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DAVOS / POVERTY
STORY: DAVOS / POVERTY
TRT: 2.34
SOURCE: FBC / MINUSTAH / UNICEF / WORLD BANK / WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT, DAVOS, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE - UNICEF - 12, 21 JANUARY 2010, NEW YORK / PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, aerial view of quake damage
FILE - MINUSTAH - 28 JANUARY 2010, JACMEL, HAITI
2. Wide shot, traveling shot of the devastation in the city of Jacmel
3. Wide shot, a water truck fills up on potable water from the Canadian sea water purification system at the port
4. Wide shot, men unload donated supplies from the Dominican Republic from the hull of a boat at port
5. Med shot, men load a wheelchair donated by the Dominican Republic onto a truck
6. Med shot, porridge being served onto plates by the World Food Program
7. Wide shot, people wait on line for food
8. Wide shot, tent camp
RECENT - FBC - DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nancy Roman, Director Public Policy, World Food Program:
“I think the thing that we do see is that when there is a critical crisis that pulls on the heart strings of the general public, people have before and are stepping up in Haiti for sure.”
FILE - UNICEF - 2 JULY 2009, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
10. Wide shot, women walking in single file in the IDPs camp
11. Wide shot, in makeshift shelters and family standing by
12. Wide shot, IDP camp
13. Med shot, men loading NFI bags onto cart
14. Wide shot, crowd of displaced people waiting near the Bakara market, Mogadishu
RECENT - FBC - DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Van Ameringen, Executive Director, GAIN “If we are going to start to look at how do we change markets we have to look at the whole issue of how do we make the right foods available at the right cost and of the right quality to reach the people who need it most and who suffer most from malnutrition.”
FILE - JUNE 2009 - WORLD BANK - KOUMBAL VILLAGE, KAOLACK PROVINCE, SENEGAL
16. Pan left, from boys running with makeshift toys to huts
17. Close up, baby girl licking spoon
16. Close up, cooking food
17. Wide shot, feeding boy
18. Close up, boy eating
19. Med shot, mother and child walking
20. Med shot, smiling boy in weighing straps
RECENT - FBC - DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacques Diouf, Director General, UN Food and Agriculture Organization:
“Growth is provided by human beings and their activities – starting with their intellectual activities and then their physical activities if you are not in good health how can you perform those functions in an efficient way – it just doesn’t fly.”
9, 10, NOVEMBER 2009 - UNMIS - JUBA, POCHALLA, SUDAN
22. Wide shot, WFP warehouse
23. Wide shot, carrying food bags
24. Various shots, airdrop
25. Med shot, getting food aid
26. Med shot, dragging a bag of food
FILE - UNICEF – 8, 9 OCTOBER 2009, ISIOLO, EASTERN KENYA
27. Wide shot, women collecting dried sticks to bring back home for their cattle
28. Med shot, a woman carrying dried grass returning home
29. Wide shot, a dead cattle and a woman walking
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti shocked the world, but also prompted people into helping; donations have already topped 430 million dollars and there is talk of writing off the country’s billion dollar debt. Donor fatigue may be a myth.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nancy Roman, Director Public Policy, World Food Program:
“I think the thing that we do see is that when there is a critical crisis that pulls on the heart strings of the general public, people have before and are stepping up in Haiti for sure.”
Haiti may be dominating the airwaves now, but it is far from the only issue that needs immediate attention. The financial crisis and hikes in food prices globally have driven more than 55 million extra people into poverty in 2009. A further 64 million are expected to be added in 2010 according to the World Bank.
Organisations like OXFAM and the World Food Programme provide vital assistance, but aid is a short term solution.
With the vast majority of global food production passing through the private sector, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition or GAIN is taking a different approach, it partners up with the private sector to reduce malnutrition worldwide,
SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Van Ameringen, Executive Director, GAIN
“If you want to start to address malnutrition we have to find a way to bring the private sector to the table. If we are going to start to look at how do we change markets we have to look at the whole issue of how do we make the right foods available at the right cost and of the right quality to reach the people who need it most and who suffer most from malnutrition.”
One billion people in the world wake up hungry every day, 2 billion suffer from poor diet. The lack of adequate vitamins and minerals, especially in staple food such as rice, wheat or corn, it’s a hidden hunger with lasting economic repercussions.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jacques Diouf, Director General, UN Food and Agriculture Organization:
“Growth is provided by human beings and their activities, starting with their intellectual activities and then their physical activities if you are not in good health how can you perform those functions in an efficient way, it just doesn’t fly.”
GAIN is already working with the World Food Programme to fortify food for the relief operation in Haiti, but their main focus lies with people on the fringes, not in abject poverty but still vulnerable.
It’s that financial incentive for companies that should make the model sustainable. With access to fortified foods this group will grow and prosper, increasing an already huge untapped market.
But fail to deliver and the poorest countries, especially in Africa will struggle to meet the millennium development goals.
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