American Red Cross

Releases

10$ Millions 

To Help Haiti 

HOW TO HELP

We are not accepting volunteers to travel to Haiti. If you would like to volunteer for the American Red Cross, please contact your Local Chapter.

 For inquiries about relatives living and who have citizenship in Haiti, please be patient and call repeatedly until the lines clear or contact other family members who live nearby. Telephone, Internet and other communication lines are often disrupted in times of disaster.

People trying to locate U.S. citizens living or traveling in Haiti should contact the U.S. Department of State, Office of Overseas Citizens Services.

Call: 1-888-407-4747 

  Or:  1-202-647-5225

Monday, January 28, 2010

Red Cross relief supplies continue to arrive, and, although bottlenecks remain, the situation has significantly improved. Increased aid is reaching the survivors in the capital city and outlying areas around the world have arrived in Haiti. 

Red Cross relief supplies continue to arrive, and, although bottlenecks remain, the situation has significantly improved. Increased aid is reaching the survivors in the capital city and outlying areas around the world have arrived in Haiti.

As of Wednesday, January 27, more than 49 flights carrying Red Cross aid from are en route. Fifteen trucks arrived on January 27 from Santo Domingo to provide relief supplies.Additional planes, ships and trucks carrying Red Cross humanitarian assistance Port-au-Prince, which means that relief supplies have a safe place to be stored ahead of distribution.A new warehouse with more than 50,000 square feet of capacity is operational for responders to distribute aid in an orderly and efficient manner. They visit the community in advance to alert them that aid is coming and vouchers are then handed out; later, the Red Cross returns to hand out supplies at a predetermined location to recipients who wait in line to receive them.

The deep community presence of the Haitian Red Cross has allowed Red Cross provide a range of assistance, we are assessing needs and developing a strategy to meet long-term housing reconstruction needs.Shelter remains an urgent need on the ground. While the Red Cross works to as hygiene kits, blankets and water containers, for more than 1,000 families (5,000 people) each day – with plans to increase this number daily.  The American Red Cross and its partners are distributing other relief items, such people have now gathered.

On January 27, a first aid post opened in Place de Canape Vert, where 3,000 of the Red Cross to 3,000 detainees and 30 staff at the Petionville prison, as well as medical supplies to hospitalsHygiene kits and essential items were also distributed by International Committee

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