UN / PHILIPPINES TYPHOON RAI

As the Philippines continues its recovery from the devastating damage caused by Typhoon Rai, the United Nations has increased its fundraising target to $169 million from the original $107 million requested following the 12 December storm. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:23
• Production Date: 2 February 2022
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: FOOD SECURITY; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; NATURAL DISASTERS; TYPHOONS
• Geographic Subject: PHILIPPINES
• MAMS Id: 2705751
• Parent Id: 2705751
• Alternate Title: unifeed220202a

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STORY: UN / PHILIPPINES TYPHOON RAI
TRT: 01:23
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 01 FEBRUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

01 FEBRUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room dais, Breda Barton on screen
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Breda Barton, Representative in the Philippines, World Food Program (WFP)
“There was a six-month appeal that had been issued, 107 million, this has now been revised upwards to 169 million just seven weeks following the typhoon, and so far, 51 million has been received. So, you can see we still have a long way to go.”
4. Wide shot, dais, Barton on screen
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Breda Barton, Representative in the Philippines, World Food Program (WFP)
“In this type of typhoon, because it has such a vast area, the area is as large as Austria, it made nine land falls within two days. So, the extent of the damage, you know, sort of surprisingly, still coming out, and we're still getting reports of more houses being damaged, more agricultural land being destroyed. And you know, indeed, there was 11 out of 17 of the country's regions that that had been hit.”
6. Wide shot, dais, Barton on screen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Breda Barton, Representative in the Philippines, World Food Program (WFP)
“This is happening amidst the pandemic, which is really a calamity within a crisis. We're seeing it of course, amongst communities that are being affected, people living in close quarters in evacuation centers, and of course, even our own humanitarian workers. I had five emergency experts come in from abroad and all five of them have gone down with COVID. And so many of us are struggling, as well as the government to have sufficient staff to respond to the crisis”
8. Wide shot, dais, Barton on screen

Storyline

As the Philippines continues its recovery from the devastating damage caused by Typhoon Rai, the United Nations today (2 Feb) increased its fundraising target to $169 million from the original $107 million requested following the 12 December storm.

Speaking via video teleconference, the World Food Program (WFP) representative in the Philippines, Breda Barton, said, “so far 51 million has been received. So, you can see we still have a long way to go.”

Barton said, “in this type of typhoon, because it has such a vast area, the area is as large as Austria, it made nine land falls within two days. So, the extent of the damage, you know, sort of surprisingly, still coming out, and we're still getting reports of more houses being damaged, more agricultural land being destroyed. And you know, indeed, there was 11 out of 17 of the country's regions that that had been hit.”

The WFP official said, “this is happening amidst the pandemic, which is really a calamity within a crisis,” and is affecting “people living in close quarters in evacuation centers, and of course, even our own humanitarian workers.”

She noted that all five in a group of emergency experts that had arrived from abroad contracted COVID-19.

She said, “many of us are struggling, as well as the government to have sufficient staff to respond to the crisis.”

Over 400 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displayed by Typhoon Rai (known as Typhoon Odette in the Philippines.”