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HAITI / CAMP BUSINESS

Business is sprouting in this make-shift camp in the department of Delmas, as people are trying to cope with their current living and working situation following last months earthquake. MINUSTAH

Duration:02:19Date:05 February 2010

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Mission of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS,12.01.00, HAITI

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STORY: HAITI / CAMP BUSINESS
TRT: 2.19
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE:

DATELINE: 5 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI  
SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, Delma 33 settlement 
2. Med shot, shop in settlement 
3. Med shot, woman buying some food at shop 
5. Med shot, woman paying 
6. Tilt up, seller packing the food to face of seller 
7. Close up, packs of spaghetti 
8. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Celange Mathieu, Seller and mother of six:
“Around here we haven’t received anything for the kids. I have six children. The boys eat a lot. They are asking me for food as soon as they get up. So we have to find a way to buy some spaghetti and sell it. The benefit is used to buy more food for kids.” 
9. Wide shot, people walking down the settlement 
10. Med shot, barbershop 
11. Various shots, men being shaved 
12. Close up, men being shaved 
13. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Francillon Saintil, Barber: 
“I already worked for a barber shop behind (the prison of) Fort-Dimanche. I realized that there isn’t any barbershop around here. So I opened this business.” 
14. Med shot, phone rental and charger shop 
15. Close up, businessman charging a phone 
16. Close up, mobile phones being charged 
17. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Dorval Jean Amos, Businessman: 
“This small business I opened is very important for the population in this settlement of St Louis. After this disaster, for people who are having their families in the United States, they now have this way of communicating. Families in the States can also call here to find out if their relatives are alive and how they are coping.” 
18. Med shot, man talking on the phone 
19. Close up man talking on the phone UPSOUND (Creole) “Yes, he is going to go back home. He comes and goes.” 
STORYLINE:

Business is sprouting in this make-shift camp in the department of Delmas, as people are trying to cope with their current living and working situation following last months earthquake. 
  
Celange Matthieu is a businesswoman and mother, who is now living in the camp with her six children. She can no longer make a profit with prices hitting record levels and her children are hungry.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Celange Mathieu, Seller and mother of six:
“Around here we haven’t received anything for the kids. I have six children. The boys eat a lot. They are asking me for food as soon as they get up. So we have to find a way to buy some spaghetti and sell it. The benefit is used to buy more food for kids.” 
  
But others like Franillon Saintil are trying to benefit from this new market. His former barbershop collapsed during the earthquake. 
  
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Francillon Saintil, Barber:
“I already worked for a barber shop behind (the prison of) Fort-Dimanche. I realized that there isn’t any barbershop around here. So I opened this business.” 
  
And with so many Haitians who have relatives in the United States, Dorval Jean Amos opened a rental service for charging mobile phones after he noticed that power shortages made it difficult to use them. 
  
SOUNDBITE (Creole) Dorval Jean Amos, Businessman: 
“This small business I opened is very important for the population in this settlement of St. Louis. After this disaster, for people who are having their families in the United States, they now have this way of communicating. Families in the states can also call here to find out if their relatives are alive and how they are coping.” 
 
UPSOUND (Creole) “Yes, he is going to go back home. He comes and goes.” 
 
A new life is slowly growing out of the rubble in camps throughout Port-au-Prince where an estimated 1.1 million people are now living.

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