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HAITI / OVERVIEW
STORY: HAITI / OVERVIEW
TRT: 4.35
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI / FILE
FILE - 3 OCTOBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, church destroyed by earthquake
2. Wide shot, rubble and destruction
3. Med shot, woman stands in rubble
4. Wide shot, collapsed house and city
5. Wide shot, man and children in front of empty lot
6. Med shot, boys standing and playing
FILE – 29 SEPTEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
7. Close up, boy looks out of shelter
15 DECEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”More than 200,000 people died, perished, in the earthquake. Half of them were probably children. Many, many people were displaced, internally displaced, half of them were children again, probably a million of children. Many of these children, if not all, they suffered, they were injured, they were traumatized. Many of these children in fact lost the life that they had before.”
FILE – 4 OCTOBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
9. Med shot, woman brushes teeth
10. Wide shot, people in camp
11. Close up, girl washes face
12. Close up, 6-year-old Judeline Brasiers
13. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Phara Brasiers, Mother:
”Things have been really hard since the earthquake. We’ve been left with nothing.”
14. Wide shot, Mother dresses girl
15 DECEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”Of course we will also always say that we can be frustrated, we will also say that we haven’t done enough but we are coming from far, even before the earthquake. So I think we have made many achievements.”
FILE – 4 OCTOBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
16. Wide shot, girls walk to school
17. Wide shot, school rebuilt by UNICEF
18. Close up, students in class including Judeline Brasiers
19. Med shot, students in class
20. Med shot, girls in class
21. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Henriette Moisset, Headmistress, Ecole Celie Lilavois:
“They are really traumatized, but in school we try to give them hope, to talk to them and to put them in an environment that helps them cope with that burden.”
FILE – 29 SEPTEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
22. Wide shot, girls with buckets of water in the camp
23. Close up, child being vaccinated
24. Close up, kids in ‘Child-friendly Space’
25. Close up, teenage girls
FILE – 24 OCTOBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
26. Close up, sick girl with drip
15 DECEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”The cholera outbreak that became an epidemic and that is now endemic in this country was also unprecedented. It blew up – we have more than 100,000 cases and we know we will have more.”
FILE – 18 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
28. Med shot, girl receives oral rehydration
FILE – 24 OCTOBER 2010, ARTIBONITE, HAITI
29. Med shot, camera pans from sick baby to his mother
30. Wide shot, doctor stands over sick child lying on the bed in the tented, makeshift hospital
31. Med shot, UNICEF soap and supplies distribution
Close up, Oral rehydration salts
FILE – 18 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
Wide shot, people standing outside ‘Cholera Treatment Centre’
15 DECEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
32. Med shot, UNICEF Executive Director, Tony Lake at the makeshift hospital, speaking to patients
33. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
”In some areas we’re still in what’s called the relief phase, getting rid of the rubble, rebuilding the schools. It’s been very slow but I think we shouldn’t think about it in phases anyway and everything we’re doing now in the relief area ought to be with an eye on where we want to be further down the road.”
FILE – 21 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
34. Close up, boy standing in front of garbage dump
35. Wide shot, slum with sewage canal and people
36. Close up, boys play with a bucket of water
37. Med shot, man bathes by sewage canal
15 DECEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
38. SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”When you see the situation here and you realize there are so many things to do and sometimes you do not know where to start but when you focus on equity you say ok, my role here is to work with the most vulnerable.”
