KENYA / RELIEF SUPPLIES

UNICEF and its partners continue to step up their emergency response to the crisis in Somalia and the rest of the Horn of Africa. So far, the agency has brought in enough supplies to feed 65,000 children in southern Somalia. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:37
• Production Date: 15 August 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: U110815c

Description

STORY: KENYA / RELIEF SUPPLIES
TRT: 1:37
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 9 AUGUST 2011, JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NAIROBI, KENYA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, supplies in packages inside the plane
2. Close shot, package with UNICEF label
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Molinaro, Somalia Emergency Supply Officer, UNICEF:
“The difficulty we have is that we have supplies based in Europe and in India that we had pre-agreements with and who have the capacity to produce. Obviously, the distance of those supplies means we have to use the fastest means possible. The most part of our volume, the largest percentage of our quantities, obviously, we’ll put on ships, its cheaper but that’s going to take anywhere between 40 days and 6 weeks to get to the port of Mombasa. So at the moment we really don’t have an option and we have to fly.”
4. Various shots, supplies being carted out of the plane
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Molinaro, Somalia Emergency Supply Officer, UNICEF:
It makes an enormous difference if they are having lack of basic food stuffs before they start going into a severe malnourished state, this kind of product is with the vitamins and minerals can actually keep them from slipping into a state that’s even worse so this for the moderately malnourished. It’s a supplement that would normally go with the general food ration to give the extra nutrients that’s required.”
6. Wide shot, supplies being taken out of the plane and moved into a truck
7. Wide shot, truck with supplies moves out
8. Med shot, supplies chained on wheels being driven out of the airport

Storyline

UNICEF and its partners continue to step up their emergency response to the crisis in Somalia and the rest of the Horn of Africa. So far, the agency has brought in enough supplies to feed 65,000 children in southern Somalia. But it still faces a funding gap of more than $200 million for its emergency operations in the region, including over $120 million for Somalia alone.

UNICEF’s Somalia Emergency Supply Officer Paul Molinaro, speaking from Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, said the distance between the where the supplies are based and where they need to supplied to sometimes poses logistical challenges.

“The largest percentage of our quantities, obviously, we’ll put on ships, it’s cheaper but that’s going to take anywhere between 40 days and 6 weeks to get to the port of Mombasa. So at the moment we really don’t have an option and we have to fly,” he added.

These supplies, which are supplementary food ration, were leaving from Nairobi South Central Somalia. They contain corn soy blend fortified with vitamins and minerals. The consignment weighs about 102 tonnes and can serve approximately 4,200 households.

Molinaro said the product is for moderately malnourished Somalis and “can actually keep them from slipping into a state that’s even worse.”

In all, more than 11 million people desperately need help in the nations of eastern Africa stricken by drought, conflict and rising food prices. According to UNICEF, if the world doesn’t act quickly enough, some 566,000 children fighting severe malnutrition could lose their struggle to survive.