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Victims of the Earthquake in Haiti
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Update on IRFF’s Relief Effort in Haiti: January 28, 2010 This week, we picked up 30,000 pounds of donated food from the Mormon Church in Utah, which we are delivering to the Christian Disaster Response's warehouse in Auburndale, FL for transport to Haiti. In Auburndale the load will be transferred to two 20-foot containers which will be combined with a third container filled with donated medical equipment being trucked in from our network's regional warehouse in Harvey, LA. The three containers will be shipped out of the Miami port to Cap-Haitien, Haiti, by February 5th to arrive on February 9th. Based on funds coming in, we can continue to ship a container per week of donated supplies for several weeks.
With the tragic earthquake in Haiti, IRFF has set in motion our immediate response effort. IRFF is a partner organization of Global Disaster Response Network (GDRN, http://www.gdrn.org), which has 12 non-profit organization members. One group is already on the ground in Haiti, giving us a daily assessment of the situation and the immediate needs there.
IRFF’s partner organization, Christian Disaster Response (CDR) whom we have worked with for some twenty years, has secured donations of a 20 foot container of medical supplies and just yesterday, a 40 foot trailer loaded with canned and packaged food from the Mormon Church.
The urgent need at the moment is to gather funds for the trucking charges from Louisiana (medical supplies) and Utah (food items) to West Palm Beach, Florida, where arrangements have been made with a shipping company to send at least three 20 foot containers to the port city of St. Marks, not far from the epicenter of the quake in Port-Au-Prince, whose port has been closed. The cost is $2,500 per 20 foot container for a total of $7,500.
Further plans to assist in relief efforts will be implemented later based on securing additional funding, but the immediate need of survivors is food and medical treatment, which, with your help, we can deliver right away Please help us in this effort by donating through our website - www.irff.org – or by sending a check to IRFF Administrative Office: 880 Rt. 199, Red Hook, NY 12571, U.S.A. Contact person: Richard Sapp/ Director of Disaster Services. E-mail: richard.sapp@comcast.net Phone: 904-859-5396
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victims of the earthquake in Haiti
IRFF is partnering with, ABITSU (http://abitsu.org), a Burmese NGO to help the victims of Cyclone Negris in Myanmar. By working with Burmese and Thai relief workers, this joint effort guarantees that all disaster assistance will go directly to the victims in the affected areas without having to go through governmental or military forces. Relief stations have already been set up in four key
regions (Rangoon, Pegu Township, Kandawglay Township and Hlaing Tharyar Township) and ten supply trucks have been donated so far to transport all relief goods. The relief effort is based in the Thai/Burma border region of Mae Sot with all disaster supplies driven directly to the relief stations by Burmese citizens.
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With the tragic earthquake in Haiti, IRFF has set in motion our immediate response effort. IRFF is a partner organization of Global Disaster Response Network (GDRN, 