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STORY: HAITI / DEBRIS
TRT: 5.38
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 APRIL 2012, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Various shots, lorries transporting debris
2. Various shots, shots, machines crushing debris
3. Various shots, debris crushed
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Mike Jensenn, Chief of operations at UNOPS Crushing Site:
"We are at the crushing site of UNOPS and the mayor of Petion Ville. We have crushing machines that crush the debris of the neighborhoods that we have been demolishing or from buildings that have been weakening during the earthquake."
5. Various shots, stocks of debris no crushed
6. Wide shot, stocking of debris
7. Med shot, red crusher
8. Med shot, blue crusher
9. Med shot, a crane loading crushed debris
10. Various shots, TPTC’s lorries getting charged
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Sébastien Roca, UNOPS Project chief:
"We are building up this project together with the Haitian Ministry of Public Works and Transportation while taking this infrastructure and capitalize at the same time on the managerial and technical experience to ensure sustainability."
12. Wide shot, lorries’ loading crushed debris
13. Med shot, Red Cross lorry moving with crushed debris
14. Med shot, laying debris in IDP Camp in Cité Soleil
15. Close up, Red Cross staff
16. Close up, caterpillar laying debris
17. Wide shot, IDP laying debris in the camp
18. Med shot, terrace built with debris
19. Med shot, IDP in front of shelter
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Howe, Shelter Delegate of the International Federation of the Red Cross:
“In Annexe (the name of the area) we have used the rubble to build up the roads but a lot of the people in the Ti shelter who have pulled up their house with floor and then packed the floor with rubble, and then they used the sand out of rubble to put a concrete top on the floor”.
21. Med shot, worker building house for bus station in Port au Prince by “Entrepreneur du Monde”
22. Wide shot, worker building house
23. Med shot, worker building house
24. Med shot, worker building house for bus station
25. Close up, worker mixing debris with cement
26. Med shot, worker building house for bus station
27. Med shot, Entrepreneur du monde team membres
28. SOUNDBITE (French) Fils-Aime Thelcine, Engineer of Entrepreneur du monde:
"We are building these walls with debris as filling material, even if they are not tailored to the desired measures; the artisans are using them up to the size of the walls as they are about 9-10 cm. We prepare them so they are well calibrated. The Artisans can mix the sand with which they prepare the mortar for the filling.”
29.Med shot, Engineer Fils Aimé, “Entrepreneur du Monde”
30. Med shot, Entrepreneur du Monde taking the measure
31. Wide shot, the new bus station in construction
32. Med shot, workers
33. Close up, worker
34. SOUNDBITE (French) Florie Dejeant, Engineer of Entrepreneur du monde:
"We are using for each building about 40 cubic meters of debris for the foundation. The sand and gravel for the filling of the walls."
35. Med shot, debris using to make bricks
36. Close up, bricks
37. Med shot, bricks
38. Med shot, bricks
39. Med shot, bricks
40. SOUNDBITE (French) Sokchearta ITH, Responsible of Bricks Project of Entrepreneur du monde:
"The objective of this specific project conducted by “Entrepreneur du monde” with ILO (International Labor Organization) is to allow economic recovery of the area of Carrefour Feuille in which we are here for business creation and development of existing businesses that manufacture building materials by using the debris."
41. Various shots, workers mixing crushed debris with cement
42. Med shot, worker putting debris mixed in the machine to produce bricks
43. Close up, machine filled
44. Various shots, workers making bricks
45. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilles Loret, Technical Advisor/Entrepreneur du monde:
"We work from the sand coming out of the debris, this gives us some problems because this sand is very fine and contains a lot of clay. So we started by experimenting with different sand: rivers sand, quarry sand and debris sand. Then the debris sand was washed to remove impurities; clay and the fine straws that will consume much cement."
