WFP / AFGHANISTAN AID HUNGER
05-Sep-2023
00:07:25
Right now, in Afghanistan, over 15 million people are struggling to put food on their plates and the World Food Programme (WFP) can only support 3 million of them from now on due to a massive funding shortfall. WFP
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STORY: WFP / AFGHANISTAN AID HUNGER
TRT: 7:25
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20-26 Aug 2023, Kabul/Jalalabad, Afghanistan
20 AUGUST 2023, KANDAHAR AND KABUL
1. Wide shot, aerials between Kandahar and Kabul
21 AUGUST 2023, ROAD BETWEEN KABUL AND JALALABAD
2. Various shots, Woch Tangi Settlement, where 28,000 displaced people live
23 AUGUST 2023, WOCH TANGI SETTLEMENT
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Obaid-ur-Rahman, Woch Tangi Community leader:
“100% would be an exaggeration but from our own information we calculate that 96% of our people here have no food. Young people are becoming addicted or going to foreign countries illegally. We need jobs for them.”
4. Various shots, originally from Kunar, Abdul was a refugee in Pakistan where he baked bricks before coming to Woch Tangi Settlement 14 years ago
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abdul Haq, beneficiary:
“When we received assistance, we lived a better life. Now, we don’t get anything. We used to eat 3 meals a day. Then we could only eat 2, and now we only eat once a day. WFP needs to not only continue its assistance but increase it.”
22 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
6. Various shots, food markets and bakery
23 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
7. Various shots, buying and eating food bought with WFP Cash Vouchers
24 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
8. Various shots, child vendors
9. Various shots, begging in the road.
23 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
10. Various shots, nutrition Clinic
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Balqisa Stanikzai, doctor:
“The women who come here say that their husbands don’t have jobs. They are poor and vulnerable and say that they can’t afford to eat more than once a day. They even say that they have to send their children into the streets to beg. So, it’s all due to poverty.”
24 AUGUST 2023, KABUL
12. Various shots, Kabul
26 AUGUST 2023, KABUL
13. Various shots, Kabul Informal Settlement
14. Various shots, cooking bread using garbage as cooking fuel
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Hsiaowei Lee, Country Director WFP Afghanistan:
“WFP has to cut 10 million people from emergency food assistance, from 13million to 3, leaving us only able to support only 1 out of 5 people who go to bed hungry every night. This is not sustainable and we say that last year where we were able to provide assistance to 23 million people, we avoided catastrophe. //This goes beyond politics. We must focus on the people. The women, the children of Afghanistan.”
16. Various shots, last WFP food distribution
17. Various shots, Tahmina, 29 years old, receives her last WFP food ration for the foreseeable future. She works doing artisanal hand embroidery but is now having problems with her eyesight and has no eyeglasses
18. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Tahmina, beneficiary:
“My daughter is 7 years old. I hope that she can study and become educated so doesn’t have to worry about being poor or face the difficulties of life that we face. I want her to enjoy her life and the beautiful nature that God created, and not worry about having enough to eat. I want peace for my country. I want for us to walk around freely. I don’t want to leave my country. I want to live here without worrying.”
19. Various shots, Tahmina and her family bring their last WFP food ration home
STORYLINE:
Right now, in Afghanistan, over 15 million people are struggling to put food on their plates and the World Food Programme (WFP) can only support 3 million of them from now on due to a massive funding shortfall.
In March, already WFP had reduced rations for communities experiencing emergency levels of acute hunger. In April and May, WFP was forced to cut a total of 8 million people from assistance. Removing 8 million poor people from assistance is an immense shock for over a million families already struggling to meet their daily food needs.
Most at risk today are the malnourished. With the latest round of WFP cuts, 1.4 million new and expecting mothers, toddlers and pre-school children are no longer receiving specialized food designed to prevent malnutrition. WFP expects to see a sharp rise in admissions to nutrition centres in the weeks to come as children succumb to rising hunger.
WFP is forced to choose between feeding the hungry and the starving. This leaves millions of families scrambling for their next meal amid already very worrying levels of hunger and malnutrition.
With the few resources WFP has now, it is not able to serve all the people teetering on the edge of utter destitution. In Afghanistan, they are widows, women- and children-headed families and people with disabilities.
WFP is often the last lifeline for women, who are being increasingly pushed out of public life, with dwindling sources of income and fewer opportunities to feed their families.
Generous contributions from donors allowed WFP to massively scale up emergency food assistance in the past two years and help more than half the Afghan people -12 million of whom were women and girls - to survive two harsh winters. Today, international support at this level is no longer being provided.
To avoid a human catastrophe in Afghanistan, a small window of opportunity remains. We are running out of time. WFP urgently needs US$1 billion.
Families across the country are less prepared than ever to face another bleak winter. They have depleted their resources, and many could be forced to leave their homes, if humanitarian aid is not sustained.
The cost of inaction will be paid by the most vulnerable, disenfranchised women and children reeling from the impacts of four decades of conflict, a crippled economy and a worsening climate crisis.
