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WFP/ PHILIPPINES TYPHOON HAIYAN
STORY: WFP/ PHILIPPINES TYPHOON HAIYAN
TRT: 2.06
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 11 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN. PHILIPPINES
1. Various shots, aerial views of Tacloban city flattened by super typhoon Haiyan
2. Pan right, military plane taking of Tacloban airport damaged by super typhoon Haiyan
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Baicon Macaraya, WFP Philippines:
“What the World Food Programme is initially providing as part of this emergency response to the people affected by the super typhoon in the Philippines is the provision of ready to eat high energy biscuits and this would be followed by the general food distribution of rice and other food as maybe identified and also depending on the resources available at our end.”
6. Various shots, the destruction in the city
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Baicon Macaraya, WFP Philippines:
“We are also setting up the necessary facilities including and support including logistics and communications that will be needed to ensure that this will pave the way for other supports to come in the areas affected by this super typhoon in the Philippines.”
8. Various shots, the destruction in the city
As the enormity of the damage from Typhoon Haiyan becomes more evident, WFP is mobilizing food supplies and using its logistics expertise to try to reach hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need.
SOUNDBITE (English) Baicon Macaraya, WFP Philippines:
“What the World Food Programme is initially providing as part of this emergency response to the people affected by the super typhoon in the Philippines is the provision of ready to eat high energy biscuits and this would be followed by the general food distribution of rice and other food as maybe identified and also depending on the resources available at our end.”
WFP currently has 10 staff on the ground in Tacloban, Leyte, to mobilise assistance. There is no food, water or electricity; many roads are impassable due to debris, and all airports but one in the affected area are unusable.
Tacloban airport is closed to commercial flights; the only available routes to Tacloban include limited ferry routes and military flights.
WFP flew in 44 metric tons of High Energy Biscuits to the Philippines today from the UN Humanitarian Response Depot in Dubai, for subsequent airlift to Tacloban. This is enough to feed 132,000 people for a day or 19,000 people for a week.
SOUNDBITE (English) Baicon Macaraya, WFP Philippines:
“We are also setting up the necessary facilities including and support including logistics and communications that will be needed to ensure that this will pave the way for other supports to come in the areas affected by this super typhoon in the Philippines.”
WFP’s food stocks in the Philippines are currently stretched because the organization has already been assisting people affected by the recent earthquake in Bohol province, now also hit by the typhoon, as well as those displaced by fighting in Zamboanga region.
High Energy Biscuits are precious in the early stages of an emergency as they are nutritious, easy to transport and need no cooking. WFP is poised to mobilize a range of additional food commodities to keep people alive and stabilize the nutrition situation.
WFP has also begun flying logistics and communications equipment including mobile storage units to Cebu airport, airport the closest functioning, for subsequent airlift to Tacloban.
Some 300 kg of IT equipment including digital radios are on their way from the UNHRD in Dubai. WFP takes the lead in the UN system with emergency telecommunications and logistics on behalf of the whole humanitarian community.
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