WFP / COVID-19 HUB LAUNCH
01-May-2020
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) kick-started a network of global logistics hubs that will support the entire aid community and ensure the delivery of vital medical and humanitarian supplies to developing countries at a time when commercial air transport is at a virtual standstill. WFP
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STORY: WFP / COVID-19 LAUNCH
TRT: 03:34
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / MOORE / NATS
DATELINE: 30 APRIL 2020, LIEGE AIRPORT, BELGIUM / 02 APRIL 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO
TRT: 03:34
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / MOORE / NATS
DATELINE: 30 APRIL 2020, LIEGE AIRPORT, BELGIUM / 02 APRIL 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO
SHOTLIST
1. Various shots, WFP-contracted Boeing 757 cargo flight being prepared to carrying medical cargo
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-François Milhaud, Global Fleet Manager, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Today we are loading this plane with UNICEF cargo. UNICEF sent this cargo from Copenhagen yesterday. Today we are loading this plane and this plane will leave tonight to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. This is some medical equipment to reply to this COVID-19 crisis.”
3. Wide shot, cargo plane on tarmac
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-François Milhaud, Global Fleet Manager, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The World Food Program has implemented logistics platforms around the world to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. So today we are in Liège to load the first plane with UNICEF equipment which will leave for Ouagadougou. We offer these free flights for the entire humanitarian community to respond to this crisis.”
02 APRIL 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO
5. Various shots, WFP food distribution with COVID19 prevention methods
6. Various shots, Sawadogo Mariam receives a monthly ration of WFP food for her and her family
7. SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“At the beginning, when the gunned men raided our village it was to steal our cattle and poultry. When they started killing people, men fled the village and they were later followed by women. When we reached Kelbo, they were killing people there too, so we had to flee again.”
8. Various shots, Sawadogo Mariam prepares her family’s meal with food from WFP
9. SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“Our habits have changed because of this disease (COVID-19). Now we wash our hands more regularly with soap before eating or drinking water. We strictly follow the sanitary rules that they taught to us to avoid the spread of the virus.”
10. Various shots, Sawadogo Mariam helps her children wash up before dinner
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-François Milhaud, Global Fleet Manager, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Today we are loading this plane with UNICEF cargo. UNICEF sent this cargo from Copenhagen yesterday. Today we are loading this plane and this plane will leave tonight to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. This is some medical equipment to reply to this COVID-19 crisis.”
3. Wide shot, cargo plane on tarmac
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-François Milhaud, Global Fleet Manager, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The World Food Program has implemented logistics platforms around the world to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. So today we are in Liège to load the first plane with UNICEF equipment which will leave for Ouagadougou. We offer these free flights for the entire humanitarian community to respond to this crisis.”
02 APRIL 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO
5. Various shots, WFP food distribution with COVID19 prevention methods
6. Various shots, Sawadogo Mariam receives a monthly ration of WFP food for her and her family
7. SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“At the beginning, when the gunned men raided our village it was to steal our cattle and poultry. When they started killing people, men fled the village and they were later followed by women. When we reached Kelbo, they were killing people there too, so we had to flee again.”
8. Various shots, Sawadogo Mariam prepares her family’s meal with food from WFP
9. SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“Our habits have changed because of this disease (COVID-19). Now we wash our hands more regularly with soap before eating or drinking water. We strictly follow the sanitary rules that they taught to us to avoid the spread of the virus.”
10. Various shots, Sawadogo Mariam helps her children wash up before dinner
STORYLINE
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today (1 May) kick-started a network of global logistics hubs that will support the entire aid community and ensure the delivery of vital medical and humanitarian supplies to developing countries at a time when commercial air transport is at a virtual standstill.
A WFP-contracted Boeing 757 cargo flight departed the newly-established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium carrying almost 16 mt of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) destined for Burkina Faso and Ghana.
WFP is setting up the logistics backbone for global COVID-19 efforts, rolling out a global hub-and-spokes system of air links to dispatch vital medical and humanitarian cargo and transport health workers to the front lines of the pandemic. Global Humanitarian Response Hubs located close to where medical supplies are manufactured in Liège, Dubai, and China will link to regional hubs in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malaysia, Panama, Dubai, and South Africa, where a fleet of smaller aircraft will be on standby to move cargo and personnel into priority countries. The network builds on pre-existing UN Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD) - including Brindisi in Italy.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-François Milhaud, Global Fleet Manager, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Today we are loading this plane with UNICEF cargo. UNICEF sent this cargo from Copenhagen yesterday. Today we are loading this plane and this plane will leave tonight to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. This is some medical equipment to reply to this COVID-19 crisis.”
WFP expects to transport the equivalent of 37 Boeing 747 planeloads over the next six weeks from China and Malaysia to 130 countries around the world. Once the service is fully up and running, as many as 350 cargo and another 350 passenger flights could fly every month.
While this flight is the first from the new hub in Liège, WFP has dispatched more than 300 metric tonnes of humanitarian and medical cargo to 89 countries, since late January, supporting governments and health partners in their response to COVID-19. These shipments include masks, gloves, ventilators, testing kits and thermometers.
