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DRC / FOOD EMERGENCY
STORY: DRC / FOOD EMERGENCY
TRT: 2:55
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / TSHILUBA / NATS
DATELINE: 27- 29 OCTOBER 2017, TSHIKAPA, KASAI REGION, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
27 OCTOBER 2017, TSHIKAPA, KASAI REGION, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
1. Aerial shot, Tshikapa
2. Med shot, driving through flood damaged roads
3. Various shots, burnt and destroyed homes
27 OCTOBER 2017, JICHACHA, 35 KM FROM TSHIKAPA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
4. Wide shot, Sarah Ntumba walking towards her burnt home
5. SOUNDBITE (Tshiluba) Sarah Ntumba, Displaced Person:
“We have many problems here, our houses have been burnt, people have been beheaded, everything was destroyed in the village, we are in serious trouble here, we are hungry, we have to sleep under the stars, we don’t even have food.”
27 OCTOBER 2017, CENTRE DE SANTE KASALA, TSHIKAPA DISTRICT, KASAI REGION, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
6. Wide shot, mothers with their children waiting to have their babies tested for malnutrition
7. Various shots, baby tested for malnutrition
8. SOUNDBITE (Tshiluba) Bombo Kabeya, Displaced Person:
“We could not find food or anything to eat, we fled to the bush running from one place to another for one year. There was not drinkable water and no food.”
28 OCTOBER 2017, MBUMBA KAMANDA, TSHIKAPA DISTRICT, KASAI REGION, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
9. Wide shot, first WFP distribution in this village
29 OCTOBER 2017, NYANZALE, NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
10. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We only have one percent of the funding from the donors for the money that we need, 3.2 million are at severe risk as we speak, hundreds of thousands of children are at on the brink of starvation, so we need to ramp up. We are there, we are ready to go, we need the donors to step in now, if they don’t not only people are going to die children are going to die, you are going to have a long term chaos that is going to cost a lot more.”
27 OCTOBER 2017, TSHIKAPA DISTRICT, KASAI REGION, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)
11. Wide shot, WFP food distribution
With 3.2 million people severely hungry in the conflict-ravaged Greater Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Food Programme (WFP) is ramping up emergency assistance to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. The organisation plans to reach almost half a million people by end-December and accelerate the surge at the start of 2018.
At least 1.4 million people have been forced from their homes: they are now mostly elsewhere in Greater Kasai, with some in neighbouring Angola. Some 60 percent of the displaced are children. Most are living with host families or in the forest, with little access to food or services of any kind.
Sarah Ntumba and her children were able to escape when militia attacked the village, in April 2017. Her husband as well as many others were killed and decapitated. She and her children are back to the village but don’t have a place to stay.
SOUNDBITE (Tshiluba) Sarah Ntumba, Displaced Person:
“We have many problems here, our houses have been burnt, people have been beheaded, everything was destroyed in the village, we are in serious trouble here, we are hungry, we have to sleep under the stars, we don’t even have food.”
The latest WFP / FAO data shows an alarming 30 percent rise over the past year of acute malnutrition in Kasai due to the violence. The IPC (Intergrated Food Security Phase Classification) indicates areas with Phase 4 levels (one phase below famine.)
Djoboya, is 40 months old and is severely malnourished, she weighs 7.5 kg.
She her mother Bombo Kabeya, and 5 brothers and sisters have been living in the bush for almost a year after their village was attacked by the militia.
WFP distributes specialized nutritious food for children and breastfeeding mothers.
SOUNDBITE (Tshiluba) Bombo Kabeya, Displaced Person:
“We could not find food or anything to eat, we fled to the bush running from one place to another for one year. There was not drinkable water and no food.”
Despite its gravity, Kasai’s humanitarian crisis has received little attention. Sufficient support from the international community for the scale-up is essential.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We only have one percent of the funding from the donors for the money that we need, 3.2 million are at severe risk as we speak, hundreds of thousands of children are at on the brink of starvation, so we need to ramp up. We are there, we are ready to go, we need the donors to step in now, if they don’t not only people are going to die children are going to die, you are going to have a long term chaos that is going to cost a lot more.”
To date, the operation has been entirely underwritten by internal WFP borrowings and advances, but WFP’s present food supplies are set to run out in November, US$27 million is required immediately to ensure the provision of emergency food assistance until the end of December at programmed levels, with a total of US$135 million needed through mid-2018.
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Each year, WFP assists some 80 million people in around 80 countries.
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