Saturday, January 23, 2010

Haitians Being "Trained" to Erect Tents Properly




as of 1400hrs GMT on Saturday 23.01.10



There were 412 boxes on the ground in PAP yesterday. 400 more have since arrived from Miami. Approximately 60 have arrived care of the Dutch Military from Curacao (the remaining 190 from Curacao are due to arrive tomorrow).

Emergency shelter for more than 8,500 people is now in Haiti. Responders are training Haitians to erect the tents properly. Here you can see one of our tents and the alternatives people are dealing with.

200 more boxes, flown courtesy of the French Red Cross are due to arrive in PAP this afternoon local time. 700 boxes and 100 tents will also arrive in PAP today on an aid convoy from Santa Domingo.

By the end of the day local time we will have upwards of 1,800 boxes in PAP. Enough aid for more than 18,000 people.

Approximately 700 boxes remain in Miami that were flown there by Virgin Atlantic. Another 200 should also be in Miami which were flown via Amsterdam.
1,000 boxes currently packed and awaiting dispatch from the UK. More being packed.

Box table of boxes committed so far and the routes they’ve taken since leaving HQ:

Miami 1,700 (1,500 Virgin, 200 via Amsterdam)
France 600
Newquay 802 (702 boxes + 100 tents)
Curacao 256
El Salvador 73
Total 3,431

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