BANGLADESH / ROHINGYA MONSOON

The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was working with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to prepare them for the upcoming monsoon season and improve their food security. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:29
• Production Date: 3 May 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: BANGLADESH; MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 2143864
• Parent Id: 2143864
• Alternate Title: unifeed180503d

Description

STORY: BANGLADESH / ROHINGYA MONSOON
TRT: 01:29
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 03 MAY 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH / RECENT

Shotlist

27 April 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

1. Wide shot, children playing in flooded area
2. Med shot, child walking through flood waters
3. Wide shot, girl pumping water

28 April 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

4. Wide shot, people walking through camp
5. Various shots, refugees digging

03 MAY 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Guest, Emergency Coordinator in Cox’s Bazar, World Food Programme:
“We need to ensure that our food distribution points are secure and the walkways to those food distribution points are accessible during that time. So, there is work going on with slopes stabilization to make sure the beneficiaries can get to those food distribution points.
There is also engineering work going on, where we are preparing land for refugees who are currently located in high risk areas, which are high risk of flooding, will be relocated to those areas on the western side of the camp where the land is more secure.”

28 April 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

7. Wide shot, workers building WFP logistics base near camp

24 April 2018, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH

8. Wide shot, camp
9. Wide shot, refugees preparing camp for rain
10. Med shot, refugee digging

Storyline

The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was working with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to prepare them for the upcoming monsoon season and improve their food security.

WFP said hundreds of Rohingya workers are involved in Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) activities in exchange for a cash transfer that also improves the food needs of their families. It said work was being done to protect food distribution points and e-voucher shops, rehabilitate roads, stabilize slopes in high-risk areas and clearing drainage canals.

WFP said it urgently needs 213 million USD to feed more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar for the rest of 2018.

The Government of Bangladesh allocated 800 acres of land to relocate an estimated 30,000 refugees. This land includes hills, valleys and steep slopes, however WFP said only a small portion of it can be turned in to useable land.

WFP said 200,000 of the 623,000 refugees in Kutupalong camp are at particular risk of flooding and mudslides during the upcoming monsoon season. The monsoon season in Bangladesh peaks in July and normally continues through September.