CAR / WFP AID DISTRIBUTION

The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing food to people displaced in the recent upsurge of violence in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), Bangui, as well as in Bossangoa in the northwest of the country and other locations. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:10
• Production Date: 24 December 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• MAMS Id: U131224c

Description

STORY: CAR / WFP AID DISTRIBUTION
TRT: 2.10
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SANGO/ NATS

DATELINE: 24 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)

Shotlist

1. Various shots, displaced people gathered in a makeshift camp at Bangui Airport
2. Med shot, French soldiers guarding IDP camp
3. Various shots, people waiting to receive food rations
4. Various shots, people receiving WFP food, pulses, rice, maize and vegetable oil
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Housainou Taal, WFP CAR Country Director:
"We need to assist people who are in desperate need. At the moment in Bangui there are over a hundred thousand people who WFP and partners have assisted. Countrywide, we have assisted over 600,000 people since March. The situation is very serious. We need to help these people who are in very, very desperate need."
6. Various shots, displaced people living in compound at Eglise Castors cooking WFP food
7. Various shots, children eating
8. SOUNDBITE (Sango) Danwily Thierry, Disabled Displaced Person:
“Here there is no job that I can do, but thanks to God, today they brought us these split peas, rice and supplies that I will give to my wife to cook for the children”
9. Various shots, Danwily Thierry receiving WFP food and leaves on his wheelchair

Storyline

Conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, increasing humanitarian needs. The World Food Programme (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.

WFP is scaling up to reach more than 1 million people in 2014 and is counting on donors to support efforts to assist people in this crisis. Livelihoods and seasonal harvesting have been severely disrupted by conflict.

SOUNDBITE (English) Housainou Taal, WFP CAR Country Director:
"We need to assist people who are in desperate need. At the moment in Bangui there are over a hundred thousand people who WFP and partners have assisted. Countrywide, we have assisted over 600,000 people since March. The situation is very serious. We need to help these people who are in very, very desperate need."

WFP is responding to those in need following an outbreak of violence in Bangui and Bossangoa in the northwest on 5 December. WFRP has provided nearly 1,285 metric tons of food to nearly 200,000 people in CAR since then.

Danwily Thierry, a disabled man, approached the food distribution site in his wheelchair.

SOUNDBITE (Sango) Danwily Thierry, Disabled Displaced Person:
“Here there is no job that I can do, but thanks to God, today they brought us these split peas, rice and supplies that I will give to my wife to cook for the children”

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 revising its existing programme and will scale up its emergency response to provide more than 1 million people over the next six months with life-saving food support. People displaced and affected by conflict are the main focus of the operation in line with findings of an Emergency Food Security Assessment in October 2013.