WFP / SYRIA EARTHQUAKES

Within 36 hours of the earthquakes, the World Food Programme (WFP) had provided partners on the ground inside Northwest Syria with enough ready to eat meals to feed 40,000 people for a week. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:30
• Production Date: 9 February 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: EARTHQUAKES; FOOD SECURITY; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 3009826
• Parent Id: 3009826
• Alternate Title: unifeed230209e

Description

STORY: WFP / SYRIA EARTHQUAKES
TRT: 02:30
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 07 - 09 FEBRUARY 2023, JINDIRES / ALEPPO / DAMASCUS, SYRIA

Shotlist

08 FEBRUARY 2023, JINDIRES, SYRIA

1. Various shots, ambulances, excavators, people digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings

09 FEBRUARY 2023, DAMASCUS, SYRIA

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenn Crossley, Syria Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“A few days ago, a horrible devastating earthquake here in Syria as well as in Turkey. Hundreds perhaps thousands dead, thousands injured, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people displaced, losing their homes, people unable to get back into the places where they sleep, sleeping on the streets huddling in shelters. For the World Food Programme of course, for us it matters, that people have to eat. Within hours of the earthquake, we were working with local partners people were eating hot meals in the shelters that they were living in.”

08 FEBRUARY 2023, JINDIRES, SYRIA

3. Various shots, WFP food distribution

07 FEBRUARY 2023, DAMASCUS, SYRIA

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenn Crossley, Syria Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“One of our biggest challenges right now is not the transport, it’s not the food, it’s access. Some of the people hardest to reach are in places where there is ongoing conflict. We need the people who are in these places – we need to be able to reach the people who are in these places where there is ongoing conflict.”

08,09 FEBRUARY 2023, ALEPPO, SYRIA

5. Various shots, emergency responders search for survivors in Al Mashareqa neighbourhood
6. Various shots, night distribution of WFP hot meals to earthquake survivors

Storyline

Within 36 hours of the earthquakes, the World Food Programme (WFP) had provided partners on the ground inside Northwest Syria with enough ready to eat meals to feed 40,000 people for a week.

By the weekend WFP will have provided partners with enough food for 125,000 people for a week. WFP already serves 1.4 million people every month in Northwest Syria alone.

SOUNDBITE (English) Kenn Crossley, Syria Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“A few days ago, a horrible devastating earthquake here in Syria as well as in Turkey. Hundreds perhaps thousands dead, thousands injured, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people displaced, losing their homes, people unable to get back into the places where they sleep, sleeping on the streets huddling in shelters. For the World Food Programme of course, for us it matters, that people have to eat. Within hours of the earthquake, we were working with local partners people were eating hot meals in the shelters that they were living in.”

The earthquakes have exacerbated the existing difficulties in reaching Northwest Syria due to conflict by damaging roads and creating more need.

SOUNDBITE (English) Kenn Crossley, Syria Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“One of our biggest challenges right now is not the transport, it’s not the food, it’s access. Some of the people hardest to reach are in places where there is ongoing conflict. We need the people who are in these places – we need to be able to reach the people who are in these places where there is ongoing conflict.”

In Aleppo, WFP rapidly provided hot meals to 4,000 affected people at temporary shelters through its partner kitchens. Assistance will continue until at least 11 February, subject to ongoing needs assessments. WFP is also distributing ready-to-eat meals through partners, sufficient for 5,000 affected people.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is on the ground responding to the devastating impact of the two earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria, delivering food assistance since Tuesday with plans to reach half a million people in the two countries.

WFP is providing ready-to-eat food rations, family food packages and hot meals. Food currently being distributed requires no cooking facilities and provides immediate relief for families battling freezing temperatures.