Media Home
UN Web TV
UN PhotoUnifeed
PHILIPPINES / FOOD AID UPDATE WFP
STORY: PHILIPPINES / FOOD AID UPDATE WFP
TRT: 1.25
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 22 - 25 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, MACTAN, CEBU PORT, PHILIPPINES
FILE, 22 - 25 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, MACTAN, CEBU PORT, PHILIPPINES
1. Various shots, evacuees in Tacloban. Kids playing at one of the makeshift houses at an evacuation centre. Kids sharing a packet of USAID Ready to Use Supplementary Food (RUSF). Evacuees at Tacloban Astrodome lining up for a food distribution. WFP field monitors organizing evacuees and explain distribution process.
22 - 25 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, MACTAN, CEBU PORT, PHILIPPINES
2. Wide shot, Mactan, Cebu Port, Philippines – Tacloban City Port. Arrival of the “Super RORO” Roll On Roll Off ship commissioned by WFP to transport relief goods from WFP and other agencies such as World Vision, UNICEF and UNHCR.
3. Various shots, interior of the ship with UNICEF goods. Trucks, forklifts.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Samir Wanali WFP Emergency Coordinator Manila (English):
“Three weeks after typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, people still urgently need food. Our assistance is getting through to the most remote areas and we are expanding into new ones as need arise. All of this is possible thanks to everyone giving, to support our operation here in the Philippines.”
5. Various shots, evacuation centre in Tacloban. Eight families live in this small space at the Tacloban Astrodome Evacuation centre. One of the mothers prepares rice for breakfast and a two-year old girl eats WFP high energy biscuits dipped in milk.
World Food Programme (WFP) continues assisting the population affected in the Philippines by Super-Typhoon Haiyan extending its reach with airlifts, ferry services and trucks.
Rice and High Energy Biscuits (HEBs) are being delivered by airlifts to remote island communities off the coast of Guiuan and Iloilo. Some of these hard-to-reach locations are receiving food assistance for the first time.
Since 13 November, WFP has dispatched more than 4,700 metric tons of rice and 142 metric tons of high energy biscuits for distribution by partners.
A WFP-chartered “Roll-on Roll-off” vessel with a 2,400 metric ton cargo capacity arrived in Tacloban Monday carrying relief goods such as family tents, blankets, water kits, jerry cans on behalf of the whole humanitarian community, as well as logistics equipment. The vessel will continue to shuttle goods from Cebu to Tacloban.
The WFP Emergency Coordinator in Manila, Samir Wanali, said that “three weeks after typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, people still urgently need food”.
He noted that the assistance is getting through to the most remote areas and is expanding into new ones as need arise.
More than 1,000 metric tons of relief and support supplies (tents, kits for newborn babies, hygiene kits, mobile storage units, IT equipment) have been flown in to the Philippines from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depots, managed by WFP, in Dubai (UAE), Subang (Malaysia) and Brindisi (Italy).
The WFP-managed United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) is operating two helicopters and a nine-passenger plane out of Cebu, serving the humanitarian community. So far, UNHAS has carried 292 humanitarian passengers on 70 flights to nine locations.
WFP is working closely with the Philippines government on relief efforts and estimates the cost of the operation for the next six months at around US$103 million.
So far, WFP has received around half of the total of US$103 million required for food and logistics. With assessments continuing, needs are expected to increase.
Download
There is no media available to download.
