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STORY: JORDAN / ZAATARI CAMP FOOD AID
TRT: 2.20
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 11-12 SEPTEMBER 2013, ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, JORDAN
1. Various shots, satellite images of Zatari refugee camp
2. Pan left, pull back, containers in refugee camp
3. Med shot, woman carrying box
4. Med shot, man providing drinks
5. Various shot, children at elementary school exercising
6. Med shot, children in classroom
7. Med shot, teacher calming children down in classroom
8. Med shot, old man with child
9. Various shots, children receiving snacks
10. Med shot, WFP sign
11. Various shots, food shops
12. Med shot, Um Shadi Bardan giving WFP voucher to shop owner
13. Wide shot, Um Shadi Bardan walking to her tent
14. Close up, rice cooking on stove
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Shadi Bardan, Syrian Refugee:
“We are very happy with the vouchers. Before we were always having bulgar, lentils, rice, and canned food. It was limited. It has now evolved. Now we can have yogurt, cheese, sardines, tuna, and other commodities we never had before.”
16. Med shot, Um Shadi Bardan taking meal to table
17. Various shots, child drawing
18. Med shot, boy looking at cell phone
19. Med shot, family looking at television
20. Med shot, family eating
Just over one year and Zaatari Refugee camp has become one of the largest refugee camps in the world. A small city, with more than 110,000 Syrian refugees. WFP must supply all of them with food.
Every day ten babies are born in Zaatari. Half of the inhabitants of the camp are children. Many of them are traumatized by the conflict having lost homes and family members. WFP encourages the children to go to school by providing them with date bars in the classroom.
WFP started introducing food vouchers into Zaatari. WFP was distributing over 2000 metric tonnes of dry food rations each month. With food vouchers, refugees can now buy a variety of items, including fresh produce-not normally included in food rations.
The voucher system helps to support the towns and villages around the camp and boosts the local economy. The shops also employ Syrian refugees.
SOT Um Shadi Bardan(Arabic)
“We are very happy with the vouchers. Before we were always having bulgar, lentils, rice, and canned food. It was limited. It has now evolved. Now we can have yogurt, cheese, sardines, tuna, and other commodities we never had before”
Um Shadi Bardan is from Dara'a, Syria. Last December, her house was burnt down so she and her family fled to Zaatari camp.
WFP assists Syrian refugees living in local communities in all Jordanian governorates through food vouchers. The (paper) voucher has a value of US$34 per person per month (or 24 Jordanian dinars).
Additional shops including two new supermarkets are also planned to open in Zaatari in the coming weeks. WFP has also been using food vouchers to assist Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. In total, the voucher system has injected over US$153 million into the local economies of these countries since the beginning of 2013.
