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STORY: MIDDLE EAST / SYRIA REFUGEES
TRT: 2.10
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 31 AUGUST 2012, JORDAN / 4-6 SEPTEMBER 2012, LEBANON
31 AUGUST 2012, ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN
1. Wide shot, camp
2. Wide shot, child coming out of a tent
3. Pan left, man unloading boxes of food from truck
4. Various shots, children carrying boxes of food
31 AUGUST 2012, ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN
5. Various shots, children eating hot meals
6. Wide shot, camp
5 SEPTEMBER 2012, ARSAL, LEBANON
7. Med shot, WFP sticker on shop window
8. Various shots, Syrian refugees getting food in a local shop using WFP voucher
4 SEPTEMBER 2012, BALABEK, LEBANON
9. Close up, Um Ahmed preparing food
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Ahmed, Syrian Refugee:
“With 17 of us living in one house how are we supposed to sleep? We don’t have clothes, how are the men going to dress? I don’t complain; I thank god.”
6 SEPTEMBER 2012, TRIPOLI, LEBANON
11. Various shots, people receiving rice, pasta, canned meat and canned fish at WFP food distribution site
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Abeer Etefa, WFP Spokesperson in Lebanon:
“The humanitarian needs and especially the food needs for Syrians inside their country as well as the ones fleeing to the neighbouring countries are growing. WFP is responding to this emergency by providing assistance to more than a million and a half Syrians inside their country as well as also providing food assistance to the ones who have fled to neighbouring countries in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, through vouchers, through in kind food distributions or hot meals as the situation would require.”
13. Various shots, refugees receiving WFP food
WFP is scaling up its operations to reach 1.5 million people in Syria this month with food assistance, as large numbers of Syrians flee their homes and thousands more Syrians pour into neighbouring countries.
WFP is responding to cover the food needs of refugees in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey with food distributions, hot meals and an innovative programme of food vouchers.
In Jordan WFP is providing close to 35,000 hot meals on a daily basis to Syrian refugees in Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq Governorate, and an average of 3,500 hot meals in King Abdullah Park transit centre. WFP also provides welcome packages of ready-to-eat food for new arrivals at Zaatari.
WFP and UNHCR are working together to set up kitchen facilities for refugees at Zaatari camp and WFP will provide food rations as soon as cooking facilities are put in place.
Elsewhere in the country, WFP is providing food and introducing a food voucher system targeting more than 35,000 refugees living with host communities in Irbid, Zarqa, Mafraq, Karak and Amman, with plans to reach 70,000 by the end of the year.
In Lebanon, WFP is providing assistance for more than 33,000 Syrian refugees in the North, including in the town of Tripoli, and in the Bekaa Valley either through family food packages or through vouchers.
Ultimately, all beneficiaries will receive food vouchers and, working with partners, WFP aims to reach up to 40,000 people by December. Twenty-five selected shops in the northern Akkar district are now accepting WFP food vouchers. Shop assessments are also on-going in the Tripoli area for a voucher programme.
WFP’s spokesperson in Lebanon, Abeer Etefa, said “the humanitarian needs and especially the food needs for Syrians inside their country as well as the ones fleeing to the neighbouring countries are growing.”
A rapid assessment conducted in April showed the vast majority of Syrians in Lebanon are dependent on external forms of support to meet their food needs. They are already resorting, for example, to reducing the number of meals, reducing portions or buying food on credit. Almost 75 percent of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon are women and children.
