Oxfam Haiti Update
My name is Louis Belanger I'm the spokesperson of Oxfam and I'm heading to Haiti in a few hours. It's a Tuesday night Port-au-Prince time. I'm heading first to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and hopefully reach the capital Port-au-Prince by Wednesday so what we're hearing right now is the many building including some of the UN headquarter, the presidential palace have collapsed. The casualties can be counted by the hundreds. There's a huge cloud of smoke as of this time formed itself in the south of Port-au-Prince and the airport is closed right now and people are desperate for attention. Oxfam will be using its regional headquarter in Panama to send in equipment basically for water, so any equipments for water and sanitation will be sent as soon as the airport is open, hopefully by the end of Wednesday, tomorrow. And we'll be assessing the situation. Oxfam has accounted for all its staff except for one, and we're still trying to reach that person. Phonelines are still down. We're actually reaching our colleagues either by text messages when they get through, or by the Skype service. So that's how we're operating right now, and we'll be assessing the situation in the next couple of days. Oxfam will be mainly concentrating on water and sanitation - making sure people have access to safe and clean water as they're trying to cope with the earthquake that has just struck their country. Oxfam has been working in Haiti for many years. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, it's the poorest country in the western hemisphere, so obviously the infrastructure and some of the basic services are lacking. You can expect the country to be needing international help in the next couple of weeks, no doubt, and Oxfam will be part of that.
My name is Louis Belanger I'm the spokesperson of Oxfam and I'm heading to Haiti in a few hours. It's a Tuesday night Port-au-Prince time. I'm heading first to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and hopefully reach the capital Port-au-Prince by Wednesday so what we're hearing right now is the many building including some of the UN headquarter, the presidential palace have collapsed. The casualties can be counted by the hundreds. There's a huge cloud of smoke as of this time formed itself in the south of Port-au-Prince and the airport is closed right now and people are desperate for attention. Oxfam will be using its regional headquarter in Panama to send in equipment basically for water, so any equipments for water and sanitation will be sent as soon as the airport is open, hopefully by the end of Wednesday, tomorrow. And we'll be assessing the situation. Oxfam has accounted for all its staff except for one, and we're still trying to reach that person. Phonelines are still down. We're actually reaching our colleagues either by text messages when they get through, or by the Skype service. So that's how we're operating right now, and we'll be assessing the situation in the next couple of days. Oxfam will be mainly concentrating on water and sanitation - making sure people have access to safe and clean water as they're trying to cope with the earthquake that has just struck their country. Oxfam has been working in Haiti for many years. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, it's the poorest country in the western hemisphere, so obviously the infrastructure and some of the basic services are lacking. You can expect the country to be needing international help in the next couple of weeks, no doubt, and Oxfam will be part of that.
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"...sending equipment bassacaly for water, so any equipment for water and sanitation will be send, as soon as the airport is open, hopefully by the end of Wednesday, tomorrow, and we´ll be accesing the situation. Oxfam its account for all staff, except for one, we still try to reach that person on the phone lines and still we´re actually reaching by collegues either by text messages and when they get through or by skype service, so that hardware we will operating right now and will be accesing the situation in a couple of days, Oxfam
will be maining concentrating on water, helping, sanitation, making sure people have acces to safe and clean water and as they´re tryng to help with
the earthquake that distruct their country. As we know Oxfam have been working heading for many years areas in wich are the poorest country in the world, is the poorest country in the West Emysphere so obviously infraestructures and you know basic services,unlucky, you know we can expecting country to be needing international help and an extra hold we are no doubt Oxfam will be part of that".
Posted by: Freddy 2 years ago
¡Arriba Haití!
Edgar Aroca
Periodista
Villavicencio, Meta - Colombia
Posted by: Edgar Aroca 2 years ago