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STORY: BANGLADESH / ROHINGYA REFUGEES FOOD AID
TRT: 02:18
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 – 30 NOVEMBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
28 NOVEMBER 2017, KUTUPALONG CAMP, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
1. Various shots, newly arrived refugees coming from UNHCR transit camp
2. Various shots, workers building bridges and roads and tested by WFP vehicles
29 NOVEMBER 2017, KUTUPALONG CAMP, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Shelley Thankral, Spokesperson, World Food Programme (WFP):
“What we are trying to do is make sure that we have the access to reach all of those people, improving roads, we’ve even built a bridge, and that’s improvements being made so that we can get food to people, we can get medicines to people and that they can access clean water.”
30 NOVEMBER 2017, NUTRITION CENTRE, KUTUPALONG AREA, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
4. Various shots, WFP providing nutritional support to women and children
5. Various shots, woman receiving aid from WFP
28 NOVEMBER 2017, NUTRITION CENTRE, KUTUPALONG AREA, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
6. Various shots, WFP food distribution centre
7. Various shots, women waiting in line for receiving aid
8. Close up, food in packages
9. Various shot, people receiving food
10 Various shots, Mubina Khatun receiving food and walking in the camp
11. SOUNSBITE (Bangla dialect) Mubina Khatun, Refugee
“It’s very stressful for us here. If we are welcomed back then we will go immediately.”
12. Various shots, Mubina Khatun preparing WFP rice for her family
World Food Programme (WFP) has built a new bridge at the Kutupalong camp which opens up new routes to get life-saving food closer to families who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh is fast becoming the biggest refugee camp in the world. WFP and the Government of Bangladesh, international partners are responding robustly to the needs of hundreds of thousands of people arriving from Myanmar.
Surveys show alarming malnutrition rates in Kutupalong refugee camp, with one in four Rohingya children suffering from malnutrition. WFP is working to prevent and treat malnutrition, providing extra nutritional porridge mixes to children under-fives, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.
Mubina Khatun who is currently seeking refuge at the camp said that the situation is very stressful and if her family is welcomed back, they will go immediately.
WFP will be matching food baskets to family size better -giving larger ration packs to bigger families - and locally sourced fresh foods will diversify refugees’ diets. But food alone is not enough to beat malnutrition. The camp needs improved health, sanitation and hygiene. Two-thirds of the families WFP spoke to reported cases of diarrhoea.
WFP has provided food (rice, lentils and oil) to around 700,000 people.
WFP urgently needs US$27.8 million to support one million people until the end of February 2018 in the Cox’s Bazar region in Bangladesh, including new arrivals and people who were already living in camps near the border and host communities.
As the situation stabilizes, WFP is introducing e-vouchers to giving access to wider variety of food to refugees and helping the local economy.
WFP needs US$27.8 million to fund a response that will address the needs of about 1 million people until the end of February 2018, including US$3.7 million for logistics and emergency telecommunications support.
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Each year, WFP assists some 80 million people in around 80 countries.
