HAITI / ORPHANS

UNICEF is providing clothing, bedding, ‘school in a box' and other supplies for 90 orphaned children who's interim care center in Lilavois was destroyed in last month's earthquake. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:41
• Production Date: 9 February 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; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI
• MAMS Id: U100209b

Description

STORY: HAITI / ORPHANS
TRT: 1.41
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 5 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Zoom out, destroyed cathedral
2. Wide shot, damage
3. Wide shot, people on rubble
4. Wide shot, man pointing
5. Med shot, man pointing
6. Zoom out, plane
7. Wide shot, camp
8. Pan right, forklift
9. Pan right, orphanage damage
10. Med shot, damage
11. Pan right, tents
12. Zoom out, tent to damage
13. Wide shot, sister walking through damage
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Sister Marleine Joseph, Director, Foye Zanmi Jezi Missionnaire Sacre-Cœur:
“For us it’s very difficult, we have no money”
15. Tilt up, damage
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Sister Marleine Joseph, Director, Foye Zanmi Jezi Missionnaire Sacre-Cœur:
“Maybe yes, maybe”
17. Wide shot, truck arriving
18. Close up, rear view mirror
19. Close up, opening truck
20. Wide shot, opening box
21. Wide shot, handing out sandals
22. Close up, trying on sandals
23. Wide shot, handing out toothbrushes
24. Close up, toothbrushes
25. Wide shot, opening ECD kit
26. Close up, going through ECD kit
27. SOUNDBITE (French) St-Anne Roger, 16 years old:
“I lost my clothes, everything is gone, I was supposed to write exams this year and all my papers are gone, my school is destroyed, my dormitory is destroyed, so I’m happy to receive everything I’ve been given today.”
26. Tilt up, little girls getting supplies
27. Close up, feet in new sandals
28. Med shot, girls with new supplies
29. Wide shot, girl writing name on supplies
30. Close up, writing name

Storyline

Three and half weeks after a magnitude 7 quake rocked the capital port au prince, Haiti’s Louverture international airport never sleeps. Flights full of supplies arrive 24 hours a day and leave empty. A massive aid effort is underway catering to the hundreds of thousands left homeless by the quake.

Foye Zanmi Jezi Missionnaire Sacre-Coeur, an interim care center for children in Lilavois, Port au Prince was destroyed by the quake. The 90 orphaned and vulnerable children who lived here now cram into three tents set up on the grounds of their school. It too was destroyed. Sister Marlene Joseph, the director of the center is distraught.

SOUNDBITE (French) Sister Marleine Joseph, Director, Foye Zanmi Jezi Missionnaire Sacre-Cœur:
“For us it’s very difficult, we have no money”

I ask her if she has hope for the centre

SOUNDBITE (French) Sister Marleine Joseph, Director, Foye Zanmi Jezi Missionnaire Sacre-Cœur:
“Maybe yes, maybe”

A desperately needed truck of UNICEF supplies arrives at the centre. Sister Joseph hands out sandals, clothes, blankets, mattresses, toothbrushes, and other supplies. Two ‘schools in a box’ containing toys, games and books will be distributed later. Many of the children lost all they owned in the rubble.

SOUNDBITE (French) St-Anne Roger, 16 years old:
“I lost my clothes, everything is gone, I was supposed to write exams this year and all my papers are gone, my school is destroyed, my dormitory is destroyed, so I’m happy to receive everything I’ve been given today.”

The needs are overwhelming but so is the support. Nearly four weeks after the quake, massive shipments of aid continue to arrive and UNICEF and its partners will continue to ensure they reach those most in need. Lives depend on it.