Airdrop of food, water, batteries. And pipelines later.

Submitted by Peter Ravenscroft on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 13:41.

The aid effort is large and very good, but the problem is much bigger. Only about a third of the people are getting any food. I think.

We aim to set up water pipelines, but that is not possible yet, and there is more of a food problem than a water problem now.

So, we have started organising the airdrop. Gilbert Mervilus, our Haiti manager, is putting out the first target cross of sheets for the planes at Delmas, a suburb away from and south of the airport, and the airdrop flight line centre. I hope. And he is recruiting local people there for this effort.

See here:

http://www.pool.org.au/text/peter_ravenscroft/international_low_level_em...

If anyone, absolutely anyone who is online, would like to help make this go, please log on there, in your real name, with a sentence on skills and another sentence on availability in terms of time. Then email me, either from there or direct.

Either p.s.ravenscroft@gmail.com. or ravenscroft@ymail.com

We have tons to do, but very few people doing. Everyone wants to rush to Haiti to starve and make the problem worse. Very few want to do the real work, outside the country.

Get back, if you are an exception.

Best

Peter.