Thursday 18 February 2010
Tents top priority in Haiti
One of thousands of ShelterBox tents now providing emergency shelter in Haiti. Photogrpah: Mike Greenslade
ShelterBox Response Team member Mike Greenslade (AU) says the conditions in Haiti are the worst he has ever seen.
On February, Tuesday 16, SRT members Mike and Dave Ray (UK), who are in Port au Prince, worked closely with community leaders and the Red Falcon, US 82nd Airborne to distribute 180 ShelterBoxes.
Mike said: ‘We could not have achieved a safe distribution without the 82nd Airbourne. The soldiers of Red Falcon ensured that boxes went to the most needy in the camp.
‘Conditions in the camp are amongst the worst I’ve seen with people living cheek by jowl, camping out on piles of rubble, surrounded by rubbish and rotting waste. In this space people have to wash, cook, eat and sleep, many with no more than a bed sheet for overhead cover.
‘This picture is replicated throughout Port au Prince and the outlying affected by the quake. There are not enough tents to go round and the consensus is that when the rains come we will have a second emergency on our hands.’
The slideshow below of images from Haiti includes photographs taken by Mike during his deployment:
