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DRC / WFP FUNDING SHORTAGE
STORY: DRC / WFP FUNDING SHORTAGE
TRT: 2.24
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 19-22, NOVEMBER 2013, GOMA, EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
19 NOVEMBER 2013, MUGUNGA CAMP 1, GOMA, EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
1. Wide shot, camp
2. Wide shot, makeshift structures
3. Wide shot, children
4. Med shot, woman carrying twigs
5. Various shots, man pushing wooden scooter
6. Various shots, woman feeding children
19 NOVEMBER 2013, NUTRITION CLINIC, MUGUNGA 3, GOMA, EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
7. Med shot, young girl
8. Med shot, child weight being measured
9. Wide shot, man and woman preparing food
10. Various shots, food distribution
19 NOVEMBER 2013, ECOLE PRIMAIRE ALLELUYA, GOMA, EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
11. Wide shot, school
12. Med shot, women preparing food
13. Various shots, women carrying containers with food
14. Med shot, child receiving plate of food in class
15. Close up, food being put on the plate
16. Various shots, children eating in class
22 NOVEMBER 2013, WFP WAREHOUSE, GOMA, EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
17. Various shots, WFP food stocks running low
21 NOVEMBER 2013, LAGABO, SOUTH IRUMU, ORIENTALE PROVINCE, NORTH- EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Anny Koledu, WFP Senior Programme Assistant:
“We’re giving them maize, beans, oil and salt. But, because of shortage in our depot, we don’t have enough food due to problems of funding. For this distribution, we’re giving them only a three-day ration of maize meal with a week’s ration of beans, oil and salt.”
19. Various shots, food distribution for displaced people
Due to serious resource constraints, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will have to reduce or interrupt some of its activities as from this month in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), leaving thousands of people with no food assistance.
To continue its operations in DRC over the next six months, WFP, which is funded entirely by voluntary contributions, urgently needs US$75 million to see it through May 2014.
Some 54,000 internally displaced people(IDPs) live at the Mugunga Camp 1, in Goma, Eastern DRC.
WFP has been giving them food assistance but, in recent months, the IDPs have been on half rations due to WFP’s shortage of funding for DRC operations. With food stocks running low, further rations cuts are inevitable.
Namulisi Bauma lives here with her eight children. Her husband was killed in fighting in Massisi territory in 2012. She fled to Mugunga with her children. She says there is too much insecurity for her to go back and, in any case, her home has been destroyed.
More than 300 young children, suffering from acute malnutrition, are currently attending this health centre where they receive WFP special nutrition products like Super Cereal (fortified corn soy blend) to bring them back to health. With nutrition stocks also running low, supplementary feeding programmes are also likely to be interrupted. More than 13 percent of children in the IDP camps around Goma are malnourished.
1,290 children attend this overcrowded school. In this class, there are 156 children. Nearly 90 percent of the pupils are IDPs. WFP provides school meals but the programme is now threatened by lack of funding.
Lagabo, in South Irumu, Orientale Province in the North- Eastern DRC, near the Uganda border, is the scene of the latest mass displacement of civilians in DRC. Since fighting between Government forces and the main rebel group in the area broke out in August, more than 150,000 people are estimated to have been displaced.
SOUNDBITE (French) Anny Koledu, WFP Senior Programme Assistant:
“We’re giving them maize, beans, oil and salt. But, because of shortage in our depot, we don’t have enough food due to problems of funding. For this distribution, we’re giving them only a three-day ration of maize meal with a week’s ration of beans, oil and salt.”
In the last six months, funding shortages have meant that WFP has already had to halve the rations distributed to displaced people in North Kivu province, at a time when the overall food security situation is deteriorating in that part of eastern DRC. Indeed, according to a recent survey conducted jointly by the provincial government of North Kivu and WFP, six out of ten families are food insecure, against three out of ten two years ago.
In North and South Kivu and in Orientale provinces, some 500,000 food-insecure displaced people will be affected by the funding crisis. The provision of daily hot meals to thousands of schoolchildren is also in jeopardy, as is life-saving nutritional support to some 180,000 malnourished children, pregnant women and nursing mothers across the country.
In DRC, one out ten children suffers from acute malnutrition and 6.3 million people are facing hunger and need food assistance. There are currently 2.7 million internally displaced people in DRC.
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