagency convoy with UN agencies and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC).
WFP country director for Syria Jakob Kern said that the organization has not been able to reach the besieged towns in five months, urging that the siege need be lifted so that the residents can start a normal. He added that as winter is coming, besides lacking of winter clothes, the residents have to burn carpets and furniture for cooking and producing fuel.
Izdiharis, a resident of Moadamiyeh in Rural Damascus said that in order to cook food for her children, she has to burn Styrofoam and bicycle tires. She added “we have been forced to use these tires to make fuel, since they contain petroleum. Although it is a very harmful way to make fuel and causes respiratory problems that could lead to death in children with breathing problems. And this is in order to keep alive.”
According to WFP, the convoy has brought extraordinary relief for 60,000 people who are in dire need of food and medical supplies, and have been cut off from humanitarian access for five months.
The agency warned that there are more than 250,000 people trapped in eastern Aleppo city who are cut off from food, water, medicine, and other essential supplies. The organization called on all parties to immediately open transport routes that allow unconditional, unimpeded, sustained and safe humanitarian access to those in eastern Aleppo and every family across Syria that needs support.
Across Syria, WFP provides food assistance to more than 4 million people every month. Thirty per cent of this food is delivered through cross-border, cross-line and air operations to areas that are not reachable through regular road deliveries.
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