HAITI - We have Trucks to deliver Aid - We need Your Help

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Ladybird

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You all know the situation in Haiti and how much the Dominican Government and people have done to help so far.

We have organised the loan of some trucks to go to Haiti with many essentials not supplied by the many wonderful aid agencies from many countries.
We need to fill these trucks and urgently need any food that will keep, clothes, shoes. (all ages), bandages, towels, toilets rolls, toothpaste/brushes, anitbiotics, aspirin or anything anyone wants to give. We need these trucks to go in convoy with security which we will supply. We also need monetary donations for the gas and for anything else we need to buy to help these desperate people. Please raid your wardrobes and if your children have outgrown toys etc. the children of Haiti would be grateful.

Collections points have been organised already in the Voodoo disco (now called Beechers), the Jolly Roger, and Dr Bob's veterinary clinic, in Sosua, we are also working to organise collection points in other areas and I am awaiting calls from the owners of certain businesses. But we need your help to collect more essentials and to pass the word.

Please give any monetary aid to Lesley at the Voodoo, many of you know her. If any of you outside Sosua want to give monetary aid please contact me by pm and I will give you the bank info at Banco St.Cruz.

I have begun to contact the newspapers here but would be glad of any of your help with this, as you can imagine how busy we are.

Please post any good thoughts/help you can give to keep this thread alive as this will be an ongoing means of help/aid we can give to the many thousands that need it in Haiti.

God Bless you and thank you for caring.
 

Robert

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Please post the specific help you need, besides the money aid donations.

- Drivers
- More collection points
- Help in Haiti
etc....

Thanks.
 

Ladybird

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Thanks Robert, we have the drivers and armed security, which we will need because along the route there are bandits and the escaped prisoners already starting to rob. If these scum try to rob our supply trucks they will meet the law of the gun (legally)
We have the good contacts in Haiti to help. But we need folk to organise more collections points where they can and volunteers to get it to Sosua. I have secure storage until the trucks are full. We are collecting locally so we do not block the businesses premises. Dr Bob's office was already full today and glad of our help to store/deliver the donated things. But it is the gasoline that is costing us the most and I cant afford to pay out more, that is one reason why I am appealing to the DR1ers to help, but the other is to help with the outside organisation.
 

Ladybird

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Radio Metropole in Haiti is sending out an urgent appeal for

Rubber Gloves and Masks

Thanks mountainanne, you see, it is all these little things that are so important that if people give we can get it to them. My wonderful partner recognised that people here want to help, but it was the transport and protection to get it there that was the problem.
 

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A few suggestions/questions that might help you organize and get more donations:

  1. Who are the organizations you are coordinating with in Haiti?
  2. How long have they been operating in the area?
  3. Have they generated the list of needed items or you?
  4. Are you or the contacts in Haiti distributing the items?
  5. Do the items meet international standards (SPHERE standards)for nutrition and water amounts?
  6. If collecting construction items, do they meet SPHERE standards?
  7. Do your armed guards have the proper permits to carry firearms in Haiti?
  8. What are the plans post-distribution? How will recipients have their needs met once your items have run out?
  9. How will you get back from Haiti? Reports are that there is a gasoline shortage.

These are just a few things to consider before embarking upon a major endeavor like this. Best of luck.
 

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I think the main objective is to just get what they can there asap. Anything to help is better than nothing.
As far as what to do once they drop the stuff off, I expect it will be to try and help those who need to get to hospitals, to the hospitals out of the area or over here. The quicker they can clear ground zero the better.

you seem to have got things together very quickly, well done and god bless!
 

Ladybird

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A few suggestions/questions that might help you organize and get more donations:

  1. Who are the organizations you are coordinating with in Haiti?
  2. How long have they been operating in the area?
  3. Have they generated the list of needed items or you?
  4. Are you or the contacts in Haiti distributing the items?
  5. Do the items meet international standards (SPHERE standards)for nutrition and water amounts?
  6. If collecting construction items, do they meet SPHERE standards?
  7. Do your armed guards have the proper permits to carry firearms in Haiti?
  8. What are the plans post-distribution? How will recipients have their needs met once your items have run out?
  9. How will you get back from Haiti? Reports are that there is a gasoline shortage.

