WFP / ROHINGYA RELOCATION

Humanitarian agencies began the relocation of over 9,000 Rohingya refugees who had been living in isolated border locations inside Bangladesh for the last few months, to enable them to more easily access assistance and basic services. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:17
• Production Date: 18 January 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: REFUGEE CAMPS; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: BANGLADESH; MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 2077299
• Parent Id: 2077299
• Alternate Title: unifeed180118e

Description

STORY: WFP / ROHINGYA RELOCATION
TRT: 02:17
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 7-13 JANUARY 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

Shotlist

13 JAN 2018, Balukhali Camp, Ukhiya, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

1. Various shots, new arrivals at the refugee camp
2. Various shots, construction at the camp
3. Wide shot, children playing

07 JANUARY 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rehan Asad, Chief of Staff, World Food Programme:
“Right now we are feeding around 655,000 all the new refugees plus the existing 200,000 who had been here, but the challenge is now the next phase and the next phase the main challenge is the monsoon. This whole land – All the camp has been built on the hilltop and in the valleys and Bangladesh is very known for the monsoon season and the high rainy (season). Our engineering team is currently assessing what is the main concern for us in the rainy season and one of the main questions is; how do we get the food to the distribution point? ”

13 JAN 2018, Balukhali Camp, Ukhiya, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

5. Various shots, construction sites
6. Various shots, logistic hub
7. Various shots, refugees waiting in line for medical tests and food
8. Various shots, refugees receiving food
9. Various shots, refugee family eating fortified biscuits
10. Various shots, refugee children eating

Storyline

On 14 January, humanitarian agencies began the relocation of over 9,000 Rohingya refugees who had been living in isolated border locations inside Bangladesh for the last few months, to enable them to more easily access assistance and basic services.

The first group of 200 people from Naikhongchhari (Bandarban district) were moved to Balukhali camp in buses where they received medical check-ups, protection assistance and WFP hot meals and HEBs, provided through WFP cooperating partner Action Contre la Faim (ACF).

Families were also provided with emergency relief items and shelter kits before being directed to their allotted their family plots.

The World Food Progromme (WFP) provides life-saving food to more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees every month in the Cox’s Bazar area, and gives nutrition support to the most vulnerable.

According to WFP, 655,500 new refugees arrived in the Cox’s Bazar area since August 2017 (ISCG figures). More than 80 percent of them need food assistance.

WFP has been rapidly expanding its emergency nutrition programmes to prevent malnutrition in young children and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in response to alarming rates of malnutrition.

Rations have been increased and adjusted to family size to ensure that larger families receive enough food. The food basket includes rice, pulses and oil, and bigger families receive larger rations and more often.

To support one million people through February 2018 in the Cox’s Bazar region, WFP urgently needs US$26 million. We are assisting new arrivals, people who were already living in camps near the border, and host communities.