(2 Oct 2001) SHOTLIST
QUALITY AS INCOMING
1. Wide shot of men gathered around truck carrying bags of USA donated wheat
2. Mid shot of men and boys by truck with wheat being loaded off
3. Mid shot of truck with bags of USA wheat
4. Close shot of wheat bags and then zoom out to men
5. Truck driving along street loaded with bags of wheat
6. Mid shot of man holding bag of wheat, with two young children next to him
7. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Voxpop, Kabul resident and aid recipient
"I am from a very poor family. I am a cobbler and I make a living repairing shoes. I am very happy to have this wheat as I have five children."
8. Close shot of wheat and then pull out to man and two boys
9. Man and boys carry wheat into house
10. Man carrying wheat on back of his bicycle then falls over
11. Close shot of wheat on floor
12. Mid shot of people cycling in Kabul street
13. Wide of street scene
14. Wide shot of authorities repairing streets
15. Close shot of man repairing street
16. Wide shot pan of street and people repairing
17. Wide shot of men buying winter clothes at market
18. Close shot of men rummaging through clothes
19. Mid shot of clothes and men looking through them
STORYLINE:
The first convoy of aid to arrive in Afghanistan's capital Kabul since the September 11 terror attacks is now being distributed.
The aid, eight trucks carrying 218 tonnes of wheat, was brought into the country by the U.N's World Food Progamme.
And it hasn't been an easy journey.
The bone-jarring trip across 120 miles (190 kilometres) of war-ruined roads that resemble a dried riverbed took two days.
The WFP, which operates 150 bakeries for the poor of Kabul, distributed the wheat to each family rather than to the bakeries.
The programme claims supplying the bakeries would require a daily distribution, while handing off 50 kilograms (110 pounds) to each family will be a one-time distribution avoiding the likelihood of disturbances.
The WFP, which feeds nearly two-thirds of Kabul's 1 million people, says the arrival of the wheat means there is enough food in their stocks to last until end of October.
Elsewhere in the Afghan capital, residents and authorities are preparing for the cold winter ahead.
Residents at a Kabul market are stocking up on warm winter clothing, while the authorities are repairing pot holes and cracks in the road to prevent damage from the extreme weather ahead.
The United Nations has been warning of a humanitarian catastrophe within Afghanistan, a country already ravaged by relentless war and the worst drought in living memory.
Saying security "is always a concern," the WFP has moved smaller quantities of food into Afghanistan from three different directions:
Pakistan, and the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, which also border Afghanistan.
For the WFP, concerns are twofold: pilfering of its supplies and the safe arrival of its convoys.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, has put out an emergency appeal for dlrs 500 million in anticipation of a mass exodus from Afghanistan for fear the United States will attack the ruling Taliban, which has refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, the key suspect in the terror attacks.
However, the borders of all the neighboring countries are sealed.
UNHCR plans to send a team of experts into the border region on Tuesday to begin preparing a camp that will be able to receive 10,000 refugees if war breaks out.
The agency is sending thousands of blankets, plastic sheets and other emergency supplies to the border area to prepare for a possible refugee influx.
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