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WFP / COVID-19 RESPONSE
STORY: WFP / COVID-19 RESPONSE
TRT: 3:28
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / MOORE / NATS
DATELINE: VARIOUS DATES AND LOCATIONS
10 FEBRUARY 2020, TAIZ, YEMEN
1. Wide shots, destroyed buildings, busy streets
03 APRIL 2020, SANAA, YEMEN
2. Wide shot, women in que 2 metres apart
3. Wide shot, person sanitizing hands at food distribution point
4. Med shot, person sanitizing hands
OCTOBER 2019, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
5. Aerial shot, refugee settlements
6. Tracking, busy street in camp
03 APRIL 2020, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
7. Med shot, health worker taking woman’s temperature
8. Wide shot, woman picking up food aid
05 APRIL 2020, SOUTH CARONLINA, UNITED STATES
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“At the World Food Programme, we are assisting 85 to 95 million people throughout the year. Whether it’s war zones or climate extremes or just poverty-stricken areas, we are there helping people, changing lives and saving lives. Now that we have a pandemic, it makes our work that much more critical. In fact, if we lose our funding or lose access, we could see 150,000 people could lose their lives on a daily basis over many months. This is why our operations must continue they are critical, whether supply chain emergency operations for food, delivering emergency medical supplies for WHO or UNICEF throughout the world, we are there cooperating and working with nations and leaders to save lives and change lives.”
02 APRIL 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO
10. Wide shot, women at food distribution point standing apart
11. Various shots, women wearing masks
12. Med shot, health worker taking woman’s temperature
13. Various shots, people taking food aid
14. SOUNDBITE (MOORE) Mariam Sawadogo, displaced person:
“At the beginning, when the armed men raided our village it was to steal our cattle and poultry. When they started killing people, men fled the village and they were later followed by women. When we reached Kelbo, they were killing people there too, so we had to flee again.”
15. Various shots, Mariam cooking for family
16. SOUNDBITE (MOORE) Mariam Sawadogo, displaced person:
“Our habits have changed because of this disease (COVID-19). Now we wash our hands more regularly with soap before eating or drinking water. We strictly follow the sanitary rules that they taught to us to avoid the spread of the virus.”
17. Various shots, children washing hands
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was vital that at this time of global crisis, WFP maintain its food assistance programmes which offer a lifeline to 87 million vulnerable people around the world.
WFP said it is leading global logistics in support of health and humanitarian responders around the world as they scramble to curb the spread of the virus and mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“At the World Food Programme, we are assisting 85 to 95 million people throughout the year. Whether it’s war zones or climate extremes or just poverty-stricken areas, we are there helping people, changing lives and saving lives. Now that we have a pandemic, it makes our work that much more critical. In fact, if we lose our funding or lose access, we could see 150,000 people could lose their lives on a daily basis over many months. This is why our operations must continue they are critical, whether supply chain emergency operations for food, delivering emergency medical supplies for WHO or UNICEF throughout the world, we are there cooperating and working with nations and leaders to save lives and change lives.”
The Programme said it was establishing humanitarian hubs and regional staging areas to facilitate the dispatch of essential cargo, setting up air transport links, contracting charter vessels where shipping has been disrupted, and providing passenger air and Medevac services for humanitarian staff. These will be built on WFP’s global network of strategically-placed Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD), and will provide the logistics backbone for global efforts.
WFP said the pandemic is affecting countries in different ways, adding that it was providing real-time tracking of changes in the areas of food security, health access and markets in vulnerable countries. Data and analysis are visualized through web-based platforms such as the Hunger Map Live. Monitoring will be complemented with early warning and security analysis of how the pandemic is impacting food and other vulnerabilities.
On 25 March, the United Nations Office Coordinating Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched the Global Inter-Agency COVID-19 Response Plan featuring an appeal for USD two billion to help the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. WFP’s requirement as outlined in plan is USD 350 million. This is needed to fund common humanitarian services including vital aviation, shipping, storage and transport, as well as engineering services in areas affected by the pandemic. The OCHA appeal is additional to WFP’s existing plans to provide food assistance to 87 million people in 2020.
WFP has separately asked donors to expedite an estimated USD 1.9 billion in already pledged but not yet received contributions so that forward procurement and pre-positioning of three months’ worth of buffer stocks can be accelerated.
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