HAITI / FLOODING

Heavy rain has pummelled southern Haiti for the past week, flooding roads and displacement camps and collapsing houses in Port au Prince. Officials say 23 people have been killed and authorities list six people as missing. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:19
• Production Date: 8 June 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U110608d

Description

STORY: HAITI / FLOODING
TRT: 1:19
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 7 JUNE 2011, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, woman walking on flooded camp
2. Close up water falling from flooded ground into ravine
3. Wide shot, man washing a blanket in the ravine
4. Med shot, children gathering gravel from the canal
5. Wide shot, children gathering gravel from the canal with pigs in the back
6. Wide shot, men cleaning his flooded house
7. Close up, face of the man
8. Close up, water being poured into bucket
9. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Nethine Jean-Pierre, victim of floods:
“Water flooded the house and took away all our belongings, Now I am trying to clean all that water. But it’s not over yet. It will take up to two days.”
10. Med shot, man carrying bucket with stones
11. Close up, bucket being used to gather water in flooded house
12. Med shot, woman throwing mud outside her house
13. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marie Mica Pierre, victim of floods:
“If they would build a bridge, the water could flow underneath it and there would be no more victims.”
14. Med shot, bulldozer flattening out the road

Storyline

Heavy rain has pummelled southern Haiti for the past week, flooding roads and displacement camps and collapsing houses in Port au Prince. Officials say 23 people have been killed and authorities list six people as missing.

The Internal Displaced People (IDPs) living in camps of the capital were amongst the most affected victims of the latest heavy rains as ravines filled with garbage collapsed.

Residents of the popular area of Delmas 30, say that five of their neighbours died in Monday’s storm.

More than 30 houses were flooded here. And assistance has yet to arrive.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Nethine Jean-Pierre, victim of floods:
“Water flooded the house and took away all our belongings, Now I am trying to clean all that water. But it’s not over yet. It will take up to two days.”

It’s not the first time this area has flooded and people here are worried that their houses are not protected from the canal.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marie Mica Pierre, victim of floods:
“If they would build a bridge, the water could flow underneath it and there would be no more victims.”

As the orange alert for a low pressure system is still valid in Haiti, United Nations humanitarian agencies and national civil protection are organizing assistance.