SYRIA / ALEPPO FOOD AID

Amid the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Aleppo, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has rushed in to provide hot meals, bread, and food rations to thousands of Syrians affected by the brutal conflict in eastern Aleppo. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:52
• Production Date: 19 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: FOOD SUPPLY
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1800574
• Parent Id: 1800574
• Alternate Title: unifeed161219b

Description

STORY: SYRIA / ALEPPO FOOD AID
TRT: 01:52
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 17, 19 DECEMBER 2016, AL MASHATEIH, EAST ALEPPO AND DAMASCUS, SYRIA

Shotlist

17 DECEMBER 2016, EAST ALEPPO, SYRIA
1 Various shots, showing destruction and bombed buildings
2. Pan left, people queueing to receive food supplies
3. Med shot, people receiving boxes with food supplies
4. Various shots, women and children receiving hot meals (lentils and lamb meat stew) and bread
5. Wide shot, people queueing

19 DECEMBER 2016, DAMASCUS, SYRIA

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdirahman Meygag, Deputy Country Director in Syria, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Over the last few days the World Food Programme has provided people fleeing east Aleppo with hot meals, fresh bread and ready to eat food parcels, now that we are able to access eastern Aleppo we are rushing in to support thousands of Syrians inside eastern Aleppo, who are in need of immediate assistance.”

17 DECEMBER 2016, EAST ALEPPO, SYRIA

7. Various shots, food distribution

Storyline

Amid the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Aleppo, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has rushed in to provide hot meals, bread, and food rations to thousands of Syrians affected by the brutal conflict in eastern Aleppo.

More than 20,000 people displaced by the fighting in east Aleppo are receiving hot meals and fresh bread every day, and WFP has mobilized food stocks to meet the food needs of up to 150,000 people.

So far, 14,000 displaced people and returnees have received family food rations and ready-to-eat parcels in various parts of Aleppo city and its surroundings. WFP is providing bread as nearly all bakeries inside eastern Aleppo have been destroyed due to constant bombardment and airstrikes.

In an interview today (19 Dec) in Damascus, WFP’s Deputy Country Director in Syria, Abdirahman Meygag, said “over the last few days the World Food Programme has provided people fleeing east Aleppo with hot meals, fresh bread and ready to eat food parcels, now that we are able to access eastern Aleppo we are rushing in to support thousands of Syrians inside eastern Aleppo, who are in need of immediate assistance.”

Many of those that WFP has assisted are in a desperate state. In many cases, people have lost homes, their livelihoods, and even family members and friends.

Beyond Aleppo, WFP is supporting more than four million Syrians affected by the conflict. There are nearly one million people residing in areas that remain besieged that WFP cannot reach.