These are just a few things to consider before embarking upon a major endeavor like this. Best of luck.

So kind of you but thank you we know what we are doing. This is well organised and we had another meeting at my house with officials here today, they had already offered us an armed Police escort, but came to donate some things to go on the trucks. we have our own legal arms and will have no problems if the criminal scum try to rob us. No prisoners will be taken.

All we need urgently is for you good folk to donate items to the collection points, but we need more of those and people to pass the word around the country.
Our aid can get through faster than any of the relief organisations can replenish what they can. We have translators and the right contacts in Haiti.
 

Ladybird

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I think the main objective is to just get what they can there asap. Anything to help is better than nothing.
As far as what to do once they drop the stuff off, I expect it will be to try and help those who need to get to hospitals, to the hospitals out of the area or over here. The quicker they can clear ground zero the better.

you seem to have got things together very quickly, well done and god bless!

Thanks so much, the other things they need desperately now are body bags but we can't supply those.
Many injured folk have already been transported to the special clinics set up by Leonel near the border and the hospitals here. The Dominican people, Doctors and Nurses are all working long hours to help.

We will continue operating this as long as you wonderful people keep giving those items on the list.
 

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body bags



As someone who KNOWS and deals with "body bags" (we call them disaster pouches) every day. the bags on their front page mainly all WHITE bags are NO GOOD for the type of weather they have in Haiti. In hot weather they stretch and rip as you try to pick them up. They are very thin and when they get warm they're not worth a crap. If you're going to pursue purchasing "body bags" for donation from someplace get the BLACK BAGS or the BLUE BAGS, they are very well constructed and extremely thick and hold up very well. Use the WHITE bags as a last resort.....

I know of what I speak
(I'm the guy that's scrapes em off the highways and takes em to the morgue)
 

mrcancun

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Can you setup a local place in sosua for drop off points? Maybe a hotel or restaurant that would be willing to do so?
 

Ladybird

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I have received a message today,

"We have a similar action going on in Bayahibe / Dominicus called "Leave Your
Clothes" (LYC). We request tourists to leave part of their clothes (and other
goods) behind when they return back home. We have collection points in
Dominicus: SeavisTours office in the shopping street and Bayahibe: the dive shop
of DrDiving on the beach. "

Thank you Alexander from Seavis Tours, this is a great idea, is there anyone who can help by contacting the hotels in Sosua, Playa Dorado and Cabarete to advertise this maybe by boards outside the hotels. PLEASE guys, I help sure many tourists would be willing to help if we could just find a way of contacting them. We need volunteers to do this. I am going to help Alexander as they have no security as such to deliver these donations direct to Haiti. We have great security back up.

Thank you.
 

Black Dog

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I have an idea but don't have a contact. In the UK at certain times of the year people stand at the exit of a supermarket with a shopping trolley and ask shopers as they leave to donate a can or something. This can raise a lot of food quite quickly.
Does anyone have a good contact at Playero, La Sirena etc to get permission to do this?
 

Chirimoya

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They are saying that the one thing they DON'T need are clothes, except for Jiman? hospital where they are asking for children's clothes.
 
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Dominican Crossroads has not been in contact with Ladybird to my knowledge. However, we have set up collection points on the North Coast at Productos Sosua Supermercado, Coastal, Janets, Vela, Villa Taina, and Cabarete Beach Palace, as well as Dr. Bob's veterinary clinic.

Coastal will give 10% discount on any food products purchased there to be donated.

We understand that assistance is going to be needed on an ongoing basis. Thus, our initial efforts concentrated on sending medical teams. Once we are able to fill a shipping container, the roadways are safe, secure, and passable, and the condition is somewhat stabilized, we will move forward with collected donations.

The directors of Dominican Crossroads know Haiti, speak Creole, and have experience with rescue efforts in developing countries. Being a small non-profit, they will know when is the right time to move forward in actually delivering the donations.

Lindsey
 
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