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STORY: HAITI / LIBRARIES
TRT: 2:33
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CREOLE / NATS
DATELINE: 15 OCTOBER 2012, PORT-AU-PRINCE
1. Med shot, boy in front of shack
2. Close up, boy in front of shack
3. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Sadrac Neolin, 13:
"I'm not living so good, I'm not living so bad. Why I am not living so good? It is because most days there are shootings in the neighborhood. And I come from a very poor family. My family is vulnerable. So I'm not so good, not so bad."
4. Close up, children reaching into trunk full of books
5. Close up, boy on his back reading
6. Med shot, children on floor reading books
7. Wide shot, boy walking past building outside
8. Close up, trunk of books
9. Close up, hands on table with books
10. Close up, books in trunk
11. Close up, boy on swing
12. Close up, boy in yellow shirt sitting on ground
13. Med shot, back of children looking at adult sitting in chair
14. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Ronald Jean Mary, community worker:
"This program is important especially in this neighborhood because children here are disconnected from society. They have been totally disconnected from the world."
15. Close up, hand holding book
16. Close up, girl in pink shirt reading at table
17. Close up, three children sitting
18. Med shot, man with glasses reading book in chair
19. Med shot, man in chair showing book to children sitting on floor
20. Close up, bare feet of children
21. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Ronald Jean Mary, community worker:
"This programme is now connecting the children to the rest of the country, and even the rest of the world. Before, these children had no access to books. But now, they have access to plenty of books, they like reading, and they are really enjoying the programme."
22. Close up, boy sitting on floor, laughing, smiling
23. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Sadrac Neolin, age 13:
"I would like to become an engineer, first, to help my country, but also to help my family."
24. Close up, faces of girls sitting on floor
25. Wide shot, woman sitting in chair, reading to children sitting on floor
26. Close up, face of girl in red shirt
Thirteen-year-old Sadrac Neolin lives in the most disadvantaged slum in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. The sounds of gunshots in Cité Soleil have been a staple of his childhood.
SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Sadrac Neolin, 13:
"I'm not living so good, I'm not living so bad. Why I am not living so good? It is because most days there are shootings in the neighborhood. And I come from a very poor family. My family is vulnerable. So I'm not so good, not so bad."
One development that he is happy about is the project "Story Box". UNICEF, in partnership with Libraries Without Borders, is sending a library of a hundred books, in French and Creole, to vulnerable neighborhoods like Sadrac's.
This year, three hundred mobile libraries have been distributed. Child-development specialists and librarians have carefully selected the books to fit within the context of Haiti, and to stimulate creativity and imagination.
This year ninety community workers, like Ronald Jean Mary, were trained in how best to use the story box.
SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Ronald Jean Mary, community worker:
"This program is important especially in this neighborhood because children here are disconnected from society. They have been totally disconnected from the world."
"Story Box" is a psycho-social programme designed to promote emotional, cognitive and social development of children and adolescents; and to complement, not replace, formal education in schools. Children like Sadrac come here on weekends and during holidays from school.
UNICEF is supporting 120 child protection community based organizations that are working together to make it a success.
SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Ronald Jean Mary, community worker:
"This programme is now connecting the children to the rest of the country, and even the rest of the world. Before, these children had no access to books. But now, they have access to plenty of books, they like reading, and they are really enjoying the program."
Since the programme began here, Sadrac says, for the first time, that he's thinking beyond the borders of Cité Soleil.
SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Sadrac Neolin, age 13:
"I would like to become an engineer, first, to help my country, but also to help my family."
The most disadvantaged children, exploring a new world, one book at a time.
