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Update on eagle.ca Haiti Relief
Challenge
January 22, 2010
updated 2:30
p.m.
13 ShelterBoxes for Haiti in one week!
Last Thursday I asked eagleMembers and friends to help us send two
ShelterBoxes to Haiti. As of today we are working on
ShelterBox 14... thank you!
 Community groups, sports teams
and schools are organizing dances, dress-down days and other fund
raisers. Students from Dale Road Senior Public School
will be at Northumberland Mall Friday evening and Saturday selling
Houses for Haiti pins that they have created (left
and click to see actual size) . Burnham Public School is having a
Spaghetti Dinner. Baltimore Public School is having a Loose
Change Drive. St. Mary's Secondary School had a Dress Down Day
today. Proceeds from all these events will help us send more
ShelterBoxes to Haiti.
Due to the logistical problems
it is difficult to keep track of the ShelterBoxes that have actually
arrived but at the moment the updated numbers look like this:
• 400 ShelterBoxes arrived from
Miami on Tuesday
• 400 from Miami arrived on a
freighter Wednesday
• 500 were being flown by
Virgin Atlantic to Miami on Wednesday
• 767 plus 100 loose tents being flown from England to PAP but may be
diverted to Santa Domingo
• 256 from Curacao were expected Thursday
• 400 from France last week. 12 have arrived in PAP. 56 on the way to
Martinique and will be flown by French military to PAP. 132 to leave
Vatry, France to PAP or possibly Martinique. 200 en route to Santa
Domingo with French Red Cross
• 1,100 at ShelterBox UK waiting to be dispatched
• more being packed
That's at least 3,800
ShelterBoxes either in Haiti or on their way. Transportation continues
to be a problem. The US military is operating the Port-au-Prince airport
and have increased daily flights on the single runway airport to 180
from the usual 30 but delays still exist.
Following is an update from
ShelterBox headquarters in England:
Operations · Team in PAP all
OK. First tents are being used as
emergency field hospitals as a priority – amputations are happening
regularly and people need a secure environment to recover from the
trauma of the operation and avoid the risk of infection. There is a
desperate need for emergency hospitals. Amputations are expected to
spiral into the thousands. Tents are needed for the operations to be
performed in but also for initial patient recovery. The elements in
Haiti, with heat, rain and dust, as well as the horrendous situation
on the ground, mean the risk of infection is huge. With people using
our tents to recover in, the risk of
infection is greatly reduced and the chance of survival is greatly
increased. By using a small consignment of tents as emergency
hospitals, ShelterBox is saving lives with immediate effect. As
ever, are aim is to ensure the people in most need get aid as
quickly as possible.
eagle.ca's Haiti Relief
Challenge will continue until at least February 5th. ShelterBox expects
to send 10,000 boxes to Haiti over the next several months so we have a
lot of work to do. ShelterBox and the people of
Haiti need our help now.
Join in the effort at home, at
work or elsewhere. It's surprizing how a small effort, when combined
with others, can add up to great things. Just look at the 13
ShelterBoxes that eagle.ca clients and friends have helped to contribute
so far!
Cheers,
-tom
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