HAITI / SCHOOL INAUGURATION

Haitian President Michel Martely on Tuesday inaugurated a new high-school in Cite Soleil named after a UN employee, Andrew Grene, who lost his life during the 2010 earthquake. The school was built by joint efforts of the Andrew Grene Foundation, Digicel and the Initiative for Underprivileged Children in Haiti. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:04
• Production Date: 5 September 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: U110905a

Description

STORY: HAITI / SCHOOL INAUGURATION
TRT: 1.04
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE/ NATS

DATELINE: 30 AUGUST 2011, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Med shot, President Martely and delegation cutting the red ribbon
2. Wide shot, line of desks with computers on them
3. Close up, board “Andrew Grene High School” on the school wall
4. Wide shot, school gate
5. Close up, members of the Grene family
6. Close up, panels with signs of “Andrew Grene Foundation” and Digicel Foundation
7. Close up, President Martely with director of the Digicel Foundation
8. Pan right, computer to delegation visiting the school
9. Wide shot, students in the audience
10. Close up, students in the audience
11. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Michel Martely, President of Haiti:
“I am officially announcing that none of the students of this school is going to pay anything for tuition. The state will provide each with 600 Haitian dollars.”
12. Various shots, classrooms
13. Various shots, students singing

Storyline

Haitian President Michel Martely on Tuesday (30 August) inaugurated a new high-school building in Cite Soleil, a poor neighborhood of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The School was named after Andrew Grene, United Nations (UN) employee who lost his life, along with another 101 UN staff, in last year’s earthquake.

The school was built by joint efforts of the Andrew Grene Foundation, Digicel and the Initiative for Underprivileged Children in Haiti. It will host some 200 students.

The Foundation will also pay a part of the tuition for each student, while Martely said that the state will provide the rest.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Michel Martely, President of Haiti:
“I am officially announcing that none of the students of this school is going to pay anything for tuition. The state will provide each with 600 Haitian dollars.”

Free school for all was one of President Martely’s top priorities during the election campaign.

Local authorities, Digicel officials and representatives of the UN and the international community attended the inauguration.

This was the second facility of a planned 50 schools by the Digicel Haiti Foundation to provide permanent and transitional schools for up to 30,000 children.