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HAITI / ALTERNATIVE SHELTER

With the rainy season approaching in Haiti, aid groups are turning away from tents and encouraging long term housing like wooden shelters. MINUSTAH

Duration:02:26Date:09 February 2010

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HUMANITARIAN AID AND RELIEF, PROTECTION OF AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS, SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS, HAITI, United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti

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STORY: HAITI / ALTERNATIVE SHELTER
TRT: 2.26
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CREOLE / NATS
 
DATELINE: 5, 9 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

SHOTLIST:

5 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI 
 
1. Wide shot, exterior IOM (International Organization for Migration) warehouse
2. Wide shot, stocks of equipment being carried by IOM workers
3. Close up, bags of equipment 
4. Wide shot, warehouse with stocks of equipment
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Taylor, Media Relations, International Organization for Migration (IOM): 
“Plastic sheeting, tool-kits, hygiene kits, pots, and pans. The basics you need to set up a shelter and to have a sort of a life. This is going out now on the lorries and being distributed by as many as 50, 60 different agencies.”
6. Pan right, queue of people at a distribution site
7. Med shot, IOM staff members speaking to crowd on megaphone 
8. Wide shot, queue of people waiting to get the goods.
9. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marie Michelle Charles, survivor: 
"I sleep on the ground, in the street. I am pregnant with twins and sleep on the floor."
10. Wide shot, distribution of goods by IOM
11. Med shot, Marie Michelle Charles talking to IOM staff members
12. Med shot, USAID packs with plastic sheets in the foreground
13. Close up, plastic sheets
14. Med shot, Marie Michelle Charles leaving with her kit of goods
15. Med shot, old woman receiving kit
16. Med shot, old woman walking on clusters after having received her kit
17. SOUNDBITE (Creole) elderly woman, survivor: 
"I came to take a few things. A shelter. Because I live in the open air."
18. Med shot, old woman leaving
19. Med shot, girl receiving kit
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Taylor, Media Relations, International Organization for Migration (IOM): 
“There is a very urgent need to make sure that by the time the rainy season starts, maybe end of February, maybe in March, we are doing everything we can to make sure that at least people can have some kind of roof over their heads.”

9 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

21. Wide shot, people mounting shelters in a settlement
22. Close up, hands fixing two sticks
23. Med shot, man placing plastic sheet over sticks
24. Wide shot, settlement

STORYLINE: 
 
The United Nations (UN) is racing against time to bring in hazard-resistant tents for Haiti’s earthquake victims before the rainy season. 
The UN says some 250,000 of the 1 million people in need of shelter have received tents or plastic sheets, but the main concern now is to bring in sufficient hazard-resistant, hurricane-proof shelter, a task made all the more difficult because the port was severely damaged by the quake and air transportation would be enormously costly. 
But for now, the IOM (International Organization for Migration) is providing the basics to aid agencies to distribute to quake survivors.

SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Taylor, media relations, International Organization for Migration: 
“Plastic sheeting, tool-kits, hygiene kits, pots, and pans. The basics you need to set up a shelter and to have a sort of a life. This is going out now on the lorries and being distributed by as many as 50, 60 different agencies.”

In the Turgeau neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, over 1,400 families received kits containing Jeri cans, basic hygiene kits and plastic tarpaulins.

And the demand is great.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marie Michelle Charles, surviver: 
"I sleep on the ground, in the street. I am pregnant with twins and sleep on the floor."

SOUNDBITE (Creole) elderly woman, survivor: 
"I came to take a few things. A shelter. Because I live in the open air."

Although there is an urgent need to get some kind of hazard resistant shelter for the survivors before the rainy season, just getting a roof over their head remains a big   challenge.

SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Taylor, media relation International Organization for Migration: 
“There is a very urgent need to make sure that by the time the rainy season starts, maybe end of February, maybe in March, we are doing everything we can to make sure that at least people can have some kind of roof over their heads.”

OCHA says that more than 1.2 million people live in spontaneous settlements and more than 460,000 people have left Port-au-Prince for outlying departments. It stresses the need to increase aid going to these areas to help the resident rural population support the displaced persons.

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