UNICEF/ HAITI SUPPLIES

A flight carrying essential UNICEF supplies for the victims of Haiti's earthquake left Bilund, Denmark over the weekend and landed in Santo Domingo. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:34
• Production Date: 18 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: HAITI
• MAMS Id: U100118c

Description

STORY: UNICEF/ HAITI SUPPLIES
TRT : 1.34
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 16 JANUARY 2010 , 2010 BILLUND , DENMARK , & SANTO DOMINGO , DR

Shotlist

16 JANUARY 2010 , BILLUND , DENMARK

1. Various shots, plane being loaded
2. Various shots, interior plane, boxes on seats
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Everett, British Airways captain:
“It’s a privilege to be able to help when there are situations like this. I think there are very few people who are able to impact on a situation like this, so it’s a great privilege.”
4. Various shots, plane preparing for takeoff
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Henrik Jensen, UNICEF Warehouse Specialist:
“My job would be to make a big warehouse in Santo Domingo and ship all the goods onto Port au Prince.”

16 JANUARY 2010 , SANTO DOMINGO , DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

6. Various shots, supplies being unloaded.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ainga Razafy, UNICEF Emergency Operations:
“So this plane contains tarpaulins, medicine, medical kits that cater for every kind of situation where we can help now in terms of medicines which is a big, big need in Haiti .”
8. Various shots, line of people taking boxes off plane

Storyline

In the middle of a frozen northern winter, in Billund , Denmark a British Airways 747 is loaded with emergency supplies bound for Haiti via Santo Domingo .

The fifty tons worth of boxes from UNICEF’s main warehouse in Copenhagen fill the cargo hold and are strapped into the seats that would normally carry passengers.

On this flight the crew of seven are all volunteers.

SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Everett, British Airways captain:
“It’s a privilege to be able to help when there are situations like this. I think there are very few people who are able to impact on a situation like this, so it’s a great privilege.”

UNICEF staff are flying with the supplies to Santo Domingo where they will set up a logistics hub to coordinate emergency aid to Haiti from Europe , the Middle East and the Caribbean .

SOUNDBITE (English) Henrik Jensen, UNICEF Warehouse Specialist:
“My job would be to make a big warehouse in Santo Domingo and ship all the goods onto Port au Prince.”

Once in Haiti , these essential supplies will be distributed to those most in need.

SOUNDBITE (English) Ainga Razafy, UNICEF Emergency Operations:
“So this plane contains tarpaulins, medicine, medical kits that cater for every kind of situation where we can help now in terms of medicines which is a big, big need in Haiti.”

This is the third flight of UNICEF supplies to have landed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic ; just the beginning of what will be an enormous relief effort to meet the growing needs of Haitian women and children.