DRC - Humanitarian needs - 16 April 2025

Description
STORY: OCHA / DRC HUMANITARIAN NEEDS
TRT: 8:11
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / KISWAHILI / NATS

DATELINE: 03 APRIL 2025, KIBUMBA AND SAKE, NORTH KIVU

Shotlist
1. Various shots,  premises that double as a school and a shelter in Sake, North Kivu
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Hercules Kipa, Head of Emergency Programmes for Concern, Kibumba, North Kivu:
“These are families that were already displaced before the crisis that has rocked the city of Goma and North Kivu more broadly. Following this latest crisis, these communities returned to their areas of origin.”
3. Wide shot, exterior, the premises that double as a school and a shelter in Sake, North Kivu
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Hercules Kipa, Head of Emergency Programmes for Concern, Kibumba, North Kivu
“These families that are returning home don’t have land to cultivate and have lost their sources of income. They are home, but their humanitarian needs continue.”
5. Wide shot, exterior, the premises that double as a school and a shelter in Sake, North Kivu
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Hercules Kipa, Head of Emergency Programmes for Concern, Kibumba, North Kivu:
“The suspension of humanitarian aid is having an enormous impact on our response activities. It is mostly going to affect the communities who need it the most. It is a very worrying situation.”
7. Wide shot, people lining up for a distribution of aid supplies
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Hercules Kipa, Head of Emergency Programmes for Concern, Kibumba, North Kivu
“This situation could cost their lives today. Any funding that people at home or a donor can provide will save lives.”
9. Wide shot, aid supplies unloaded from truck in Kibumba, North Kivu
10. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili)  Byamungu Rukera, representative of displaced persons in Sake, North Kivu
“After the city was taken over by the M23 movement, we were asked to leave the site and return to where we had come from. We were happy because we missed our village
When we arrived in Karenga, our village, we were again ordered to leave within 24 hours without any explanation. We didn't know what to do or where to go and that's how we got here, and the inhabitants did us this favor of sheltering us in this school.”
11. Wide shot, aid supplies being prepared for distribution in Kibumba, North Kivu
12. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Byamungu Rukera, representative of displaced persons in Sake, North Kivu:
“All of us here, our wish is to return home in the same way that others returned to their villages. And if that's not possible, we ask for your help to go somewhere more decent because we're suffering a lot here.”
13. Wide shot, crowd of returnees in line for distribution of aid supplies in Kibumba, North Kivu
14. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Byamungu Rukera, representative of displaced persons in Sake, North Kivu:
“When we see humanitarians providing us with assistance, it gives us hope, if we don't see them we will continue to suffer.”
15. Wide shot, people registering for aid distribution in Kibumba, North Kivu
16. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Byamungu Rukera, representative of displaced persons in Sake, North Kivu:
“If humanitarian aid stopped, it would seem that God has abandoned us because he goes through humanitarians to help us. If they don't come here anymore, we won't be able to survive.”
16. Wide shot, humanitarian distribution in Kibumba, North Kivu
17.  SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Byamungu Rukera, representative of displaced persons in Sake, North Kivu:
“If we are lucky enough to return to our village, we will need to rehabilitate or rebuild our houses, have food, household items until we can harvest the produce from our fields.”
18. Wide shot, exterior, the premises that double as a school and a shelter in Sake, North Kivu
19. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Mediatrice Busogi, beneficiary of the Concern distribution in Kibumba, North Kivu:
“When we returned, we found many dilapidated houses. The luckiest found their houses without doors and without roofs. We used tarpaulins to cover the houses and crammed into them with other families and that's how we live so far.”

20. Wide shot, children exiting the school in Sake, North Kivu
21. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Mediatrice Busogi, beneficiary of the Concern distribution in Kibumba, North Kivu:
“Fortunately, Concern, supported by ECHO and FCDO, arrived to register us in order to obtain food assistance. They have done so and we are receiving assistance from them
The assistance was in the form of food and household items.”
22. Wide shot, children and families outside the school in Sake, North Kivu
23. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Mediatrice Busogi, beneficiary of the Concern distribution in Kibumba, North Kivu:
“Without this assistance I and my family would have perished by starvation, but this will not happen anymore.”
24. Wide shot, the school that that doubles as a shelter in Sake, North Kivu
25. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Mediatrice Busogi, beneficiary of the Concern distribution in Kibumba, North Kivu:
“We would also like to have help in the rehabilitation and construction of our houses.”

Storyline
The escalation of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is further exacerbating one of world’s largest humanitarian crises. The dismantling of IDP sites has forced over a million people into extremely precarious conditions. Following ultimatums, IDPs left the sites, in the absence of security assessments and guarantees of basic services. Humanitarian partners continue to reach these communities, but their action is limited by funding cuts.