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Deutsche Post DHL deploys disaster response team to hurricane-hit Haiti
DEUTSCHE Post DHL Group is sending a disaster response team (DRT) to Port-au-Prince in Haiti to help with the response to the recent hurricane.
Volunteers will provide logistics support at Toussaint L'ouverture International Airport free of charge, coordinating incoming international aid and preparing it for onward transportation to affected areas.
Said Panama-based team leader Gilberto Castro: "Haiti may be facing a severe humanitarian crisis. Although it is still too early to assess the full extent of the losses and destruction, the DRT is on the ground and ready to facilitate the logistics of incoming relief goods and to secure fast processing of supplies."
It is the team's second experience of Haiti - they were deployed in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake, which left 230,000 dead.
The DRTs are part of Deutsche Post DHL Group's GoHelp disaster management programme, which has operated in partnership with the United Nations since 2005, providing free access to its logistics expertise, transport network and skills of 400 trained volunteer who can deploy within 72 hours.
Since the partnership was launched, the DRTs have completed more than 30 assignments - most recently in April 2016 following the earthquake in Ecuador and after the tropical storm that hit the Fiji Islands in February.
In addition to the DRT deployments, the group's Get Airports Read for Disaster (GARD) initiative - also part of the GoHelp programme - helps airports in risk regions to be better prepared should disaster strike.
Volunteers will provide logistics support at Toussaint L'ouverture International Airport free of charge, coordinating incoming international aid and preparing it for onward transportation to affected areas.
Said Panama-based team leader Gilberto Castro: "Haiti may be facing a severe humanitarian crisis. Although it is still too early to assess the full extent of the losses and destruction, the DRT is on the ground and ready to facilitate the logistics of incoming relief goods and to secure fast processing of supplies."
It is the team's second experience of Haiti - they were deployed in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake, which left 230,000 dead.
The DRTs are part of Deutsche Post DHL Group's GoHelp disaster management programme, which has operated in partnership with the United Nations since 2005, providing free access to its logistics expertise, transport network and skills of 400 trained volunteer who can deploy within 72 hours.
Since the partnership was launched, the DRTs have completed more than 30 assignments - most recently in April 2016 following the earthquake in Ecuador and after the tropical storm that hit the Fiji Islands in February.
In addition to the DRT deployments, the group's Get Airports Read for Disaster (GARD) initiative - also part of the GoHelp programme - helps airports in risk regions to be better prepared should disaster strike.
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