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Mid of Paraiso de Dios community inside Haina 2. Mid of children3. Close up of girls 4. Mid of boys playing in bushes 5. Various of children playing in lead-polluted area6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sandra Castillo,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e15 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid of Paraiso de Dios community inside Haina \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of children\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up of girls \u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of boys playing in bushes \u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of children playing in lead-polluted area\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sandra Castillo, neighbourhood activist for Paraiso de Dios: \u003cbr/\u003e\"My children were involved in a very serious situation. For example, my second son Miguel Angel, was affected to such a degree that he had to receive chelation therapy in order to get the lead out of his blood. At that point, we still did not know much about lead poisoning.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan from boy to bare feet near site where lead was found \u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of lead debris \u003cbr/\u003e20 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tilt down of building\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of entrance \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Omar Dotel, Representative for Metales y Oxido S.A (Metaloxa):\u003cbr/\u003e\"Even though we are now focusing on the accumulation of lead as the main problem in Haina, in the area we know as Paraiso de Dios (Spanish for God's Paradise), we think that even if we clean that area that municipality needs to be declared as an environmental emergency because, regardless of this problem, it is the most contaminated municipality in our country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15 June, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of cars driving on highway by exit leading to Haina\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of Paraiso de Dios community\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of children playing on concrete beams \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Monica Beltre, Mother of children affected by lead: \u003cbr/\u003e\"He (referring to her child) is writing now. He is able to do all his work now, but he has trouble recognising them (referring to words when reading). If you point at the word, he could say mom or dad or Ana and Tito, but if you ask him a half hour later, how do you say this that we were reading right now, he no longer remembers.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan of teacher Jose Luis Urena walking in school hallways \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Luis Urena, Teacher for Evangelical school in Paraiso de Dios: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the high level of pollution that exists in the body of those children influences their behaviour. There are some children who are very hyperactive in class, some who can't concentrate. So, when a child is so hyperactive it presents behavioural problems and could even lead to physical problems.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of Urena speaking to kids/pan to kids \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of school \u003cbr/\u003eAfter a decade of complaints about persistent headaches and sick children, one of the world's most polluted towns met on Wednesday for the first time with a company whose former battery recycling plant is blamed for dangerously high lead levels in the townspeople.\u003cbr/\u003eThe result: a promise of new studies on how to clean up the mess.\u003cbr/\u003eDominican government officials and a company accused of leaving fields strewn with lead powder from the shuttered recycling plant agreed to have a team of experts from the University of Idaho evaluate the site next month to determine what is necessary to remove the pollution. \u003cbr/\u003eSeveral months after that, they'll meet again to discuss how to pay for it, participants said.\u003cbr/\u003eGovernment officials in the Caribbean nation have said they do not have the money. \u003cbr/\u003eThe company that ran the battery plant from 1979 to 1997, Metales y Oxido S.A., says it is not entirely to blame.\u003cbr/\u003eOmar Dotel, who represented the company known as Metaloxa at the meeting, said it acknowledges some responsibility and added the area should be declared an environmental emergency. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Even though we are now focusing on the accumulation of lead as the main problem in Haina, in the area we know as Paraiso de Dios (Spanish for God's Paradise), we think that even if we clean that area that municipality needs to be declared as an environmental emergency because, regardless of this problem, it is the most contaminated municipality in our country.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSandra Castillo, a 33-year-old neighbourhood activist in Paradiso de Dios, began campaigning to shut the factory and clean up the site when her daughter was stricken with bouts of vomiting and her son began experiencing seizures. \u003cbr/\u003e\"My children were involved in a very serious situation,\" she said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"For example, my second son Miguel Angel, was affected to such a degree that he had to receive chelation therapy in order to get the lead out of his blood. At that point, we still did not know much about lead poisoning,\" she added. \u003cbr/\u003eDoctors told her it was a result of lead poisoning, which can cause irreversible brain and tissue damage.\u003cbr/\u003eOn a recent afternoon, children jumped over barbed wire to play where the factory once stood, pushing around black dust and battery casings with sticks and eating passion fruit off the nearby trees.\u003cbr/\u003eMetaloxa buried the remaining material, but it was uncovered several years later by rain, wind and scavengers seeking scrap metal.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Dominican government said in 1999 that the site would be cleaned up, but little was done.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1997, New York-based Friends of Lead-Free Children, found that 91 percent of neighbourhood children had lead levels considered to be dangerous by the World Health Organisation.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd when WHO researchers returned last year, they found soil samples that were 50 percent lead, creating toxic sludge that inundates homes at the bottom of a hill when it rains, Null said.\u003cbr/\u003eZoila Gonzalez, an environment ministry official, said the government has lacked the money for a proper cleanup because of other pressing needs.\u003cbr/\u003eJose Luis Urena, a teacher for Evangelical school in Paraiso de Dios said the pollution influenced the children's behaviour. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the high level of pollution that exists in the body of those children influences their behaviour,\" Urena said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"There are some children who are very hyperactive in class, some who can't concentrate. 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