HAITI / NUTRITION

After having identified groups of pregnant women and children suffering from malnutrition through door to door visits to camps throughout Port-au-Prince, UN aid agencies begin a 21-day distribution of Plumpy Nut. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:48
• Production Date: 18 February 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: NUTRITION
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100218d

Description

STORY: HAITI / NUTRITION
TRT: 1.48
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE/ ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 17, 18 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

18 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

1. Med shot, woman walking down street with her children
2. Wide shot, woman in front of a stand
3. Close up, packets of supplementary food
4. Close up, WFP coupons
5. Med shot, child being measured with her mother standing behind him
6. Close up, agent marking child’s nail
7. Close up, marked nail
8. Med shot, woman talking to agent explaining her how to use the supplementary food
9. Close up, energy biscuits
10. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Dieula Henri, 30 Year-old Mother of Three:
“They told me that my baby could get all the food needed through my milk. I was used to give him food, which they asked me to stop doing. He was crying all the time so I would give him food because I have no money to buy the milk.”
11. Wide shot, woman leaving with her children

17 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

12. Med shot, women queuing
13. Med shot, baby on his mother’s shoulder
14. Med shot, Canadian Peacekeepers distributing kits of supplementary food
15. Med shot, inside truck Peacekeeper handing over kits with crowd in background
16. Tilt up, baby onto mother
17. SOUNDBITE (Creole )Francoise Macena, Mother of Four Children:
“Yes I am satisfied. This is good for pregnant women and for children.”
18. Med shot, WFP agent talking to children
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Anna Horner, Program Manager at World Food Program:
“The reason that we are targeting these groups is that those are the groups that are the most at needs. We know that women who are pregnant or nursing and children under the age of 5 are the ones who are the most at risk of malnutrition.”
20. Med shot, woman feeding her child with supplementary food then eating herself
21. Close up, child eating
22. Pan right, settlement

Storyline

Five weeks after a devastating earthquake shattered the lives of millions in Haiti; the World Food Programme (WFP) is delivering targeted nutrition to children under 5 years of age through its food rations, and introducing complementary feeding programmes for vulnerable groups.

After having identified groups of pregnant women and children suffering from malnutrition through door to door visits to camps throughout Port-au-Prince, UN aid agencies began a 21-day distribution of Plumpy Nut.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Dieula Henri, 30 Year-old Mother of Three:
“They told me that my baby could get all the food needed through my milk. I was used to give him food, which they asked me to stop doing. He was crying all the time so I would give him food because I have no money to buy the milk.”

A highly nutritious peanut paste, Plumpy Doz is being provided to children under 2 years of age to prevent an increase in acute malnutrition and to support growth.

Moderately malnourished children between 2 and 5 years of age are provided with Supplementary Plumpy, another ready to use nutritious food product that comes in the form of a peanut paste.

Micronutrient powders that can boost the nutritional content of staple foods are given to families with children between the ages of 2 and 5 years and also to pregnant and lactating mothers.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Francoise Macena, Mother of Four Children:
“Yes I am satisfied. This is good for pregnant women and for children.”

WFP will also boost its school meal programmes to bring stability to the lives of the young, attracting children to school and helping to lift the burden of some of the nutritional needs of the young from the shoulders of parents who are struggling to cope in the aftermath of the quake.

SOUNDBITE (English) Anna Horner, Program Manager at World Food Program:
“The reason that we are targeting these groups is that those are the groups that are the most at needs. We know that women who are pregnant or nursing and children under the age of 5 are the ones who are the most at risk of malnutrition.”

This joint activity is being led by WFP, together with the Haitian Ministry of Health and Population, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA.).