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STORY: HAITI / CHOLERA GRANT
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
NOVEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE
1. Wide shot, huts
2. Wide shot, woman walking
3. Wide shot, displacement camp
24 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE
4. SOUNDBITE ON SKYPE (English) Alexandre Abrantes, Special Envoy to Haiti, World Bank:
“We are going to try and provide services which will on the one hand provide clean water, which is the basic to avoid the epidemic, make sure that the sewage is somehow removed and disposed in a place where it doesn’t further contaminate the other water streams.”
5. Tilt down, destroyed building and rubble
6. Med shot, two young children looking out window
7. Various shots, man distributing pamphlets
8. SOUNDBITE ON SKYPE (English) Alexandre Abrantes, Special Envoy to Haiti, World Bank:
“Everybody is pitching because this is absolutely a human tragedy by the number of cases and the number of dead, but also an impediment to growth.”
9. Zoom out, people getting into small bus, traffic
10. Pan left, rubble and dirty street
11. Wide shot, crane lifting rubble
12. SOUNDBITE ON SKYPE (English) Alexandre Abrantes, Special Envoy to Haiti, World Bank:
“In fact we have been able in the past few months to remove garbage and debris from the main canals draining the city, in fact the numbers are quite stunning, about 90 thousand cubic meters of material which was blocking the canals have been removed.”
13. Wide shot, high shot of makeshift school
14. Wide shot, classroom and kids
15. Wide shot, man assessing house
18. Wide shot, assessors
A new World Bank grant for Haiti aims at preventing further cholera cases and deaths that are threatening thousands of Haitians including those still displaced from the earthquake.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Abrantes, Special Envoy to Haiti, World Bank:
“We are going to try and provide services which will on the one hand provide clean water, which is the basic to avoid the epidemic, make sure that the sewage is somehow removed and disposed in a place where it doesn’t further contaminate the other water streams.”
The Bank has pledged nearly 500 million dollars for Haiti since last January’s devastating earthquake.
The new assistance will strengthen the surveillance and monitoring capacity of Haiti’s health institutions and support cholera awareness and prevention efforts already underway in the country.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Abrantes, Special Envoy to Haiti, World Bank:
“Everybody is pitching because this is absolutely a human tragedy by the number of cases and the number of dead, but also an impediment to growth.”
The Bank has provided assistance to Haiti since the beginning of the cholera outbreak to coordinate the response of the Government and its partners.
Following last year’s earthquake the World Bank has focused its support on improving the lot of those affected while contributing to build the foundations for a long-term recovery.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Abrantes, Special Envoy to Haiti, World Bank:
“In fact we have been able in the past few months to remove garbage and debris from the main canals draining the city, in fact the numbers are quite stunning, about 90 thousand cubic meters of material which was blocking the canals have been removed.”
Other emergency projects include rebuilding state capacity, ensuring child education, assessing housing damage and rebuilding crucial roads and bridges for the delivery of aid.
