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YEMEN / FOOD AID
STORY: YEMEN / FOOD AID
TRT: 02:42
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20-23 OCTOBER 2016, SANA’A / HAJJAH / HODEIDA, YEMEN
20 OCTOBER 2016, SANA’A, YEMEN
1. Wide shot, woman and children walking through destroyed neighbourhood
2. Wide shot, destroyed car among rubble
3. Med shot, children standing by destroyed car
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hameeda Fadhel, mother:
“I swear we are getting food from the neighbours. They have a garden. May God reward them. The car was destroyed.”
5. Close up, child cooking tomatoes
6. Med shot, child cooking tomatoes
7. Close up, Hameeda crying
8. Wide shot, two men riding motorcycle on damaged highway
9. Pan left, damaged road
22-23 OCTOBER 2016, HAJJAH, YEMEN
10. Wide shots, mountains
11. Med shot, women carrying bundles
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan, farmer:
“The millet is ready for harvest and we wouldn’t have had to buy anything after, but a rocket landed and burned it all; that hole, the big one over there.”
13. Wide shot, hospital entrance
14. Med shot, mother sitting by malnourished daughter
15. Close up, malnourished child
16. Close up, child being checked for malnutrition
17. Wide shot, Doctor checking child
22-23 OCTOBER 2016, HODEIDA, YEMEN
18. Wide shot, ships docked at port
19. Wide shot, food aid unloaded onto dock
20. Tilt down, destroyed building
21. Wide shot, Med shot, doctors and staff checking child
22. Close up, cereal
23. Med shot, woman given food aid
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Muhannad Hadi, Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and East Europe, World Food Programme (WFP):
“What we are looking for is an increase in support from the international community to make sure that WFP gets access to the entire country, but also to have the means to reach those people and to provide them with food.”
22 OCTOBER 2016, HAJJAH, YEMEN
25. Wide shot, people in que to receive food aid
26. Med shot, woman sitting on ground
27. Wide shot, woman walking away with bag of wheat
The World Food Programme (WFP) expressed concern about the deteriorating food security and growing rates of child malnutrition in the “hard-to-reach areas” of Yemen.
A WFP team which recently visited impoverished neighbourhoods in the Hajjah and Hodeida governorates described a “very dramatic situation” as people struggle daily to secure their food needs.The team visited hospitals, nutrition and health centres and saw many cases of malnourished children arriving from remote areas.
Hameeda Fadhel said her family relied on their neighbour’s garden for food.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hameeda Fadhel, mother:
“I swear we are getting food from the neighbours. They have a garden. May God reward them. The car was destroyed.”
WFP said Yemen had one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world even before the latest conflict. In some areas like Hodeida, Global Acute Malnutrition rates among children under five was as high as 31 percent, more than double the emergency threshold of 15 percent. WFP said almost half of the children countrywide are irreversibly stunted.
The agency said the economic impact of the conflict was a “catastrophe” for Yemen, already the poorest country in the Middle East. Millions of public sector employees no longer receive their salaries and struggle to make ends meet. Even before the conflict escalated and imports declined dramatically, Yemen imported some 90 percent of its food needs. Farmers have also been heavily affected.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan, farmer:
“The millet is ready for harvest and we wouldn’t have had to buy anything after, but a rocket landed and burned it all; that hole, the big one over there.”
They also said insecurity makes access to some of Yemen's malnutrition hotspots a challenge. While food distribution in some of areas is ongoing, WFP said it needed sustained access to the most impoverished governorates, particularly Ma'rib, Al-Jawf and Taiz.
WFP Regional Director Muhannad Hadi said the conflict in Yemen was taking a devastating toll particularly on women and children. He said hunger was increasing on a daily basis and people had exhausted all their survival strategies.
SOUNDBITE (English) Muhannad Hadi, Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and East Europe, World Food Programme (WFP):
“What we are looking for is an increase in support from the international community to make sure that WFP gets access to the entire country, but also to have the means to reach those people and to provide them with food.”
WFP said it aims to treat and help prevent malnutrition among some 700,000 children under five, pregnant women and nursing mothers. WFP said it needed over $257 million to provide food assistance in Yemen until March 2017. It would take four months from the time WFP receives funds until food can be shipped to the country and disturbed to the families who need it. As of last June, some 14.1 million people in Yemen are food insecure, including 7 million who are severely food insecure. In some governorates, 70 percent of the population struggle to feed themselves.
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