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HAITI / NEW HOMES
STORY: HAITI / NEW HOMES
TRT: 2:27
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH /CREOLE / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: DECEMBER 2011, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, Lasienne in tent
2. Wide shot, Lasienne exiting tent
3. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lasienne Joseph, camp resident:
“My life is going to change. When we are in camp we have so many things we can’t do and so many dangerous things which can happen to us.”
4. Various shots, camp
5. Various shot, Lasienne and daughter
6. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lasienne Joseph, Camp Resident:
“When we leave the camp, we will know that our children are safe and we can plan to live another life. It will be good for us.”
7. Various shots, reconstruction
8. Various shots, Haitians out looking for rentals
9. Wide shot, training of masons
10. Wide shot, trainer
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Harry Adam, Construction of Housing and Public Buildings Unit, Prime Minister’s Office:
‘The methodology is simple. It’s a question of rehabilitating neighborhoods. Houses have been marked green meaning they’re safe, yellow meaning they need repairs, and red meaning they are uninhabitable”.
12. Med shot, maps
13. Close up, maps
14. Med shot, renters waiting in line
15. Med shot, bakery exterior
16. Med shot, baker
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Beach, J/P HRO Relocations Project Manager:
“We are trying to kind of harmonize the services that we have offered them in the camp and now offer them in the neighborhoods. The idea is to offer an incentive.”
18. Wide shot, clinic
19. Med shot, patient
20. Med shot, nurse
21. Various shots, reconstruction
22. Wide shot, Medestra walking through reconstruction
23. SOUNDBITE (French) Prenstant Madestra, new home owner:
“We had to separate after the earthquake. Now we will be together again as a family.”
24. Med shot, reconstruction
25. Wide shot, Prenstant at reconstruction site
Lasienne Joseph has lived in a tent since the day Haiti’s earthquake destroyed her house two years ago, killing one of her three daughters and wounding another.
She’ll finally be able to move next week.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lasienne Joseph, camp resident:
“My life is going to change. When we are in camp we have so many things we can’t do and so many dangerous things which can happen to us.”
Of an estimated 1.5 million people displaced by the earthquake, about 750,000 left the camps due to efforts on the part of the Government, Civil Society Organizations, the international community and the private sector.
Lasienne received a subsidy to rent a new home in the neighborhood where she used to live.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lasienne Joseph, Camp Resident:
“When we leave the camp, we will know that our children are safe and we can plan to live another life. It will be good for us.”
Under the government’s Neighborhood Rehabilitation and Housing program financed by the World Bank, Lasienne and other Haitians are slowly finding their way back to the homes and lives they had before the massive earthquake two years ago.
An estimated 85,000 people will benefit from repaired or reconstructed housing through the program, many more will receive rental subsidies and 300,000 will benefit from basic services and upgrading in their neighbourhoods.
In preparation for the housing reconstruction program, Haiti’s Ministry of Public Works trained 300 engineers who assessed 400,000 buildings. Hundreds of masons are being trained to rebuild homes to withstand future earthquakes and hurricanes.
SOUNDBITE (French) Harry Adam, Construction of Housing and Public Buildings Unit, Prime Minister’s Office:
"The methodology is simple. It’s a question of rehabilitating neighbourhoods. Houses have been marked green meaning they’re safe, yellow meaning they need repairs, and red meaning they are uninhabitable."
The J/P Haitian Relief Organization-J/P HRO, is working through the housing program to relocate an estimated 4,500 families from its Petionville Camp. In addition to providing new housing, J/P HRO is also setting up free health, education and employment services for families resettling from camps to neighbourhoods.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Beach, J/P HRO Relocations Project Manager:
“We are trying to kind of harmonize the services that we have offered them in the camp and now offer them in the neighbourhoods. The idea is to offer an incentive.”
Prenstant Madestra says it has been many months of hardship and separation says.
SOUNDBITE (French) Prenstant Madestra, new home owner:
“We had to separate after the earthquake. Now we will be together again as a family.”
Prenstant’s house, which was totally destroyed by the earthquake was finally being reconstructed under the World Bank project and his family finally reunited.
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