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SOMALIA / DROUGHT FOOD AID
STORY: SOMALIA / DROUGHT FOOD AID
TRT: 03:15
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 9-14 MARCH 2017, MOGADISHU / GARDO / BOSSASO / PUNTLAND, SOMALIA
14 MARCH 2017, PUNTLAND, SOMALIA
1. Various shots, aerials of dry rivers in previously pastoral areas
13 MARCH 2017, GARDO, SOMALIA
2. Wide shot, woman walking across dry land
3. Med shot, herder with dry land in background
10 MARCH 2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
4. Various shots, rubble of Peace Hotel
11 MARCH 2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
5. Tilt down, mother holding child at nutrition clinic
6. Med shot, mother putting child down
7. Various shots, children being checked for malnutrition
8. Wide shot, mother holding child speaking to healthcare workers
9. Various shots, mother feed child
9 MARCH 2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
10. Pan right, KM13 camp for displaced
11. Various shots, mothers holding children
12. Wide shot, aid worker distributing high energy biscuits
13. Various shots, women and children eating high energy biscuits
14. UPSOUND (Somali) Anab Mohamed Abdullahi, displaced mother:
“I had four children, two died on the journey here and two are sick. I am eight months pregnant. I don’t have shoes. I don’t have water or food. I don’t have anything”
15. Various shots, aid workers registering women for SCOPE cash cards
13 MARCH 2017, BOSSASO, SOMALIA
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurent Bukera, Somalia Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“WFP has deployed a new mechanism using a digital card that we are all very familiar with in the modern economy. It’s a card which the World Food Programme is loading with funds that allow the most vulnerable families to access shops across Somalia. A network of 700 shops has been established.”
13 MARCH 2017, GARDO, SOMALIA
17. Various shots, woman shopping for food using SCOPE card
13 MARCH 2017, BOSSASO, SOMALIA
18. Various shots, displaced woman cooking rice for family
19. Med shot, children sitting against wall
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was in a stronger position to respond to the prospects of famine in Somalia then it was in 2011 when some 260,000 people died of hunger, but access for many humanitarian agencies remained dangerously limited in some of the worst-affected areas.
WFP said it was able to reach almost a million people in Somalia last month using a combination of food distributions and digital cash cards called SCOPE, more than twice the number of people reached in January. The Programme stressed close to three million people could not meet their daily food requirements and required urgent humanitarian assistance; while another 3.3 million Somalis were in need of livelihood support to keep from sliding into crisis. It estimated 363,000 children under the age of five were acutely malnourished, including 71,000 who were severely malnourished and face a high risk of disease and death. In some areas, more than 30 percent of the children under 5 were acutely malnourished passing the emergency threshold of 15 percent.
WFP attributed the worsening food crisis in rural areas following consecutive seasons of poor rainfall and low river water levels which resulted in near total crop failures, widespread shortage of water and pasture, and consequent increases in livestock deaths. It said food access among poor households was rapidly diminishing as local staple food prices continued to rise sharply and livestock prices decrease significantly.
WFP said it was airlifting essential nutrition supplies into hard-to-reach locations as well as high-energy biscuits and other supplementary food for immediate assistance to drought-affected people who are on the move. It has also been using the SCOPE digital card which allows family to access local shops. WFP said it urgently needs more than US$290 million in order to cover the additional needs for more than 2 million people in need of food assistance and provide specialized nutrition support to mothers and children.
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