HAITI / DEMO

In the neighborhood of Palace Petit Cazeau, nearly 100 angry survivors from last month's earthquake took to the streets to protest against what they say is the government's lack of help. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:09
• Production Date: 19 February 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL SERVICES
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100219c

Description

STORY: HAITI / DEMO
TRT: 2.09
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 19 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, shanty street with smoke rising
2. Med shot, demonstration
3. Med shot, signpost with demonstration in the back
4. Close up signpost reading “We need help please. Necessitamos ayuda por favor. Refugee camp. We’re homeless”
5. Med shot, burning tyres and peacekeepers in the front
6. Med shot, people watching
7. Close up, peacekeeper
8. Pan right, from burning tyres onto peacekeepers
9. Med shot, people walking on a narrow passage to avoid demo
10. Close up, people walking
11. Med shot, group of people from the demonstration walking up a road
12. Wide shot, demonstrator walking up a road
13. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Chandeleur, demonstrator:
“We are more than 3,000 people living in this area. We have another three camps like that. There is nothing for us around here. That’s why we are demonstrating so that the government gives us something.”
14. Wide shot, camp
15. Tilt down, man planting a stick in the ground
16. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marie Carmel Pierre Altenor:
”We have lost our families. We have no water, no toilets. We need tents and drinking water. We are looking for food. Here, we are living like animals.”
17. Wide shot, demonstrator arguing with police
18. Med shot, demonstrator arguing with police
19. Close up burning tyre with traffic in the back

Storyline

Demonstrations which began with the first rains last week are continuing throughout Port-au-Prince. In the neighborhood of Palace Petit Cazeau, nearly 100 angry survivors from last month’s earthquake took to the streets to protest against what they say is the government’s lack of help.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Chandeleur, demonstrator:
“We are more than 3,000 people living in this area. We have another three camps like that. There is nothing for us around here. That’s why we are demonstrating so that the government gives us something.”

This settlement, like many throughout Port-au-Prince is still in need of even the basic necessities.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marie Carmel Pierre Altenor, quake survivor:
"We have lost our families. We have no water, no toilets. We need tents and drinking water. We are looking for food. Here, we are living like animals.”

To date, more than 350,000 people have received emergency shelter materials from the UN and its partners on the ground. About 1.2 millions are living in shelters or make shift tents in Port-au-Prince.

On Thursday, the UN office for humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said that the humanitarian situation was gradually improving. Some of the essential infrastructure such as the port, airport, government institutions, electricity and telecommunications facilities are becoming more operational.