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SOMALIA / SHEREEN
STORY: SOMALIA / SHEREEN
TRT: 3:10
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 JULY 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
HOWLWADAG, MOGADISHU
1. Wide shot, Internally Displaced People (IDPs) at a hot meals distribution site
2. Med shot, WFP providing food for hot meals
3. Med shot, young girl eating
4. Close up, young girl eating
5. Various shots, people waiting for food at the distribution site
6. Pan right, woman with baby to WFP Executive Director, Josette Sheeran
7. SOUND UP “And you have the Plumy (Plumpynut)? It’s very good.”
8. Med shot, young girl eating food
9. Pan left, Shereen talking to diplaced mother
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, World Food Programme:
“I met here today people from all over southern Somalia and there is no food where they are
and what we heard from them - I just heard from one woman who has lost three of her children. And so we are calling on the world to really back operations, to scale up very quickly to reach those in the epicenter in the famine conditions in Southern Somalia. It’s very dangerous and risky but we have to reach people, they are not making it all the way to Mogadishu, these are the ones lucky enough to make it here and even these feeding centre are overrun.”
8. Tilt down, mother to child on her back
9. Various shots, people at distribution site
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, World Food Programme:
“They need fortified supplemental food in massive quantities throughout the areas where they have been unable to be reached. So mostly in Southern Somalia we are seeing a weakened population and we have to focus on these, we have called on all global supply lines to supply these fortified foods we need the contributions and the supply chain lines to not end.”
10. Cam car, Mogadishu from armed car
VILLA SOMALIA, MOGADISHU
9. Various shots, Sheeran meets with Somalia President Sharif Sheikkh Ahmed and
Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohammed Gaas
10. Cam car, Mogadishu from armed car
During her visit to Howlwadag (Mogadishu) World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Josette Sheeran witnessed the overrun feeding center which is struggling to provide food to the hundreds of people arriving each day.
The WFP said Thursday that it will begin airlifts within days to get vital supplies into Somalia, which is bearing the brunt of the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, and is preparing to open up a number of new land and air routes to bring urgent relief to millions in need.
Sheeran said that the WFP will airlift food to the camp, particularly to feed young children who are at the highest risk of suffering from malnutrition.
The announcement comes a day after the UN declared a famine in two regions of southern Somalia owing to the worst drought in decades, and appealed for urgent resources to provide assistance.
It is the first time since 1991-92 that the UN has declared famine in a part of Somalia.
Nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now estimated to be in crisis, with an estimated 2.8 million of them in the south.
The agency is currently reaching 1.5 million people in Somalia, and is scaling up to reach an additional 2.2 million people in the previously inaccessible south of the country.
WFP welcomed the recent statement by the insurgent group Al-Shabaab, which controls areas of southern Somalia, that humanitarian aid will now be allowed into those parts of the country.
The agency is getting ready to open up new land and air routes into the core of the famine zone – southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle – to establish the necessary operating conditions, including those that will secure the safety of humanitarian personnel.
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