MOZAMBIQUE / CYCLONE AID DISTRIBUTION

The World Food Programme (WFP) stepped up distributions in and around Beira today, with more airdrops of high-energy biscuits (HEBs) to isolated pockets of people stranded by the floodwaters, and the delivery of easy-to-prepare fortified food to displaced families sheltering in schools and other public buildings in the town of Dondo, 45 kilometers north east of the port city. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:55
• Production Date: 20 March 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: NATURAL DISASTERS
• Geographic Subject: MOZAMBIQUE
• MAMS Id: 2369791
• Parent Id: 2369791
• Alternate Title: unifeed190320c

Description

STORY: MOZAMBIQUE / CYCLONE AID DISTRIBUTION
TRT: 1:55
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 MARCH 2019, BEIRA, MOZAMBIQUE

Shotlist

1. Various shots, drone footage of destruction in Beira, including roof top of WFP warehouse
2. Various shots, arrival of MI8 UNHAS helicopter
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hugo du Plessis, Aviation Officer, World Food Programme:
“We are very happy that the first UNHAS helicopter has arrived today Wednesday 20th after several challenges to get through the weather from Uganda. This is the first of 3 MI8s arriving and we will hopefully expect a CASA 295 as well. This helicopter is equipped with a winch which is crucial for the rescue operation that is currently underway with the South African Airforce. We are hoping to push the rescue capability with this helicopter.”
4. Wide shot, arrival of MI8 UNHAS helicopter

Storyline

The World Food Programme (WFP) stepped up distributions in and around Beira today, with more airdrops of high-energy biscuits (HEBs) to isolated pockets of people stranded by the floodwaters and the delivery of easy-to-prepare fortified food to displaced families sheltering in schools and other public buildings in the town of Dondo, 45 kilometers north east of the port city.

An MI-8 transport helicopter contracted by the WFP-run United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) arrived in Beira on Wednesday to support rescue and relief operations – the first of three due there this week.

SOUNDBITE (English) Hugo du Plessis, Aviation Officer, World Food Programme:
“We are very happy that the first UNHAS helicopter has arrived today Wednesday 20th after several challenges to get through the weather from Uganda. This is the first of 3 MI8s arriving and we will hopefully expect a CASA 295 as well. This helicopter is equipped with a winch which is crucial for the rescue operation that is currently underway with the South African Airforce. We are hoping to push the rescue capability with this helicopter.”

Infants, children and elderly people hoisted to safety from rooftops across the vast floodplains and airlifted to Beira were also given HEBs as well as Plumpy Sup, a micronutrient-rich paste.

The procurement and dispatch of large quantities of food for the Mozambique crisis continued elsewhere in southern Africa, including cereals, vegetable oil, and fortified blends from South Africa and Zambia.

What needs to be an immense, wide-ranging international response has been facilitated by the government’s declaration on Tuesday of Mozambique’s first ever national emergency.