{"id":218973,"date":"2010-01-15T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2010-01-15T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:00:40","slug":"haiti-aid-arrives-but-delivery-a-major-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218973","title":{"rendered":"Haiti: Aid arrives, but delivery a major challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our colleagues at Oxfam Australia have interviewed Louis Belanger in Haiti, where delivering aid that has now arrived remains a monumental challenge. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"352\" height=\"200\" id=\"embed-352x200\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.ipadio.com\/embed\/v1\/embed-352x200.swf?phlogId=15961&#038;phonecastId=16104&#038;channelInView=WEBSITE_CHANNEL_15961&#038;callInView=local_16104\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.ipadio.com\/embed\/v1\/embed-352x200.swf?phlogId=15961&#038;phonecastId=16104&#038;channelInView=WEBSITE_CHANNEL_15961&#038;callInView=local_16104\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"352\" height=\"200\" name=\"embed-352x200\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" allowFullScreen=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Oxfam&#8217;s response<\/strong> (updated 16:00 GMT Friday 15 Feb)<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam staff in Haiti are providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, Port-au-Prince. <\/p>\n<p>From its Oxford UK warehouse, Oxfam also has up to 10 tonnes of water, sanitation, health and shelter equipment, valued at around \u00a370,000, that will be flown on a specially-stripped British Airways flight to Santa Domingo at 2pm Saturday UK time. It also has pre-positioned stocks in Panama on stand-by. Oxfam plans to scale-up aid delivery are now being finalised. The destruction continues to severely hamper aid efforts. Seventeen Oxfam International humanitarian experts flew into the Dominican Republic and will arrive in Haiti today. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/oxfam_in_action\/emergencies\/haiti-earthquake.html\"> Donate now and find out more about Oxfam&#8217;s Haiti Earthquake response<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our colleagues at Oxfam Australia have interviewed Louis Belanger in Haiti, where delivering aid that has now arrived remains a monumental challenge. Oxfam&#8217;s response (updated 16:00 GMT Friday 15 Feb) Oxfam staff in Haiti are providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, Port-au-Prince. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}