Handbags made from recycled crisp packets

Описание: (14 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Port-au-Prince, 15 September 2009
1. Mid shot of Rara Bags
2. Wide shot of Rara Bags in shop
3. Wide of house where workshop for Rara Bags is located
4. Wide shot group of women sewing at a table
5. Close up of woman sewing a Christmas tree ornament
6. Medium shot of two women sewing
7. Close up woman redoing one of the ornaments
8. Various of empty cookies and chips bags
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin McCarthy, founder and designer of Rara Bags:
"This is the biggest piece of plastic that you can get from this bag. So the inside, the whole piece actually, we'll wash in bleach and laundry detergent."
10. Mid shot employee of Rara Bags cutting and washing one of the chips bags
11. Close up opened plastic bag being put into buckets with liquid detergent
12. Various of woman scrubbing plastic material
13. Wide shot women sewing bags
14. Mid shot woman cutting bag into strips
15. Close up woman cutting bag into strips
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin McCarthy, founder and designer of Rara Bags:
"When I started this project I had this bigger goal of, you know, travelling around the world and started sustainable crafts businesses in different countries, and getting them to a point where they could function without me and without a Western, without government money, without charity money or this. And train people how to run businesses, and train people how to come up with a product and maintain quality."
17. Close up of bag made for mobile phones
18. Close up of sandals made of recycled chips bags
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin McCarthy, founder and designer of Rara Bags:
"This is the hardest thing to find. When we were producing less, you know, between 40 and 100 pieces a month we could have this plastic mesh as completely recycled pieces, always recycled collected from people who shopped at local grocery stores, because they use this to pack fruits and vegetables. Now that we're getting bigger orders from the States we have had to buy some of it new, which is unfortunate but at the same time, you know about 75% of the product is still recycled and in order to keep people working we do go ahead and buy a box every so often."
20. Close up of woman threading strips of material into another opened plastic bag
21. Wide shot woman working on sewing machine
22. Close up sewing
23. Mid shot woman woman working on sewing machine
24. Mid shot woman sewing
25. Close up sewing
26. Close up heart-shaped christmas ornaments in box, zoom in
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin McCarthy, founder and designer of Rara Bags:
"I don't want people to buy this product or any of the products that I create based solely on charity. I want them to buy it because they like the product, because they are good products and it's a pretty bag, one they want to carry. So I want the producer, also, to make something that is valuable, not just something that is going to give them 5 bucks (USD)."
28. Exterior of art galley and shop Mennou
29. Close up of sing
30. Various of Rara Bags products for sale inside the shop
LEAD IN
An American entrepreneur has started a recycled bags business in Haiti, with the aim of helping local people become more business savvy.
Local women make the bags by reusing colourful chips and cookie bags.
STORYLINE
These bags are made of recycled chips and cookie bags.
They are produced by a group of local Haiti women under the supervision of Kevin McCarthy.
The American woman has always liked to experiment with textiles and fibres, so she started the Rara Bags business two years ago.
The process to make a Rara Bag is very simple.

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