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Rescue Task Force - 2010 Haiti Earthquake Response (DIST: FOOD/WATER/MEDICAL SUPPLIES)

Organization: Non-Profit, Disaster Relief
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
MAILING ADDRESS:
2270 Camino Vida Roble, Suite K
Carlsbad, CA 92011
, HT 00000

Region:Haiti, Carribean
County/Parish:



Website: http://rescuetaskforce.org/newsflash/


Mission: Task Force is an agile and innovative non-profit organization whose mission is to alleviate suffering and provide developmental aid to those who have been marginalized by geography or economic deprivation. We often go where others do not go to help those who are outside the scope of conventional relief providers.

We also respond rapidly with medical and other immediate aid to victims of man-made and natural disasters world-wide.

Rescue Task Force projects are made possible by the contributions of our supporters to whom we are fully accountable.


Areas Served: Haiti, Carribean



This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, January 25, 2010
Carlsbad, California

RESCUE TASK FORCE TEAM – VOLUNTEER WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES ARRIVE
UPDATE FROM HAITI!!!

“The city has become a cemetery – Buildings have collapsed and with heavy concrete and no equipment to move shattered structures hundreds remain under the rubble.”

World Emergency Relief’s Rescue Task Force Team Update:

An additional volunteer, Chris Morrow, arrived Haiti this morning to join the RTF Team bringing with her much needed supplies for distribution. Along with urgently requested medicine, she brought five large duffle bags filled with medical supplies – rubber gloves, face masks, scissors, bandages, sterile gauze, tape, antibiotics, Tylenol (adult and children’s), Pepto Bismol, slings, ace bandages, first-aid kits, Neosporin and more. Morrow also brought flashlights, batteries and glow sticks. RTF’s on-the-ground team leader, Darryl Hall called in a special request – Light Bulbs! Morrow hand carried two dozen light bulbs in addition to Romex wire, 300 feet of extension cord, connectors/adapters and supplies to hook up more electricity.

Much needed and appreciated delivery. That’s what Rescue Task Force does – we respond quickly to immediate needs! Additional supplies are being readied for Haiti including container loads of urgently needed items for survival and temporary but longer-term sustainability of the Haitians.

Also, just in from Rescue Task Force team member, Stanley Vincent, who in “normal life” is a Los Angeles based California Highway Patrolman–Vincent was born in Haiti and lived there for his first 26 years:“I have never seen a city that was bombed – Haiti looks as though an atomic bomb has gone off. The city has become a cemetery – Buildings have collapsed and with heavy concrete and no equipment to move shattered structures hundreds remain under the rubble. Decomposing bodies are beginning to smell as many bodies have not been disposed of yet. People are in survival mode and there is so much despair on the faces. It is very difficult to explain just how hard to see how much pain, destruction and death everywhere. However, I am also amazed and heartened to see so many people – doctors, military, and volunteers, arriving at the airport. So many people have left their comfortable life at home to come and help. I am very grateful to be here and witness this effort. We are making a difference. We are able to restore electricity. There was a man with a severe head injury and they were able to work on him last night – not using flashlights. What was a school building for International Faith Mission, prior to the earthquake, is now a makeshift hospital. The doctors are able to perform minor surgeries and work through the night.”

Today the Rescue Task Force team will distribute the much-needed medical supplies brought in by Morrow. They will travel to outlying areas where clinics are running low and/or out of supplies. They are traveling with hope and life in their cargo.

As they travel, delivering food, water and supplies today – Please keep them in your prayers.

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Friday, January 15, 2010
PRESS ADVISORY AT 1:00 PM
Interview Darryl Hall, leaving for Haiti

RESCUE TASK FORCE SENDNG A TEAM TO HAITI

The cries for help have been heard…

We are on our way!!!

Rescue Task Force’s (RTF) “boots-the-ground,” team a will be leaving for Haiti on Monday, January 18th, 2010.

RTF’s veteran volunteer Darryl Hall along with Chris Simmons, Jose Garcia and John McRae are packing up their gear and heading into the devastated Port-au-Prince to bring some much needed immediate relief.

“The immediate needs the first few days after mother nature strikes are a given – basic food, water, shelter, sanitation along with anti diarrhea medicines and Tylenol. Within days disease and cholera set in and the needs change quickly. RTF there, on the ground, will assess the needs, purchase the supplies and do direct distribution.”

- Andrea Stone, Executive Officer RTF

Your donations help hand-to-hand – Your hand to our hand to their hand.

Working with our local in-country volunteers the support will go to those who need the help the most.

Please help us help those that are hurting right now.
Please help to save a life.

Online donations: http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html or

Send Checks to:

Rescue Task Force
2270 Camino Vida Roble, Suite K
Carlsbad, CA 92011
760-930-9089

For media contact:

Andrea Stone
Tel: 760-930-8001
Cell: 619-991-3669
Email: andrea @rescuetaskforce.org

Can you Help Today? Donations are urgently needed!

Rescue Task Force has responded to man made and natural disasters for over 20 years. Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief Family of Charities

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Rescue Task Force is a 9-1-1 responder to global man-made and natural disasters – usually responding within hours of a disaster striking.

Upon arriving into a disaster area the initial response team does local purchasing and convoys relief supplies into hazardous zones. The teams provide immediate assistance and conduct a comprehensive needs-assessment. RTF teams coordinate the receipt and distribution of bulk relief supplies that will be following behind them.

Working with local service providers and governments RTF provides ongoing relief to communities that have been identified and determined to be in the most need.

RTF teams typically work in remote, difficult to access isolated villages and hamlets that are overlooked by convention relief providers.

Sometime the impossible takes us a few days…

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Follow up-to-the-minute details on our team at:
Twitter.com/RescueTaskForce
Twitter.com/MorrowChris

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Created At: Fri Jan 15 04:55:49 +0000 2010
Updated At: Thu Feb 04 09:19:17 +0000 2010
Updated By: LTel


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