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STORY: SYRIA / FOOD AID
TRT: 2.10
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2-3 DECEMBER 2013, DAMASCUS, SYRIA
3 DECEMBER 2013, DAMASCUS, SYRIA
1. Various shots, general views of Damascus
2 DECEMBER 2013, DAMASCUS, SYRIA
2. Various shots, people walking away with boxes of supplies at WFP food distribution site
3. Med shot, two women seating on boxes of supplies
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Syria Country Director:
“This month we’ve mange to dispatch enough food to feed in excess of 3 million people to 13 out of the 14 provinces in the country , There is at least one province we are unable to get to at all because of fighting that stops us using the roots to get there. Of course there’s also are many other places, villages, towns, small communities that are cut off but we take every single opportunity to reach them.”
2 DECEMBER 2013, SEHNAYA, SYRIA
5. Wide shot, relief worker speaking to young girl at mobile nutrition clinic
6. Various shots, young child being measured and registered
8. Various shots, children receiving food aid
3 DECEMBER 2013, AL TANAYA VILLAGE, ADRAA, SYRIA
9. Wide shot, displaced mother with her child outside home
10. Various shots, mother cooking
11. Med shot, mother feeding child
The World Food Programme (WFP) dispatched enough food to feed over 3.4 million people inside Syria in November, mainly to internally-displaced families in 13 governorates and have reached 8 more locations, previously inaccessible in recent months.
Close to 430,000 people receive WFP food assistance in Damascus, mainly women and children who are internally displaced from various governorates in Syria.
WFP aims to reach 4 million people inside Syria every month, as well as providing assistance for nearly 1.5 million refugees in neighbouring countries.
SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Syria Country Director:
“This month we’ve mange to dispatch enough food to feed in excess of 3 million people to 13 out of the 14 provinces in the country , There is at least one province we are unable to get to at all because of fighting that stops us using the roots to get there. Of course there’s also are many other places, villages, towns, small communities that are cut off but we take every single opportunity to reach them.”
High levels of malnutrition are being reported especially among families fleeing conflict areas. WFP plans to reach 300,000 children with supplementary feeding. So far we have been able to provide nutrition support to over 100,000 children under 2 in Syria.
Children from internally displaced families from Eastern Ghouta and Darayya were tested and treated for malnutrition. 600 children receive WFP supplementary feeding from this particular mobile clinic.
Fatma, a mother of two, has been displaced in Al Tanaya Village just outside Damascus, for over a year. WFP supplies her and her family with monthly rations of pasta, cooking oil ,sugar, canned beans, bulghar wheat flour and rice.
WFP has recently managed to deliver food aid to 8 communities that had been previously cut off. However, there is concern about the fate of many Syrians still trapped in conflict zones throughout the country, including around Damascus and in Al Hassakeh, where some areas have been without food assistance for six consecutive months.
The Syria response is WFP’s largest and most complex emergency worldwide. WFP needs to raise US$40 million every week to meet the food needs of people affected by the Syrian conflict.
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