GENERAL OVERVIEW
- More than 36 countries and dozens of humanitarian organizations have already sent in-kind donations as well as monetary contributions to Haiti.
- Twenty-six countries, including Argentina, Canada, France, Russia and the USA have provided significant military assets for the emergency response. These assets include field hospitals, troops, military aircraft, hospital ships, cargo ships and helicopters. MINUSTAH currently has 3,400 troops and police on the ground. Civil military coordinators are working directly with the US military.
- Logistical challenges still remain at the airport in Port-au-Prince, where many supplies are offloaded with the expectation that they will be transported to relief agencies. WFP, the US Military and MINUSTAH are coordinating the arrival of incoming humanitarian flights.
- People who have lost their homes are resettling themselves in parks and open spaces, in many cases with no shade or other means of shelter.
- MINUSTAH is providing ICT services in the log base and is currently upgrading the Internet connectivity to accommodate additional personnel who is housed on the premises.
- The road from Santo Domingo to Barahona is open; however, the route from Barahona to Jimaní is in poor condition and very congested. The total travel time is at least 4 hours from Santo Domingo to Jimaní.
- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the General Assembly Building in New York in honor of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
- The WFP has provided 200,000 people with rations for seven days.