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STORY: HAITI/ FOOD DISTRIBUTION
TRT: 2.03
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE/ NATS
DATELINE: 15 JANUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, WFP trucks and helicopters in background
2. Various shots , WFP warehouse
3. Med shot, food being loaded on to truck
4. Med shot, WFP truck
5. Various shots, street scenes, make-shift homes and people on streets
6. Various shots, people crowding around truck for food
7. Med shot, people fighting for food at truck
8. SOUNDBITE (French)Nancy Exilas, WFP Coordinator Port au Prince:
“It is getting more and more complicated, because the need is getting higher. But that is usual. The people also did not understand yet that these are high energy biscuits, they are fortified with vitamins, the expiry date is November 2010 and they taste differently than the usual biscuits”.
9. Various shots, boxes of food
10. Various shots, peacekeepers trying to calm crowd
11. SOUNDBITE (French)James Dorcin, WFP Coordinator:
“These are fortified biscuits, this is 1000 Gram, and this is a day portion, water purifying tablets and empty water gallons."
12. Various shots, peacekeepers delivering food
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) continued its distribution of food rations today (15 January) to crowds desperate for help, three days after the devastating earthquake that rocked the Haitian capital.
People camping at a makeshift tent wrestled over the meal rations distributed by WFP in a chaotic scene that included pushing and shoving as tempers flared up.
8000 people were the beneficiaries at 4 distribution points in Port au Prince as part of its plan to feed 2 million people and provide logistical support for a 6-month Emergency Operation.
SOUNDBITE (French) Nancy Exilas, WFP Coordinator Port au Prince:
“It is getting more and more complicated, because the need is getting higher. But that is usual. The people also did not understand yet that these are high energy biscuits, they are fortified with vitamins, the expiry date is November 2010 and they taste differently than the usual biscuits”.
In the initial phase of the operation, WFP will provide one-week rations of ready-to-eat food to up to 2 million people who no longer have access to kitchens or cooking facilities. After the distribution of the ready-to-eat food rations, WFP will begin general distributions of basic food items such as rice, pulses and cooking oil to 2 million people.
As soon as possible, WFP will move from general food distributions towards food for work activities that use food as an incentive for people to support reconstruction and rehabilitation work in areas damaged by the earthquake.
WFP had begun food distributions in and around the capital, Port au Prince, in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. Some 2900 people received high energy biscuits in Port au Prince on Thursday, and distributions are being scaled up in the coming days. WFP coordinators explained the properties of the items being distributed to the crowds.
UPSOUND (French) James Dorcin, WFP Coordinator:
“These are fortified biscuits, this is 1000 Grams, and this is a day portion, water purifying tablets and empty water gallons."
The Organization has deployed expert logistics and telecommunications teams in support of the coordinated humanitarian response to this disaster and has established a logistics hub in neighboring Dominican Republic. It has now begun acquiring logistical assets - such as mobile warehouses, trucks, helicopters and a coastal vessel.
WFP is considering establishing a network of up to 200 kitchens in Port au Prince, with each providing up to 500 meals a day. Food assistance will be directed at vulnerable families that have lost their homes, families living in temporary shelters, and child-headed households.
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake is said to have affected one-third of Haiti’s 9-million strong population. Many of the people in the hard-hit capital, Port-au-Prince, do not have access to food, water, shelter and electricity.
