ALEPPO / FOOD AID

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is stepping up its support to tens of thousands of displaced Syrians returning home to eastern Aleppo, providing families with hot meals, ready-to-eat canned food and staple food items such as rice, beans, vegetable oil and lentils. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:47
• Production Date: 31 January 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1823467
• Parent Id: 1823467
• Alternate Title: unifeed170131b

Description

STORY: ALEPPO / FOOD AID
TRT: 2:47
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC /ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 17, 26 JANUARY 2017 ALEPPO, SYRIA

Shotlist

17 JAN 2017 EAST ALEPPO, SYRIA

1. Tracking shot, destroyed buildings
2. Wide shot, street with destroyed buildings

26 JAN 2017 MASHATIEH, EAST ALEPPO, SYRIA

3. Med shot, people in rubble
4. Various shots, child cleaning debries
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ro’a Farwati, 13 year-old:
“We are cleaning our home, to rebuild it and stay in it. We are removing rubble because we will come back to live in it. We will build Syria as it used to be even better than it used to be.”
6. Various shots, interior of Ro’a’s destroyed home
7. Wide shot, grocery stalls outside
8. Med shot, boy, cooking kebabs
9. Wide shot, Tariq El Bab area of East Aleppo
10. Various shots, food distribution
11. Wide shot, destruction
12. Wide shot, queue
13. Various shots, hot food distribution
14. Med shot, boys wheeling a cart with water
15. Med shot, Kern monitoring a food distribution
16. SOUNDBITE English) Jakob Kern, WFP Syria Country Director:
“The destruction is immense, if you look around there’s hardly a house that is still intact and it’s surprising that people are actually living in these ruins. There is no water, there’s no electricity, there’s nothing to cook.”
17. Wide shot, fresh bread on conveyor belt
18. Various shots, WFP staff distributing bread

Storyline

Much of the infrastructure in eastern Aleppo city has been heavily damaged, leaving people returning to their homes in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.

Some 157,000 people fled eastern Aleppo last November as military operations devastated large parts of the city.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) supplied nine public kitchens with 20 metric tons of food, which is being used to prepare hot meals twice a day for 40,000 people in eastern Aleppo.

WFP is also providing ready-to-eat food for 45,000 returnees and displaced people in eastern Aleppo city. Additionally, over 10,000 displaced people sheltering in western Aleppo city have received food rations.

The agency also provides 45 metric tons of wheat flour daily to partners operating eight bakeries in Aleppo city to produce and distribute bread to people in the formerly besieged areas of the eastern part of Aleppo city such as Mshateyah, Tareeq Al Bab and Al Bayyadah.

Elsewhere in Syria access to besieged and hard-to-reach areas has worsened over past several weeks due to security restrictions.

Notably, only two inter-agency convoys have taken place in the last two months, one to Khan Al-Sheh in December and another to Moadamiya in January.