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STORY: IRAQ / MOSUL DISPLACED FOOD AID
TRT: 01:51
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 - 16 JUNE 2014, KHABAT CAMP, KALAK, IRAQ
12 JUNE 2014, CHECKPOINT NEAR KALAK, IRAQ
1. Various shots, people fleeing Mosul
16 JUNE 2014, EBRIL, IRAQ
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hildegard TUTTINGHOFF, WFP officer in Iraq:
“On the day of the attack there were huge crowds at the check points and the luckier ones had friends and families and working permits and thus could obtain easy access to this region. The more unfortunate had to wait and queue hours and hours in the bright sun, temperatures rise about 40 degrees now, waiting for the permission to enter safer areas.”
15 JUNE 2014, KHABAT CAMP, KALAK IRAQ
3. Various shots, WFP distributing food rations for the first wave displaced families
4. SOUNDBITE (Local language) displaced woman from Mosul:
“For four days we slept in a garden we eat bread and water only.”
5. Various shots, WFP staff checking the presence of snakes and scorpions
6. Med shot, displaced woman showing a dead snake in front of her tent
7. Close up, dead snake
8. Wide shot, drilling machinery
9. Med shot, displaced boy walking by a tent
10. Med shot, displaced children playing with water
With the growing crisis in Iraq, the World Food Programme (WFP) has started providing food assistance to the most vulnerable families who found sanctuary in the Kurdish region after fleeing their homes when the northern Iraqi city of Mosul fell to a rebel offensive.
WFP has begun on Sunday (15 June) to distribute food on to internally displaced people at Kalak camp, in the area between Erbil and Mosul, with the help of partners such as ACTED and the International Organization for Migration.
A WFP-chartered flight is due to arrive on Tuesday from Abu Dhabi to Erbil carrying logistics equipment from the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Dubai on behalf of the UN humanitarian community.
WFP staff is on the ground in Erbil conducting rapid assessments of the humanitarian situation with other UN agencies. Initial reports show that in the areas between Mosul and the Kurdistan Region (KRG), food is scarce in the shops and markets and government services including electricity and water have broken down. Displaced families told UN staff that they wish to stay in KRG until the situation becomes safe again.
Before the wave of displacements from violence in Mosul, WFP was already assisting about 240,000 people displaced by conflict in Iraq’s al-Anbar region, as well as more than 100,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria, who are sheltering in Iraq.
In total, it is estimated that nearly one million people are internally displaced in Iraq – 500,000 newly displaced from Mosul City and a further 480,000 who fled the fighting al-Anbar in recent months (according to OCHA).
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food in emergencies and working with communities to build resilience. In 2013, WFP assisted more than 80 million people in 75 countries.
