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again not surprisingly situation is becoming the sort of more more desperate
for the people there on the ground
uh... by the hour
literally we had people begging for food
you for water scooping up but
people started just taking dead bodies and doubled in the debate john
mass grave holes on the ground
threat of disease
very serious concern right now
uh... but somebody who knows a lot more about this uh...
than we do our joins us now
jeff needy from the uh... charity convoy of hope which can be
as you can find them on the web compa little dot org
he's got a little b_t_u_ director reject french taken from george howard
durunka great great are you guys
were good what's the most a pressing need
eat what is the thing that you want people to know most about what's
happening in a
it went
uh... i i think that working people need to know is is what you're seeing on
television
infant isn't becoming hits works it has there that looks on t_v_ it's worse
sweet we've got about seventeen people on the ground right now in haiti
and uh...
as they are just they had a phone call open ago from satellite phone call from
one of my guide from
uh... six-foot eight big guy you know never
never backed down from anything nothing bothers them
and uh... and
he executed with different person on the phone after being there for maybe three
or four hours
kiki ten thirty four different countries
and thirty to forty different countries
and have never seen anything like that spend almost every major disaster
but but their fifth has affected him like i've ever seen and that that help
additives in that severe illness has acted in the world where
isn't that correct
and from like a great benders
circuit into indonesia and sherlock after the tsunami urban enough in the
world after katrina
florida after hurricane katrina sort of thing
but the destruction at yes
is just
unbelievable
i mean
everywhere you look it but i mean this civilians flattened it's not just a
portion of it and not just a a
little small area but but the the city is flattened that today they they were
scooping up dead bodies off the road in front end loaders and putting them in
dump trucks to haul them away
that that the only mean they have right now
of of disposing of those bodies
and uh...
and just tell us a little bit of a convoy of hope and white
u_s_ what you'd do in other places with what your response disasters should
consistently
sure twirls draft organization burglar preparing for the faster response we are
what with what they call a first responder
we've we've had a lot of experience this country and we we've been in over one
hundred different countries around the world
where we commend as close actor factors we can
immediately begin
meeting the immediate needs of people on the ground usually those are food water
shelter
medical appliances right up there
haiti with a really interesting
picturesque because
we part of our organization we have a ongoing feeding program where we see
children around the world but twenty one thousand right now
seven thousand of those are in haiti
our country director for haiti
had just arrived in katie just a couple days before the earthquake
uh... lived through the earthquake he was importer print when it happened
we kept judge three spock our warehouse for truth about ninety miles north of
port-au-prince
actress suffered from minor damage in that area
but we were able to immediately give fifty thousand new york how that
warehouse
and uh... and move it along to getting things ready with the rest of our team
arrived today but actually cut two different teams arrived today
and and their setting up long-term distribution points right now where we
where we can
set up around the city or print
and and and the toughest thing about that right now if you're ready
let me ask one of the stories that were words is that u_s_ military commander on
the grounds
the options would be open to the u_s_ fiction like take a much more active
role in
the security of
especially if the desperation that we're seeing on the ground now the very
natural puma desperation trojan do violence at looking
there was not the safest place in the world of the before this happened that's
not a insignificant undertaking for the u_s_ military id
no exactly right
uh... any that we've been in haiti for several years now fairly experienced
operating in that country and and peace
for the earthquake we never went anywhere without armed guards
we always seven armed presents a security person or persons
uh... with uh... depending on the group size
and i think that that's just put culture that's the way they live each and every
day of the violence their the
the pike can't get it in the other way outbreak at caricatures not for what i
have to pay together
uh... it it's gordon edwards we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg right now
uh... i i
saying come and i think saying it's a lot of doomsday person at all
but but we have to be when they say we have to get supplies to the quickly
baby that it it will harbinger of all or dangerous normal
well let's
let's i mean i i i was out of respect anybody with convoy of hope to be it
there's still one the warrior your clear on that they are
what is the fee
ear when you say we fear it's going to turn bad what is our what is that i want
to the dot on a foot of his worst case scenario but once the scenario we're
trying to avoid what do you fear it could become
if we are not able to get
into the people who need it most quickly
irc that copycat mentality and a haitian culture
there
they they can get tribal at times though getting group
and aunt bev
the click you no one got by himself is not going to make
you notice really bad decision but you get three cac together
and and also make as they can get really messed up
and what happened to the book
the the energies for speculate that the violent attitudes for escalate
and they feed off of each other and then pretty soon you you've having bob
that's trying to take over some things they decide that something they want if
they want that food
uh... unless you are
securely guarded them they're going to come attract a curfew had referred to
bank
does some someone who isn't a question as to why they're not just doing water
drops big drops of foreign
dictated his because of the chaos in several different aerobraking killing
each other to try to get a clear exactly aren't so that we we know we've seen the
pictures we've we've listened to you just leave it with went over
what tell me
something
you know about the word hoping your convoy what what is their about which we
can be hopeful starting it at square one is what it seems like net what's the
them
where's the room for
great great question
um...
