HAITI / WOMEN'S DAY WRAP

Canada's Governor General Haitian born Michaëlle Jean is on a two-day visit to Haiti. Thirty-five women graduate from an economic development program designed to reduce violence in at-risk areas of Port-au-Prince. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:05
• Production Date: 8 March 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: WOMEN'S RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100308h

Description

STORY: HAITI / WOMEN'S DAY WRAP
TRT: 3.05
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE/ ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 7, 8 MARCH 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

8 MARCH 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

1. Wide Shot, women clapping hands
2. Pan left, cameramen onto Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean and Haitian Minister of Feminine Condition Marjorie Michele
3. Tilt up, hands onto Michaelle Jean and Marjorie Michele
4. Tilt up, injured hand in armband onto woman’s face
5. Med shot, Governor General of Canada and Gerald Trambley, Mayor of Montreal wiping off tears
6. Pan right women in traditional outfit onto sitting delegation
7. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Michaelle Jean, General Governor of Canada:
”Haitian women carry the burden of the country on their heads. They carry the future of the country in their stomach. We know that no valid reconstruction can happen without the implication of women. If they are not part of that process, it will fail."
8. Wide shot, women in the audience
9. Med shot, women in the audience
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Jean, General Governor of Canada:
“It is women who have to find food and water, while caring for the children and the survivors. And it is women who are the most subject to violence including sexual violence.”
11. Med shot, women in traditional outfit
12. Tilt up, Haitian flag on dress onto clapping hands
13. Med shot, Michelle Jean clapping and chanting
14. Close up, Michelle Jean smiling
15. Pan left, press onto Michaelle Jean and Haitian delegation chanting and dancing

7 MARCH 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

16. Close up, hands of Minister of Feminine Condition
17. Med shot, Minister and delegation
18. Pan left, women
19. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marjorie Michel, Minister of Feminine Condition:
“During that day of 12 January 2010, the feminist movement was hurt. It was to the bone. However the way has already been drafted, thank to many other women who are committed to hold the flame high.”
20. Pan left, women at ceremony

8 MARCH 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

21. Med shot, MINUSTAH delegation with banners of NGO and UN
22. Close up, certificate being handed over to woman participant
23. Wide shot, participant receiving certificate
24. Pan left, clothes on the ground and other handmade items on a table
25. Close up, food made of natural products
26. Close up bags made of plastic waste
27. Med shot, dress made of natural products
28. Pan left, women singing

Storyline

About a thousand women celebrated International Women’s Day at the Haitian Ministry of Feminine Condition in Port au Prince. The crowd welcomed special guest Governor General of Canada, Michaelle Jean, on her first visit to Haiti since the 12 January earthquake that leveled parts of the country.

Present at the ceremony were the Haitian Minister of Feminine Condition and the Mayor of Port au Prince, as well as women survivors of the earthquake. The Memory of those lost brought tears to Jean and her Canadian delegation, including the Mayor of Montreal, Gerald Tramblay.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Michaelle Jean, General Governor of Canada:
”Haitian women carry the burden of the country on their heads. They carry the future of the country in their stomach. We know that no valid reconstruction can happen without the implication of women. If they are not part of that process, it will fail."

Aware of the impact of her presence, Jean also addressed the audience in English, reminding the world of the burden of women.

SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Jean, General Governor of Canada:
“It is women who have to find food and water, while caring for the children and the survivors. And it is women who are the most subject to violence including sexual violence.”

Dancing and clapping hands like a pop star, Jean invited the crowded to cheer.

Yesterday, hundreds of women gathered at the same location singing and praying at a remembrance ceremony for the deceased women organized by the Ministry of Feminine Condition.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marjorie Michel, Minister of Feminine Condition:
“During that day of 12 January 2010, the feminist movement was hurt. It was to the bone. However the way has already been drafted, thank to many other women who are committed to hold the flame high.”

In a separate ceremony today, Haitian Partners for Christian development certified 35 women for entrepreneurship in the areas at risk of Martissant and Cite Soleil of Port au Prince.

This graduation came at the conclusion of a several month training sponsored by MINUSTAH.