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SOUTH SUDAN / FOOD AID AIRDROP
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / FOOD AID AIRDROP
TRT: 01:54
SOURCE: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 MAY 2018, KANDAK, AYOD COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, WFP emergency response helicopter hovering as local residents approach
2. Med shot, local residents waiting for helicopter to land
3. Wide shot, local residents approaching helicopter after landing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Erika Jorgensen, WFP Regional Director, East and Central Africa:
“The biggest challenge is, when you look around, accessibility. There are simply no roads here, people can’t go to the market, people can’t go to clinics, there is no access to food and the only way we can help out here is by doing airdrops.”
5. Wide shot, WFP Ilyushin-76 plane flying towards drop zone
6. Various shots, WFP drop zone coordinator liaises with the crew making sure the drop zone is clear
7. Aerial shot, drop zone
8. Tilt down, Ilyushin-76 plane airdropping food
9. Various shots, community members collecting and preparing the dropped food for distribution
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Erika Jorgensen, WFP Regional Director, East and Central Africa:
“We have to face it, there is competition for funding, right now. WFP for the next 6 months, if we have to meet every single thing we wanted to meet every single person we wanted to assist we are lacking more than 300 million US Dollars.”
11. Various shots, community members collecting food bags
The World Food Programme (WFP) is pre-positioning food before many communities in South Sudan become inaccessible by road as the May-July lean season arrives during the rainy season which cuts access to 60 percent of the country from mid-May.
South Sudan’s food security situation is alarming with as many as 7.1 million people – more than half the population – expected to experience severe food gaps. Without immediate food assistance, their situation is expected to deteriorate.
Kandak, in Ayod County, is a community where people have sought safety from fighting.
In total on this day 60 metric tonnes (mt) of assorted food commodities were dropped in Kandak.
SOUNDBITE (English) Erika Jorgensen, WFP Regional Director, East and Central Africa:
“The biggest challenge is, when you look around, accessibility. There are simply no roads here, people can’t go to the market, people can’t go to clinics, there is no access to food and the only way we can help out here is by doing airdrops.”
WFP and its partners are working to scale-up food assistance to reach up to 4.8 million people in the worst affected areas, at the height of the response in June and July.
Unless a sustained and comprehensive humanitarian response is mounted, millions are at risk in this fifth straight year of conflict.
WFP has so far prepositioned 105,000 mt - equivalent to 75 percent of the 140,000 mt target and is now racing against time to complete the exercise before the onset of the main rainy season.
Since 2014, WFP and key partners have pioneered an Integrated Rapid Response Mechanism (IRRM) whose emergency mobile teams reach people in remote, isolated areas. Traveling usually by helicopter and sleeping in tents, these teams register people in need and clear drop zones so WFP can airdrop food, nutrition supplies and other urgently-needed items from its contracted Ilyushin-76 aircraft where necessary.
WFP prioritizes its assistance to areas in greatest need and – where necessary – airdrops food when it is impossible to bring food in by road or river because of insecurity or the rains.
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