HAITI / DEBRIS MANAGEMENT

A debris management program has finally cleaned Haiti’s streets of the tons of rubble left from the 2010 earthquake. The program has given needed jobs and a sense of purpose to those recycling the debris for future infrastructure projects. WORLD BANK

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:57
• Production Date: 6 January 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEMS
• Geographic Subject: UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U120106d

Description

STORY: HAITI / DEBRIS MANAGEMENT
TRT: 2:57
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH/CREOLE/NATS

DATELINE: DECEMBER 2011, PORT AU PRINCE

Shotlist

1. Med shot, Nanouche at work in landfill
2. Wide shot, landfill workers
3. Med shot, Nanouche
4. Med shot, Nanouche’s hands
5. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Nanouche Rochambert, Truitier staff:
“What is my job? I clean the rubble so it is suitable to be crushed.”
6. Wide shot, workers
7. Med shot, workers
8. Med shot, feet
9. Med shot, worker
10. Wide shot, workers
11. Wide shot, workers
12. Wide shot, rubble and truck
13. Med shot, rubble and truck
14. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Nanouche Rochambert, Truitier staff:
“We are doing it for the state to make roads and other works in the country. With what I make I can educate my son, and provide for my family.”
15. Wide shot, check point
16. Various shots, check point worker
17. Med shot, checkp point worker
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Lutes Guerrier, Truitier Checkpoint:
“When a truck arrives we have to first indentify the company and the zone from which it is coming and then we have to give the precise account of how many cubic meters of rubble there is.”
19. Wide shot, Landfill
20. Med shot, tractor and debris
21. Wide shot, tractor and debris
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Carl Henry Viélot, Truitier Site Manager:
“Before the quake it was a catastrophe here, you had no infrastructure, no office, and no roads. We have been able to do all this in just two years.”
23. Close up, canal cleaning
24. Wide shot, canal cleaning
25. Wide shot, trucks and debris
26. Med shot, debris
27. Med shot, Bernard working
28. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Bernard Saurel, Truitier staff:
29. Wide, Bernard sorting rubble
30. Wide, Bernard sorting rubble

Storyline

Nanouche Rochambert has seen her share of rubble, about 750,000 cubic meters.
That’s about how much ended up in this landfill where she works sorting the debris from Haiti’s devastating earthquake two years ago.

Nanouche Rochambert, Truitier staff:
“What is my job? I clean the rubble so it is suitable to be crushed.”

Nanouche is one of the 176 employees at the Truitier debris management site. Most people working here are former unemployed garbage pickers who now have a regular income.

They work in two shifts sorting the rubble-all that is left of hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings destroyed in the January 12, 2010 quake. The sorted rubble is crushed for future use in Haiti’s capital and beyond.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Nanouche Rochambert, Truitier staff:
“We are doing it for the state to make roads and other works in the country. With what I make I can educate my son, and provide for my family.”

Trucks carrying the rubble from Port au Prince into Truitier pass a checkpoint which controls for content and weight.

Drivers get receipts for the amount they bring in as proof to the companies they work for that the rubble has been delivered to the landfill.

SOUNDBITE (French) Lutes Guerrier, Truitier Checkpoint:
“When a truck arrives we have to first indentify the company and the zone from which it is coming and then we have to give the precise account of how many cubic meters of rubble there is.”

The debris management site is run by the Ministry of Public Works with World Bank support. It is Haiti’s only rubble disposal site to comply with international environmental safeguards.

Haitian officials say this is leading other donors to invest in the large scale debris clearance essential to accelerate reconstruction.

Carl Henry Viélot, Truitier Site Manager
“Before the quake it was a catastrophe here, you had no infrastructure, no office, and no roads. We have been able to do all this in just two years.”

Bernard Saurel collects rubble six days a week at Truitier. He says working at the landfill is his way of helping Haiti to recover from the earthquake.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Bernard Saurel, Truitier staff:
“It allows me to contribute to the reconstruction of the country.”

And it’s a way to earn a salary, he says, to meet his needs and those of his baby son.