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STORY: WFP AIRDROP/SUDAN
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SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ANYUAK / NATS
DATELINE: NOVEMBER 11 2009, JUBA – POCHALLA - SUDAN
DATELINE: NOVEMBER 9-2009 JUBA
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot, WFP warehouse
2. Wide shot, carrying food bags
3. Med shot, debagging food bags
4. Med shot, carrying food bags
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Iseminger, Head of Programme, World Food Programme, South Sudan:
“The Food and security situation in the country is just massively
expanding because of the poor rain fall the high food prices, people can
not afford to buy food in the market and basically conflict which is
displacing people and not making them able to do their agricultural
production “
6. Wide shot, Ilyushin-76 aircraft at Juba airport
7. Med shot, loading aircraft
8. Med shot, WFP bags inside aircraft
9. Med shot, pilots entering aircraft
10. Wide shot, Ilyushin-76 aircraft taking off
DATELINE NOVEMBER 10, 2009 POCHALLA - SUDAN
11. Wide shot, community under a tree in Pochalla
12. Medium shot, mother and child waiting for food aid
13.Close up, child feeding on mothers breast
14. Medium shot, Jai Gora Odor waiting for food aid
15. Close up, Jai Gora Odor feet
16. SOUNDBITE: (Anyuak) Jai Gora Odor “There is lack of food here, you
can even see it from the physical appearance of the people. We are only feeding on the branches of the trees and wild fruits.”
17.SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Iseminger, Head of Programme, World Food Programme, South Sudan. “At this point because of the severity of the situation and because of the accessibility problem we really don’t have a choice except to get the food in by air.”
18. Medium shot, a man telling people to leave the airdrop area
19. Shot of airdrop
20. Bags being dropped
21. Bags dropping on ground
22. Wide shot, Pochalla community getting their rations
23. Medium shot, getting food aid
24. Dragging a bag of food
STORYLINE
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has started an airlift of food for
over 150,000 people living in areas that cannot be accessed by road in
Sudan’s ten southern states. The region is plagued by tribal violence,
high food prices and poor harvests induced by drought.
The airdrops, which began last Thursday, will continue through January
of next year and will deliver 4,000 metric tons of food to the hardest
hit southern Sudanese states of Jonglei, Upper Nile and Warrap.
SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Iseminger, Head of Programme, World Food Programme, Southern Sudan. “The food and security situation in the country is just massively expanding because of the poor rainfall, the
high food prices. People can not afford to buy food in the market and
basically conflict which is displacing people and not making them able
to do their agricultural production “
Many roads are in bad condition and cannot be used during the rainy
season that stretches from April until December. Increased tribal
fighting has also blocked road and river access to some areas of
southern Sudan. Today 36 metric tons of food items were dropped from WFP aircraft to the Jonglei state town of Pochalla.
As she waited for the arrival of food aid, Pochalla resident Jai Gora
Odor said that the whole community is suffering on account of food
scarcity.
SOUNDBITE: (Anyuak) Jai Gora Odor
“There is lack of food here, you can even see it from the physical
appearance of the people. We are only feeding on the branches of the
trees and wild fruits.”
To carry out the airdrops, WFP is using Ilyushin-76 planes that can
carry up to 36 metric tons of food on each flight. Airlifts are a more
expensive way to bring food than would be the case by road or river.
SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Iseminger, Head of Programme, World Food Programme, South Sudan. “At this point because of the severity of the situation and because of the accessibility problem, we really don’t have a choice except to get the food in by air.”
WFP lost 725 metric tons of food in June this year when a convoy of
barges laden with food aid was attacked on the Sobat River. The sorghum
and other food supplies on the barges had been earmarked for the town of
Akobo, which is host to large numbers of civilians displaced by tribal
fighting that has afflicted many parts of southern Sudan this year.
WFP has sent out an appeal for another US$44 million in funding to
deliver 22,000 metric tons of food to feed 300,000 people facing severe
food shortages in southern Sudan. Half of the food will be delivered by
airdrops and the rest by road and barge.
WFP has thus far received US$14.5 million – US$6 million from the UN
Common Humanitarian Fund, US$6 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund and US$2.5 million from the United States Agency for International Development.