In Burkina Faso attacks from non-state armed groups and drought have displaced over 830,000 people in one year. On 09 March 2020, Burkina Faso registered its first two cases of COVID-19, a figure that increased rapidly and exceeded the mark of 300 less than 30 days later. It’s one of the worst affected countries in all of Africa. In addition to WFP provides health information and is distributing food to more than 530,000 people putting in place a number of COVID-19 prevention measures including social distancing, sanitization and utilization of personal protective equipment.
Sawadogo Mariam is from Tabrembin (Soum province, Sahel region) She is 29-years old with 3 children. Before the insurgency began she and her family were farmers and livestock breeders.
SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“At the beginning, when the gunned men raided our village it was to steal our cattle and poultry. When they started killing people, men fled the village and they were later followed by women. When we reached Kelbo, they were killing people there too, so we had to flee again.”
SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“Our habits have changed because of this disease (COVID-19). Now we wash our hands more regularly with soap before eating or drinking water. We strictly follow the sanitary rules that they taught to us to avoid the spread of the virus.”
Aid agencies and health authorities have been struggling to get supplies to fragile settings. They are hindered by the breakdown of global supply chains, the collapse of commercial air travel, border closures, and disruptions to shipping. WFP’s logistics network will bridge the gap in essential services, ensuring humanitarian and health responders on the frontlines of the pandemic can stay and deliver lifesaving assistance.
WFP is also mounting a regional passenger air service to ferry humanitarian and health workers across East and West Africa to overcome disruptions to commercial air services, with the first flights expected in coming days. The service will be expanded to the Middle East, Latin America and Asia soon. WFP also stands ready to set up air links with Geneva and Rome if commercial services are disrupted.
WFP appealed for an initial 350 million US dollars to kick-start global common logistics services, a call echoed by humanitarian partners in April, who highlighted the urgency of these vital WFP-led efforts.
A WFP-contracted Boeing 757 cargo flight departed the newly-established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium carrying almost 16 mt of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) destined for Burkina Faso and Ghana.
WFP is setting up the logistics backbone for global COVID-19 efforts, rolling out a global hub-and-spokes system of air links to dispatch vital medical and humanitarian cargo and transport health workers to the front lines of the pandemic. Global Humanitarian Response Hubs located close to where medical supplies are manufactured in Liège, Dubai, and China will link to regional hubs in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malaysia, Panama, Dubai, and South Africa, where a fleet of smaller aircraft will be on standby to move cargo and personnel into priority countries. The network builds on pre-existing UN Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD) - including Brindisi in Italy.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-François Milhaud, Global Fleet Manager, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Today we are loading this plane with UNICEF cargo. UNICEF sent this cargo from Copenhagen yesterday. Today we are loading this plane and this plane will leave tonight to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. This is some medical equipment to reply to this COVID-19 crisis.”
WFP expects to transport the equivalent of 37 Boeing 747 planeloads over the next six weeks from China and Malaysia to 130 countries around the world. Once the service is fully up and running, as many as 350 cargo and another 350 passenger flights could fly every month.
While this flight is the first from the new hub in Liège, WFP has dispatched more than 300 metric tonnes of humanitarian and medical cargo to 89 countries, since late January, supporting governments and health partners in their response to COVID-19. These shipments include masks, gloves, ventilators, testing kits and thermometers.
In Burkina Faso attacks from non-state armed groups and drought have displaced over 830,000 people in one year. On 09 March 2020, Burkina Faso registered its first two cases of COVID-19, a figure that increased rapidly and exceeded the mark of 300 less than 30 days later. It’s one of the worst affected countries in all of Africa. In addition to WFP provides health information and is distributing food to more than 530,000 people putting in place a number of COVID-19 prevention measures including social distancing, sanitization and utilization of personal protective equipment.
Sawadogo Mariam is from Tabrembin (Soum province, Sahel region) She is 29-years old with 3 children. Before the insurgency began she and her family were farmers and livestock breeders.
SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“At the beginning, when the gunned men raided our village it was to steal our cattle and poultry. When they started killing people, men fled the village and they were later followed by women. When we reached Kelbo, they were killing people there too, so we had to flee again.”
SOUNDBITE (Moore) Sawadogo Mariam, Displaced Person:
“Our habits have changed because of this disease (COVID-19). Now we wash our hands more regularly with soap before eating or drinking water. We strictly follow the sanitary rules that they taught to us to avoid the spread of the virus.”
Aid agencies and health authorities have been struggling to get supplies to fragile settings. They are hindered by the breakdown of global supply chains, the collapse of commercial air travel, border closures, and disruptions to shipping. WFP’s logistics network will bridge the gap in essential services, ensuring humanitarian and health responders on the frontlines of the pandemic can stay and deliver lifesaving assistance.
WFP is also mounting a regional passenger air service to ferry humanitarian and health workers across East and West Africa to overcome disruptions to commercial air services, with the first flights expected in coming days. The service will be expanded to the Middle East, Latin America and Asia soon. WFP also stands ready to set up air links with Geneva and Rome if commercial services are disrupted.
WFP appealed for an initial 350 million US dollars to kick-start global common logistics services, a call echoed by humanitarian partners in April, who highlighted the urgency of these vital WFP-led efforts.
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