IRAQ / SYRIA AID AIRLIFT

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) started airlifting enough food to feed close to 30,000 displaced people for a month from Iraq to Qamishli in northeast Syria amid growing problems in reaching people, especially in conflict and besieged areas. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:49
• Production Date: 5 February 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: NUTRITION; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ; SYRIA
• MAMS Id: U140205d

Description

STORY: IRAQ / SYRIA AID AIRLIFT
TRT: 1.49
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 4, 5 FEBRUARY 2014, ERBIL, IRAQ / 5 FEBRUARY 2014, QAMISHLI, SYRIA

Shotlist

4 FEBRUARY 2014, ERBIL, IRAQ

1. Wide shot, forklift approaching cargo aircraft
2. Pan left from forklift to plane
3. Wide shot, cargo gate opening
4. Pan right, workers pushing cargo onto plane
5. Wide shot, WFP cargo inside plane
6. Wide shot, gate closing

5 FEBRUARY 2014, ERBIL, IRAQ

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayad Naman, WFP Iraq
"The cargo we are sending to Qamishli is comprised of 380 tons of food. It’s mainly the basic items of wheat flour, rice and the parcels contain eight items inside salt, tomatoes paste, bulgur, lentils, vegetable oil and sugar."
8. Wide shot, WFP plane taking off from Erbil airport in Iraq

5 FEBRUARY 2014, QAMISHLI, SYRIA

9. Wide shot, view from inside WFP plane landing at Qamishli airport
Wide shot, WFP plane landing at Qamishli airport
10. Wide shot, plane taxiing on runway
11. Wide shot, forklift unloading cargo at Qamishli airport

Storyline

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) started airlifting on Tuesday (4 Feb) enough food to feed close to 30,000 displaced people for a month from Iraq to Qamishli in northeast Syria amid growing problems in reaching people, especially in conflict and besieged areas.

It is the second such WFP airlift from Erbil, Iraq, to people who would otherwise be cut off from humanitarian assistance.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ayad Naman, WFP Iraq
"The cargo we are sending to Qamishli is comprised of 380 tons of food. It’s mainly the basic items of wheat flour, rice and the parcels contain eight items inside salt, tomatoes paste, bulgur, lentils, vegetable oil and sugar."

The first WFP-chartered flight landed at Qamishli airport with 40 metric tons of mixed food including rice, pasta, bulgur, wheat flour, canned food, pulses, salt, vegetable oil and sugar. A total of 10 flights will deliver over 400 metric tons of WFP food and other items – mainly clothes, detergent and soap – for UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration.

Road access into northeastern Syria’s Al Hassakeh Governorate remains perilous for aid agencies and no significant deliveries of relief items have reached the region overland since May. WFP airlifted food from Erbil to Qamishli in December for more than 62,000 people deprived of food assistance for over five months.