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STORY: WFP / FAMINE NIGERIA
TRT: 02:25
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / HOUSA / NATS
DATELINE: 24 MAY - 6 JUNE 2017, NORTH EAST NIGERIA
24 MAY 2017, MADAGALI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ADAMAWA STATE, NORTH EAST NIGERIA
1. Various shots, storm approaching
2. Various shots, mothers with babies, being tested for malnutrition with MUAC (Middle Upper Arm Circumference)
30 MAY 2017, MADAGALI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ADAMAWA STATE, NORTH EAST NIGERIA
3. Wide shot, women getting special fortified food and vegetable oil at WFP food distribution site
4. Wide shot, WFP staff teaching to a group of women how to properly cook the CSB
6 JUNE 2017, GUBIO CAMP, MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NORTH EAST NIGERIA
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Ahimbisibwe, WFP Nigeria:
‘’Malnutrition is one of the greatest challenges in this area here and within this camp specifically we have seen the rates drop from over 30 percent to about less than 10 percent, and this has been the result of the food assistance that we have provided in this location.”
6. Wide shot, child pushing cart
7. Various shots, women receiving WFP food ration
26 MAY 2017, MADAGALI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ADAMAWA STATE, NORTH EAST NIGERIA
8. Pan right, women cueing waiting to be registered in the WFP SCOPE
9. Various shots, women and men being registered into the WFP SCOPE
10. Various shots, Joshua Palla registering with the WFP SCOPE
11. Various shots, Joshua Palla getting WFP food ration
12. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Joshua Palla, WFP Aid Recipient:
“During one rainy season Boko Haram invaded our village and we run towards this mountain and stayed there for about 6 months. We have no food there and have drinking water from ponds. We were eating tree leaves, wild fruits. We suffered a lot as we left our home without carrying anything.”
13. Wide shot, Joshua taking WFP food ration home to his family
The lean season, when food stores from the previous harvest typically run out, is pushing up already alarming rates of hunger and malnutrition across northeaster Nigeria, with roughly 5.2 million people currently facing extreme hunger.
Torrential rains and seasonal severe weather make roads impassable, cutting off food assistance to the neediest in most remote places.
People should be planting next season’s crop but the Boko Haram insurgency is keeping them from their fields.
The Gubio camp was established by the Nigerian government and shelters about 19,000 displaced people, more than half of them women and children. WFP distributes food (cereals, pulses, vegetable oil and CSB) and nutritional supplements to the youngest ones.
SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Ahimbisibwe, WFP Nigeria:
‘’Malnutrition is one of the greatest challenges in this area here and within this camp specifically we have seen the rates drop from over 30 percent to about less than 10 percent, and this has been the result of the food assistance that we have provided in this location.”
WFP uses a smartphone based platform called SCOPE where all the beneficiary data is kept.
SCOPE is used to register people, calculate the assistance they require, and then deliver it in the most efficient and effective manner. It helps WFP make the most of its resources, while better tailoring the response to people’s needs.
Joshua Palla, 61 years old, father of 13 children. Joshua and his family to escape the atrocities of the insurgents run to a mountain surrounding their village for hideouts and they have been eating wild fruits and tree leaves for about 6 months before their village came under the control of the government forces.
SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Joshua Palla, WFP Aid Recipient:
“During one rainy season Boko Haram invaded our village and we run towards this mountain and stayed there for about 6 months. We have no food there and have drinking water from ponds. We were eating tree leaves, wild fruits. We suffered a lot as we left our home without carrying anything.”
If people can’t plant for the next season, hunger will continue to rise.
