HAITI EARTHQUAKE 2021 STATISTICS:
- (1) Partial Ship run IN TRANSIT
- (2) FULL ship runs in September
- $4.5 MILLION in SUPPLIES
- 1000+ Pallets
- (3) Department Zones served
MISSION DISTRIBUTION OVERVIEW:
In our 11 years of working in Haiti, we have learned many important lessons. In an effort to have the aid supply-chain-scaled and streamlined, here’s GEM/Bstrong's plan of action:
- We have charted a large cargo ship to transport supplies & relief aid.
- GEM will be loading approximately 20 UC Group semi trucks with over 1000 pallets totaling over 4.5 M in relief supplies will be shipped throughout September 2021.
- Supplies will service 3 main zones:
Zone A:
Departement Nippes
Epicenter region Changeaux, L’Asilles, Anse de Veau
Zone B:
Departement Sud
Les Cayes region
Zone C:
Grande Anse
Jerenie region
- The supplies are donated to GEM through major partnerships such as Good360 Take2Hope, South Florida Caribbean Strong Ocean State Job Lot, USA 4 Vets, Goya Foods, Walmart, Amazon and many more.
- The ship will arrive into the port of Miraguane in the last week of August.
Any attempts to have large scale public distributions would only lead to absolute chaos. To prevent this, we have partnered with reliable Haitian (only) partners that operate year round in the affected areas of the south coast.
- Local Haitian organizations, churches, orphanages, schools and hospitals will be recipients of the life sustaining supplies. Food, beverages, tents, blankets, air mattresses and over-the-counter medical supplies will be palletized in our GEM HQ for the next 10 days.
- Volunteer groups from United Way, Dade South Florida, Caribbean Strong, Little Lighthouse, and 420 Space Yoga will be assembling the partner pallets.
- The port will be turned into a truck-only drive-up. Each Haitian partner will send 1-3 box trucks (depending on community size) to pick up their supplies. The 3 combined ship runs will fill over 200 Haitian trucks.
- Our goal is to have community leaders throughout the entire southern coast execute and organize their own distributions for their designated & affected communities.
- All distributions with partners will be supervised by GEM Haitian team members and our GEM executive teams. We are currently on the ground doing smaller distributions all week in tandem.
- This program is in partnership with the DPC, Caribbean Consular Corps and the Haitian Consulate.
