First camps set up. Tents in use at Bernard Mews hospital and as field hospitals (estimated 50 boxes). Further camps set up in Delmas (50 boxes), Petion-Ville (50 boxes), Carrefour (50 boxes), Leogane (100 boxes).
Congratulations to our team on the ground for this remarkable accomplishment.
Many more boxes are on the way, but logisitics remain difficult with the bottleneck at the airport. In these pictures a young amputee enjoys a ShelterBox kids' kit, and a Haitian woman seems happy to be out of the heat and dust in a ShelterBox tent at the hospital.
Great information and update. If possible, more pictures of Shelterboxes in the field please. Has the Cdn government been approached to contribute their dollar for dollar donation direct to Shelterbox. This would double the number of Shelterboxes contributed by Canadians. From what I see, next to medical aid and food, a place to stay seems to be the greatest priority. It is worrying to hear about the millions of dollars being donated to Haiti and wondering what they are going to spend it on first. Shelterboxes at a cost of $100 per Haitian, to start, seems like a no brainer.
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