FILE – 27 OCTOBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
39. Med shot, camera follows health workers through slums
40. Med shot, Health worker test water for chlorine levels
41. Close up, Health worker shakes water tester
FILE – 15 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI
42. Med shot, Man with megaphone hands out Aquatabs
43. Med shot, man with megaphone makes an announcement
FILE – 1 OCTOBER 2010, JACQUOT, HAITI
44. Wide shot, UN helicopter
45. Med shot, villagers watch as helicopter is offloaded
46. Wide shot, supplies offloaded from helicopter
47. Med shot, supplies offloaded from helicopter
FILE – 23 NOVEMBER 2010, JACQUOT, HAITI
48. Wide shot, kids leave a tented school built by UNICEF
49. Med shot, tented classroom
50. Close shot, girl student
FILE – 3 OCTOBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
51. Wide shot, rubble and devastation caused by the earthquake
52. Med shot, boys play soccer amidst the rubble
53. Med shot, pan from boxes in the warehouse to workers carrying them
54. Wide shot, boxes with relief supplies being offloaded in warehouse
FILE – 4 OCTOBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
55. Med shot, sunrise over camp
FILE – 3 OCTOBER 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
56. Med shot, girls hold hands and walk on the rubble
FILE – 29 SEPTEMBER, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
57. Wide shot, camp for internally displaced people
58. Med shot, camp for people displaced by the earthquake
FILE – 1 OCTOBER 2010, JACQUOT, HAITI
59. Wide shot, UNICEF tented school being erected
FILE – 23 NOVEMBER 2010, JACQUOT, HAITI
60. Med shot, students laughing
61. Close up, smiling schoolgirl
One year on, Haiti is still struggling with the aftermath of the devastating 12 January 2010 earthquake, a disaster that had a profound impact on children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”More than 200,000 people died, perished, in the earthquake. Half of them were probably children. Many, many people were displaced, internally displaced, half of them were children again, probably a million of children. Many of these children, if not all, they suffered, they were injured, they were traumatized. Many of these children in fact lost the life that they had before.”
Today, more than a million people remain in overcrowded camps, including an estimated 380,000 children. Children like six-year-old Judeline Brasiers lost her father when the family’s home collapsed.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Phara Brasiers, Mother:
”Things have been really hard since the earthquake. We’ve been left with nothing.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”Of course we will also always say that we can be frustrated, we will also say that we haven’t done enough but we are coming from far, even before the earthquake. So I think we have made many achievements.”
None more important perhaps, than getting children back to school. UNICEF has rebuilt 57 destroyed schools for children like Judeline with many more under way, schools which besides providing education play a crucial supportive role.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Henriette Moisset, Headmistress, Ecole Celie Lilavois:
“They are really traumatized, but in school we try to give them hope, to talk to them and to put them in an environment that helps them cope with that burden.”
UNICEF has ensured that children living in the camps are provided with safe water and child-friendly spaces, making sure they have access to vaccinations and health services, preventing them from becoming malnourished and protecting them from harm, but the earthquake was not the only unprecedented emergency Haiti suffered in 2010
SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”The cholera outbreak that became an epidemic and that is now endemic in this country was also unprecedented. It blew up – we have more than 100,000 cases and we know we will have more.”
Combined with hurricane flooding and a political crisis, cholera in particular has presented a massive challenge. UNICEF played a key role in the rapid response to the outbreak by mobilizing staff, resources and life-saving supplies and has since helped set up 72 cholera treatment centres but these successive crises have slowed the progress of recovery.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
”In some areas we’re still in what’s called the relief phase, getting rid of the rubble, rebuilding the schools. It’s been very slow but I think we shouldn’t think about it in phases anyway and everything we’re doing now in the relief area ought to be with an eye on where we want to be further down the road.”
The earthquake and cholera epidemic have also highlighted Haiti’s deep and long-standing disparities and reinforced UNICEF’s focus on equity.
SOUNDBITE (English) Francoise Gruloos Ackermans, UNICEF Haiti Representative:
”When you see the situation here and you realize there are so many things to do and sometimes you do not know where to start but when you focus on equity you say ok, my role here is to work with the most vulnerable.”
UNICEF has redoubled its work in the most impoverished neighbourhoods of the capital, Port-au-Prince; working with the government and other partners to ensure water is chlorinated, distributing water purification tablets and providing essential information on cholera prevention, but reaching the most vulnerable in Haiti extends beyond the cities.
Working with its partners, UNICEF has sought to reach remote rural communities, flying-in basic health supplies, setting up semi-permanent schools, giving children opportunities they never had before.
While challenges faced in addressing the country’s successive crisis remain enormous, UNICEF will strive to meet Haiti’s humanitarian needs extending its response in 2011 to those who have not yet been reached, tackling endemic poverty and disparities throughout the country and maintaining its commitment to bring lasting, positive change to the lives of Haiti’s children.
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