HAITI / HURRICANE MATHEW CHILDREN

One week after Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti, and as schools re-open across the country, more than 100,000 children will be missing out on learning after their schools were either damaged or converted into shelters. The southern town of Jeremie has been one of the most affected. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:07
• Production Date: 10 October 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: NATURAL DISASTERS
• Geographic Subject: HAITI
• MAMS Id: 1733513
• Parent Id: 1733513
• Alternate Title: unifeed161010f

Description

STORY: HAITI / HURRICANE MATHEW CHILDREN
TRT: 3:07
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 8 OCTOBER 2016, JEREMIE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Jeremie from the air
2. Wide shot, main road in Jeremie
3. Wide shot, site of destroyed house
4. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Levinson Victor, 15 years old:
“The wind destroyed everyone's house.”
5. Wide shot, Levinson Victor walking through rubble
6. Wide shot, temporary shelter at Jeremie Vocational School
7. Med shot, child with mother
8. Med shot, child squatting
9. Wide shot, child with mother washing clothes
10. Close shot, child cleans himself with soap
11. Med shot, child watching mother wash clothes
12. Close shot, Dicejour Gelin, 13
13. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Dicejour Gelin, 13 years old:
“No one's done anything for me. No one gave us food, we can't even go to school because all the books got wet and all our uniforms got lost. We couldn't find our shoes, all our clothes were lost.”
14. Wide shot, destroyed house with family outside
15. Wide shot, destroyed house with family outside
16. Med shot, girl sitting outside house
17. Wide shot, street in low-income community in Jeremie
18. Med shot, street in low-income community in Jeremie
19. Wide shot, father sits with daughter and gathers up schoolbooks
20. Close shot, schoolbooks that got ruined in the storm, tilt up to young girl
21. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Ernicka Jean, 7 years old:
“All my schoolbooks got soaked (ruined).”
22. Close shot, maths textbook in rubble
23. Close shot, other schoolbooks in rubble
24. Med shot, children standing in rubble
25. Wide shot with pan, destroyed shacks on coast of Jeremie
26. Wide shot, alleyway with children dancing
27. Med shot, children dancing
28. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Wilfried Victor, father:
“During the hurricane, we didn't have time to grab anything, we just had to go, we left our houses and fled. We couldn't stay at all, the waves were about to hit us.”
29. Wide shot, US Army plane arriving with humanitarian supplies in Jeremie
30. Med shot, US troops stacking humanitarian supplies
31. Close shot, troops watched by young Haitian
32. Wide shot, crowd of local people
33. Wide shot, troops stacking bags of rice watched by locals

Storyline

One week after Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti, and as schools re-open across the country, more than 100,000 children will be missing out on learning after their schools were either damaged or converted into shelters.

According to initial national estimates, at least 300 public schools have been partially or entirely damaged in the country and many others are being used to shelter displaced families. Schools in Sud and Grande Anse departments will remain closed for at least another week.

In the town of Jeremie, the capital of Grande Anse, 30,000 families have been affected, 66,000 houses have been destroyed and 20,000 houses have been heavily damaged.

Schools are being used as shelters for the displaced but 45 out of the 186 schools across the country are damaged or without roofs, including the Vocational School in Jeremie which is sheltering some 300 people. The main Hospital in Jeremie is also severely damaged.

Hurricane Matthew has put the lives of millions of children in Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic in danger. In Haiti, it is estimated that half a million children live in the most affected areas, particularly in Grand-Anse department and the South.

UNICEF teams in Haiti are working closely with the Government and NGO partners to provide a first delivery of humanitarian supplies to the most affected zones. Surviving Hurricane Matthew means not only surviving the biggest storm in a decade; but also getting ready for what lies ahead.

A chartered cargo aircraft loaded with tons of humanitarian supplies hit the ground in the capital of Port-au-Prince this weekend. The shipment comes from UNICEF Regional Office Latin America and Caribbean and carries life-saving humanitarian provisions to the most-affected children and families by Hurricane Matthew.

The cargo includes sanitation and hygiene goods, water-testing products and purification tablets, educational and early child development kits, health and nutrition equipment to benefit children and women in areas most hard hit by the landfall of the hurricane Matthew.