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STORY: YEMEN / BEASLEY HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 02:50
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24-26 JULY 2017, SANAA / HODEIDAH, YEMEN
24-25 JULY 2017, SANAA / HODEIDAH, YEMEN
1. Wide shot, view of city
2. Wide shot, damaged building
3. Wide shot, Al Sabeen Hospital exterior
4. Wide shot, child in diarrhoea treatment centre
5. Close up, child
6. Close up, IV dripper
7. Med shot, doctor checking child
8. Close up, child on hospital bed
26 JULY 2017, HODEIDAH, YEMEN
9. Wide shot, ship docked at Hodeidah port
10. Various shots, wheat being unloaded from vessel
11. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and other organisations are trying to help the innocent victims of war. And we ask any, any parties engaged in this conflict to respect humanitarian law, to respect the rights of innocent people, and give us the access that we need to provide the help that’s needed.”
12. Wide shot, people in hallway at Al Thawara hospital
13. Various shots, mothers with their babies in severely acute malnutrition treatment centre
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Marwan Mohammad, Doctor:
“There is an increase in cases of malnutrition cases due to the circumstances we are currently enduring. We are receiving a large amount of cases. There is extra pressure on us.”
15. Med shot, Beasley speaking to doctor
16. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“It’s amazing what the World Food Programme is doing. We’re scaling up; we’re trying to serve 9 million people in Yemen. If we don’t receive the funds that we need, we’re literally talking about of hundreds of thousands of children alone dying in the next few months and millions of people on the brink of starvation.”
25 JULY 2017, SANAA, YEMEN
17. Various shots, people outside food distribution centre
18. Wide shot, Walid and daughters entering home
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Walid Abdel Malek, Government employee:
“If I’m late at work and I come home and find them sleeping, I let them sleep till the morning. I don’t ever wake them up. If I wake them up they are going to ask for dinner.”
20. Med shot, Walid’s reflection in a mirror
21. Various shots, Walid and daughters eating
During a three day visit to Yemen, World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley warned that if the funds needed to respond to the humanitarian crisis in the country are not received, “we’re literally talking about of hundreds of thousands of children alone dying in the next few months and millions of people on the brink of starvation.”
Beasley wrapped up a three-day visit to Yemen on Wednesday (26 Jul) in which he saw first-hand the scale of the humanitarian crisis facing the Yemeni people. WFP said the country is facing a cholera outbreak in the midst of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with 400,000 suspected cases of cholera in the past three months alone. The Programme said vital health, water, and sanitation facilities have been crippled by more than two years of hostilities, and created the ideal conditions for diseases to spread.
WFP cautioned that over 60 percent of the population, more than 17 million people, did not know where their next meal will come from. It said the country is on the brink of famine and nearly two million children are acutely malnourished. Furthermore, malnutrition makes these children even more susceptible to cholera and other diseases, and diseases create more malnutrition; turning the situation into a vicious cycle for many children.
WFP said malnutrition rates in Hodeidah are among the worst in the country, as some children are too weak to open their mouths and eat the specialized foods they are given for treatment. The Programme described the situation in Yemen as one of the world’s worst hunger crises as it aimed to reach 6.8 million people suffering from severe hunger this month alone.
WFP Executive Director David Beasley called on all parties engaged in this conflict to “respect humanitarian law, to respect the rights of innocent people”, and give humanitarian actors the access they “need to provide the help that’s needed.”
WFP said significant delays continue to affect vessels entering all major ports due to damaged infrastructure, reduced operational capacities, and insecurity. It urged all parties to the conflict to keep Hodeidah port open to ensure continuity of commercial and humanitarian shipments into the country. The Programme added that the closure of Hodeidah could tip the country into a full-fledged famine, as Yemen imported up to 90 percent of its food even before the current crisis.
