FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – It’s been greater than per week now since Haiti was rocked by a large earthquake and nonetheless, there are such a lot of people who find themselves hurting and in determined want of assist.
One of many organizations now stepping as much as assistance is the AIDS Healthcare Basis, or AHF.
On Wednesday, they loaded greater than 44,000 kilos of provides onto a personal aircraft at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport.
The aircraft will then ship these items to a number of the hardest hit areas of the nation.
And this isn’t the primary aid flight that AHF has organized. Simply final week, they despatched one other jet filled with medical provides to Haiti.
A lot of these provides are going to medical doctors and hospitals, who’re nonetheless struggling to take care of the entire sick and injured.
In contrast to final week’s flight, which carried about 7,000 kilos of provides, the aircraft they’re utilizing Wednesday is way bigger, permitting them to take greater than 5 occasions that quantity.
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“This flight is way broader,” AHF Southern Bureau Chief Michael Kahane stated. “So along with sending the medical provides that we’ve finished already, on this flight we’ve added life-sustaining provides. So non-perishable meals gadgets, tents, sleeping luggage, lanterns and flashlights and solar-powered lanterns. So the individuals who aren’t within the hospital and aren’t injured can begin to stabilize, as a result of the rebuilding course of goes to be very lengthy.”
Whereas a few of these provides have been donated particularly for the trigger, lots of the issues on Wednesday’s flight really got here from one of many Surfside aid teams that began amassing meals and water for the Champlain Towers South collapse survivors.
Apparently, that they had so many gadgets left over that they supplied to ship them to Haiti to assist a number of the folks there.
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