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STORY: HAITI / IMMUNIZATION
TRT: 2:19
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI, 2 FEBRUARY 2010
1. Various shots, boys playing football
2. Med shot, girl walking
4. Wide shot, wrecked buildings
5. Med shot, girl pouring water
6. Wide shot, family at stadium
7. Med shot, baby
8. Wide shot, tents
9. Wide shot, stadium
10. Various shots, babies
11. Wide shot, baby and brother
12. Close-up, baby crying
13. Various shots, medical tent
14. Close-up, putting on glove
15. Med shot, opening box
16. Close-up, vaccine
17. Close-up, box and vaccines
18. Close-up, preparing vaccination
19. Med shot, vaccinating little girl
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Robin Nandy, UNICEF Senior Emergency Health Advisor:
“You know lot of people from displaced areas are coming into the football stadium and its getting extremely congested, so we thought that would be an obvious place to target, it’s also right in the middle of town so there are displaced people all around it who would be encouraged to receive vaccination as well. Of course we target the settlements but we are not going to refuse vaccination to anybody who comes to the vaccination post.”
21. Close-up, vaccination card
22. Med shot, writing
23. Close-up, handing over card
24. Med shot, vaccinating little boy
25. Med shot, Magalie Gelin, a mother
26. Med shot, little boy crying vaccinated
27. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Magalie Gelin, Mother:
“I was cooking on the roof when the earthquake happened, I covered my two smallest children with my body, but my other two children were in the house and I couldn’t save them. I was only dug out of the rubble at 3am. I came here to vaccinate my last two children because I don’t want them to be sick, I want them to survive.”
28. Tilt up, kids in camp
29. Tilt down, family
30. Wide shot, camp
31. Tilt down, father cuts son’s hair
32. Med shot, little boy pouring water
33. Close-up, little boy
Haitian boys play football on a pitch once graced by the some of the greatest players in the world but this is hardly a dream come true; for many this is a nightmare.
Three weeks after a devastating quake rocked the capital, Port au Prince, hundreds of thousands of people are living in makeshift camps across the city including this one at the Stade Silvio Cator, the national football stadium. While they were lucky to survive the quake, the fear is they may not survive the camps. Conditions are rife for the spread of disease.
UNICEF and partners have launched a massive immunization campaign. Working with the Haitian ministry of health, WHO, and others, the campaign will target children under 7, but will also cater to the immunization needs of older children and even adults
Challenges related to the cold chain as well as the distribution and deployment of vaccines mean that the campaign will initially target, but will not be limited to, those living in camps, beginning with the stadium.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Robin Nandy, UNICEF Senior Emergency Health Advisor:
“You know lot of people from displace areas are coming into the football stadium and its getting extremely congested, so we thought that would be an obvious place to target, it’s also right in the middle of town so there are displace people all around it who would be encouraged to receive vaccination as well. Of course we target the settlements but we are not going to refuse vaccination to anybody who comes to the vaccination post.”
The campaign will then move on to other camps and before being extended to other affected areas throughout the country.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Magalie Gelin, Mother:
“I was cooking on the roof when the earthquake happened, I covered my two smallest children with my body, but my other 2 children were in the house and I couldn’t save them. I was only dug out of the rubble at 3 a.m. I came here to vaccinate my last 2 children because I don’t want them to be sick, I want them to survive.”
For Magalie, her children and those like her who have made it through the quake but have lost everything, who are now living in makeshift shelters in overcrowded camps, the fight to survive is not yet over. But UNICEF, together with the international community is committed to making sure they do survive and are able to start rebuilding their lives.