46. Close up, new bricks
47. Med shot, Gilles Loret testing brick quality (cut away)
48. Various shots, Gilles Loret testing brick quality (cut away)
49. Med shot, brick
50. Med shot, model house built with debris
51. Close up, model construction with debris
52. Med shot, model house
53. Med shot, model house with debris
54. Med shot, model construction with debris
55. Wide shot, lorry charged in front of model house
About 50 trucks filled with debris from the area of Carrefour Feuille arrive each day at the crushing center of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Port au Prince.
SOUNDBITE (French) Mike Jensenn, Chief of operations at UNOPS Crushing Site:
"We are at the crushing site of UNOPS and the mayor of Petion Ville. We have crushing machines that crush the debris of the neighborhoods that we have been demolishing or from buildings that have been weakening during the earthquake."
More than 80,000 buildings in the capital city of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas collapsed after the 7.0-magnitude quake that hit the country two year ago, killing 200,000 people and leaving amounts of debris equivalent to 4,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
UNOPS is working with the Ministry of Public Works, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to manage debris in six neighbourhoods of the capital, including demolishing building remains, and recycling or disposing of debris.
To date the UN says that more than half of the 10 million cubic metres of rubble caused by the earthquake has been removed in one of the largest-scale clearance operations of its kind by the UN and its partners.
And a portion of it is being used to repair roads, improve neighbourhoods and rebuild houses. Here at the UNOPS crushing site the debris is transformed into several different materials, including sand.
And they say in the next ten to twelve months, the debris will be completely cleared. The service is now thinking about the future use of the crushing center with its Haitian partners.
SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Sébastien ROCA, UNOPS Project chief:
"We are building up this project together with the Haitian Ministry of Public Works and Transportation while taking this infrastructure and capitalize at the same time on the managerial and technical experience to ensure sustainability."
Debris is transported to the Red Cross, the Haitian Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTC) and NGOs.
It's been a year since this little village called "L’annexe de la Mairie de Cite Soleil” was created out of a former IDP camp. The 400 shelters were built by the Red Cross with treated debris.
SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Howe, Shelter Delegate of the International Federation of the Red Cross:
“In Annexe (the name of the area) we have used the rubble to build up the roads but a lot of the people in the Ti shelter who have pulled up their house with floor and then packed the floor with rubble, and then they used the sand out of rubble to put a concrete top on the floor.”
Here, a bus station will be built.
SOUNDBITE (French) Fils-Aime Thelcine, Engineer of Entrepreneur du monde:
"We are building these walls with debris as filling material, even if they are not tailored to the desired measures. The artisans are using them up to the size of the walls as they are about 9-10 cm. We prepare them so they are well calibrated. The Artisans can mix the sand with which they prepare the mortar for the filling.”
Here, around 650 bricks are produced each day.
SOUNDBITE (French) Florie Dejeant, Engineer of Entrepreneur du monde:
"We are using for each building about 40 cubic meters of debris for the foundation. The sand and gravel for the filling of the walls. "
On the site, "Entrepreneurs du monde" provides training to Macon craftsmen, carpenters and other labor workers. The use of debris is the basis of the new construction which will be in typical Haitian style.
SOUNDBITE (French) Sokchearta ITH, Responsible of Bricks Project of Entrepreneur du Monde:
"The objective of this specific project conducted by “Entrepreneur du monde” with ILO (International Labour Organisation) is to allow economic recovery of the area of Carrefour Feuille in which we are here for business creation and development of existing businesses that manufacture building materials by using the debris."
Given that production has just begun, different mixes with the crushed sand are under test now. The goal is to get the most appropriate mix to have solid bricks to build public spaces.
SOUNDBITE (French) Gilles Loret, Technical Advisor/Entrepreneur du monde:
"We work from the sand coming out of the debris this gives us some problems because this sand is very fine and contains a lot of clay. So we started by experimenting with different sand: rivers sand, quarry sand and debris sand. Then the debris sand was washed to remove impurities, clay and the fine straws that will consume much cement."
The UN is supporting the Haitian Government to finalize a national debris management strategy to establish tracking tools, rubble-removal and recycling standards and to prepare governmental and non-governmental partners for future debris-generating natural disasters.
UNDP says it will cost an estimated (USD) $800 million to clean up the debris.
