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STORY: YEMEN / LOWCOCK VISIT
TRT: 2:36
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2018, ADEN / LAHIJ GOVERNORATE, YEMEN
30 NOVEMBER 2018, ADEN, YEMEN
1. Wide shot, Aden International Airport
2. Driving shot, UN motorcade
30 NOVEMBER 2018, LAHIJ GOVERNORATE, YEMEN
3. Tracking, Lowcock walking through Al Rebat camp
4. Tracking, Lowcock entering tent
5. Wide shots, Lowcock speaking to displaced family
6. Tilt up, girl sleeping on floor in tent to delegation leaving
7. Wide shot, family in tent
8. Various shots, children in camp
9. Wide shot, UN motorcade leaving camp
30 NOVEMBER 2018, AL SADAKAH HOSPITAL, ADEN, YEMEN
9. Pan right, Lowcock speaking with hospital official to malnourished child
10. Pan left, malnourished child to Lowcock speaking with hospital official
11. Wide shot, Lowcock visiting hospitalized child
12. Close up, malnourished child
13. Close up, malnourished child
14. Tilt down, mother to malnourished child
15. SOUNDBITE (English) mother at hospital:
“I am hopeless. I’m tired. I want money for my children. I want them to have food. I want them to eat and be clothed like normal people.”
16. Med shot, mother holding child
17. SOUNDBITE (English) mother at hospital:
“Right now, if my husband works we eat, if not we thank God and sleep. When he earns will eat, if he doesn’t we wait until he can bring us something; then we’ll eat.”
18. Wide shot, Lowcock visiting mother and child
Visiting Aden today, UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock expressed his concern over the humanitarian situation in Yemen which has significantly deteriorated since his last visit to the country in October.
Lowcock reiterated the five key requests he asked the Security Council to support earlier this month to address the suffering of the Yemeni people. These included, implementing a cessation of hostilities, facilitating and protecting the supply of food and other essential goods across Yemen, supporting the Yemeni economy, increasing funding and support to the aid operation, and a call for all belligerents to work with the UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths to end the conflict.
The humanitarian chief met with Government officials to discuss ways to scale up the humanitarian operation. He visited a collective centre receiving displaced people from Al Hudaydah where he spoke to some of the most affected people. He also visited Al Sadakah Hospital, the largest hospital in Aden city, and spoke to some families whose children are being treated for severe acute malnutrition.
The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) said three-quarters of Yemen’s population require some form of humanitarian assistance and protection, including at least 8.4 million Yemenis who do not know where their next meal will come from. If the trajectory of the crisis does not change, up 12 million people could soon be entirely reliant on aid to survive.
OCHA said despite complex security and access challenges, humanitarians have more than doubled response efforts in Yemen over the last three years, reaching eight million people with food aid every month in 2018. To meet the humanitarian needs across the country, OCHA said 2.3 billion USD has been mobilised so far, but more is required due to the deterioration in the situation.
