HAITI / CITE SOLEIL AID

UN peacekeepers from Brazil along with the US Army distribute food in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest and most troubled neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:24
• Production Date: 24 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100124b

Description

STORY: HAITI / CITE SOLEIL AID
TRT: 2.24
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRCITIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 24 JANUARY, CITE SOLEIL, POR AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, people in Cite Soleil (Port-au-Prince) running to line up for food
2. Wide shot, feet of people running to line up for food
3. Pan right, from US soldiers to people running in a line
4. Wide shot, long line of people
5. Med shot, long line of people
6. Pan right, Haitian worker getting people to stay in line
7. Med shot, long line of feet
8. Med shot, Brazilian peacekeepers standing near a moving line
9. Med shot, US soldiers stacking food boxes
10. Med shot, stacking food boxes
11. Pan right, stacked food boxes pan to UN and US military generals
12. Pan right, UN Force Commander pan to US General
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Floriano Peixoto, United Nations Force Commander:
"We believe that the troops that arrive will enhance our capacity of distributing food, enhance our capacity to provide logistics, and support along with our partners the Americans and the Canadians, and other contributors that are arriving."
14. Med shot, handing out food packets from the truck
15. Wide shot, women receiving food packets
16. Med shot, women receiving food
17. Pan right, unloading water from the truck pan to lines
18. SOUNDBITE (English) General Keen, United States Army:
"The need is tremendous. We have obviously as you know millions of people in need. We are pushing it out every day. Today is a better day than yesterday. Tomorrow is a better day than the day before."
19. Med shot, soldier taking water bottles
20. Med shot, children with fortified biscuits
21. Tracking shot, child with fortified biscuits
22. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Denise Floret, Cite Soleil Resident:
"This is the first time we got food. I didn't hear of other distributions."
23. Med shot, US soldiers giving fortified biscuits to kids
24. Med shot, Brazilian soldiers handing food to women in the line

Storyline

United Nations (UN) peacekeepers from Brazil along with the US (United States) Army distributed food today (24 Jan) in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest and most troubled neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince.
The partnership between American and UN forces strengthens the ability to secure an area while contributing to humanitarian aid on the ground.
Locals formed cues to receive food packs, water and crackers. Bags of rice, beans, corn flour and plaster were also being distributed.
UN Force Commander Major General Floriano Peixoto was optimistic that the arrival of new troops would enhance the capacity to distribute aid.
SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Floriano Peixoto, Force Commander, United Nations:
"We believe that the troops that arrive will enhance our capacity of distributing food, enhance our capacity to provide logistics, and support along with our partners the Americans and the Canadians, and other contributors that are arriving."

There have been reports about delays in aid distribution by the media as well as survivors complaining that it has been nearly two weeks since the earthquake struck and they still had not received any food or water.
General P.K. Keen who was in Haiti when the earthquake struck said aid distribution was improving daily.

SOUNDBITE (English) General P.K. Keen, US Army:
"The need is tremendous. We have obviously as you know millions of people in need. We are pushing it out every day. Today is a better day than yesterday. Tomorrow is a better day than the day before."

For many people in Cite Soleil, this is the first help they've gotten. Cite Soleil was a former armed gang stronghold until the UN liberated it in 2008. There have been reports of looting and violence here since the earthquake struck, but today, there were no reports of disturbances as the food delivery began and people were anxiously waiting to receive aid.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Denise Floret, Cite Soleil Resident:
"This is the first time we got food. I didn't hear of other distributions."
The food delivered today comes from the World Food Program (WFP). The UN agency is now delivering daily meals to some 2 million Haitians as it continued to ramp up operations in the cities and towns hardest hit by the recent catastrophic earthquake in the Caribbean country.