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HAITI / CAMP RELOCATION
STORY: HAITI / CAMP RELOCATION
TRT: 1:56
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: HAITIAN CREOLE/ ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 APRIL 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Med shot, workers gathered in the camp
2. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Displaced Woman:
“We have to move. It’s God’s will.”
3. Med, man with s bucket on his head passing, camp in the back
4. Various shots, Actor Sean Penn helping with move
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Major Ivo Werneck, Transport Planner, UN Mission in Haiti:
“We have the boarding process, the movement itself and we have the debarkation process. The boarding process is up to CRS and J/P HRO to do all the registration, the selection, preparing and providing all the proper information to people who want to voluntary move from here to new site in Corail Cesselesse.”
9. Pan right, from woman holding a baby to line of people waiting for registration
10. Close-up, a baby in the arms of its mother
11. Wide shot, people in the line
12. Med shot, registration workers at the desk
13. Wide pan left, line of busses
14. Close-up, a boy boarding a buss after being check against the list
15. Close-up, buss moving, people looking out through windows
16. Wide shot, buses turning a street
17. Wide shot, UN peacekeeper at new site
18. Med shot, people walking towards the tents a woman with raised hands
19. Med shot, Haitian President of Haiti Rene Preval walking in the tent area
20. Med shot, Preval talking to a family
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Rene Preval, President of Haiti
“Port-au-Prince was already too crowded. And scientists said that this is a normal way (direction) of expansion of Port-au-Prince.”
22. Wide, pan right, workers setting a tent
Some of the first earthquake survivors are relocated from the largest refugee camp in Port-au-Prince sheltering an estimated 50, 000 people. Officials say the move is mainly to relocate some 7,500 inhabitants of the camp who are currently in danger of mudslides.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Displaced Woman:
“We have to move. It’s God’s will.”
United Nations (UN) and United States (US) officials recommended that the internally displaced people are relocated within the next ten days because the camp, located at the Petionville golf course, are at high risk of flooding or mudslides when the rainy season starts.
Relocating several thousand people, however, is proving to be a challenge. On Saturday (10 April), when the relocation started, about 20 families were moved. Yesterday (11 April) some 250 families were scheduled to be relocated but only about 60 people made it.
The relocation operation is a joint venture between UN, Jenkins-Penn Haiti Releif Organization and several other non-profit relief agencies. Actor Sean Penn was in the camp helping Haitians move.
SOUNDBITE (English) Major Ivo Werneck, Transport Planner:
“We have the boarding process, the movement itself and we have the debarkation process. The boarding process is up to CRS and J/P HRO to do all the registration, the selection, preparing and providing all the proper information to people who want to voluntary move from here to new site in Corail Cesselesse.”
The relocation is strictly voluntarily, and all interested are well briefed on reasons behind the relocation and conditions that will be awaiting them in the new site.
At the new site in Corail Cesselesse, on the outskirts of the capital, Oxfam is leveling the ground for tents as well as installing the latrines and water bladders.
Haitian President Rene Preval visited the new site.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rene Preval, President of Haiti
“Port-au-Prince was already too crowded. And scientists said that this is a normal way (direction) of expansion of Port-au-Prince.”
The relocation of IDPs will ease the imminent danger of the mudslide that threatens inhabitants of makeshift camps. It is, however, only temporary settlement solution for the people who have lost their home to the earthquake.
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