HAITI. USAID AID for Humanitarian Assistance. $12 million Hurricane Matthew.

USAID announces $12 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Hurricane Matthew response The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced more than $12 million in additional humanitarian assistance to help communities affected by Hurricane Matthew. With this funding, the United States is providing nearly $14 million for immediate Hurricane Matthew relief efforts in Haiti, Jamaica, and The Bahamas. The funding announced today will provide critical food assistance and relief supplies to hard-hit areas in Haiti's southwestern peninsula, as well as transportation and logistics support to help USAID's United Nations and non-governmental organizations partners reach communities in the Grand' Anse and Sud regions. There are currently 1.4 million Haitians in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN, which issued a flash funding appeal to the international community on October 10. Nearly $7 million of this additional funding will support the UN World Food Program's (WFP) efforts to provide urgently needed food assistance to 750,000 people for three months. It is also being used to provide and transport 6,600 boxes of ready-to- use supplementary foods to prevent and treat malnutrition. More than $2 million of this assistance will help ramp up WFP's logistics and telecommunications capacity to enhance efficiency and coordination of land, sea, and air cargo operations in Haiti. The remaining nearly $3 million has gone toward the provision of more than 515 metric tons of relief supplies-including blankets, hygiene kits, kitchen sets, chain saws, water containers, generators, and heavy-duty plastic sheeting-that USAID has been airlifting to Haiti and The Bahamas. USAID is also providing a three month's supply of chlorine to be used in piped water systems throughout Haiti, with an immediate focus on high-risk areas, as well as water purification tablets that will help provide safe drinking water for 475,000 people. USAID deployed an elite Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Haiti, Jamaica, and The Bahamas on October 3 in advance of Hurricane Matthew's arrival to lead the U.S. government's response efforts to the strongest storm to hit the central Caribbean in almost a decade. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is providing airlift and logistical capacities to support USAID's efforts to deliver critical humanitarian assistance to areas cut off by the storm. DoD has also authorized up to $11 million in Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid funds to be spent in support of USAID's disaster relief efforts.

GROUP CRISIS INTERVENTIONS TRAINING. December 2016

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Dorsainvil Foundation. Haiti Donations. October 2016

Dolores Dosainvil is a Lifetime member of BEMA. Give it will go to the local community. 

Charles D Sharp CEO. BEMA



Dorsainvil Foundation is collecting funds and supplies for an emergency trip to Haiti to assist in the hurricane Matthew relief efforts. If you are interested in donating to an organization where 100% of everything collected goes straight to the people of Haiti, please consider our group. 

Visit our website at www.dorsainvilfoundation.org or email Dolores Dorsainvil at ddorsainvil@dorsainvilfoundation.org or Pierre Dorsainvil at pdorsainvil@dorsainvilfoundation.org or call 202-256-3545. Thank you!

Our survival. Cooperate, coordinate, collaborate, and partner. Just listen and implement.

Enough.  We have to come together. To cooperate, coordinate, collaborate, and partner (CCC&P) for the survival of our families, and communities.  Our immediate and international community

We have the financial resources to sustain each other, our nonprofits, and private industry.  But we’re all in different silo’s, different objectives, and ego’s that need satisfaction.

One of our members brought this to my attention.  Is this statement true for some?

Not only in the America’s, throughout the diaspora from the U.S., Caribbean, Central & South America, the continent of Africa, Europe, Asia wherever Blacks of African Descent have migrated.

1.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thXS9e0la-A

2.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if9jUSpl5HM

The number of disasters shall increase as a result of climate change.  Coordination of planning, preparedness, response, recovery, and sustainability has to be ‘stepped up’ in our communities worldwide.  Current events affecting our communities are an indication of that lack of CCC&P.  From New Orleans, Haiti earthquake, West Africa (Ebola Crisis), and now Haiti hurricane crisis.  Just listen and implement Enough.

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Homelessness. An international issue.

Homelessness is not only a local issue, but national security and international issue requiring a structured analytical approach with all members of the community, local culture, and the new culture within the homeless community to be at the table.

20^th Century traditional homeless models cannot be resolved with 20^th Century solutions.

Time for a change, no more business as usual. 

Lets’ resolve 21^st Century homelessness with forward thinking 22^nd Century solution.

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