HAITI / JORDANIAN PEACEKEEPERS FOOD

Jordanian peacekeepers dole out boxes of food from the World Food Programme (WFP), while struggling to reign in the multitudes in Cite Soleil, one of the Haitian capital's poorest neighborhoods. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:17
• Production Date: 19 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100119e

Description

STORY: HAITI / PEACEKEEPERS FOOD DISTRIBUTION
TRT: 2.17
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 18 JANUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE , HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Jordanian peacekeeping trucks arriving with World Food Program (WFP) food near Cite Soleil (Port-au-Prince), people running
2. Wide shot, people running to the peacekeeping food trucks
3. Pan left, crowd of quake victims wait for food in front of trucks
4. Med shot, WFP boxes of food
5. Pan left, people in long lines waiting for food
6. Med shot, victims pushing in the line
7. Wide shot, long line of people
8. Wide shot, Jordanians waving flags on the food truck
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Qaralleh Mohammed, Jordanian Peacekeeper:
"Most of the people here don't have anything to eat. They don't have houses; they don't have any blankets or anything like that. So we will distribute food. Next time we will distribute another thing like blankets, clothes."
10. Med shot, victim receiving box of food in an aggressive crowd
11. Wide shot, peacekeeper pushing back the crowd
12. Med shot, woman on crutches receives a box of food in her head
13. Med shot, crowd pushing for food
14. Med shot, peacekeeper struggles to control the pushing crowd near the truck
15. Med shot, peacekeeper in the crowd
16. Med shot, man tries to call for food on the truck
17. Med shot, peacekeeper frantically throws food off the truck.
18. Med shot, people frantically pulling at food boxes
19. Pan right, people storming the food trucks
20. Med shot, women pulling boxes off the truck
21. Wide shot, trucks with mobs pan to little boy on the top of a truck with a box in his arms
22. Med shot, men fight over a box in the field
23. Tilt up, a woman and a man guarding their cache of 5 boxes
24. Med shot, man carrying 2 boxes on his head
25. Wide shot, two women carrying boxes and smiling, pan to the woman on crutches who lost her box
26. Wide shot, a man on a bike carries three food boxes with him

Storyline

United Nations Peacekeepers ramped up their food distribution in earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince, continuing to deliver rations to sometimes unruly crowds desperate for aid.

Jordanian soldiers doled out boxes of food from the World Food Programme (WFP), while struggling to reign in the multitudes in Cite Soleil, one of the Haitian capital’s poorest neighborhoods.

Since the earthquake struck, more than 270,000 ready-to-eat food rations have been distributed by WFP and the United States military. With immediate food needs so great, WFP appealed to military leaders worldwide to donate 100 million ready-to-eat meals to sustain this vital lifeline.

SOUNDBITE (English) Qaralleh Mohammed, Jordanian Peacekeeper:
"Most of the people here don't have anything to eat. They don't have houses; they don't have any blankets or anything like that. So we will distribute food. Next time we will distribute another thing like blankets, clothes."

The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) announced yesterday that the agency is streaming humanitarian assistance, opening up air, sea and land corridors, and rehabilitating emergency telecommunications systems for the humanitarian community.

United Nations officials have stressed the need for a strongly coordinated effort to bring vital assistance to the roughly 3 million people affected by last week’s earthquake in Haiti, amid the devastated infrastructure and logistical challenges in the wake of the disaster.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the need to unplug any bottlenecks in the aid operation to ensure that the relief reaches people in need as quickly as possible.

UN humanitarian agencies and their partners have appealed for $562 million to assist the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 80 per cent of the population living under the poverty line.

Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude quake has leveled buildings, including homes, schools and hospitals, damaged roads and other vital infrastructure, and left one third of the country’s 9 million people in need of food, water, shelter, medical assistance and other urgent aid.