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HAITI / MALI AMADOU AND MARIAM
STORY: HAITI / MALI AMADOU AND MARIAM
TRT: 2.07
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH/ NATS
DATELINE: 8, 10 APRIL 2011, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
8 APRIL 2011, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, women queuing at a World Food Program funded health center in Aviation IDP camp
2. Med shot, women preparing flour and oil kits to hand out
3. Wide Shot, Amadou and Mariam with women and children in the background
4. Med shot, Amadou and Mariam talking
5. Tilt down, baby being weighted
6. Close up, baby in Mariam’s arms
7. Med shot, Mariam with baby in her arms
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Amadou, Singer and World Food Program (WFP) Ambassador against Hunger for the European Union:
“We are World Food Program ambassadors. On this occasion we came here to Haiti to have a better understanding of what is going on here and to be able to see the actions done here on the ground so that we can seize the situation and be able to talk about it everywhere in the world where we are going to go.”
9. Wide shot, women watching delegation in IDP camp
10. Med shot, journalists taking pictures
11. Close up, Mariam singing and clapping hands
12. Wide shot, Mariam singing with children and clapping hands
13. Close up, child singing
14. Wide shot Mariam and delegation clapping hands
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Anne Poulsen, Spokesperson World Food Program (WFP) in Haiti:
“This is a very poor country with many challenges. There is no question that in a country like that where food depends mainly in importations, access to food is a real challenge.”
10 APRIL 2011, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
16. Various shots, Amadou and Mariam singing
17. Various shots, Amadou and Mariam singing “Un Dimanche a Bamako” with crowd dancing and clapping hands.
Amadou and Mariam, the famous blind Malian musician wrapped up a visit to Haiti on Sunday (10 April).
Since Friday, the new World Food Program (WFP) Ambassadors against Hunger for the European Union had been visiting various WFP projects in IDP camps and schools of Port-au-Prince.
SOUNDBITE (French) Amadou, Singer and World Food Program (WFP) Ambassador against Hunger for the European Union:
“We are World Food Program ambassadors. On this occasion we came here to Haiti to have a better understanding of what is going on here and to be able to see the actions done here on the ground so that we can seize the situation and be able to talk about it everywhere in the world where we are going to go.”
In Port-au-Prince’s Aviation IDP camp, Amadou and Mariam saw local NGOs distributing food and supplementary rations to pregnant women and undernourished children.
Five thousand families are being assisted 3 times a week here by local NGOs funded with the help of the WFP and the European Commission's humanitarian aid department, known as ECHO.
More than 75 percent of the Haitian population is living with less than $1 per day and half of them have under $1 a day, recalls Anne Poulsen, spokesperson for WFP in Haiti.
SOUNDBITE (French) Anne Poulsen, Spokesperson World Food Program (WFP) in Haiti:
“This is a very poor country with many challenges. There is no question that in a country like that where food depends mainly in importations, access to food is a real challenge.”
The visit, organized with the help of ECHO, ended up Sunday 10 August, with a concert performed at the French Cultural Institute.
The audience composed of ambassadors and chiefs of UN organizations danced on a song against hunger and the famous tune, Un Dimanche a Bamako.
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