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Pallets for Haïti
French children get a lesson at the Quai Branly Museum about refugee youngsters in Tanzania.
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HUMANITARIAN DISASTER IN HAITI
Following the terrible earthquake which has just struck this island of the Carribbean islands, Aviation Without Borders mobilizes itself.
We already sent with the help of the French Foreign Office (MAE) 12 tons of surgical equipment which Haiti greatly needs.
With our European and West Indian correspondents, we look how to forward this humanitarian aid and to locally organize the distribution.
Thanks to the help of the Haitian associations with which we usually work, we shall bring a precious help to numerous victims of this dramatic earthquake.
Last minute information:
on Monday, 8 February 2010
To date, we sent several tons of emergency aid in Haiti. Our shipments mainly consist of surgical and medical equipment, survival tents and food complements.
The first one, the most important (12 tons), took place in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which airplane left Thursday, 21 at 4:00 am from the airport of Vatry near Châlons-en-Champagne towards Port-au-Prince. The airplane was repeatedly delayed because of the numerous compulsory time slots all along the route. It arrived on January 24th in Port-au-Prince.
These routing delays give an idea of the flow of international assistance and also demonstrate the difficulty in managing this exceptional situation. Our correspondents of the Secours
Catholique and Caritas received in Port-au-Prince this first shipping.
We also obtained from a new partner the distribution of survival boxes allowing to shelter 500 persons by supplying them tents, stoves, devices to purify water, blankets, tools and games for the children.
We have also just eased the shipping of more than 1000 tents for the Ouest France Foundation. This freight will leave before the end of the week on board of 2 Air France flights.
Anyone must be aware that thousands of persons are still homeless and that the request for tents is still strong.
Important shipments are still in preparation (in particular hundreds of milk cans) not counting ASF partners who everyday, send us their contribution, and between them the Villebon-sur-Yvette City hall, AEROPARTAGE / CORSAIR, REGILAIT....
ASF Spain was anxious to financially participate in our actions in favor of Haiti, mainly because we already have correspondents who guaranteed us the good distribution of the arriving help.
According to the number of offers, the needs for storage and the transport difficulties, every offer must necessarily be made in coordination with our Medical Parcels department, tel. (33) 1 49 75 74 36.
You can financially help us by sending your donation:
Aviation Sans Frontières
Orly Fret 768
94398 Orly Terminal Cedex.
Donations received will be used for sending the presently stored palettes, then we will resume our expeditions as usual with our West Indian and Haitian correspondents (sending of medicines, food complements for orphanages, cribs, etc.).
French children learn about
refugees by sending them their toys.
PARIS, France, January 29 (UNHCR) – "As their previous owners cheerfully waved goodbye, more than 1,000 teddy bears, dolls, cars, planes and other toys on Friday began a journey that will take them from the Left Bank of the River Seine in Paris to the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania.
The toys departed early morning from Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport on a commercial flight bound for Dubai. From there they will fly to Dar-Es-Salaam for their onward journey to the camp in north-west Tanzania, where they will be handed over to their delighted new owners – refugee children.
The shipment of 27 large boxes of toys is part of a joint initiative by the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the UN refugee agency and the charity, Aviation Sans Frontières (ASF). Beneficiaries of this annual project in the previous three years included refugee children in Chad, Liberia and Kenya."
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