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MYANMAR/ CONFLICT AID
STORY: UN/ MYANMAR HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 2.17
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARAKANESE / NATS
DATELINE: 16-18 OCTOBER 2013, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
18 OCTOBER 2013, SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
1. Various shots, street views
2. Various shots, preparing for Buddhist Full Moon Festival- Thadingyut Festival
17 OCTOBER 2013, SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
3. Various shots, Mosque destroyed in June 2012 by fighting
16 OCTOBER 2013, SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
4. Wide shot, girl at watering hole where a mosque destroyed in clashes in June 2012 use to stand
17 OCTOBER 2013, SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
5. Pan left, destroyed Muslim homes
16 OCTOBER 2013, SAE YOE KYA CAMP, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
6. Various shots, chIldren at the camp
7. SOUNDBITE (Burmese) Nwe Nwe, Displaced Person:
“We had to run because Muslims burned our home. We never thought that this would happen. We had to run to save our lives, and had no time to collect our belongings or even our food.”
16 OCTOBER 2013, BAW DU BA CAMP, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
8. Wide shot, woman operating water pump
9. Med shot, woman preparing food
10. SOUNDBITE (Burmese) Fatima, Displaced Person:
“They burned our homes and chased us with knives”
11. Various shots, Muslim family eating Eid dinner
17 OCTOBER 2013, NEAR SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
12. Various shots, severely malnourished 6 month old baby being measured at Action Against Hunger (ACF) run Nutrition Center
16 OCTOBER 2013, NEAR SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
13. Med shot, rice field near camp for displaced Muslims
18 OCTOBER 2013, NEAR SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
14. Various shots, chickpeas and locally purchased WFP rice being loaded onto boats that will bring food to communities where people have been affected by the conflict
17 OCTOBER 2013, NEAR SITTWE, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Dumont, WFP Spokesperson:
“The World Food Programme is reaching almost all of them-almost all the people who have been displaced but, the funding is going to run out at the end of the year. It doesn’t look good. It doesn’t look like these people are going back to their communities anytime soon. And if funding doesn’t continue then they are going to be in even worse shape than they are now because the food is going to run out.”
18 OCTOBER 2013, KYAE NI PYIN CAMP PAUKTAW ISLAND, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
16. Various shots, people at the camp
WFP has been providing regular food assistance to displaced people in Rakhine state since the outbreak of communal violence in June 2012. Currently, WFP reaches 142,000 people per month in and around Sittwe.
As well as displacement, local economies have broken down, so many people no longer have access to markets and jobs and are reliant on humanitarian assistance. The resettlement of displaced people seems unlikely in the near future and humanitarian needs will continue.
Approximately 3,000 displaced Buddhists are living in Sae Yoe Kya camp, most come from Sittwe city, having lost their homes and livelihoods in the conflict. WFP provides them all with rice, oil, salt, chickpeas. Children, pregnant women and new mothers are getting special fortified cereals.
SOUNDBITE (Burmese) Nwe Nwe, Displaced Person:
“We had to run because Muslims burned our home. We never thought that this would happen. We had to run to save our lives, and had no time to collect our belongings or even our food.”
Since July 2012, WFP has distributed almost 27,000 metric tons of food to displaced people in and around Sittwe.
WFP assists almost all 15,000 living in Baw Du Ba camp with rice, oil, salt, chickpeas. WFP also built 320 shelters, water pumps, latrines and water tanks.
SOUNDBITE (Burmese) Fatima, Displaced Person:
“They burned our homes and chased us with knives”
Rakhine State has a 50 percent stunting rate for children-one of the hardest hit parts of Myanmar. Myanmar has one of the highest stunting rates in the world.
WFP purchases 90 percent of the rice it distributes in Myanmar locally, providing local responses to local needs and stimulating local markets.
WFP is working with partners in Sittwe town to start asset creation projects which will bring food and cash assistance to communities affected by the ongoing crisis but not actually displaced.
Rakhine State is an extremely remote, undeveloped region, and some affected communities can only be reached by boat.
Thanks to generous contributions from donors including Japan, USA, Australia and the European Union, WFP has been able to respond swiftly to the current crisis. In order to keep providing life-saving food assistance to the displaced population in Rakhine over the next six months, WFP requires US$13 million.
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