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STORY: 2:34
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27, 28 JANUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI.
1. Wide shot, cars driving down road
2. Close up, cars driving down road (shot through tree branches)
3. Med shot, legs walking through rubble, shot pans up to crumbled building
4. Close up, banners asking for help
5. Tilt up, crumbled building
6. Med shot, crumbled building
7. Tilt down, Sindy sitting outside hut with friend peeling vegetables
8. Close up, hands peeling vegetables
9. Med shot, Sindy and friend sitting outside peeling vegetables
10. Close up, Sindy’s face
11. Med shot, Sindy sitting outside with friend
12. Wide shot, village
13. Wide shot, kids playing outside
14. Med shot, little boy
15. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Sindy, 11-years-old:
“They called my uncle and then took me to my parents. I was so happy to see them, I hugged them and they were so happy to see me again.”
16. Close up, young boys
17. Med shot, young boy and girl
18. Med shot, group of young children
19. Close up, young boy
20. Close up, young girl’s eyes peering over cement
21. Med shot, children leaning over cement banister
22. Wide shot, UNICEF staffer talking with young boy
23. Close up, UNICEF staffer talking with young boy
24. Close up, hand filling out paperwork
25. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Rodrigue, 12-years-old:
“I was playing football outside with two of my friends and then I heard the earthquake and I felt the ground shaking, I ran back to my house and found it destroyed and my parents were dead.”
26. Close up, Rodrigue crying
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline Bakker, Regional Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF:
“The earthquake has caused a lot of separation of children from their parents and what for us is important is that those children that have lost their parents, that we are gathering them, that we find them that we register them and that we are exhausting all the efforts we have to find their parents or their extended family and reunite those children back into their family. It’s only when we have exhausted all the options we have that we will look into other forms of alternative care for those children and inter country adoptions or national adoptions are options or possibilities within the alternative care.”
28. Med shot, UNICEF staffer picking up baby and coming out of tent
29. Tilt down, makeshift tent community
30. Med shot, unidentified mother and daughter
31. Med shot, child peeking into ripped part of makeshift tent, child from inside tent pops his head out of ripped part of makeshift tent
32. Med shot, child peeking out of makeshift tent
Two weeks after a devastating earthquake struck their capital, Port Au Prince, Haitians are struggling to pick up the pieces; banners hang across the city, each one a cry for help.
The magnitude 7 quake tore streets and buildings apart; it tore families apart too.
Eleven-year-old Sindy lived with her aunt and uncle in the capital so that she could attend school. They were separated in the chaos. Injured and alone she found her way to a hospital. It was only a day later that her parents, who live in a distant rural area heard about the quake and rushed to the city.
With support from the hospital, UNICEF tracked down her uncle and then her parents. The family was reunited.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Sindy Saint Cyr, 11-years-old:
“They called my uncle and then took me to my parents. I was so happy to see them, I hugged them and they were so happy to see me again.”
But others have not been so lucky, so UNICEF has been carrying out assessments at orphanages around the city, on the lookout for children who were orphaned or separated from their families. While assessing this orphanage the team finds 12-year-old Rodrigue Cesar.
He’s one of the estimated thousands of newly orphaned children in Port Au Prince, he saw his family house crush both his parents.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Rodrigue Cesar, 12 years old:
“I was playing football outside with two of my friends and then I heard the earthquake and I felt the ground shaking, I ran back to my house and found it destroyed and my parents were dead.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline Bakker, Regional Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF:
“The earthquake has caused a lot of separation of children from their parents and what for us is important is that those children that have lost their parents, that we are gathering them, that we find them that we register them and that we are exhausting all the efforts we have to find their parents or their extended family and reunite those children back into their family. It’s only when we have exhausted all the options we have that we will look into other forms of alternative care for those children and inter country adoptions or national adoptions are options or possibilities within the alternative care.”
In the face tragedy, the joy of reuniting with parents and family is helping many Haitian children overcome their trauma. UNICEF will continue working with separated and orphaned children to ensure they all have that opportunity.
