As donors meet at a crucial conference in New York (31 March) to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars for reconstruction in quake-devastated Haiti, Oxfam has been asking ordinary Haitians what they really need.
Jobs. Schools. Homes. These are the top priorities now for Haitians desperate to get their country back on its feet following January’s devastating earthquake. Those are the results of a survey of 1,700 people carried out by an independent Haitian polling consultant and funded by Oxfam. And we’re using the short video below at the New York conference so that ordinary Haitians have the chance to put their case in their own words:
Footage for this video was recorded on 12 March 2010 by film students from the Cine Institute in Jacmel (Haiti’s only film school) in partnership with Oxfam and FilmAid.
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