For the coming six months, WFP needs US$1 billion to reach a planned 21 million people with lifesaving food, nutrition, and livelihood support. This includes funding to preposition food for the winter in areas that will become completely cut off once snow and ice shut down roads.
TRT: 7:25
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20-26 Aug 2023, Kabul/Jalalabad, Afghanistan
20 AUGUST 2023, KANDAHAR AND KABUL
1. Wide shot, aerials between Kandahar and Kabul
21 AUGUST 2023, ROAD BETWEEN KABUL AND JALALABAD
2. Various shots, Woch Tangi Settlement, where 28,000 displaced people live
23 AUGUST 2023, WOCH TANGI SETTLEMENT
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Obaid-ur-Rahman, Woch Tangi Community leader:
“100% would be an exaggeration but from our own information we calculate that 96% of our people here have no food. Young people are becoming addicted or going to foreign countries illegally. We need jobs for them.”
4. Various shots, originally from Kunar, Abdul was a refugee in Pakistan where he baked bricks before coming to Woch Tangi Settlement 14 years ago
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abdul Haq, beneficiary:
“When we received assistance, we lived a better life. Now, we don’t get anything. We used to eat 3 meals a day. Then we could only eat 2, and now we only eat once a day. WFP needs to not only continue its assistance but increase it.”
22 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
6. Various shots, food markets and bakery
23 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
7. Various shots, buying and eating food bought with WFP Cash Vouchers
24 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
8. Various shots, child vendors
9. Various shots, begging in the road.
23 AUGUST 2023, JALALABAD
10. Various shots, nutrition Clinic
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Balqisa Stanikzai, doctor:
“The women who come here say that their husbands don’t have jobs. They are poor and vulnerable and say that they can’t afford to eat more than once a day. They even say that they have to send their children into the streets to beg. So, it’s all due to poverty.”
24 AUGUST 2023, KABUL
12. Various shots, Kabul
26 AUGUST 2023, KABUL
13. Various shots, Kabul Informal Settlement
14. Various shots, cooking bread using garbage as cooking fuel
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Hsiaowei Lee, Country Director WFP Afghanistan:
“WFP has to cut 10 million people from emergency food assistance, from 13million to 3, leaving us only able to support only 1 out of 5 people who go to bed hungry every night. This is not sustainable and we say that last year where we were able to provide assistance to 23 million people, we avoided catastrophe. //This goes beyond politics. We must focus on the people. The women, the children of Afghanistan.”
16. Various shots, last WFP food distribution
17. Various shots, Tahmina, 29 years old, receives her last WFP food ration for the foreseeable future. She works doing artisanal hand embroidery but is now having problems with her eyesight and has no eyeglasses
18. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Tahmina, beneficiary:
“My daughter is 7 years old. I hope that she can study and become educated so doesn’t have to worry about being poor or face the difficulties of life that we face. I want her to enjoy her life and the beautiful nature that God created, and not worry about having enough to eat. I want peace for my country. I want for us to walk around freely. I don’t want to leave my country. I want to live here without worrying.”
19. Various shots, Tahmina and her family bring their last WFP food ration home
STORYLINE:
Right now, in Afghanistan, over 15 million people are struggling to put food on their plates and the World Food Programme (WFP) can only support 3 million of them from now on due to a massive funding shortfall.
In March, already WFP had reduced rations for communities experiencing emergency levels of acute hunger. In April and May, WFP was forced to cut a total of 8 million people from assistance. Removing 8 million poor people from assistance is an immense shock for over a million families already struggling to meet their daily food needs.
Most at risk today are the malnourished. With the latest round of WFP cuts, 1.4 million new and expecting mothers, toddlers and pre-school children are no longer receiving specialized food designed to prevent malnutrition. WFP expects to see a sharp rise in admissions to nutrition centres in the weeks to come as children succumb to rising hunger.
WFP is forced to choose between feeding the hungry and the starving. This leaves millions of families scrambling for their next meal amid already very worrying levels of hunger and malnutrition.
With the few resources WFP has now, it is not able to serve all the people teetering on the edge of utter destitution. In Afghanistan, they are widows, women- and children-headed families and people with disabilities.
WFP is often the last lifeline for women, who are being increasingly pushed out of public life, with dwindling sources of income and fewer opportunities to feed their families.
Generous contributions from donors allowed WFP to massively scale up emergency food assistance in the past two years and help more than half the Afghan people -12 million of whom were women and girls - to survive two harsh winters. Today, international support at this level is no longer being provided.
To avoid a human catastrophe in Afghanistan, a small window of opportunity remains. We are running out of time. WFP urgently needs US$1 billion.
Families across the country are less prepared than ever to face another bleak winter. They have depleted their resources, and many could be forced to leave their homes, if humanitarian aid is not sustained.
The cost of inaction will be paid by the most vulnerable, disenfranchised women and children reeling from the impacts of four decades of conflict, a crippled economy and a worsening climate crisis.
For the coming six months, WFP needs US$1 billion to reach a planned 21 million people with lifesaving food, nutrition, and livelihood support. This includes funding to preposition food for the winter in areas that will become completely cut off once snow and ice shut down roads.
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