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WFP / BEASLEY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
STORY: WFP / BEASLEY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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SOURCE: WFP /NRK
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 9-10 DECEMBER 2020, ROME, ITALY /FILE
WFP – 9-10 DECEMBER 2020, ROME, ITALY
1. Various shots, aerials of WFP HQ
NRK - 10 DECEMBER 2020, ROME, ITALY
2. Med shot, Lisa Clark presents Nobel Peace prize to David Beasley
3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme:
“This Nobel Peace Prize is more than a thank you. It is a call to action. Because of so many wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, and a global health pandemic that makes all of that exponentially worse —270 million people are marching toward starvation. Failure to address their needs will cause a hunger pandemic which will dwarf the impact of COVID. “
4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme:
“I don’t go to bed at night thinking about the children we saved, I go to bed weeping over the children we could not save. And, when we don’t have enough money, nor the access we need, we have to decide which children eat and which children do not eat, which children live, which children die. How would you like that job?”
WFP – 10 DECEMBER 2020, ROME, ITALY
5. Various shots, photo op, David Beasley with the Nobel Peace Prize
6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme:
“We are facing an unprecedented number of famines all around the world right now. 2021 is going to be catastrophic. However, we can avert famine if we get the money and access we need. And the Nobel Peace Prize is going to give us the awareness, help us bring attention to the world the problems that 690 million people are facing in terms of chronic hunger but also the 270 million people that are on the brink of starvation. We’ve got to get the money and this Nobel Peace prize in my opinion is going to allow our voice to be raised around the world so that we can end hunger”
7. Close up, Beasley with the medal
FILE – WFP 8 SEPTEMBER 2020, SANA’A, YEMEN
8. Various shots, child being tested for malnutrition and treated with special WFP fortified foods
FILE – WFP – 6 OCTOBER 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO
9. Testing children for malnourishment
FILE – WFP – 15 SEPTEMBER 2020, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
10. Wide shot, mothers with their children wait for malnutrition testing and to receive WFP special fortified foods.
11. Close up, child testing for malnutrition
FILE – WFP – 7 FEBRUARY 2020, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
12. Various shots, WFP storage warehouse and food rations loading onto truck for distribution in camps for displaced people in Borno State.
FILE – WFP - AUGUST 1973, CHAD
13. Photo, first airdrop of WFP food
FILE – WFP - APRIL 1984, CHAD
14. Photo, trucks ready for transportation of food assistance.
FILE – WFP - DECEMBER 1976, BURKINA FASO
15. Photo, child with USAID cooking oil canister
FILE – WFP - APRIL 1984, CHAD
16. Photo, children with School Meals food
FILE – WFP – SEPTEMBER 2004, DARFUR, SUDAN
17. Various shots, airdrop of food aid to refugees sheltering in Darfur's camps inaccessible to vehicles
FILE – WFP - JANUARY 2005, ACEH, INDONESIA
18. Aerial shot, devastation from tsunami
19. Various shots, food aid delivered by ship for survivors of the 2004 tsunami
FILE – WFP - NOVEMBER 2004, SAHARA DESERT
20. Various shots, WFP trucks in convoy along a humanitarian corridor through Libya and the Sahara Desert to refugees from Darfur in Chad
“This Nobel Peace Prize is more than a thank you. It is a call to action,” said the WFP’s Executive Director David Beasley in Rome on Thursday (10 Dec) while receiving the prestigious award on behalf of the World Food Programme.
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme is recognition of the important link between conflict and hunger and the critical role that food assistance plays in supporting the first step towards peace and stability.
The award puts the struggle of the 690 million people who go to bed hungry at the centre of the world’s attention, provides a platform to amplify their voices and creates momentum to mobilise support.
“The Nobel Peace Prize is going to give us the awareness, help us bring attention to the world the problems that 690 million people are facing in terms of chronic hunger but also the 270 million people that are on the brink of starvation. We’ve got to get the money and this Nobel Peace prize in my opinion is going to allow our voice to be raised around the world so that we can end hunger,” said Beasly.
With the combined help of UN and NGO partners in the field, as well as governments across the world, the WFP is reaching 100 million people with food assistance every year.
Beasley said: “I don’t go to bed at night thinking about the children we saved, I go to bed weeping over the children we could not save. And, when we don’t have enough money, nor the access we need, we have to decide which children eat and which children do not eat, which children live, which children die. How would you like that job?”
WFP currently faces a shortfall of around USD 3.7 billion in funding through April 2021 due to increased levels of need in communities that have been pushed into hunger as a result of the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Urgent funding is needed to address growing needs in countries like Yemen, South Sudan, Burkina Faso and north-east Nigeria that are teetering on the brink of famine.
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