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STORY: YEMEN / FOOD SECURITY
TRT: 02:19
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12, 23 APRIL 2017, SANA’A CITY, MANAKHA DISTRICT, ADEN, YEMEN
23 APRIL 2017, AL’AGHMOUR HEALTH CENTER, MANAKHA DISTRICT, YEMEN
1. Various shots, exterior Al’aghmour Health Centre
2. Various shots, children waiting to be checked for malnutrition
3. Various shots, children being screened for malnutrition
4. Various shots, mothers and children receiving WFP special nutritious food (Super Cereal Plus), for children under 5
01:11-01:47
23 APRIL 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Anderson, WFP Yemen Country Director:
“The World Food Programme is mounting three different types of interventions to help people, general food distribution of in kind food assistance, also commodity vouchers and also specialized nutrition assistance and altogether that is meant to reach 9.1 million people, however due to funding constraints and access restrictions we are unfortunately not able to help the number of people that we would like to.”
12 APRIL 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
6. Various shots, war damaged buildings
11 APRIL 2017, ADEN, YEMEN
7. Various shots, family that has received food from WFP
12 MARCH 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
8. Wide shot, city view
23 APRIL 2017, SANA’A, YEMEN
9. Various shots, people redeeming WFP vouchers, getting food from local trader’s network
Yemen is on the brink of famine with over 17 million people – two-thirds of the country’s population – food insecure. Over 6.8 million people are severely food insecure, do not know where their next meal is coming from, and cannot survive without external food assistance.
Since the conflict began in mid-March 2015, the food security and nutrition situation has rapidly deteriorated. Violence has destroyed people’s livelihoods and ability to purchase food, making it difficult for many Yemenis to meet minimal food and nutrition needs.
The World Food Programme (WFP) aims to provide direct food assistance to nearly seven million people who are severely food insecure and urgently need food assistance, in addition to providing nutrition support to prevent or treat malnutrition among 2.2 million children. WFP will also assist nursing and pregnant mothers with specialized nutritious foods. WFP will also prioritize districts that have prevalence of severe hunger and where Global Acute Malnutrition rates among children under five are well above the World Health Organization critical threshold of 15 percent. These areas are at risk of deteriorating into famine conditions if they do not receive adequate assistance in time.
SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Anderson, WFP Yemen Country Director:
“The World Food Programme is mounting three different types of interventions to help people, general food distribution of in kind food assistance, also commodity vouchers and also specialized nutrition assistance and altogether that is meant to reach 9.1 million people, however due to funding constraints and access restrictions we are unfortunately not able to help the number of people that we would like to.”
Shokri Hassan, 50, lives in Aden with his wife, two children and sick father. He is a state worker but, hasn’t received his salary in seven months. He and his family have received food from WFP.
A public budget deficit has reduced government expenditures, which have delayed or wiped out salaries for government employees since September 2016.
WFP implements a voucher programme, each voucher provides a one-month supply of wheat grain, pulses, vegetable oil, salt and sugar as well as Wheat Soya Blend – a protein-rich blended food provided by WFP through the local supplier. The monthly entitlement is enough to cover the food needs of a family of six people.
The United Nations will hold a High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen. Co-hosted by UN Secretary General Guterres, the governments of Switzerland and Sweden, the conference will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 25 April 2017.
