NORTHERN IRAQ / FOOD AID

Since the start of the Mosul offensive WFP has provided food to more than 120,000 people in camps like this one and in newly recaptured areas. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:41
• Production Date: 14 November 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ
• MAMS Id: 1773715
• Parent Id: 1773715
• Alternate Title: unifeed161114a

Description

STORY: NORTHERN IRAQ / FOOD AID
TRT: 2:41
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 11, 13 NOVEMBER 2016, QAYYARAH, IRAQ

Shotlist

11 NOVEMBER 2016, QAYYARAH, IRAQ (60 KM from Mosul)

1. Various shots, clouds of black smoke, oil wells on fire
2. Wide shot, flag on the hospital turned black from smoke
3. Wide shot, children playing among the destroyed buildings
4. Med shot, children playing among the destroyed buildings
5. Wide shot, tents in displaced camp
6. Close up, children
7. Med shot, young man getting haircut and shave
8. Various shots, newly arrived Iraqis at Jadah camp wait to get settled in tents
9. Med shot, women make bread with WFP flour
10. Various shots, Ibrahim and his family eating lunch
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Marie Vennize, Iraq Spokesperson, World Food Programme:
“The World Food Programme follows the frontline and we position ourselves so that we can provide people with food as soon as they reach a safe area. The first thing we do is to make sure they get some food ready to eat so that we meet their immediate needs, and then after that we start providing them with family food rations so that they can cook their own meals.”
12. Various shots, WFP handing out rations

13 NOVEMBER 2016, DEBAGA CAMP

13. Wide shot, tent in Debaga camp
14. Med shot, Sammah’s children inside tent
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sammah:
“We only had access to crude oil for cooking, so the food was often inedible and tasted awful.
I fed my daughter bread and water, sometimes with tea, but now at the camp, we are able to eat properly - something we never imagined would be possible again.”
16. Wide shot, Sammah talking ot her daughter
17. Med shot, Sammah feeding her daughter
18. Close up, Sammah’ s daughter

Storyline

Smoke from the 19 oil fields set ablaze by ISIL when they retreated.

While many people have sought safety in newly opened camps, thousands of families remain in their homes or are staying with nearby host communities.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing urgently-needed food assistance to over 120,000 people fleeing the conflict in Mosul, including a distribution on Sunday to 25,000 people in Gogjali, the first neighbourhood retaken inside Mosul city.

The agency is also working with partners to reach families that remain trapped in Mosul and newly recovered areas.

A shave and haircut, the first thing many men do when they reach the camps, having been forced to grow beards under ISIL.

Hamadi and his family arrived a few days ago after their village Imam Garbi was recaptured.

SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Marie Vennize, Iraq Spokesperson, World Food Programme:
“The World Food Programme follows the frontline and we position ourselves so that we can provide people with food as soon as they reach a safe area. The first thing we do is to make sure they get some food ready to eat so that we meet their immediate needs, and then after that we start providing them with family food rations so that they can cook their own meals.”

Sammah is from Badoush, she fled ISIL along with her husband and daughter and found shelter in Debaga camp.

Before fleeing the village she and her family could not afford to buy any food apart from bulgar, rice and bread because of the increased prices.

Her daughter, Nabah, was born shortly after their village was taken by ISIL in 2014.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sammah:
“We only had access to crude oil for cooking, so the food was often inedible and tasted awful. I fed my daughter bread and water, sometimes with tea, but now at the camp, we are able to eat properly - something we never imagined would be possible again.”

WFP currently has enough stocks of immediate response rations outside Mosul to provide food for 2.1 million people for three days and almost half a million family food rations, which is enough for 2.5 million people for one month.

More than 3 million Iraqis have been displaced by conflict since mid-June 2014. In response, WFP has provided food assistance to more than 1 million vulnerable, displaced Iraqis across all 18 governorates.