More Aid to Haiti

(Hat tip to Gates of Vienna)


Below is an update from Gates of Vienna on international aid to Haiti. It is to be added to a previous list published by the Sydney Morning Herald.

"Turkish Red Crescent to send 20 tons of relief aid to with two Turkish Military cargo planes on Friday [January 15th].

Turkish Red Crescent said the aid consisted of tents, blankets, food stuff and a field kitchen.

Turkey announced earlier that it would also dispatch a mobile hospital, two check-up devices, 20-member relief team, 10 tons of medicine and medical equipment to Haiti.

Hat tip: Sean O’Brian"
(Gates of Vienna)


"Some of our readers pointed out the omission by the Sydney newspaper of any assistance from Israel. Commenter Ashan helpfully gave us a link to Israel’s efforts:


"An Israeli aid delegation landed in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince on Friday night. Around 220 soldiers and officers are in the delegation, including 120 medical staff that will operate an emergency field hospital. An IDF plane loaded with equipment was expected to land shortly after the staff.


Jewish organizations - including the American Jewish World Service and the Joint Distribution Committee - are working with partners on the ground in Haiti. The JDC is working with Heart to Heart to bring medical aid, equipment and services to victims of the earthquake. It also is working with the IDF’s medical corps, and purchased equipment including infant incubators and orthopedic devices.

Chabad sent four trucks of vegetables, as reports came that food and water were scarce and looting had begun. “We see people on the road, asking for food,” Rabbi Shimon Pelman, Chabad’s emissary in Santo Domingo, told The Jerusalem Post by telephone Friday he traveled by car from the Dominican Republican to Haiti...

Regarding the omission of Israeli aid on the list compiled by The Sydney Morning Herald: until our readers in Oz email or comment on this, let’s presume the mistake was simply that: an inadvertent omission. The world is paranoid enough without adding to the problem."

(Gates of Vienna)

Kudos to Gates of Vienna for monitoring which nations and organizations are pitching in to help Haiti in its hour of need.