SOMALIA / NUTRITION

The World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly moving life-saving food and nutritional products by sea, air and road into Somalia to address hunger, especially among the most vulnerable drought-affected young children and their mothers. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:04
• Production Date: 23 September 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: U110923h

Description

STORY: SOMALIA / NUTRITION
TRT: 2.04
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 18, 20 SEPTEMBER 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

Shotlist

18 SEPTEMBER 2011, HAMMER JABJAB DISTRICT, CENTRAL MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

1. Wide shot, women and children waiting to enter nutrition clinic
2. Med shot, baby being weighed

18 SEPTEMBER 2011, WABERI DISTRICT, CENTRAL MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

3. Various shots, hot meals distribution
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Regis Chapman, World Food Programme (WFP) Somalia:
“Well, we basically have a wet feeding centre here. In Mogadishu, we have 23 of these centres around the city supporting as you can see largely women and children. It’s a mix of people who have been displaced from other parts of Somalia, but also poor urban Mogadishu residents.”
5. Various shots, hot meals being distributed
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Regis Chapman, World Food Programme (WFP) Somalia:
“Normally in most emergency situations WFP would distribute dry rations to household to bring them home. In the context of Mogadishu, because of the level of insecurity this program was designed four years ago to provide a safer avenue to ensure that the most vulnerable people in the city receive their assistance.”

18 SEPTEMBER 2011, HAMMER JABJAB DISTRICT, CENTRAL MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

7. Various shots, women and children at nutrition clinic

10 SEPTEMBER 2011, MOGADISHU AIRPORT, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

8. Various shots, airlift of 35 metric tons of vegetable oil being loaded into trucks

20 SEPTEMBER 2011, NAIROBI, KENYA

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barry Came, World Food Programme (WFP) Spokesperson:
“In August we reached almost a million, in September the plan is to reach 1.5 million, by the end of the year we hope to be reaching 1.9 million. At the moment we are delivering 100,000 hot meals a day to people in Mogadishu and we had a general food distribution of dry rations this month and we reached a quarter of a million people with those rations.”

18 SEPTEMBER 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

10. Various shots, unloading of high energy biscuits and supplementary plumpy nut at Mogadishu Port
11. Various shots, peanut based nutritional product at WFP warehouse

STORYLYNE

The World Food Programme (WFP) is rapidly moving life-saving food and nutritional products by sea, air and road into Somalia to address hunger, especially among the most vulnerable – young children and their mothers.

WFP is providing highly fortified supplementary food products for children to prevent malnutrition in the first two years of life, which can lead to irreversible damage to children’s minds and bodies.

SOUNDBITE (English) Regis Chapman, World Food Programme (WFP) Somalia:
“Well, we basically have a wet feeding centre here. In Mogadishu, we have 23 of these centres around the city supporting as you can see largely women and children. It’s a mix of people who have been displaced from other parts of Somalia, but also poor urban Mogadishu residents.”

Over the next three months, WFP will focus its efforts on distributing food to as many people as it can reach in areas of Somalia we have access to.

SOUNDBITE (English) Regis Chapman, World Food Programme (WFP) Somalia:
“Normally in most emergency situations WFP would distribute dry rations to household to bring them home. In the context of Mogadishu, because of the level of insecurity this program was designed four years ago to provide a safer avenue to ensure that the most vulnerable people in the city receive their assistance.”

The agency is currently reaching around 7.4 million drought-affected people throughout the Horn of Africa region. In Somalia, it provided food assistance to nearly one million people in August.

WFP has also airlifted into Mogadishu 496 metric tons of wheat-soya blend, another nutritional product that provides more protein than normal cereals as well as 70 metric tons of fortified cooking oil into the capital.

SOUNDBITE (English) Barry Came, World Food Programme (WFP) Spokesperson:
“In August we reached almost a million, in September the plan is to reach 1.5 million, by the end of the year we hope to be reaching 1.9 million. At the moment we are delivering 100,000 hot meals a day to people in Mogadishu and we had a general food distribution of dry rations this month and we reached a quarter of a million people with those rations.”

The budget shortfall for the whole Horn operation for the next six months, taking pledges and confirmed contributions into account, is US$299 million.