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STORY: HAITI / COMPUTER TRAINING
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
TRT: 2:30
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 8 JULY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE
1. Zoom out, sign “UNESCO” to a tent interior with computers and students
2. Close-up, computer screen with an article in French on it
3. Various shots, students working on computers
4. Wide shot, tent with class and people standing in front
5. Close-up, profile of Mehdi Benchelah
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Mehdi Benchelah, Communication Officer, UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization:
“Communication is very important. So, UNESCO had started this project with “Alternative Media” to allow displaced people to reconnect.”
7. Close-up, hand on the computer keyboard
8. Wide shot, Charlemagne Davilmar, from behind, typing
9. Tilt up, face of a student to face of Charlemagne Davilmar
10. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Charlemagne Davilmar, Instructor:
“With those who knew nothing of IT I use practical approach so that they advance fast. They can now use computers and they know its value and how to use it for their own benefit. For example, now they can use computers to do their homework, or how to prepare their CV or surf the Internet if they want to find information about something.”
11. Various shots, classroom
12. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Jasmine Charles:
“This is very important for me. Before, I knew nothing about Internet.”
13. Close up, computer screen
14. Close up, face of student
15. Tilt up, students working to Mehdi standing outside with one of instructors
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Mehdi Benchelah, Communication Officer, UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization:
“Certainly, there are lots of possibilities opening in educational professional and social terms. In every camp, there is now a blog managed by people from the camps. That makes connections and identity, and from point of view of UNESCO, opens a lot of interesting perspectives.’’
17. Various shots, camp life.
The internally displaced in Haiti face the problem of isolation, which leaves them feeling disconnected from the rest of the country and the world. To ease this sense of isolation, the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched Mobile Multimedia Unit (MMU) project throughout 6 camps.
SOUNDBITE (French) Mehdi Benchelah, Communication Officer, UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization:
“Communication is very important. So, UNESCO had started this project with “Alternative Media” to allow displaced people to reconnect.”
MMU consists of eight laptop computers, each with a wireless internet connection. The project will last for 8 months and it will encompass short of 3000 young people aged from 15 to 25 years.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Charlemagne Davilmar, Instructor:
“With those who knew nothing of IT I use practical approach so that they advance fast. They can now use computers and they know its value and how to use it for their own benefit. For example, now they can use computers to do their homework, or how to prepare their CV or surf the Internet if they want to find information about something.”
Many people in Haiti have never even had the chance to use a computer or surf the Internet. MMU also functions as a non-formal education centre, contributing to the diversification of the use of information and communications technologies among young displaced persons.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Jasmine Charles:
“This is very important for me. Before, I knew nothing about Internet.”
For more advanced users, MMU provides the chance to increase their knowledge and to broaden their horizons through the exploration of the vast possibilities of the Internet.
SOUNDBITE (French) Mehdi Benchelah, Communication Officer, UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization:
“Certainly, there are lots of possibilities opening in educational professional and social terms. In every camp, there is now a blog managed by people from the camps. That makes connections and identity, and from point of view of UNESCO, opens a lot of interesting perspectives.’’
The six blogs will be linked to one another and participants will be able to report on the realities in their camps and share it on the World Wide Web.
The project is further intended to strengthen skills and increase knowledge in order to facilitate IDP’s return home. Established in full cooperation with the communities, it was set up by UNESCO in partnership Medialternatif, the AFP Foundation, Reporters without Borders and the Collectif Haiti de France (CHF).
