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STORY: IRAQ / FOOD AID
TRT: 2:18
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICITONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT
24 AUGUST 2014, ZAKHO, IRAQ
1. Various shots, displaced people from Sinjar living in unfinished buildings
2. Med shot, men sitting in circle on ground
3. Close up, man sitting on ground
4. Tilt down, displaced in unfinished building to children waiting for water at tank
5. Close up, girl receiving water
6. Med shot, family in building
7. Various shots, rubble and garbage in building
8. Various shots, women and children sitting on blankets in building
16 AUGUST 2014, ERBIL, IRAQ
9. SOUNDBITE Jane Pearce, WFP Iraq
“We have large numbers of people, over 200 thousand, who are not in camps, they’re not in areas that we can easily access or identify them. These are mainly the people in Dahuk, who are now camped in public buildings, in schools, in churches, in mosques, in open fields, under bridges. These are the people that we are challenged in making sure that they have enough to eat. What WFP’s aim always is, is to provide the right food to the right people at the right time.”
23 AUGUST 2014, Bajit, Kandala camp
10. Various shots, displacement camp
11. Med shot, boy sleeping on carpet
12. Med shot, man sleeping on ground
13. Various shots, unloading WFP food rations off truck
14. Med shot, woman and child
15. Wide shot, people walking on street
Food aid convoys from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have reached displaced Iraqis in Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, bringing the number of people receiving food assistance to over 700,000 people since the start of violence in mid-June.
This week 2,000 displaced families in Karbala received food assistance after WFP sent convoys from Erbil in the northern Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) area – using a corridor along the Iranian border to avoid volatile security in the area. More convoys will depart daily from Erbil to Karbala until all 15,000 families registered there have received assistance.
Throughout the country more than 1 million people have been displaced – many without access to food, water or other basic needs. They are living in unfinished buildings, mosques, churches, parks and schools.
WFP’s operations in Iraq have been significantly scaled up in recent weeks due to a US$148.9 million contribution in July from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that has helped the agency to respond quickly to the humanitarian crisis in the country.
Before the latest wave of displacement, WFP was already assisting about 240,000 people displaced by conflict in Iraq’s al-Anbar governorate, as well as more than 180,000 refugees from the conflict in Syria who are sheltering in Iraq.
