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DATELINE: 21 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – MINUSTAH - 23, 24 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Various shots, Amos going from door at makeshift shelter
2. Med shot, Amos at hygiene promotion class
UNTV - 21 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“We have managed to feed millions of people. Millions of people have had access to healthcare but the kind of rebuilding of the country that we need to see is something that people want to happen much more quickly. We still have over a million people camps. This is a situation which is extraordinary difficult for those Haitians who are having to live through it.”
FILE – MINUSTAH - 21 JULY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
4. Various shots, tents in Camp Acra
FILE – UNICEF - 5 JULY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
5. Wide shot, boy holding bucket with large camp behind him
6. Med shot, boy drinking water from tap
FILE – MINUSTAH - 6 NOVEMBER 2008, BAIE D'ORANGE, BELLE ANSE, HAITI
7. Wide shot, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) tent and people waiting
8. Tilt up, child's feet on the scale to nurse and child
9. Med shot, doctor with malnourished child
UNTV - 21 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“Even before the earthquake over 80 percent of those living in Port au Prince lived in slum or sub-standard housing. Fewer than 50 percent had access to water and sanitation. These are incredible numbers to be thinking about and on top of that, the earthquake, the flooding, Hurricane Tomas and now the cholera outbreak so people have had a huge amount to deal with. We’ve seen some progress but not nearly as much as people would like to see.”
FILE - MINUSTAH - 23, 24 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
11. Various shots, delegation walking on rubble
UNTV - 21 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“When I was there I saw piles and piles of rubble. When I asked about it, I was told, well this was 3-4-5 times higher than this a few months ago. And if you’re making comparisons, if you think about what happened in the United States after 9/11, it took two years to clear ground zero. These things do take time.”
FILE – UNDP - 24 JANUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
13. Various shots, pole clearing rubble as part of the UNDP Cash-for-Work programme
FILE – UNDP - 22 JANUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
14. Wide shot, crane clearing rubble
FILE – UNICEF - 5 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
15. Various shots, relief supply at logistics hub
UNTV - 21 DECEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“We need to make sure that the eyes of the world are not turned away from the people of Haiti. What we saw a year ago was a huge outpouring of international support for the people of Haiti. Those same people, who did that, need to keep the pressure up for us to make sure we do what it takes to support the government, help the people to rebuild that country and if we need to come back and ask for more support, then we will.”
FILE – UNTV - 31 MARCH 2010, NEW YORK CITY
17. Various shots, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President Preval and Clintons at donor conference for Haiti
FILE – MINUSTAH - 23, 24 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
18. Various shots Amos in Haiti
Back from her first trip to Haiti as the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos talked about the current humanitarian situation in the country in an exclusive interview with the UN.
Amos, who was in Haiti at the end of November, said that the UN, in almost a year after the earthquake, has “managed to feed millions of people.” She added that although “millions of people have had access to healthcare” there are still many living in camps for the internally displaced.
According to the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which Amos heads, of the 2.1 million people displaced by the 12 January earthquake, 1.3 million still reside in camps in the affected areas of the country. These people continue to need basic services such shelter, food and water, sanitation and health care, education and protection to survive.
Many of them, who already lived in situations of poverty and vulnerability before the earthquake, have since fallen into severe humanitarian need. Amos added that before this year, “over 80 percent” of Port au Prince’s residents “lived in slums or sub-standard living” and “few than 50 percent had access to water and sanitation.”
With “the earthquake, the flooding, Hurricane Tomas and now the cholera outbreak” people have had “huge amount to deal with,” said Amos.
During her recent two-day trip, Amos witnessed some of the humanitarian work that is taking place in the country including cholera prevention and treatment campaigns.
Six months after the earthquake the UN reported that it had delivered basic shelter to earthquake survivors, fed 4.3 million people, installed latrines and vaccinated almost a million people against communicable diseases.
Although much has been done, Amos said that the progress is “not nearly as much as people would like to see.”
While she was in Haiti, she noticed that the streets of Port au Prince were still lined with rubble. She added that recovery work such as clearance of the rubble does take time and talked about how it took “two years to clear ground zero” after 9/11 in the United States.
Just a month after the earthquake, the UN Development Programme started a series of “cash-for-work” programmes in Port au Prince. The programmes hired over 100,000 locals to clear rubble and rehabilitate essential social infrastructures, such as street repairs and electricity.
For the humanitarian work, be it emergency activities or large-scale reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts, to carry on, “we need to make sure that the eyes of the world are not turned away from the people of Haiti,” said Amos.
She added that over the year, there has been “a huge outpouring of international support” but there is a “need to keep the pressure up” for the international community “to make sure we do what it takes to support the government, help the people to rebuild that country.”
OCHA is asking for more than $906 million to ensure continued humanitarian aid for more than two million people, support the return of thousands of displaced people and contribute to the transition from emergency to longer-term recovery programmes in 2011.
On funding, Amos said that “if we need to come back and ask for more support, then we will.”
Amos is expected to travel back to Haiti in January next year.
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