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Following an initial assessment of needs conducted by the Veoliaforce experts who are part of the emergency response unit of the French Red Cross, water supply has been set up in two neighborhoods of the capital in Cité Militaire and Delmas, where about 37,000 people left homeless are gathered. The team identified 24 distribution points where water is made available through water tanks supplied by water truck from boreholes.

Two Aquaforce 5000 mobile units have been deployed to supply the Haitian Ofatma hospital located in Cité militaire and the emergency basic health care centre of the German Red Cross.

The Veoliaforce volunteers deployed with the staff of Action Against Hunger, has installed an Aquaforce 5000 unit in the city on the secured site of the CAMEP, the local authority for Potable Water in Port au Prince. The Aquaforce 5000 unit is supplied with a clear source, which enables the station to produce up to 120m3 per day and allows the distribution of potable water by trucks in three nearby areas (Canape Vert, Bois Patate and Champ de Mars) reaching around 35,000 people.

On the Champ de Mars, where the largest group of displaced people of Port au Prince is gathered, volunteers are building latrines to overcome the problems of sanitation.

At the request of a third partner, the French NGO Solidarités, two tons of equipment (storage and distribution material) were shipped and sent to Haiti from the humanitarian Veoliaforce platform on Monday. Veoliaforce is now mobilizing new volunteers to prepare for the replacement of the teams on the ground in Haïti by a new team.

On January 13 the Veolia Foundation sent 20 tons of emergency equipment to Haiti in an Ilouchone cargo plane chartered by the French Red Cross. The cargo consisted of Aquaforce 5000 units that can supply 15,000 to 20,000 people with drinking water.

Three Veoliaforce experts, who will supervise the emergency teams of the Red Cross, arrived in Port au Prince on Saturday night. Their mission is to take reception of the equipment and make initial assessments of the needs for drinking water in the areas assigned to them by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Four Veoliaforce volunteers from Veolia Water Guadeloupe will soon join the Red Cross team.

A second team of three volunteers from Action Against Hunger arrived on Sunday morning in Port au Prince and now has two Aquaforce 5000 units. They are also making assessments of the water and sanitation needs in other more damaged areas of the city including Champ de Mars where over 30,000 people are waiting for assistance.

At the humanitarian hub in the Paris region where the Foundation stocks its emergency equipment, a team of volunteers has been mobilized 24/7 since the announcement of the earthquake and coordinates the logistics and the supply of equipment. Over 30 tons have already been handled on the site and sent to the volunteers on the ground. Seven new Aquaforce units are being assembled to meet the future needs of our partners.

Veolia Force is a humanitarian emergency unit supported by volunteer employees from the 4 divisions of Veolia Environnement, who are willing to contribute their skills as part of international solidarity initiatives.