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STORY: HAITI / YOUTH HEALTH
SOURCE: UNFPA
TRT: 1:38
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
DATELINE: RECENT 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE
1. Wide shot, camp life
2. Various shots, Jean Baptiste distributing condoms in Sinai camp
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Baptiste Dunord, UNFPA Youth Leader:
“I feel, I mean how can I say it, I feel engaged into, into something. Engaged to help those people how I can, with people from UNFPA, or other UN clusters, other organizations that are here in Haiti to help people, to help them know that even though if they are in camps, living as, like that, they are still humans”.
5. Various shots, inside tent at camp Sinai sexual health training
6. Various shots, inside tent as youth assemble packages
7. Various shots, youth assemble dignity kits and tents
9. Various shot, youth assemble dignity kits
Nine months after the catastrophic earthquake, more than 1.3 million Haitians are still living in temporary shelters and relief camps. With essential services in short supply, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is training young leaders like Jean Baptiste to provide the devastated population with critical health materials and information.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Baptiste Dunord, UNFPA Youth Leader:
"I feel engaged into, into something. Engaged to help those people how I can, with people from UNFPA, or other UN clusters, other organizations that are here in Haiti to help people, to help them know that even though if they are in camps, living as, like that, they are still humans."
Haiti has the highest rate of HIV and AIDS in the Western Hemisphere, and UNFPA youth leaders routinely gather young people from the camps in communal tents to provide reproductive health counselling both in groups and one-on-one sessions.
Youth leaders are also essential to the success of one UNFPA’s most unique project, ‘the dignity kit.’ These contain toiletries, condoms, towels, and other essential but scarce hygienic products. The youth leaders assemble and distribute the dignity kits to women in relief camps throughout Haiti.
