WFP / PHILIPPINES TYPHOON UPDATE

WFP started helicopter flights to delivery high energy biscuits to islands in the outlying areas of Philippines namely to communities of Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and other parts of Leyte.  WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:52
• Production Date: 15 November 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
• Geographic Subject: PHILIPPINES
• MAMS Id: U131115d

Description

STORY: WFP / PHILIPPINES TYPHOON UPDATE
TRT: 1.52
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES

Shotlist

1. Various shots, destruction in the downtown and dead bodies in plastic bags
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Silke Buhr, WFP Spokesperson:
"The World Food Programme is continuing with aid distribution in the areas affected by typhoon Haiyan. Today helicopter flights took place to delivery high energy biscuits to islands in the outlying areas and there were distribution of high energy biscuits also at Tacloban airport where hundreds of hundreds of people have been waiting to leave the affected areas for several days."
3. Various shots, people eating biscuits
4. Wide shot, pan left, people on the tarmac at the airport
5. Wide shot, loading of the plane with WFP boxes
6. Wide shot, areal of Tacloban

Storyline

The World Food Programme (WFP) started helicopter flights to delivery high energy biscuits to islands in the outlying areas of Philippines namely to communities of Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and other parts of Leyte.

WFP and the Department of Social Welfare and Development DSWD also distributed High Energy Biscuits (HEBs) to 5,000 people at Tacloban airport on Thursday (14 November.)

SOUNDBITE (English) Silke Buhr, WFP Spokesperson:
"The World Food Programme is continuing with aid distribution in the areas affected by typhoon Haiyan. Today helicopter flights took place to delivery high energy biscuits to islands in the outlying areas and there were distribution of high energy biscuits also at Tacloban airport where hundreds of hundreds of people have been waiting to leave the affected areas for several days."

WFP is working with the Philippines government to bring in food and other relief items by air, road and sea. But the logistics are challenging.

The rice rations from WFP have now reached more than 170,000 people. The rice is being distributed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as part of family food packs.

WFP is seeking a total of US$101 million to provide emergency food assistance to more than two million people as well as logistics, and emergency telecommunications support to the whole humanitarian community.