Wampum

This morning's news confirmed last night's expectation of food aid for the technicians on the Hill, who ran out of food on Thursday. Reynold Guerrier writes to NANOG:

I received yesterday morning from Mr. Montaigne Marcelin, Director of Contatel[1] the aid that has been given by Codetel to help the technicians in the Telecommunications sector:

• 9 packs of rice 60 Kg
  
• 2 packs of beans 60 Kg
  
• 2 containers of oil 30 pounds each
  
• 4 herring boxes
  
• 354 containers of pica pica
  
• 2 boxes of plastic spoon
  
• 110 packs of water
  
• 4 boxes of polystyrene plate
  
• 2 packs of maggi
  
• 1 pack of salt
  
• 4 boxes of tomato pasta
  
• 3 rations of bananas
  
• 7 packs of spaghetti
  
• 4 gallons of hot sauce
  

The distribution of this aid is being coordinated by Napoleon Richard (509-3746-xxxx) an associates member of the board of AHTIC. This aid is provided to support the needy technicians families while they are making themselves available to work,

Thanks to Mr. Edwin San Roman from CODETEL and all of you on the NANOG list that has been pushing for that.

Reynold Guerrier
Treasurer
AHTIC
Network Engineer
509-3446-xxxx

Up until now the technicians had to present themselves in person at an aid station to receive exactly one ration of whatever the aid station was distributing, which made work on the Hill profoundly difficult. Efforts to find a way to get Dominique Guerrier and the two Guerrier children, Nikki (3) and Aurelia (1) out of the Delmas area of Port au Prince and to safe long-term (weeks) housing with accessible food and water continue. My money is on Chellie Pingree who is working this issue hard. Also contributing are Stacy Burner, Nancy Pelosi, Maria Cantwell and others.

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[1] Contatel is the CONSEIL NATIONAL des TELECOMMUNICATIONS, a government administration responsible for management of the telecommunications sector. CONTATEL is equivalent to FCC in USA.

See also Julius Genachowski's comments here: FCC Chairman makes statement regarding two Contatel deaths and Haitian relief efforts