Blind and homeless amid Somalia’s drought (Video)

(29 Sep 2022) SHOT LIST: RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Dollow, Somalia 19 September 2022 1. Various drone shots of camp for displaced people ASSOCIATED PRESS Dollow, Somalia 20 September 2022 2. Wide water drums lined up with women and young girls at the taps ANNOTATION: The most severe drought in more than half a century in Somalia is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. 3. Wide water trickling into drum 4. Wide people sweeping the land they are to erect their tents 5. Various women erecting their tent using branches from tree ASSOCIATED PRESS Dollow, Somalia 21 September 2022 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Petroc Wilton, World Food Programme spokesperson: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ "300,000 people are looking down the barrel of catastrophic food insecurity and many of them are coming here. This section behind me wasn't here 48 hours ago. Hundreds of thousands of people are flooding into these camps, looking for assistance every day. You can really see the scale of the problem." ASSOCIATED PRESS Dollow, Somalia 20 September 2022 7. Mohamed Kheir Issack and Issack Farow Hassan arrive at displacement camp 8. Mohamed Kheir Issack and Issack Farow Hassan stand next to their hut in the camp ANNOTATION: Among the new arrivals to the camp are Mohamed Kheir Issack and Issack Farow Hassan, two blind men who are close friends. 9. Close of Hassan's cane on the ground 10. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohamed Kheir Issack, displaced Somali: "We've experienced drought before but never the type that will move you out of your village. We've never gone through such drought." 11. Wide of the two men inside their hut ANNOTATION: The two men arrived at the displacement camp with little but utensils and their clothes. 12. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Mohamed Kheir Issack, displaced Somali: "There was no one to look after us but we thank Allah. We couldn't even fend for ourselves. During our travel to Dollow there were no NGO's or any sort of help. We walked for an entire week with no food at all and no one to shelter us." 13. Issack and Hassan shaking hands inside hut 14. Wide displaced people at camp 15. Close little kid next to hut ASSOCIATED PRESS Dollow, Somalia 21 September 2022 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Petroc Wilton, World Food Programme spokesperson: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ "As of August, we reached 4.4 million people with humanitarian relief. That's more than we've ever reached in Somalia, ever. We reached almost half a million with nutrition support. It is making a difference. We have kept the world at bay so far, but famine right now is an imminent reality in those parts of the bioregion, and that could spread if it breaks out." ASSOCIATED PRESS Dollow, Somalia 20 September 2022 17. Women and children waiting in line at camp 18. Various of two women building hut 19. Various of displaced people carrying water drums ANNOTATION: Somalia has long suffered droughts, but climate change is making them more frequent and intense, leaving less time to recover and prepare for the next. STORYLINE: The most alarming drought in more than half a century in Somalia is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. Outside the southern town of Dollow, a camp for displaced people is rapidly growing. Among the new arrivals are Mohamed Kheir Issack and Issack Farow Hassan, two blind men who are friends and as close as brothers. The two men had always lived in their southern community of Ufurow, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) away, and had never moved from it until now. This drought stripped them of their animals and homes. --- Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.com/APNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d4b6a3eae7b840cfb9b19e801266bc94