Thank you Turkey. Haruna. Courtesy: Turkish Exporter news.
 
İHH begins relief work in  disaster-stricken Haiti
The  Turkey-based Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH) is working in 
coordination with a  US-based charity group to provide disaster relief in the 
aftermath of an  earthquake that struck Haiti earlier this week.

Aid groups from around the world are rushing to support post-disaster 
relief  efforts following the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck the Caribbean 
nation  of Haiti on Tuesday, causing massive infrastructural damage and 
leaving tens of  thousands dead or missing. With the Turkish Red Crescent 
responding earlier this  week to the disaster, the Turkey-based İHH has also 
joined the relief effort in  collaboration with the US-based Zakat Foundation 
charity group. İHH President  Bülent Yıldırım told Today’s Zaman that the two 
groups have sent a cargo plane  to Haiti with a team of volunteers to 
determine the extent of the damage and  assess specific needs ahead of more 
extensive aid efforts. 
“The earthquake in Haiti is for us reminiscent of the Marmara earthquake of 
 1999 and has affected us deeply. For that reason, we’ve lost no time in 
filling  a cargo plane with medical supplies, food, blankets, tents and staff 
and sending  it to the island. Our plane has departed from the US; it will 
represent Turkey  there, and we hope it will help assuage the pain of the 
people there and tend to  their wounds. We will also distribute monetary aid to 
earthquake victims. Our  teams there will perform the necessary evaluations 
and determine what the needs  on the ground are, and the scope of our 
continued aid efforts and shipments will  be determined accordingly,” he said. 


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