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STORY: CAR / FOOD AID
TRT: 1.29
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 18-19 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)
18 DECEMBER 2013, MUSAKA, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)
1. Med shot, people running carrying bags of maize
2. Med shot, bags of maize being unloaded from truck
3. Med shot, mother and children smiling
4. Med shot, WFP worker at food distribution site
18 DECEMBER 2013, LYCEE ABC BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)
5. Wide shot, WFP food distribution site banner
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Prudence Nadege, Displaced Mother:
“Because tomorrow my children and I are going to eat, so my family will be happy”
19 DECEMBER 2013, CASTORS, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)
7. Wide shot, people lining up for food rations while police woman watches
8. Wide shot, people sitting around with bags of rice
9. Med shot, woman distributing rice
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Housainou Taal, WFP CAR Country Director:
“The situation in Central African Republic has deteriorated sharply, there are more than 1.3 million people in urgent need, this people don’t have food, they don’t have water, sanitation is a problem and WFP is responding in a timely manner.”
11. Various shot, WFP food distribution to displaced people
The Conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, increasing humanitarian needs. WFP is providing food to people displaced in the recent upsurge of violence in the capital Bangui, as well as in Bossangoa in the northwest of the country and other locations.
In Mukasa, where 12,000 people have been displaced, WFP is distributing pulses, rice, maize and vegetable oil
A food distribution site at Lycee ABC is providing relief to about 2,600 displaced people.
Prudence Nadege, a displaced mother from the Boy Rab area in Banguishe now lives at the Lycee ABC site with her three children.
She just received a WFP food ration.
SOUNDBITE (French) Prudence Nadege, Displaced Mother:
“Because tomorrow my children and I are going to eat, so my family will be happy”
In Castors where there are about 12,000 displaced people, WFP food is distributing food ration is pulses, rice, maize and vegetable oil to displaced people.
SOUNDBITE (English) Housainou Taal, WFP CAR Country Director:
“The situation in Central African Republic has deteriorated sharply, there are more than 1.3 million people in urgent need, this people don’t have food, they don’t have water, sanitation is a problem and WFP is responding in a timely manner.”
A WFP-chartered Boeing 747 jumbo jet landed on Thursday 19 December) at Bangui airport with 45 metric tons of WFP logistics equipment, 17.3 tons of especially nutritious food for WFP to combat malnutrition in children under five years and 2.6 tons of emergency health kits from the World Health Organization.
WFP is responding to those in need following an outbreak of violence in Bangui on 5 December. WFRP has provided nearly 1,150 metric tons of food to 166,000 people in CAR since then.
In total, WFP and its partners have distributed nearly 500 tons of food including rice, split peas and oil to over 118,000 people in Bangui so far in December.
Only some 14,000 people out of an estimated 40,000 who took refuge near Bangui airport have not received WFP food because of insecurity.
Since the end of November, WFP and its partners have provided almost 470 tons of food to 32,000 people in the northwestern city of Bossangoa including 450 tons for 31,000 displaced people who received rations to last a month. Those who received food include Christians and Muslims.
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