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STORY: HAITI / END OF SCHOOL YEAR
TRT: 4:12
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 24 AUGUST 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Med shot, girl opens the door of her makeshift house
2. Close up, girl’s face to her hands holding notebook
3. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Christèle Valéus, Student:
“I am a bit nervous. Not too much but I am a bit nervous.”
4. Med shot, girl exit her house
5. Wide, busy street in downtown Port-au-Prince
6. Med shot, students entering the school with hand of director ringing bell in foreground
7. Various shots, students entering the school.
8. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Clairville Pierre Noel, Inspector of Exams:
“Last week we had the exams for the first session Bac1. This morning is the start of Philo exams. As you can see, children are in place, passing their exams. Everything is going smooth. Until July, all classes have been going on well. That’s why you see pupils passing their exams now.”
9. Various shots, exam material being dispatched
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Pleteau Jackson, National Director of Secondary Studies:
“Texts are being prepared here and put into envelopes during the evening. The following morning, inspectors came early in the morning and they take it before going to exams centers.”
11. Various shots, exam material being distributed to candidates
12. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Louis Frantz Ricardo, School Director:
“We had put tents to allow pupils to attend courses normally. At this time they were scared. Every time a heavy truck was passing by they would think it was an earthquake. That’s why we had installed tents and we could give the courses normally.”
13. Wide shot, school premises with UNICEF tents in the middle
14. Students working on exam
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Bechir Lamine, Ad-interim Representative of United Nations Education and Culture Organization (UNESCO) in Haiti:
“UNESCO responded to a request from the Haitian Ministry of Education have set in place an information management system. This is to assist the Ministry in creating what we call the school card. This will be the main tool for educational planning. This is a main challenge which will allow rebuilding the entire education system in Haiti.”
16. Med shot, Christele walking through narrow passages in the camp
17. Med shot, Christele arriving at her home, and unlocking the door
18. Wide shot, little girl outside her tent in the camp
19. Med shot, Christele tiding up the interior of her makeshift home
20. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Christele Valeus, pupil:
“I have a dream but I don’t know how to obtain it. I want to study to become a nurse, but I don’t know how I will do it. I don’t know how to achieve this. What I know is this is my dream, and I want to go forward.”
21. Close up, Christele turning the page of her notebook
22. Wide shot, Christele reading her notebook
Haitian students finish up their exams as this special extended school year comes to an end. Just before the end of school year, Christele Valeus is about to sit for her exams to get her baccalaureate degree.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Christèle Valéus, Student:
“I am a bit nervous. Not too much but I am a bit nervous.”
Finally it is time to go to the exam center.
In Haiti’s three southern states, 92,000 are working on passing their final school exams this August, one month after about 118,000 other students finished school in the rest of the country.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Clairville Pierre Noel, Inspector of Exams:
“Last week we had the exams for the first session Bac1. This morning is the start of Philo exams. As you can see, children are in place, passing their exams. Everything is going smooth. Until July, all classes have been going on well. That’s why you see pupils passing their exams now.”
Early in the morning, all copies of the exams which will be given to the students are being prepared in the National Office of Examination.
Volunteers have been working day and night to be ready on time.
SOUNDBITE (French) Pleteau Jackson, National director of secondary studies:
“Texts are being prepared here and put into envelopes during the evening. The following morning, inspectors came early in the morning and they take it before going to exams centers.”
About 5,000 schools have been destroyed in the 12 January 2010 earthquake.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Louis Frantz Ricardo, School director:
“We have put tents to allow pupils to attend courses normally. At this time they were scared. Every time a heavy truck was passing by they would think it was an earthquake. That’s why we had installed tents and we could give the courses normally.”
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been training teachers in psychosocial to work with traumatized students.
Together with the government, they have assisted in adapting to the school program.
Damaged schools are still being rebuilt and new teachers are expected to be trained. But this is also an opportunity to rebuild and develop the entire educational system in Haiti.
SOUNDBITE (French) Bechir Lamine, ad interim Representative of United Nations Education and Culture Organization (UNESCO) in Haiti:
“UNESCO responded to a request from the Haitian Ministry of Education have set in place an information management system. This is to assist the Ministry in creating what we call the school card. This will be the main tool for educational planning. This is a main challenge which will allow rebuilding the entire education system in Haiti.”
For Christele, the future is critical. She wants to help her older brother in supporting the rest of their family.
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Christele Valéus, Student:
“I have a dream but I don’t know how to obtain it. I want to study to become a nurse, but I don’t know how I will do it. I don’t know how to achieve this. What I know is this is my dream, and I want to go forward.”
Her dream will hopefully come true but for that, she needs to keep on studying.
