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STORY: HAITI / HOLMES
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
TRT: 1.39
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ FRENCH/CREOLE/NATS
DATELINE: 12 JULY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE
1. Tracking shot, John Holmes walking with locals in the camp
2. Close up, Holmes and a man talking while walking
3. Pan left, from Holmes to a handicapped man
4. Med shot, Holmes talking to a group of handicapped people
5. Med shot, Holmes talking to a group of handicapped people
6. Med shot, a group of people washing up at a collective washing area
7. Wide shot, Holmes and delegation coming down the stairs into the camp
8. Close up, Holmes talking to a woman in a makeshift shelter
9. Pan left, from SRSG Edmond Mulet to John Holmes sitting under tarp
10. Wide shot, Holmes and delegation sitting under tarp in field listening to people
11. Close up, a woman talking to Holmes
12. Wide shot, girl running through camp
13. Wide shot, camp Jean Marie Vincent
14. SOUNDBITE: John Holmes, chief of OCHA
“I think we will continue to need more resources, the international community needs to continue giving us the help we need and which we don’t have enough at the moment. We need to make sure that all the organizations on the ground continue their efforts and maintain the momentum while the reconstruction process starts. Because it is reconstruction which will really make a difference as it will bring investments and create jobs; and that’s crucial, because people don’t have jobs and they don’t have incomes and they cannot help themselves.”
15. Med shot, a woman with 2 kids in front of a makeshift house
16. Med shot, a child asleep on the ground next to mother washing dishes
17. Close up, a child sleeping
John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator arrived in Haiti yesterday to review humanitarian efforts six months after the earthquake that devastated the country on 12 January and draw renewed attention to the plight of an estimated 2 million people.
Holmes first stop was the Parc Jean Marie Vincent IDP camp located in the capital Port Au prince, and sheltering some 48000 people.
The residents of the camp have used the opportunity to brief Holmes about heir urgent their needs.
Holmes said that there was need for more resources and that the international community “needed to continue giving us the help we need and which we don’t have enough at the moment”.
Holmes stressed the need to make sure that all the organizations on the ground continued with their efforts and maintained the momentum while the reconstruction processes started. He added that it was reconstruction which would make a difference “as it will bring investments and create jobs; and that’s crucial, because people don’t have jobs and they don’t have incomes and they cannot help themselves.”
In Port-au-Prince, there are still estimated 1,5 million people living in tents and depending on humanitarian aid for their survival.
The earthquake killed over 222,570 people, injured over 300,000, and displaced 2.3 million people – nearly one quarter of the population. The government lost thousands of civil servants, and most of the key infrastructure was destroyed.
