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HAITI / SIX MONTHS OVERVIEW
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STORY: HAITI / SIX MONTHS OVERVIEW
TRT: 3.26
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ CREOLE/ NATS
DATELINE: 5 JULY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, UNICEF school tent with girls in front of it
2. Close up, girls drinking from water tap
3. Wide shot, boy holding bucket with large camp behind him
4. Close up, boy’s face
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, UNICEF Representative in Haiti:
“What did not happen? We had no major outbreak; no major diseases all around, epidemic; and this is something that we have to say. Why? Because we have been quite good in delivering water, in supporting sanitation, providing food – our colleagues from the World Food Program - and so on and so forth. I think this is important to mention. We said at the beginning that we wanted to stabilize things.”
6. Close up, small baby in hat
7. Med shot, boy filling plastic jug at water tap
8. Close up, boy filling jug
9. Med shot, UNICEF latrines
10. Wide shot, woman with bowl on head walks into frame, toward tents in camp
11. Med shot, boy in purple stands in front of tent
12. Med shot, boy holding plastic jugs with tents behind him
13. Close up, boy drinks from water tap
14. Med shot, tent full of mothers and babies
15. Close up, baby’s face
16. Med shot, blue and white “baby tent” in camp
17. Med shot, woman in orange sits on ledge with her baby
18. Close up, baby of woman in orange
19. Close up, woman in orange breastfeeds
20. SOUNDBITE (Creole), Camille Stephenea, Earthquake Survivor:
“When I came to the baby tent, I loved it because they gave me a lot of good advice and they helped me with the baby: how to give him affection, and how to prevent infection and illness.”
21. Med shot, woman in orange sits on ground in tent, talking with woman holding baby doll
22. Med shot, tiny baby in red walks through camp
23. Med shot, three people walk in front of metal latrines
24. Close up, interior of latrine
25. Med shot, people gathered at water tap by metal fence
26. Close up, people washing hands
27. Wide shot, truck with large load passes through border checkpoint
28. Med shot, mother stands with baby sitting in chair
29. Med shot, girl sits in chair studying outside
30. Close up, face of girl in chair
31. Close up, girl writing in notebook
32. SOUNDBITE (English), Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, UNICEF Representative in Haiti:
“Education is key. We have to have all children at school and we have to have quality of education. It will be really complicated. It’s a long process and we have to be all together, partnering not competing.”
33. Med shot, UNICEF education tent, with desk and students inside
34. Close up, face of girl studying inside tent
35. Close up, girl’s notebook on desk inside tent
36. Med shot, several rows of girls inside tent classroom
37. Med shot, girls standing in front of UNICEF tent
38. Wide shot, small children in shorts play in front of row of UNICEF tents
39. Med shot, man teaches class full of girls
40. Wide shot, surveying device in foreground; men working construction site in background
41. Med shot, piece of rebar in foreground; men hammering in background
42. Med shot, man hammering rock
43. SOUNDBITE (English), Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, UNICEF Representative in Haiti:
“I believe that Haiti can show examples to the world. In child protection, it is possible. In education, it is possible. I dream about that. At one point, being able to send colleagues, together with partners of this government, in another country, showing what they did. And what worked.”
44. Wide shot, boy stands at table in large open area
45. Close up, girl writing at desk
46. Close up, man in hat talks with man in t-shirt outside
47. Wide shot, circle of children outside
48. Close up, girls raise arms above heads
49. Close up, face of girl with arms above head
50. Med shot, shot of girls from behind as they stand in circle
UNICEF will release a detailed report on Monday chronicling relief efforts in the six months following Haiti’s devastating 12 January earthquake.
The report, titled “Children of Haiti: Milestones and looking forward at six months” begins by asking the question, “What did not happen following the earthquake?”
SOUNDBITE (English) Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, UNICEF Representative in Haiti:
“What did not happen? We had no major outbreak; no major diseases all around, epidemic; and this is something that we have to say. Why? Because we have been quite good in delivering water, in supporting sanitation, providing food – our colleagues from the World Food Program - and so on and so forth. I think this is important to mention. We said at the beginning that we wanted to stabilize things.”
Despite the internal displacement of 1.6 million Haitians, there was no deterioration of the humanitarian situation and no increase in malnutrition. Today, UNICEF is providing safe water to 333,000 people and supporting 126 outpatient therapeutic feeding programs, which provide life-saving care to malnourished children.
Camille Stephenea is a young, single mother who’s benefiting from a UNICEF-supported baby tent in a camp near the airport in Port-au-Prince. Her husband was killed in the earthquake and now she’s living alone in a tent with her infant son.
The baby tent offers a safe, private area to breastfeed her son.
SOUNDBITE (Creole), Camille Stephenea, Earthquake Survivor:
“When I came to the baby tent, I loved it because they gave me a lot of good advice and they helped me with the baby: how to give him affection, and how to prevent infection and illness.”
Another key challenge is sanitation. UNICEF and its implementing partners have accelerated latrine construction, with more than 9,000 units installed. UNICEF has also supported the training of some 2,200 individuals to visit affected areas and teach proper hygiene practices, such as hand washing with soap.
There is perhaps no area with greater room for improvement than education. Before 12 January, only fifty-five percent of Haitian children attended school. Even fewer have returned to the classroom after the earthquake.
SOUNDBITE (English), Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, UNICEF Representative in Haiti:
“Education is key. We have to have all children at school and we have to have quality of education. It will be really complicated. It’s a long process and we have to be all together, partnering not competing.”
In a massive effort to reopen schools, UNICEF has distributed about 1,300 school tents, with another 2,000 in the pipeline. And for the long-term solution, UNICEF is supporting a team of construction engineers to work with government counterparts to accelerate semi-permanent and permanent school construction.
SOUNDBITE (English), Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, UNICEF Representative in Haiti:
“I believe that Haiti can show examples to the world. In child protection, it is possible. In education, it is possible. I dream about that. At one point, being able to send colleagues, together with partners of this government, in another country, showing what they did, and what worked.”
On the crucial topic of child protection, one of the protective measures UNICEF has taken is working to ensure that children being moved across international borders are not being trafficked or exposed to other risks.
To date, more than 6,000 cases of children being moved have been assessed, with dozens of children reunited with their families as a result.