and i think i can give you my personal answer am
uh... i i i really think haiti is none of the poorest country in the western
hemisphere
they've sharing the island with the dominican republic
which which has beautiful resorts great tourism
you know they are night and day
and and i think this is eighteenth opportunity
for whatever reason
they are whether it's political or socioeconomic for whatever it is not my
model expert on that
but this is an opportunity for haiti i think the hope to hear
the capital the main part of haiti is so destroyed they have no choice but the
completely rebuilt
and this is their opportunities not just to rebuild it
city but to rebuild their culture to rebuild their lives
helps a little bit do you know uh... xx
about com with hope and what what net what has happened what are people within
your organization do in right this second
but we've got we have our weekly call it factional labor war room we have our
command center and the lower level of of our building here in springfield
missouri
and we've been activated since tuesday night with us as we heard about the the
earthquake
uh... so we've got uh... at team working pretty much around the clock little take
a little bit so i'm off at night to sleep
but working out all the little sticks out just give you an example the
logistics along inning in and out of haiti right now are ridiculous
uh... mike
signed the or video shooting a photography and he went in with it
team that we just inserted
they they've had to fly in a private plane because there is no commercial
flights going in and out they work told they'd be able to get into porter prance
once they got to florida to refuel they could not get into for print
so they had to divert
the dominican republic
once they got to the dominican republic
they were supposed to be our charter plane a charter plane left without them
and they ended up having to get helicopter transportation to get him our
other team went into dominican republic at the right track
drive across cross-country across
bad roads
or not to say first area of the country
and so just getting people there's difficult now
the food that we have our warehouse already before the earthquake is very
helpful but but if i could not be last long
so what we've got to do now if you get more food product in there
the fact that way to do it is through hair left
and we've already got relationship started with their we've got
relationship with the military that they're going to
airlift in some of our product
uh... i've got a friend that works with
or organization called blocker cargo we're trying to
work with them to airlifting product americans
and there's there's just
so much going on that that the gut when you get out of the war amid chaos
because everything changes minute by minute it on the logistics side as you
describe this it increasingly sounds more more like a job for
that that uh... the role
or that the united states military
and perhaps military from
uh... other nations has to play there is critical that there's no way around you
guys
secure that
that that's not what you do
there's only right now
and and and a vast amount of securing of areas the
patronage with the only organization
knows what they're doing can do that and can do a lively
what also what frustrates me
then this is less of a question about the organization and about the situation
in general but surely you've seen it before the devastation of this
earthquake uh... has as you mentioned the inability of your first team
land in porter prince
but
we're seeing that again and again i read
about unicef plane filled with staff did just couldn't land and we had to go back
to panama bob so the airport is unusable not totally but i mean it can't and it's
not equipped to take all the help
and the port the seaport
as though they're there are boom boats that need
into can even get it
i don't i want to know
what is good
is the solution to that and is that
you give money to help that so efficient yeah
i think your honor earlier when he's that relate the federal government and
all other days their referral if you don't want
bliss
that the port they report printed damage
so badly that like you said ships can't get him
that would be the normal way we would get product and they're telling us
thirty days probably before that
uh... what damage united rush limbaugh said you know we've already given so
much that
the analytics targeting for
yeah i i i don't care about yes uh... here
it's one of those things that were at the end
we can figure out a way to turn back country around then the investment works
but it is
if you just where public money down a dark hole
yeah i don't like platelets ever email we are above a little selam but this is
this this kind of an issue transcends politics but
you hear all the people
all of these talking heads cynically talking about giving money and giving a
gem as as a country as an individual to haiti in to this crisis how does that
effect
you in the work you do with the people around you is a discouraging thing to
your deepest not paying attention to it whatsoever
uh... i don't think either one of those really its not discouraging because i'm
a big believer in
personal freedom for free to think what you want i don't think i don't think
that doesn't bother me when people disagree with me
um
i think i think that
we have an obligation to help when we can help
and i don't believe important money they have a whole
uh... but what like with example are feeding program which is the reason we
were in haiti in first place
we don't just
feed kids we feed kids through the school system and make it a part of
the education profs
so there's nutrition education there's hygiene education
there it would be the only way
countries like that get out of the situation there and his youth educators
young
so that they don't grow up with the same lifestyles the parents
will
it's admirable that you were
you take that sort of principled stand about people who disagree with you but
uh...
rush limbaugh store display flatiron yeah untraceable saying that even if
if you are comparable agreeing with guys saying i how much we and i speak for all
of us here and i'm sure i'll take that literally appreciate that there are
people like union and the people you work with doing
and that you know if the if anyone is watching and wants to uh... donates it's
convoy of hope dot org beli beli beli dot com political dot org their other
groups to if you have an affiliation with other groups are people doing that
worked here for a quick how much of the differences he and i guess you guys are
getting money from a bad nine million dollars is the number raised so far from
text messages on cell phones that is remarkable isn't it
at that the bathing in the end of that one that unfortunately we relate to the
game we've started that process tried to to be able to propeller ride that wave
but we still don't have that capability we we started the day after the
earthquake trying to make that happen the federal two-week
process they're trying to rush it but hopefully will be able to do that in
future
at the main i found some a little by going to eat few different websites that
reach the effectiveness of the dollars that go to these to these groups
and the best work very well and i remember the name of the website drop
probably charity navigator tdc sectarian navigator yeah i know you know that i
have to be fair there are a lot of charities that get their highest rating
which is just for starters and and ya
and uh... and uh... it's not just convoy of but one i have what i protested
yesterday and i hope other people do to the end of the sooner you get into a
place that
uses the dollar's fact well real quick we gotta go but
that one
things that uh... anderson cooper did well
even though he had made fun of
ford was staying
in new orleans after katrina
it is sort of at least moderately in people's conversations in the weeks
after the
of the devastation had subsided hai
will try to make that an effort here are the other church because
you need money and help today
it in a week you're going to meet in a month
kennedy's three months
absolutely and it's amazing how quick giving tram
all over the air went with the media props particularly twelve stand
and what makes that more disappointing is that uh...
is this your number of clouds and the media albert platt
clothes again just like
any from a convoy evoke the website convoy of hope dot org is michael said
there a quality charity and they need your help they're doing a great things
on the ground and taking
and risking their own huh
the to do so
in haiti jeff thanks for joining
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