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Fr Mark Hyde, from the New Rochelle Salesian Missions Office has decided to prolong his stay in Santo Domingo until 29 January in order to coordinate various things. Mr Hendrix Pineda, from the New Rochelle Missions Office will join him today 25 January to provide communication support and advice on financial management and reporting requirements.
The Spanish NGO Jóvenes y Desarrollo has been entrusted with supporting the coordination of the emergency relief in general; VIS will be requested to support relief efforts with specific types of assistance such as psycho-social support, engineers, etc.
Beginning January 26, a daily simultaneous coordination teleconference will be held among New Rochelle, Santo Domingo, and Port-au-Prince also making a contribution to the work of coordination. Communications with Haiti are improving thanks to the availability of some satellite telephones.
The Salesians of the Antilles have obtained space to keep 10 containers at the airport in Barahona and acquired trucks to transport water and food.
It is still to be decided where to locate the Emergency Relief Office. An inventory of SDB-owned and Government of Haiti-owned properties needs to be drawn up and made available so as to hasten the re-construction process and the recovery of office equipment and computers.
Published 25/01/2010
