WFP / MYANMAR EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE

Within 48 hours of the powerful earthquake that struck central Myanmar, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) began emergency food distributions to affected communities. WFP

• Video Length: 00:02:57
• Production Date: 2 April 2025
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; EARTHQUAKES
• Geographic Subject: MYANMAR
• MAMS Id: 3357168
• Parent Id: 3357168
• Alternate Title: unifeed250402e

Description

STORY: WFP / MYANMAR EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE
TRT: 2:57
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 31 MARCH – 01 APRIL 2025, MANDALAY, SAGAING, MYANMAR

Shotlist

31 MARCH 2O25, MANDALAY, MYANMAR

1.Wide shot, destroyed Buildings/Rescue Operations
In Sein Pan, one of the poorest yet the worst-impacted ward in Mandalay, where almost every resident lost their home due to the earthquake and a subsequent fire, WFP support reached 480 households - about 2400 people.
2. Wide shot, U Pa Na Won, a Buddhist monk, looks at the ruins of his monastery
3. SOUNDBITE (Burmese) U Pa Na Won:
“As soon as I felt the first quake, I slid under my bed, which is on the first floor. All the debris and bricks fell onto the bed, which is made of wood, and protected me. The bricks rolled down the wooden bed away from me. That's how I survived. Some people ran in fear and got hit by falling bricks, resulting in their deaths."
4. Various shots, people displaced by the earthquake living on the streets
5. SOUNDBITE (Burmese) Daw Win Mar:
“For now, we sleep on the ground with mattresses. Some people who still have mosquito nets set them up, while those who don’t just sleep under the open sky.”

01 APRIL 2025, MANDALAY, MYANMAR

6. Various shots, destruction Sein Pan area of Mandalay
After the earthquake hit, an explosion and fire destroyed much of what was still standing leaving people homeless.
7. Various shots, WFP Food Distribution in Sein Pan area of Mandalay

30 MARCH 2025, NAYPYIDAW, MYANMAR

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Dunford, WFP Myanmar Country Director:
“This is a country that already was experienced a humanitarian catastrophe because of an ongoing civil conflict, a civil war that has been raging now for four years. WFP is on the ground, we have been for many years, we're now scaling up our operations to do emergency food distributions and also to provide emergency logistics and IT for the broader humanitarian response. It's essential that we get the levels of funding, we then need the access and only then we'll be able to have the impact that's required.”

01 APRIL 2025, SAGAING

9.Various shots, WFP Food Distribution in Sagaing

Storyline

Within 48 hours of the powerful earthquake that struck central Myanmar, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) began emergency food distributions to affected communities.

WFP has so far reached 15,000 earthquake survivors in four impacted states and is scaling up efforts to assist 850,000 affected people.

At the epicentre in Mandalay, WFP has distributed rations of ready-to-eat fortified biscuits to more than 10,000 people, during distributions that started on April 1. In Sein Pan, one of the poorest yet the worst-impacted wards in Mandalay, where almost every resident lost their home due to the earthquake and a subsequent fire, WFP support reached 480 households - about 2400 people.

WFP has reached the most affected communities with food rations in conflict-hit Sagaing, already home to a third of Myanmar’s internally displaced population before the earthquake. 1,600 people have received WFP support so far while 63 metric tons of food is also being trucked into Sagaing.

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on March 28, followed by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock.