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STORY: WFP / COVID-19 SEVERE HUNGER PREVENTION
TRT: 3:41
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH /MOORE /NATS
DATELINE: APR
29 APRIL 2020, ALEPPO, SYRIA
1. Tracking shot, destruction
2. Wide shot, people queuing and cleaning hands at entrance
3. Close up, hand sanitizer sprayed on hands
4. Med shot, Fatima and her mother receiving supplies
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Al Zahra’a eight-year-old from Aleppo:
“Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water and when you sneeze or cough you do this - you use your arm to cover your mouth and nose and immediately wash your hands with soap and water.”
6. Tracking shot, Fatima walking to bathroom
7. Med shot, Fatima Al Zahra’a washes her hands
6 MAY 2020, DAKAR, SENEGAL
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Margot Vandervelden WFP Director of Emergencies:
” Such an unprecedented emergency requires a global response and WFP is leading…driving that global response. WFP is pre-positioning and providing lifesaving food for those who need it most. But WFP is also airlifting medical supplies and aid workers from the entire humanitarian and health community. But, obviously, we need the funds in order to do so.”
1 MAY 2020, OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
9. Med shot, sign “International airport Ouagadougou”
10. Pan right, WFP airplane landing
11. Close up, WFP logo on plane
12. Various shots, unloading of cargo with ICRC and UNICEF labels
3 MAY 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO
13. Wide shot, Salam washing hands at WFP site
14. Med shot, Salam receiving cash from WFP workers
15. Wide shot, Salam cycles on street
16. Med shot, Salam washes hands outside a shop
17. Med shot, Salam enters a shop
18. Med shot, Salam paying
19. Wide shot, Salam loading a sack on his bicycle
20. Wide shot, Salam cycles on street
21. Wide shot, Salam and his wife unloading bicycle
22. SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Salam:
“We ran here to escape the killing. The women managed to come later with carts. We left all our belongings there, even the food and kitchen tools”
23. Various shots, Salam and his family preparing food and eating
With COVID-19 containment measures limiting people’s movement, World Food Programme has introduced measures to ensure that people receive their entitlements in as safe a way as possible.
With COVID-19 containment measures limiting people’s movement in Syria, WFP has introduced measures to ensure that people receive their entitlements in as safe a way as possible. WFP provides life-saving food to 4.5 million people each month. It is now increasing its distribution cycles and hours during the day, setting up handwashing stations, supporting people to practice social distancing at distribution points and using SMS to notify families when they can collect assistance to avoid crowds. In partnership with UNICEF we are distributing soap and information leaflets about hygiene. WFP is also working closely with partners to introduce mobile distributions, where food is driven as close to families’ homes as possible.
Fatima is an eight-year-old and in the first grade for the academic year 2019/2020 in Aleppo, Syria. Like all Syrian students she is not going to school anymore due to coronavirus. She is not happy missing school but glad that she could assist her mother in receiving the relief aid.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fatima Al Zahra’a eight-year-old from Aleppo:
Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water and when you sneeze or cough you do this - you use your arm to cover your mouth and nose and immediately wash your hands with soap and water.”
A silent hunger pandemic is poised to sweep across the world, sowing seeds of famine in its wake. WFP analysis shows that almost a quarter of a billion people could be pushed into severe hunger in 2020 by the fallout from COVID-19.
The health crisis threatens to become a global humanitarian catastrophe. 135 million people were acutely hungry in 2019. A further 130 million may be driven into severe hunger if the situation continues to deteriorate, taking the total to 265 million in 2020.
SOUNDBITE (English) Margot Vandervelden WFP Director of Emergencies:
”Such an unprecedented emergency requires a global response and WFP is leading…driving that global response. WFP is pre-positioning and providing lifesaving food for those who need it most. But WFP is also airlifting medical supplies and aid workers from the entire humanitarian and health community. But, obviously, we need the funds in order to do so.”
In Burkina Faso attacks from non-state armed groups and drought have displaced over 830,000 people in one year. On 9 March, Burkina Faso registered its first two cases of COVID-19, a figure that increased rapidly and exceeded the mark of 300 less than 30 days later. It’s one of the worst affected countries in all of Africa.
WFP provides health information and is distributing food and cash to more than 530,000 people putting in place a number of COVID-19 prevention measures including social distancing, sanitization and utilization of personal protective equipment.
Earlier this month, a cargo flight from WFP’s newly established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium arrived in Burkina Faso carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Sawadogo Salam, 39 years old, fled his home in Arbinbda in Burkina Faso when armed groups attacked killing many villagers. He travelled on foot 160 km to Kaya leaving everything behind. His family later joined on with some of their belongings, but his children have not been to school since they fled.
COVID-19 threatens to deal a fatal blow to communities already on the edge of survival, disrupting vital safety nets and straining humanitarian relief efforts.
SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Salam:
“We ran here to escape the killing. The women managed to come later with carts. We left all our belongings there, even the food and kitchen tools”
Thanks to WFP’s COVID19 preventive measures, Salam received cash and food distributions, allowing him to feed his family.
WFP is setting up the logistics backbone for global COVID-19 efforts, rolling out a global hub-and-spokes system of air links to dispatch vital medical and humanitarian cargo and transport health workers to the front lines of the pandemic. Global Humanitarian Response Hubs located close to where medical supplies are manufactured in Liège, Dubai, and China will link to regional hubs in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malaysia, Panama, Dubai, and South Africa, where a fleet of smaller aircraft will be on standby to move cargo and personnel into priority countries. The network builds on pre-existing UN Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD) - including Brindisi in Italy.
Adequate funding will be crucial - if we cannot roll-out essential logistics services, the response to COVID-19 in the world’s most fragile settings will be at risk.
