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[Yves Colon] Most people do rely on the radio for all their news.
Radio in Creole, especially in Creole…
…it's a language that everyone speaks in Haiti.
Anything that's on the air, it's really very few hours
Because there's no fuel, there's no electricity
So people, not only are they dazed, they are stunned, dazed and…
and they're still walking around in a dream…
...wondering what's going on in their lives
And I think one little bit of certainty they can have is
is to know what's going on around them.
What people are doing around them.
One of the things they need to know, I mean
They can see all the planes, they can see all the trucks going back and forth
There's a certain reassurance knowing that the world is really behind you
That the world is mobilized to help you.
Sending you not only food but medicine, doctors to treat the wounded
So people need to know all these different things
And I think the little things, the little things that we tell them every day
about all the different measures that are being taken
all the different kind of help that are coming to them
That should give them strength in a way
We produce the program in this office that we have
where you see me sitting here
It's our work space, our living space and it's everything to us here
And we produce it and we put it on the CD
And we distribute them by motorbikes, by car to the stations themselves
And it seems like, as soon as we bring them to the stations,
these people, they, the stations play them.