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STORY: WFP / VENEZUELA MIGRANTS
TRT: 3 :08
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: SPANISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 18 – 22 SEPTERMBER 2018, NORTE DE SANTANDER REGION, COLOMBIA
20 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEAR CUCUTA, COLOMBIA
1.Various shots, “Trocha” Illegal river crossing
2. Wide shot, Colombian military police patrolling Trocha
21 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEAR CUCUTA, COLOMBIA
3.Aerial shot, Venezuela/Colombia border at Simon Bolivar Bridge
18 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEAR CUCUTA, COLOMBIA
4.Wide shot, Venezuela/Colombia border at Simon Bolivar Bridge
19 SEPTEMBER 2018, LOS PATIOS, COLOMBIA
5. Various shots, Daria Silva (in brown with red backpack)and her extended family are walking to Cali from Cucuta.
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Daria Silva:
“Horrible because we really were dying of hunger. Everything was difficult for us. There’s no medicine, no food, no nothing. Everyday is getting worse, worse and worse…children are dying!”
19 SEPTEMBER 2018, SANTO DOMINGO DE SILOS, COLOMBIA
7. Various shots, “Caminantes” Arliani Perez (20 yrs) and her 2yr old daughter Arianny walking from St. Cristobal, Venezuela to Bogata Colombia.
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arliani Perez:
“All Venezuelans are thinking of leaving to search for stability. But we find ourselves in other places …in another world that’s not our own. Its been very tough for us.”
9. Wide shot, Arianny waves as she and Arliani continue there trek up the mountain.
19 SEPTEMBER 2018, TONA, COLOMBIA
10. Wide shot, a family of “Caminantes” cross the 3400meter peak near Tona where temperatures at night are frequently below 0C
22 SEPTEMBER 2018, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
11.SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Hines, Country Director in Colombia, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Millions of people have fled Venezuela entering Colombia and other countries resulting in a regional crisis. This human crisis has many faces and these people require food assistance, which WFP is supporting, as well as an integrated response. The international community needs to step up and ensure that governments of the region are supported.”
20 SEPTEMBER 2018, CUCUTA, COLOMBIA
12. Various shots, Venezuelans eat WFP provided hot meals at a
Colombia is facing an unprecedented crisis as thousands of people from Venezuela continue to cross the border everyday due to lack of food, medicine, other basic needs and loss of livelihoods.
The mass exodus, one of the largest in Latin American history, has become a regional crisis and is expected to continue. Migrants are increasingly using Colombia as a corridor to enter Ecuador, Perú and other countries in South America, overwhelming host governments.
Around 900 people a day cross into Cucuta, Colombia from Venezuela. Cucuta has one of the highest unemployment rates in Colombia.
Daria Silva and her extended family walked to Cali from Cucuta. They left their home and family members in Venezuela 3 months ago.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Daria Silva:
“Horrible because we really were dying of hunger. Everything was difficult for us. There’s no medicine, no food, no nothing. Everyday is getting worse, worse and worse…children are dying!”
Colombians and their government are doing all they can to step up to this challenge. The country has made progress in the peace process and ending hunger, however as this crisis grows in proportion, it jeopardizes recent gains.
“Caminantes” Arliani Perez is 20 years old. She and her two years old daughter Arianny walked from St. Cristobal, Venezuela to Bogata Colombia.
Her group left her that morning because they could not keep up. She thinks her mother is in Bogota but has not heard from her in 7months.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Arliani Perez:
“All Venezuelans are thinking of leaving to search for stability. But we find ourselves in other places …in another world that’s not our own. It has been very tough for us.”
The crisis is affecting host families and communities receiving large number of migrants, particularly indigenous communities which welcome new arrivals but face very difficult living conditions.
WFP is providing food assistance to the most vulnerable in Colombia and Ecuador, especially women and children, who access to basic services, face protection risks and do not know where their next meal is coming from.
SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Hines, Country Director in Colombia, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Millions of people have fled Venezuela entering Colombia and other countries resulting in a regional crisis. This human crisis has many faces and these people require food assistance, which WFP is supporting, as well as an integrated response. The international community needs to step up and ensure that governments of the region are supported.”
Since the start of the operation, WFP has provided emergency food assistance to some 60,000 migrants from Venezuela in the border departments of Arauca, La Guajira, and Norte de Santander. WFP has recently started operating in the department of Nariño, bordering Ecuador.
Almost 25,000 people have been reached through WFP-supported community kitchens in Arauca, La Guajira and Norte de Santander. These community kitchens provide two daily hot meals to the most vulnerable people, especially women, children and the elderly, and people with disabilities. The number of people seeking assistance is expected to rise.
With the help of its implementing partners, WFP has provided over 19,500 people with pre-paid cards in Arauca, La Guajira and Norte de Santander. Beneficiaries can redeem these cards –worth US$75 or 96,000 pesos each—to buy nutritious foods and hygiene items in a number of local shops.
In La Guajira, WFP is helping to expand the current school meals programme to provide additional hot meals to 10,000 children in need.
As per the Colombian government’s request, WFP will carry out activities aimed at promoting integration and stability for migrants and host families.
As the flow of migrants into Colombia is expected to rise, WFP hopes the international community will continue to support this emergency response. WFP urgently needs more than US$22 million to meet the food and nutrition needs of the migrants arriving from Venezuela.
