Emergency response Haiti
The NOREPS partners are committed to provide fast and reliable assistance in a coordinated response. After the devastating earth quake in Haiti, NOREPS partners were among the first to respond and are doing their outmost to assist and relieve some of the tremendous human suffering.
Abstracts and examples below.
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| The joint Nordic IHP-camp, Camp Charlie. (Foto: Goodwin/DSB) |
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(31.03.10) The State Secretary Ingrid Fiskaa, announced that Norway will provide assistance totalling NOK 800 million (USD 135 million) to Haiti over the next four years.
Press release April 1. in English
Press release March 31. in Norwegian |
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(24.01.10) The Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, announced that Norway is contributing a total of NOK 200 million to imminent relief efforts. Supporting the coordinated international relief operations, Norway is channelling funds through the UN, international and established relief agencies
Press release, initial contribution Jan 14. in English
Press release Jan 24. in Norwegian
Press release Jan. 25 in Norwegian
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(21.01.10) NORCAP, the personnel element of NOREPS administered by NRC, the Norwegian Refugee Council will ensure that meals are provided for 40 000 people daily in Haiti, through cooperation with the UN World Food Programme and supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Defense and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
http://www.nrc.no/?did=9454315
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(19.01.10) Scan Water (Scandinavian Water Technology AS) is supplying Mercy Corps with portable, self-contained water-filtration devices.
Through a partnership with the water treatment and transport leader ITT, Mercy Corps is getting five water-filtration devices to supply as many as 25,000 people with clean water.
Artikkel på Hadeland Net (in Norwegian)
Oppland Arbeiderblad (pdf)
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(19.01.10) Through joint Nordic efforts, the DSB, Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning has established a UN support camp in Haiti.
This support camp will be one of the largest operations in IHP’s 15 year history. (International Humanitarian Partnership) The partnership has received a request from WFP for an extended base camp with the capacity to support 200 UN staff.
In addition to a place to work and sleep, the camp must also provide meals and access to water and sanitation facilities. The need for a large base camp in Haiti’s capital city of Port Au Prince is great, considering that many of the previous UN offices have been destroyed by the earthquake.
See IHP, International Humanitarian Partnership site:
And DSB - Direktoratet for Sivilt Beredskap (in Norwegian)
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(19.01.10) Vizada Networks, the leading independent satellite communications provider, and SES World Skies have donated satellite and service capacity to allow the World Health Organization VSAT site in Port au Prince to cover for the increased needs of communication in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Press release (pdf)
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(18.01.10) The Norwegian Red Cross - A 70-bed rapid deployment hospital deployed by the Norwegian and Canadian Red Cross Societies is set up in the grounds of Port-au-Prince’s University Hospital, providing assistance and care for people wounded in the quake.
On IFRC web
And Norwegian Red Cross. (in Norwegian)
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(17.01.10) Norwegian Church Aid is working intensely with critical emergency relief. The NCA team, including highly-experienced water specialists is setting up 45 tonnes of water-purification equipment in the coming days, including equipment from other NOREPS partners. This will make it possible for water to reach 30,000 people.
In English see www.nca.no
Haiti relief efforts (in Norwegian)
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