TV NEWS FOOTAGE : ICRC ANNUAL REPORT – spending among highest ever as more aid reaches people displaced by conflict
TV NEWS FOOTAGE : ICRC ANNUAL REPORT – spending among highest ever as more aid reaches people displaced by conflict
Geneva (ICRC) – The ICRC’s Annual Report, (published 27 May 2008), announces spending to help people whose lives have been wrecked by armed conflict among the highest ever. The organisation’s total expenditure reached 944 million Swiss Francs in 2007, with 45% going to field operations in Africa, and 21% to the Middle East. The sum is a little under the total for 2006.
TV news footage transmitted worldwide, 26 May 2008, on APTN Global Video Wire at 09:15 GMT, repeated at 12.15 GMT
LOCATION AND DATE: Geneva, Switzerland, May 2008, Chad, Goz Beida camp and Ade village, Central African Republic northern villages of Katagombe and Boymandia, Somalia – Mogadishu, Iraq Girdasen camp near Mosul and Afghanistan – Kabul, 2007/2008.
PRODUCTION: Jan Powell, Claire Doole
LENGTH: 09:35″
SOURCE: ICRC – ACCESS ALL – please credit ICRC footage where possible
Preview Extract : News-footage-ICRC-Annual-report… … …
IRAQ
After Sudan, Iraq was the second biggest operation in terms of expenditure in 2007, accounting for 76.5 million CHF.
Although levels of violence dropped in the last four months of the year, the impact on civilians remained devastating. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were displaced or forced to flee the country. The ICRC provided more than 3 million displaced people and vulnerable residents with improved access to water and sanitation.
Faced with growing sectarian violence and threats, several thousand Kurds fled to camps in northern Iraq. The ICRC has restored the camp’s water supply and, with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS), hands out emergency supplies.… … …
SHOTLIST IRAQ
03:01 Girdasen camp 50 km from Mosul northern Iraq (2 shots)
03:07 ICRC vehicle arriving
03:12 Distribution of aid from ICRC and Iraqi Red Crescent Society (8 shots)
03:49 Young woman making bread in outdoor oven (4 shots)
04:07 SOUNDBITE Khalid Faqi Katto (Kurdish) displaced person from Mosul.
“I had to leave Mosul because they told me that we were Kurdish and they accused me of working for the Americans as a spy. They told us we were not permitted to live in Mosul so that’s why we came here”.
04:15 children in the camp (2 shots)
Source ICRC: TV NEWS FOOTAGE : ICRC ANNUAL REPORT – spending among highest ever as more aid reaches people displaced by conflict
Indexed under: Poverty, Red Crescent/Red Cross, Rescue Work, Water