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STORY: HAITI / JEREMIE FOOD AID
TRT: 01:46
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 10 OCTOBER 2016, JEREMIE, HAITI
1. Various shots, aerial views showing damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in Grand-Anse department
2. Wide shot, crowd gathering in nearby school compound Ecole Chretienne de Lundi
3. Med shot, elderly lady speaking on a mobile phone in a destroyed agricultural field
4. Med shot, people gathering at WFP food distribution
5. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lafleur Guerni, 39-year-old Mother:
“We had nothing left. No house. No food. We have nothing. We are homeless. We live in this school but we don’t know how long they will allow us to stay. We don’t have anywhere to go. The water took everything away.”
6. Pan right, trees on the road side, truck carrying WFP food
7. Wide shot, WFP food distribution
8. Med shot, WFP worker talking into microphone
9. Various shots, people from the community offloading WFP trucks
10. Various shots, men carrying bags
11. Various shots, elderly lady with baby sitting in the school compound
In Jeremie, one of the areas worst affected by Hurricane Matthew, the World Food Programme (WFP) distributed food rations to 2,500 people whose homes have been destroyed and who are now living in a school compound shelter.
WFP has also handed over 12 million tonnes of food to local authorities for immediate distribution to 5,000 people.
The food ration composed of cereal, pulses and oil is sufficient for a family to meet its food needs for a month.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lafleur Guerni, 39-year-old Mother:
“We had nothing left. No house. No food. We have nothing. We are homeless. We live in this school but we don’t know how long they will allow us to stay. We don’t have anywhere to go. The water took everything away.”
Preliminary results from the Emergency Food Security Assessments indicate almost 100 percent of crops are destroyed in the Grand-Anse department, and more than half the livestock killed. Damaged roads and destroyed bridges connecting Port-au-Prince with the hurricane-hit areas are also challenge. A WFP-chartered helicopter began flying humanitarian workers and relief supplies to affected areas on Friday, 7 October.
In its rampage through the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew claimed lives, and left extensive flooding and mudslides, damage to roads and buildings, and electricity and water shortages in parts of Haiti and Cuba.
