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STORY: HAITI / CHOLERA PREVENTION
TRT: 2:30
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / CREOLE / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19, 21 NOVEMBER 2010 / 27 OCTOBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Wide shot, church building damaged by the earthquake
2. Med shot, Altar boys in front of rubble
3. Med shot, man and girl walk through rubble
4. Med shot, church procession
5. Close up, girl at church procession
6. Close up, altar boys praying
7. Close up, man watches the procession
8. Close up, sick boy
9. Med shot, sick woman with a drip on hospital bed
10. Close up, sick girl
11. Wide shot, men praying in the rubble
12. Wide shot, UNICEF communication staff making a speech
13. Close up, UNICEF communication staff
14. Close up, people at church listening to UNICEF staff
15. Med shot, man distributes flyers
16. Med shot, men put up posters
17. Close shot, man listens to radio amidst rubble
18. Wide shot, man with megaphone
19. Wide shot, IDP camp
27 OCTOBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor Mireille Tribie, Health Specialist, UNICEF:
“The main message is that cholera is preventable and treatable.”
21. Close up, Nurse gives water to sick girl
22. Close up, Sick man outside the Cholera Treatment Center
23. Wide shot, Cholera Treatment Center
24. Med shot, sick man gets in wheelchair
25. Med shot, health workers load UNICEF supplies and take them into the tented cholera treatment center
26. Wide shot, Slum and sewage canal
27. Wide shot, boy walks by the canal
28. Med shot, UNICEF and DINEPA team walks through slum
29. Med shot, UNICEF and DINEPA team walks through slum back shot
30. Med shot, team tests water for chlorine levels
31. Close shot, team member shakes water tester
32. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Mark Henderson, UNICEF WASH Chief
“One of the main strategies now with the threat of cholera is to raise the chlorine levels in all the water supplies”
19 NOVEMBER 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
33. Close up, water flows from taps
32. Med up, woman leaves water point with a bucket on her head
33. Wide shot, women walk with water
34. Close up, man with megaphone making an announcement
35. Close up, man distributes aquatabs
36. Wide shot, busy marketplace
37. Med shot, vendor in the market sitting next to the sewage
38. Pan left, from sewage canal to man putting up poster
39. Close up, kids reading the poster
In Haiti one year after the earthquake, life carries on amidst constant reminders of the disaster that struck suddenly last January.
But even as people here continue to deal with the aftermath of that catastrophe, since October they have been confronted with yet another crisis - a cholera epidemic that has sickened tens of thousands and killed hundreds including children.
Spreading the message on how to prevent and treat cholera in churches is just one part of ongoing social mobilization launched by UNICEF to reach people everywhere.
The message is also spread through handing out flyers, putting up posters and broadcasting key messages on the radio. As well as through sharing information via megaphones in the sprawling camps housing those made homeless by the earthquake.
SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor Mireille Tribie, Health Specialist, UNICEF:
“The main message is that cholera is preventable and treatable.”
UNICEF is also playing a key role in treating the infected. Working together with government and NGO partners, UNICEF has set up and supplied tented emergency Cholera Treatment Centers around the country and provided life-saving oral re-hydration solution and other medicine.
But for decades, much of the country has had little in the way of proper sanitation infrastructure so to prevent the spread of cholera, UNICEF has been working closely with DINEPA, Haiti’s water and sanitation authority, testing chorine levels in water supplies to make sure it is safe.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Henderson, Chief, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH):
“One of the main strategies now with the threat of cholera is to raise the chlorine levels in all the water supplies.”
A first line of defense are the community water points where people living in the poor neighborhoods with no piped water systems, buy purified water for household use. Here, community health workers have been giving residents vital information about how to protect themselves against cholera and distributing free water purification tablets.
UNICEF’s efforts and those of its partners in the areas of heath, water and sanitation are saving lives, even though health experts predict that cholera will remain endemic in the country for years to come.
