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STORY: MALI / HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 2:57
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2012, MALI
NOVEMBER 2012, GAO, NORTHERN MALI
1. Wide shot, tracking shot of people gathered at WFP food distribution point
2. Wide shot, woman sitting on the ground
4 DECEMBER 2012, MOPTI, MALI
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Howard, World Food Programme (WFP) Spokesperson:
“The situation in the North of Mali is very worrying from a food point of view, in particular we are quite concerned about high rates of malnutrition among young children. So we are working with partners to provide those children with the kind of special food that they need to boost their nutrition and we are actually shipping tons of specialized nutrition products, called “Plumpy Sup” for example, up the river to Timbuktu.”
4. Wide shot, porters carrying bags of WFP food onto local boats
5. Med shot, boxes with Plumpy Sup
6. Wide shot, two men carrying boxes with Plumpy Sup
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Howard, WFP Spokesperson:
“The World Food Programme is providing food for thousands of people who fled from the fighting in northern Mali. Most of them are staying in families, a few of them in camps in quite bad conditions, but it’s putting all the country in quite a lot of strain because Mali is just getting over a very bad drought, the economy is not in very good shape and in the markets there is food now, but the prices are really quite high and many people just can’t afford to feed their families.”
8. Wide shot, tent
9. Close up, grains
10. Various shots, food distribution
4 DECEMBER 2012, SEVARE IDP CAMP, MOPTI, MALI
11. Wide shot, IDPs tents
12. Wide shot, entrance to the tent
13. Wide shot, a woman and children
14. Wide shot, other woman with children
15. Med shot, a family having a meal
4 DECEMBER 2012, WAILIRDE SCHOOL, SEVARE, MOPTI, MALI
16. Wide shot, children running in a school yard
17. Wide shot, food distribution
18. Wide shot, children eating
19. Wide shot, children cheering with their cups
20. Wide shot, women standing in line with water buckets and food
21. Wide shot, a woman carrying water inside the tent
22. Close up, people taking food from bowls
23. Med shot, children eating
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing food for thousands of people who fled from the fighting in northern Mali. The situation has made it challenging for humanitarian organizations to maintain full access to the North of the country.
Insecurity following a coup earlier this year has displaced an estimated 200,000 people in Mali. That puts additional pressure on the country which is just getting over a very bad drought. Food prices are high and many people can’t afford to feed their families.
According to the WFP Spokesperson Jane Howard, the food situation in the North of Mali is very “worrying”. There are high rates of malnutrition among young children. WFP is working with partners to provide those children with the kind of special food that they need to boost their nutrition.
The agency is shipping tonnes of specialized nutrition products, including so-called “Plumpy Sup” up the Niger river to Timbuktu in the North. Local boats called “pinasses” can carry 30 – 90 metric tons. In addition to “Plumpy Sup”, rice as well as cooking oil fortified with vitamin A is distributed. Internally displaced people also receive a monthly ration of cereals, split peas, oil, salt and fortified blended super cereal.
WFP also runs an emergency school feeding programme, responding to increased numbers of children from displaced families in primary schools.
Wailirde school in the town of Mopti is hosting 272 displaced children and eight displaced teachers. The school has had to construct a makeshift classroom made from a hessian tent to accommodate the extra students.
Children eat a meal of couscous with chickpea sauce at lunchtime. As part of its programme of school feeding in an emergency situation, WFP has begun providing breakfast for children as well as their usual lunch. Some of the children come from the nearby IDP camp.
In the coming months, WFP is aiming to help more than 400,000 food-insecure people in the North who are struggling to feed their families, and more than 130,000 people in the South, of whom most have been displaced for months or are hosting displaced families.
