UPDATE-JANUARY 20, 2010 (Day 4)
We woke up to the house rocking, woke to a 6.1 aftershock that shook us out of bed and into the streets- lost 50 ft of my wall to my base camp- Outside plaza now, CNN and other journalists jumped from 2nd story – one in very serious condition- they r working on him now- currently I am doing ground assessments and setting up logistics for distribution- partnered w a Haitian based water co. -we r working on fuel to pump out 100,000 gallons a day – need more diesel! – I supply the gas for the trucks they give free purified water – great system- we have disto’ed 60,000 today and yesterday- working on gas now -trucking it in from Dominican rep-have not seen one red cross vehicle, world vision etc etc – actually not one big NGO that keeps asking u guys for money- no accountability with these NGO’s- EK
(CNN) “It’s terrible,” said Eric Klein, head of disaster-relief agency CAN-DO. “There’s got to be coordination.”
Medical aid is particularly needed, Klein and others said.”There are medical supplies just sitting at the frigging airport,” Klein said while sitting in the cab of a 1,200-gallon water truck near the heavily damaged presidential palace. Klein and two Haitian businessmen had just delivered free water to a nearby town.
Klein is mobilizing the Haitian people and companies to step to the plate – “seeing there is little to no ground assessment, logistics or distribution taking place nine days into this we are organizing the people here to take charge, they know better than anyone”. Klein is waiting on his second ground team to arrive sometime this week -in the mean time they will continue their water distribution.
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