HAITI / CASH FOR WORK

Thousands of Haitians are working for UNDP's ‘cash-for-work' programme to sustain the local economy and clean up the streets of Port-au-Prince. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:00
• Production Date: 26 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FINANCING; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100126f

Description

STORY: HAITI / CASH FOR WORK
TRT: 2.00
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 25 JANUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, people in Carrefour neighborhood in Port-au-Prince sweeping up the rubble as part of the UNDP ‘cash-for-work’ program
2. Med shot, workers sweeping
3. Wide shot, destroyed home
4. Wide shot, workers in front of a destroyed building
5. Med shot, worker wearing scarf on face
6. Med shot, worker shoveling in a wheelbarrow
7. Wide shot, destroyed house pan to workers
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Patrick Massenat, Cash-for-Work supervisor and local leader:
"We will have about 3000 people working in the cash-for-work program. We've started today with 1000 people, and we'll be rotating them out. They get paid every day, the equivalent of about US$3."
9. Med shot, women digging through rubble
10. Med shot, man with nose covered digging
11. Wide shot, man scooping muck from the street
12. Wide shot, men with rubble
13. Med shot, laundry hanging on a destroyed house
14. Wide shot, destroyed house
15. Med shot, wheelbarrows
16. Med shot, workers in scarves
17. Med shot, women passing rubble hand to hand
18. Wide shot, man throwing garbage in a truck
19. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lenny Gibson, Resident:
"I like this project for two reasons. Not just because we can make a little money. But we have to clean things up. I already lost my child. I don't want to lose anyone else due to poor sanitation."
20. Wide shot, people working in assembly line near rubble
21. Med shot, man with megaphone directing workers
22. Med shot, man with megaphone and workers
23. Med shot, license plate of UNDP car in front of work site

Storyline

Thousands of Haitians are working for the United Nation Development Programme’s (UNDP) ‘cash-for-work’ programme to sustain the local economy and clean up the streets of Port-au-Prince following the earthquake that devastated this tiny island nation.

Haitians are paid a legal minimum wage of (USD) $3.00 or 150 gourdes for half a days labor. Local factory workers are paid that same rate for a full days work.

SOUNDBITE (French) Patrick Massenat, ‘Cash-for-Work’ supervisor and local leader:
"We will have about 3,000 people working in the cash-for-work program. We've started today with 1,000 people, and we'll be rotating them out. They get paid every day, the equivalent of about US$3."

Job creation aimed at rebuilding infrastructure remains key in UNDP’s efforts to scale up programmes like these intended to inject money into the affected Haitian economy. The programme also empowers Haitians to take charge of their lives and country.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lenny Gibson, Resident:
"I like this project for two reasons. Not just because we can make a little money. But we have to clean things up. I already lost my child. I don't want to lose anyone else due to poor sanitation."

Through the removal of rubble and debris, entire neighbourhoods blocked off to public transportation will now have access to emergency vehicles like ambulances and the police.

UNDP recently issued a flash appeal calling for US$35.6 million for immediate recovery priorities, including debris clearance, rehabilitation of basic infrastructure, and cash-for-work reconstruction activities.