Portlight Disaster Relief

Your donations at work in Haiti

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 15:47:00 GMT

We just spoke with Richard. The makeshift hospital at University Quisqeya (our staging area) is serving 300 people a day. The only suppliues and equipment they have access to are those provided by us and a few other small NGO's. They have received no assistance from any governmental or large institutional relief organization or entity. Surgeries are being performed without anesthesia. Children are getting sick...and beginning to die...for lack of medicines. We ...
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Haiti update Tents needed!!!!!!!!!!

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:01:00 GMT

Please click on the link in post # 49 below and read this maddening report from a relief worker in Haiti.We spoke today with Richard Lumarque, our coordinator in Haiti. He expressed a crying need for tents. If anyone can help with a donation of a large number of tents, we can facilitate getting them in.The UN sub cluster on disability will convene its' first meeting today in PauP @ 2:30PM local time. We have connected Richard into that. Also, the USAID coordinat...
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Haiti relief efforts continue

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:36:00 GMT

The UN sub cluster on disability will convene its' first meeting today in PauP @ 2:30PM local time. We have connected Richard into that. Also, the USAID coordination call on Monday will focus exclusively on disability issues...as the result of our insistence. That call will be followed by a Portlight hosted call of about 15 NGO's on the ground in Haiti with the focus on coordinating our work on scene. We are placing a "Disability Czar" on scene in the next few d...
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Haiti Relief Update

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:01:00 GMT

URGENT UPDATE!!!!!Our on scene coordinator, Richard Lamarque, will be leaving for Haiti in a few days. He is from there, is well connected there, and has a skill set and life experiences which will be invaluable to our work there.He will be travelling by ship. We have commited to purchasing for him a small truck to take with him. The truck will be loaded with supplies. Upon arrival, the benefits of having a vehicle on site are self evident. The truck will cost ...
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Haiti Earthquake Relief

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:41:00 GMT

Portlight's focus in this is going to be on people with disabilities in Haiti...providing medical equipment, shelter, and food for them...there is an article below about the treatment of this population in the best of times...and this ain't the best of times...We have a "Go" container in Atlanta which will ship out in a few days...and an ongoing relationship with a community of Catholic sisters in Port au Prince who will be opening shelters....Any funds we raise wi...
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