HAITI / DISPLACED

At a golf course in Petion-Ville, where thousands of displaced Haitians live in camps without access to toilets and basic food supplies and water, some have started small businesses to survive. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:38
• Production Date: 26 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100126g

Description

STORY: HAITI / DISPLACED
TRT: 2:38
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 26 JANUARY 2010, PETION-VILLE, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, tent camp in the golf course of Petion-Ville in Port-au-Prince
2. Wide shot, man assembling tent poles made of wood
3. Med shot, man tying together wood for a sheet-tent
4. Med shot, two boys trying to assemble wood for a sheet-tent
5. Med shot, boy tying twine around wood poles
6. Med shot, IOM logo on the outside of the IOM office tent
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Niurka Pineiro, IOM Spokesperson:
"Our estimates are about 500 tent camps - larger camps. When I say "larger" I am talking about from 50 people in the smallest, to the largest having 15,000 or 20,000 in them."
8. Med shot, woman opens a small market outside her tent
9. Med shot, a "street sign" in the tent camp
10. Med shot, generator powers a cell phone recharge area - for a fee of course
11. Med shot, cell phones charging
12. Med shot, woman tries to hang a sign advertising the "Rachelle Beauty Shop"
13. Close-up, woman's face
14. Close-up, woman's hands
15. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Rachelle Pierre, Victim and Beautician:
"I lost everything I had, all my salon equipment. No one has any money really. But this is my profession, I have to do this. And as long as people are alive, they will always want to have their hair done."
16. Med shot, boy with a homemade kite
17. Med shot, boy flying kite over the tent camp
18. Wide shot, kite flying in the air
19. Wide shot, tent where 9 people live, pan to a woman washing clothes
20. Wide shot, woman washing clothes and a child
21. Med shot, woman washing clothes
22. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Belo Nivel, Victim and Tent camp resident:
"I have no idea how long we will be here. Our house is gone, we have nowhere. All nine of us live here. Who know for how long?"
23. Wide shot, tents crammed together
24. Med shot, a person sleeping with their feet stuck out of their tent
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Niurka Pineiro, IOM Spokesperson:
"This is the emergency phase. We have the reconstruction phase afterwards. And so this donors meeting, and this meeting in Montreal on Monday, and the donor's meeting which is not scheduled yet but will be in March - these are important windows where we must get the funding to make sure that those tent cities don't become a reality or a permanent part of the landscape in Haiti."
26. Wide shot, woman washing her son
27. Wide shot, Haitian flag flying over sheet-tents

Storyline

At a golf course in Petion-Ville, where thousands of displaced Haitians live in camps without access to toilets and basic food supplies and water, some have started small businesses to survive.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that there are 500 tents in this area that can hold up to 20,000 people.

SOUNDBITE (English) Niurka Pineiro, IOM Spokesperson
"Our estimates are about 500 tent camps - larger camps. When I say "larger" I am talking about from 50 people in the smallest, to the largest having 15,000 or 20,000 in them."

In Petion-Ville, however, there are about 60,000 people living in overcrowded camps. Some of them have started small business such as hairdressing, cell phone charging and managing small markets in search for normalcy amidst this humanitarian crisis.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Rachelle Pierre, Victim and Beautician:
"I lost everything I had, all my salon equipment. No one has any money really. But this is my profession, I have to do this. And as long as people are alive, they will always want to have their hair done."

Many remain concerned about the prospects of living out of tents for an extended period of time.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Belo Nivel, Victim and Tent camp resident
"I have no idea how long we will be here. Our house is gone, we have nowhere. All nine of us live here. Who know for how long?"

Humanitarian agencies like IOM and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) are increasing concerned about managing camps and setting up temporary housing for the 800,000 to a million displaced people in Haiti.

SOUNDBITE (English) Niurka Pineiro, IOM Spokesperson:
"This is the emergency phase. We have the reconstruction phase afterwards. And so this donors meeting, and this meeting in Montreal on Monday, and the donor's meeting which is not scheduled yet but will be in March - these are important windows where we must get the funding to make sure that those tent cities don't become a reality or a permanent part of the landscape in Haiti."

So far, there are 591 improvised settlements with approximately 692,000 displaced people in the Port-au-Prince region alone. IOM is expecting a shipment of about 40,000 tents more tents to arrive in the coming days to accommodate 200,000 people.