UNifeed: HAITI / TENT SCHOOLS

HAITI / TENT SCHOOLS

UNICEF continues to set up schools in tents throughout Port-au-Prince following January's devastating earthquake which destroyed 90 percent of the schools leaving two million children deprived of their education. UNICEF

Duration:02:43Date:13 March 2010

Categories:

United Nations Children's Fund, EDUCATION, SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS, HAITI

Downloads:

Broadcast-quality video for UNifeed stories is available online for two weeks. Should you wish to request older material, please contact the agency source of the material. For UNTV or peacekeeping stories, please contact the UN Video Library.

Full Script

STORY: HAITI / TENT SCHOOLS 
TRT: 2:43
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 26 FEBRUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

1. Med shot, teacher talking to pupil 
2. Med shot, teacher reading papers
3. Close up, paper
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Chantal Duphrézin, Teacher:
 “There is one child who wants Haiti to be rebuilt and this child in the future wants to be a  
 pediatrician.”
 5. Med shot, inside school
 6. Med shot, UNICEF sign on the tent
 7. Travelling shot, rubbles in the street
 8. Wide shot,camp
9. Wide shot, people building shelter
10. Wide shot, internally displaced person (IDP) sitting close to a tent
11. Wide shot, school tents
12.Wide shot, tents
13.Close up, paper grade of classroom 
14.Tilt up, professor registering pupils 
15.Close up, registration book
16.Wide shot, pupils working in the classroom
 17.Med shot, three girls writing
 18.Pan left, destroyed building 
 19.Wide shot, destroyed building 
 20.Wide shot, professor and the pupils
 21. Travelling shot, children singing and clapping hands in the classroom
 22. SOUNDBITE (French) Chantal Duphrézin, Teacher:
  “A country cannot run without an education system. We have had an organized psychosocial 
   support as a way to help children handle the stress bus also to remind them that school exists. At present it’s a little bit asleep but school is not dead.”
23. Med shot, children raising hands 
24. Med shot, professor talking to children
25. Med shot, children listening the teacher
26. Med shot, pupil drawing a palm tree
27. Med shot, teacher singing with pupil
28. Med shot,  teacher cutting pencil
29. Med shot, teacher distributing pencil and eraser gum
30. Close up, pupils receiving eraser gum
31. Med shot, children outside the tent
32.Wide shot, young children playing
33. Med shot, children sitting on the floor
34. SOUNDBITE (French) Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, Acting Representative UNICEF,:             Haiti : 
“The opportunity is to create a movement  for school so that children, not only those who already go, but also those who were not at school.”
35.Wide shot, school tables
 36.Med shot, child writing and watching video camera
 37.Wide shot, class in the tent
 38.Wide shot , children in front of the tent
39.Wide shot, tents in the camp
40.Wide shot, young children in playground

STORYLINE :

Chantal is a teacher, who encourages her students to look positively towards the future

SOUNDBITE (French) Chantal Duphrézin, Teacher:
 “There is one child who wants Haiti to be rebuilt and this child in the future wants to be a  
 pediatrician.”

It has been 2 weeks since lessons began in the tents of the camp at a  sports centre at Carrefour.

The surrounding neighbourhood was severely affected by the January 12th earthquake.

Approximately 500 families live here now. Before the tent schools opened, the children had no access to school or education.

6 classes share the space within these two tents.  And more than 300 children are registered in these classes.

The space is tight but the most important thing is that the children are able to go to school.

5,000 schools in Haiti were destroyed or damaged during the earthquake

Most of these schoolchildren have lost friends and teachers.

But a return to school is an essential step for a child to start a new life again.

SOUNDBITE (French) Chantal Duphrézin, Teacher:
  “A country cannot run without an education system. We have had an organized psychosocial 
   support as a way to help children handle the stress bus also to remind them that school exists. At present it’s a little bit asleep but school is not dead.”

To enable children to return to school, the Ministry of Education, UNICEF and its partners have established training for 10,000 teachers. In turn the students benefit from the support.

Without excluding formal education, most learning during these first few days will be done through games.

Before the earthquake, only about 50% of children in Haiti went to school.

Whether the schools were private or in the state system, most were dilapidated and lacked supplies.

In a positive light, the disaster which destroyed 80 % of school buildings is, in a way, a means of rethinking education in Haïti.

SOUNDBITE (French) Françoise Gruloos-Ackermans, Acting Representative UNICEF,:             Haiti : 
“The opportunity is to create a movement  for school so that children, not only those who already go, but also those who were not at school.”

To begin with, the schools will be temporary canvas tents.

At present 150 tents are being distributed and set up to accommodate the students.

The next step is semi-permanent schools and finally, with the help of UNICEF, earthquake-proof schools that will be built in Haïti.

Breadcrumb Trail

HAITI / TENT SCHOOLS

UNifeed Archive

UNifeed Outlook

About

Connect to Unifeed

Connect to UNTV

Other UNTV Products