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STORY: WFP / YEMEN HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 2:50
SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3-8 FEBRUARY 2019, SANA’A / HODEIDAH / HAJJAH, YEMEN
5 FEBRUARY 2019, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
1. Driving shots, barricades and rubble in streets
7 FEBRUARY 2019, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
2. Wide shot, people outside Al Thawra Hospital
3. Wide shot, women walking in hallways
4. Wide shot, mother sitting on hospital bed rocking child
5. Close up, child
6. Med shot, mother holding malnourished child
7. Med shot, malnourished child on hospital bed
8. Med shot, Mlambo speaking to mother
9. Close up, malnourished child
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Trust Mlambo, Nutritionist, World Food Programme:
“First of all, I think we will have needless loss of lives for these children that would have been acutely malnourished. In the long term, you would expect that the productivity of those children to really be affected because they would have grown up without a proper nutrition base within their bodies. So, in terms of being able to resist diseases and being productive, it’s going to be very challenging. So, it’s key that we protect and serve these children.”
8 FEBRUARY 2019, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
11. Driving shot, day laborers looking for work
12. Various shots, woman trying to harvest from arid land
3 FEBRUARY 2019, SANA’A, YEMEN
13. Close up, dough being placed in oven at bakery
14. Wide shot, bakers making bread
15. Close up, bread being pilled
5 FEBRUARY 2019, HAJJAH, YEMEN
16. Wide shot, health clinic exterior
17. Med shot, Doctor checking previously severely malnourished child
18. Close up, indicator showing child is moderately malnourished
19. Med shot, child feeding brother special peanut-based food
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Rahman, Yemeni father:
“Because of the war, there isn’t any transportation, there isn’t any medical care. It is malnutrition throughout. It’s like a famine over all. Kids all around the country are suffering.”
21. Pan left, Abdul Rahman hold child walking with daughter down hill
The World Food Programme (WFP) said its emergency response in Yemen was its largest anywhere in the world as it was aiming to feed some 12 million of the most hungry and vulnerable people each month.
WFP said it was targeting the most vulnerable and food insecure people in Yemen adding that this level of response was vital to prevent the country slipping into famine.
Some 20 million people in Yemen face crippling shortages of food, according to a food security assessment (IPC) carried out in late 2018. WFP said these people require urgent and sustained food assistance to survive.
Even with food assistance, nearly 16 million people remain food insecure – struggling on a daily basis to feed themselves. Without intervention by WFP and other humanitarian organizations, 238,000 Yemenis would be facing famine.
WFP said Yemen’s food security crisis is entirely man-made. It stressed that urgent measures are needed to stabilize prices and rebuild Yemenis’ capacity to secure the basics of life. Prices of essential goods have stabilized in recent months but remain much higher pre-conflict levels.
2.05 million children in Yemen are acutely malnourished, of whom 360,000 suffer from severe acute malnutrition. 1.1 million pregnant and lactating women are acutely malnourished.
WFP said one in three children and one in five pregnant and breastfeeding women are at risk of acute malnutrition.
A child dies every 10 minutes from preventable causes, including malnutrition and vaccine-preventable diseases, with acute malnutrition attributed directly and indirectly to almost half of deaths among children under five.
WFP said half of children in Yemen are stunted due to chronic malnutrition and stunting rates have increased one percent per year since the beginning of the crisis.
Stunting affects a child’s growth and brain development, irreversibly, and will therefore have a damning effect on Yemen’s productivity and GDP for generations to come, even after the conflict ends.
In 2018 WFP reached 939,000 children under five and 670,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women to prevent acute malnutrition and treat moderate acute malnutrition.
WFP said it was working on plans to scale up efforts to reach 620,000 children and 710,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women (1.33 million total) in January 2019 with lifesaving nutrition support.
WFP said without adequate resources and safe access, it would be unable to reach children whose lives are at imminent risk.
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