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In the months since the Haiti earthquake, Project C.U.R.E. has shipped 19 cargo containers to Haiti. Logistically, this has been very difficult. Let me tell you a little bit about how a Haiti-bound container gets from our warehouse in Houston to its destination in Port-au-Prince.
Almost all our outgoing shipments leave in sea-going cargo containers, which are packed to the ceiling with equipment and boxes. The containers are loaded onto a flatbed truck and taken to Port of Houston, where a crane lifts it onto a container ship.
The port at Port-au-Prince airport is operating again, but has been overwhelmed by the volume of incoming aid relief. Alternative routes presently used to get relief supplies into Haiti include (1) airlifting supplies to the already overcrowded airport; (2) unloading at Santo Domingo in the neighboring country of Dominican Republic, and trucking supplies across the mountains; and (3) unloading at the cruise ship docks at Labadee in the north of Haiti (not damaged by the earthquake) and trucking supplies to the south side of the country.
A variety of partners have come together to deliver these shipment to Haiti. For instance, the first shipment that Project C.U.R.E. Houston sent to Haiti went by airlift; a later shipment went by Royal Carribean cruise ship.
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| Hospital St. Francois de Sales, Port-au-Prince | Royal Caribbean ship unloading pallets at Labadee, Haiti | |
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For more pictures of the truck being loaded in Houston, visit http://www.photoworks.com/slideshow/album/ADF94B23999E?source=pw980 . We are always looking for sponsors for our containers. If you know anyone that could help us, especially with an oil company, please let me know, dnafox@aol.com.
Dan Fox, Volunteer, PROJECT C.U.R.E. Houston
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