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HAITI / FANMCELL
STORY: HAITI / FANMCELL
TRT: 3.44
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE, NATS
DATELINE: 5 and 6 March 2013, BALAN, CAP HAITIEN, HAITI
6 March 2013, Balan, Haiti
1. Wide shot, Lovely Martin, founder of Fanmcell phone repair business walking in front of her house and sitting down
2. Med shot, Lovely repairing cellphone
3. Close up, Face of Lovely
4. Med shot, Lovely repairing phone
5. Close up, Lovely’s daughter watching
6. Med shot, Lovely assembling phone parts together
7. SOUNDBITE (Creole), Lovely Martin, founder of Fanmcell phone business:
“As a single mother and without a job, people would look down on me. But now that I am working, everybody is respecting me.”
8. Med shot, Lovely next to her father cutting coconut
9. Close up, coconut being cut
10. Close up, father
11. Med shot, Lovely with her father preparing coconut to be drunk
12. Close up, Lovely talking coconut from her father
13. Close up, Lovely’s younger sister and nephew watching
14. Med shot, Lovely checking accounting bills
15. Med shot, Lovely talking to her brother
16. Close up, bills and new sim card
17. Close up, brother
18. Close up, phone in brother’s hand
19. Med shot, brother holding phone and Lovely checking bills
20. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lovely Martin, co-founder of Fanmcell:
“It changed my life because I wasn’t doing anything. I had no job. Now, I am cashing in some money. Things are getting easier for me.”
21. Wide shot, Small phone shop with Lovely and her associates
22. Med shot, Aminada Jean, co-founder of Fanmcell opening sponsor umbrella
23. Close up, front wall reading “Fanmcell, phone shop, repair, credit”
24. Close up, soldering iron
25. Med shot, Aminada inside shop preparing soldering iron
26. Close up, new phones on shelve
27. Close up, hands repairing phone
28. Close up, Aminada working
29. Wide shot, Aminada sitting inside shop repairing phone
30. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Aminada Jean, co-founder of Fanmcell:
“We are women from the same area. So we decided that, instead of opening each one a separate shop, we could merge and do a collective business”
31. Med shot, woman next to Aminada asking for credit transfer
32. Close up, hands dialing number on a phone
33. Close up, face of Aminada
34. Med shot, client leaving with her cellphone in the hand and Aminada talking
35. Close up, boy watching
36. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Aminada Jean, co-founder of Fanmcell:
“An educated woman is less exposed to violence than a woman who is not educated. Because you assimilate some values and get to know the appropriate behaviors you should adopt.”
6 March 2013, Cap Haitien, Haiti
37. Close up, hands fixing phone
38. Close up, young men working
39. Wide shot, Lovely with young students in a class room of center for information and technology fixing phone
40. Med shot, Aminada with young women students sitting on a table and fixing phones
41. Close up, electronic heater
42. Med shot, Lovely and students adjusting temperature of the machine
43. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Regine Henriquez, academic director of the center for information and technology:
“This project is particularly interesting because the young people don’t need to go and buy credit. They can call here and order a certain amount they need. They can also order this amount in advance and pay back the next day. This means they have a serious advantage compared to other phone shops in the region.”
44. Wide shot, Regine in her office, greeting the representative of the United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH)
45. Close up, wall reading “My school, my future”
46. Med shot, MINUSTAH representative talking to Regine
47. Close up, Regine talking
5 March 2013, Cap Haitien, Haiti
48. Wide shot, Regine directing students rehearsing for the graduating ceremony
49. Med shot, Regine talking to students
50. Wide shot, students lined up and handicapped young men taking his position in line
51. Close up, Lovely waiting
52. Med shot. Regine talking to students
53. Close up, student waiting
54. Wide shot, students in parade
55. Close up, young woman standing
56. Med shot, 4 women of Fanmcell having a drink
57. Close up, Lovely talking
58. Close up associate, talking
59. Med shot, Regine talking to students
60. Wide shot PAN LEFT, students singing national anthem
Time to get started!
Lovely is a talented young woman. Give her any damaged cellphone and she will fix it!
This skill changed her life. And she is sticking to it, to make sure she can make the best use of it and develop a serious business.
SOUNBITE (Creole) Lovely MARTIN, founding member of FANMCELL:
“As a single mother and without a job, people would look down on me. But now that I am working, everybody is respecting me.”
In her house of Balan, Northern Haiti, the entire family is now benefitting her new business. Since he was injured in a car crash, Lovely’s father, a farmer couldn’t go to the field anymore. If you count her siblings and nephews, it’s about ten children who are living at home. Since Lovely is taking care of all of them, she is managing the accounting with great care. She even asked her younger brother to help her out, selling phone credits to the villagers.
SOUNBITE (Creole) Lovely MARTIN, founding member of FANMCELL:
“It changed my life because I wasn’t doing anything. I had no job. Now, I am cashing in some money. Things are getting easier for me.”
But Lovely is not the only one. 4 women from the area joined forces and created Fanmcell, meaning “cell women”.
This is a small business that brought this remote village into the modern world.
Here, you can repair your phone, but also buy a new phone or Sim cards and credits.
Everybody is amazed at the sight of these women performing so well.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Aminada Jean, co-founder of Fanmcell:
“We are women from the same area. So we decided that, instead of opening each one a separate shop, we could merge and do a collective business”
The four women had to struggle for life. Being young single mothers is not easy in this area often subject to violence against women.
That’s why the local women’s association of Balan and Morne Rouge (OFABMO) decided to give them a hand. OFABMO supported them financially and most important: they were sensitized about women’s rights.
SOUNBITE (Creole) Aminada JEAN, co-founder of FANMCELL: “An educated woman is less exposed to violence than a woman who is not educated. Because you assimilate some values and get to know the appropriate behaviors you should adopt.”
But this is the school were everything really started.
The center for information and technology has been offering job creation programs for the youth in the North since 1996. Training techniques are based on audiovisual and practical courses.
With solid sponsorship from telecommunication companies, Régine Henriquez is guaranteeing job opportunities for all her students.
SOUNBITE (Creole) Régine HENRIQUEZ, Academic director of CTI:
“This project is particularly interesting because the young people don’t need to go and buy credit. They can call here and order a certain amount they need. They can also order this amount in advance and pay back the next day. This means they have a serious advantage compared to other phone shops in the region.”
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH supported this program with $200,000. About 90 students coming from the 5 vulnerable neighborhood in the North departement could follow this course.
Psychosocial training helped the most affected students to gain self confidence in order to be able to face the market world.
In addition to showing them how to run their newly created small business, CTI will support them during the next 6 months in offering them additional credit, so that they are able to invest more.
And this day of rehearsal is a special one for the 30% of female students. They were just informed that the graduation ceremony will take place on 8 March, the InternationalWomen’s Day.
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