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RESCUE TASK FORCE PACKING FOR DISASTER RESPONSE TO HAITI DISASTER

Jan 18

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE


January 18, 2010


RESCUE TASK FORCE PACKING FOR DISASTER RESPONSE TO HAITI DISASTER


Who: Rescue Task Force team packing relief supplies for Haiti, January 18, 2010


What: Team briefing meeting and packing
Team will be available for press interviews


When: January 18, 2010 12:00 PM


Where: Volunteer Team Leader Darryl Hall’s Residence
For address details call Darryl or Andrea
San Diego, CA 92124


Contact: Darryl Hall 858-583-3485 – Cell or Andrea Stone 619-991-3669 – Cell


Visual: Team will be packing, loading and heading for the airport


TEAM DEPARTURE FOR HAITI


Who: Rescue Task Force Disaster Team
San Diego based World Emergency Relief’s Rescue Task Force is sending their volunteer relief team to Haiti


What: Team Departs via American Airlines – available for press interviews


When: January 18, 2010, 2:30 PM


Where: American Airlines terminal – San Diego’s Lindberg Field


Visual: Team will say goodbye to family and friends and will board the plane to provide relief to the Haitian victims of this catastrophic earthquake


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Many have gone four days without food, water, medical treatment and relief. Rescue Task Force is on the way. With over 20 years experience in disaster response RTF Team is preparing to board a plane and head into disaster.


Please help us, help these hungry, thirsty, hurt and terrified people. They need us!  They need you!

Donate Online: http://www.wer-us.org/haiti-RFT-donation.html


Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief family of Charities

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RESCUE TASK FORCE SENDNG A TEAM TO HAITI

Jan 15

Posted by admin in Disaster Response, General, Information, News Release

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Friday, January 15, 2010

PRESS ADVISORY AT 1:00 PM

Interview Darryl Hall, leaving for Haiti

2270 Camino Vida Roble, Suite K, Carlsbad, CA 92010


RESCUE TASK FORCE SENDNG A TEAM TO HAITI

The cries for help have been heard…

We are on our way!!!


Rescue Task Force’s (RTF) “boots-the-ground,” team a will be leaving for Haiti on Monday, January 18th, 2010.

RTF’s veteran volunteer Darryl Hall along with Chris Simmons, Jose Garcia and John McRae are packing up their gear and heading into the devastated Port-au-Prince to bring some much needed immediate relief.

“The immediate needs the first few days after mother nature strikes are a given – basic food, water, shelter, sanitation along with anti diarrhea medicines and Tylenol. Within days disease and cholera set in and the needs change quickly. RTF there, on the ground, will assess the needs, purchase the supplies and do direct distribution.”

- Andrea Stone, Executive Officer RTF

Your donations help hand-to-hand – Your hand to our hand to their hand.

Working with our local in-country volunteers the support will go to those who need the help the most.


Please help us help those that are hurting right now.

Please help to save a life.

Online donations: http://www.rescuetaskforce.org/donation_page.html or

Send Checks to:

Rescue Task Force

2270 Camino Vida Roble

Suite K

Carlsbad, CA 92011

760-930-9089


For media contact

Andrea Stone

Tel: 760-930-8001

Cel: 619-991-3669

Email: andrea@rescuetaskforce.org


Can you Help Today?

Donations are urgently needed!


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Rescue Task Force has responded to man made and natural disasters for over 20 years. Rescue Task Force is in the World Emergency Relief Family of Charities

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San Diego Aid Organizations Help Haiti

Jan 14

Posted by admin in Disaster Response, General


BY ALISON ST JOHN
January 14, 2010

Several San Diego-based international aid organizations are swinging into action to help the relief effort in Haiti.

Organizations with existing ties to Haiti are best positioned to respond rapidly to the crisis. Andrea Stone of the San Diego-based Rescue Task Force says they have contact with International Faith Missions, a group with a mobile medical clinic.

“Even though we have an organization there they don’t have barely anything,” she said. “So to be able to get them the funding to help people with basic stitches, stopping bleeding triage and then move into water and food from there.”

Stone says several San Diegans plan to leave early next week to take water containers and cash for fuel and supplies for relief workers.

Chris Bessenecker of Project Concern has already left San Diego for Haiti. His goal is to build connections to begin funneling aid into the more rural communities outside Port-au-Prince.

Scott Sabin of Plant with Purpose, another San Diego-based group, has been working on reforestation and sustainable agriculture in Haiti for more than a decade. He says their work will focus on longer term recovery.

“For the work to come, in the weeks to come, that’s where we come in,” he said. “Helping people to rebuild homes and get life back to normal after the immediate rescue has taken place.”

Sabin said he had news that the Haitian workers on his projects have survived, though some of their families have not, and many of the workers are now homeless.

KPBS Article

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