WFP / PHILIPPINES TYPHOON HAIYAN

WFP rice was distributed to 49,000 people in the Tacloban area today (13 Nov) through family packs handed out by the Department of Social Welfare and Development. The packs contain rice and canned goods. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:16
• Production Date: 13 November 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
• MAMS Id: U131113a

Description

STORY : WFP / PHILIPPINES TYPHOON HAIYAN
TRT: 2.16
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES

Shotlist

12 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES

1. Areal shot, cargo plane
2. Aerial shot, Tacloban from inside C-130 airplane
3. Med shot, offloading food sacks from airplane
4. Wide shot, offloading food sacks from airplane
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Howard, WFP Spokeperson:
“Food is starting to reach the people who really need it. WFP rice for about 50.000 people was distributed earlier today in the Tacloban area, it’s forming part of the family packages that the Philippine Government is giving out and distributing and that was rice purchased locally and we are moving food in by the plane load. A big Hercules transport plane with 10 metric tons of High Energy Biscuits, special emergency rations arrived in Tacloban today and we got other plane loads on the way”

13 NOVEMBER 2013, MANILA, PHILIPPINES

6. Wide shot, truck containing WFP High Energy Biscuits
7. Various shots of loading the plane

12 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Howard, WFP Spokeperson:
“As well as delivering food, the World Food Programme helps the whole international community with logistics and emergency telecom, so we got people on the ground in Cebu and in Tacloban setting up IT equipment making sure that all the aid professional can communicate with each other. Because it is a monumental task”
9. Various shots of crowds of people waiting for assistance
10. Cargo plane taking off from Tacloban Airport

Storyline

WFP rice was distributed to 49,000 people in the Tacloban area today (13 Nov) through family packs handed out by the Department of Social Welfare and Development. The packs contain rice and canned goods.

9.8 metric tons of High Energy were delivered to Tacloban City today via C-130 plane from Manila. A further 25 metric tons of Biscuits will be sent to Tacloban City Thursday along with Mobile Storage Units. HEBs are used in emergencies because they are nutritious, light to transport and need no cooking.

Also today, 500 metric tons of rice is being loaded onto trucks in Mindanao, to be driven up through the island and transported by boat to Tacloban.

Further 44 metric tones of High Energy Biscuits have arrived in the Philippines from UN Humanitarian Response Deport in Dubai.

Six WFP IT experts have arrived in the Philippines and 3 were immediately deployed to Tacloban to begin providing communications support to the humanitarian community. In the UN system, WFP coordinates the efforts of the humanitarian community in the areas of logistics and emergency telecoms.

WFP is seeking a total of US$88.2 million for food assistance, and an estimated US$12.8 million for logistics and emergency telecommunications operations.

Over the next six months, WFP plans to implement general food distribution, emergency food-for-assets, and emergency cash-for-assets activities for 2.5 million people in affected areas.