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PAKISTAN / SHEERAN LAKE WRAP
STORY: PAKISTAN / SHEERAN LAKE WRAP
TRT: 1.35
SOURCE: WFP / UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30, 31 AUGUST, MUZZAFARGARH DISTRICT OF PANJAB, PAKISTAN
30 AUGUST, MUZZAFARGARH DISTRICT OF PANJAB, PAKISTAN
1. Med shot, inside helicopter flying over Swat River
2. Wide shot, aerials view of flooded fields
3. Various shots, people crossing the road washed away by the floods
30 AUGUST, GOVERNMENT SCHOOL QUASBA GUJRAT, PAKISTAN
4. Various shots, WFP's Executive Director, and UNICEF's Executive Director arriving at the Government school Quasba in Gujrat
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, WFP:
“Well this catastrophe is massive and we have to be sure we reach people. There are people that have not yet been reached with any food yet. And we’re going to require helicopters to do so because they’re cut off completely from roads, so we need 40 helicopters to be able to reach people over the coming weeks with a basic month ration.”
6. Med shot, Josette distributing bags of aid
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF:
“I’ve been in a lot of bad places over my life and for the scale of it this is the worst that I’ve ever seen, in the wide scale destruction and in everything we saw what it implies about how long its going take to reconstitute the fields, of the schools, all of that.”
30 AUGUST, RAJAMPUR, PAKISTAN
8. Wide shot, WFP helicopters landing
9. Med shot, off loading wheat flour
10. Med shot, three wheeler taxi with lady and bags of food departs
PSA / UNHCR / RECENT
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Anjelina Jolie, Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR:
“One-fifth of Pakistan is under water and the threat of disease now looms for 20 million affected people. This is not just a humanitarian crisis, it is an economic and social catastrophe. UNHCR is on the ground. The more support we can give, the greater number of tents, food, clean water and medicine will get to the people in need.”
12. Wide shot, aerial view of flooded river
13. Various shots, still pictures of survivors
14. Close up, child
The Executive Directors of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) today (31 Aug) called on the international community to step up their support for the victims of the ongoing floods in Pakistan.
UNICEF’s Anthony Lake and WFP’s Josette Sheeran made their call following a joint visit to operations in the Muzzafargarh district of Punjab, one of the worst affected parts of the country.
While in the field, the two agency heads visited a school which has been turned into an emergency relief centre, where UNICEF hygiene kits were being handed out to families hit by the floods.
They also saw a WFP food distribution that included specialised ready-to-eat foods for infants and young children, designed to prevent the early ravages of malnutrition.
Sheeran said that the catastrophe was massive and that WFP had to be sure we reach people. She added that there were people that had not been reached with any food yet. Sheeran emphasized the need for helicopters because they’re cut off completely from roads, so she said that they need 40 helicopters to be able to reach people over the coming weeks.
WFP has reached three quarters of a million children with nutritious food supplements and nearly 3 million people with a one-month food ration.
Malnutrition rates in the flood zone were high before the surge of water displaced millions, leaving young children even more at risk to water-borne diseases.
Lake said he had been in a lot of “bad places over my life,” but he added that for the scale this was the worst he had ever seen.
UNICEF is currently reaching around two million people with clean water every day and through hygiene supplies and assistance in sanitation, is working to prevent serious outbreaks of disease.
While WFP and UNICEF are focused on saving lives as people continue to flee the floodwaters, both agencies have already begun projects to repair tube wells and other important infrastructure, as well as assisting farmers in their first efforts to return to their land and prepare the upcoming planting season.
Meanwhile UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie appealed for greater public support for efforts to provide humanitarian relief to the millions of people whose lives have been devastated by the floods inundating much of Pakistan.
In a video message released today, the actress points to the sheer scale of the disaster. “One-fifth of Pakistan is under water and the threat of disease now looms for 20 million affected people. This is not just a humanitarian crisis it is an economic and social catastrophe.
UNHCR is on the ground. The more support we can give, the greater number of tents, food, clean water and medicine will get to the people in need,” she said.
Angelina Jolie had visited Pakistan on three previous occasions since
becoming a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. At the outbreak of the
current crisis she donated 100,000 to the agency for its assistance work in the country.
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