FTC Canada has put out a request to the trucking industry in their mission to provide food and medication to Haiti.
FTC relies on the trucking industry to move food all over Canada but the challenge here is very specific.
“We’re trying to launch in the trucking community an initiative to get supplies, food and goods in order to ship the containers in the next couple of weeks,” Ryan Fletcher, the Canadian representative for FTCC said. “It will take awhile to get there, but obviously the earthquake will have an effect for years.”
CLICK HERE to read the full article in Today's Trucking
Thursday, January 21, 2010
FTC MEDICAL TEAM DEPLOYS INTO PORT-AU-PRINCE
Updated Jan 21, 2010
The FTC Canada team of doctors and paramedics have been deployed into the city of Port-au-Prince. They have traveled as a team to a hospital in the heart of the quake ravaged city. Grant Rumford reported to CTV that they would be most likely be "embedded" in Carrefour, the epicentre of the 7.0 earthquake.
Remarkably, survivors are still being pulled alive from the rubble. Victims of the quake are reportedly desperate for medical care which can not come soon enough.
We are hopeful that our team will bring a sense of hope and relief to emergency personal already weary from endless days of working with survivors.
We expect more news to come from Medical Team Advisor, Dr. Anthony Brown later today or this evening.
CTV's Canada AM continues to check in with paramedic Grant Rumford from his location near Port-au-Prince. The Mission of Hope site is FTC Canada's base camp while in Haiti.
CLICK HERE to see the video
Durham region reports on help to Haiti including work of FTC Medical Advisor, Dr. Brown
CLICK HERE to read story
CTV reports on the teams arrival in Haiti and interview paramedic Grant Rumford
CLICK HERE to see video (Mac users with Flip4Mac may still experience problems viewing)
The FTC Canada team of doctors and paramedics have been deployed into the city of Port-au-Prince. They have traveled as a team to a hospital in the heart of the quake ravaged city. Grant Rumford reported to CTV that they would be most likely be "embedded" in Carrefour, the epicentre of the 7.0 earthquake.
Remarkably, survivors are still being pulled alive from the rubble. Victims of the quake are reportedly desperate for medical care which can not come soon enough.
We are hopeful that our team will bring a sense of hope and relief to emergency personal already weary from endless days of working with survivors.
We expect more news to come from Medical Team Advisor, Dr. Anthony Brown later today or this evening.
CTV's Canada AM continues to check in with paramedic Grant Rumford from his location near Port-au-Prince. The Mission of Hope site is FTC Canada's base camp while in Haiti.
CLICK HERE to see the video
Durham region reports on help to Haiti including work of FTC Medical Advisor, Dr. Brown
CLICK HERE to read story
CTV reports on the teams arrival in Haiti and interview paramedic Grant Rumford
CLICK HERE to see video (Mac users with Flip4Mac may still experience problems viewing)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
NOTHING HAS PREPARED THEM
Arriving just after yet another earthquake, a strong magnitude 6.1 aftershock, the FTC Canada medical team is safe and sound in Haiti.
As the article from the Hamilton Spectator below points out, nothing has prepared this group for the devastation they will find in Haiti.
The team is preparing to deploy alongside other doctors and emergency personnel from the U.S. and Mission of Hope. Some teams will head towards Port-au-Prince to strengthen the life-saving and sustaining efforts at specific locations.
CLICK HERE to read about the team leaving Guelph including the names of those on the team
CTV News reports on the departure of the flight from Montreal
CLICK HERE to read the story or CLICK HERE to see video
As the article from the Hamilton Spectator below points out, nothing has prepared this group for the devastation they will find in Haiti.
The team is preparing to deploy alongside other doctors and emergency personnel from the U.S. and Mission of Hope. Some teams will head towards Port-au-Prince to strengthen the life-saving and sustaining efforts at specific locations.
CLICK HERE to read about the team leaving Guelph including the names of those on the team
CTV News reports on the departure of the flight from Montreal
CLICK HERE to read the story or CLICK HERE to see video
KOM NETWORKS PARTNERS WITH FTC CANADA
KOM Networks’ Junk-A-Juke program responds to the needs of Canadian children and Haitian Relief efforts through FTC Canada
Ottawa, Canada – January 20, 2010 – On the heels of announcing its Junk-A-Juke program, KOM Networks™, world leading provider of storage management solutions for secure archiving compliant data protection and retention, today announces the expansion of its Junk-A-Juke program to benefit many of the 900,000 Canadian children being helped by FTC Canada, an affiliate of Feed The Children U.S.
This unique program collects and recycles obsolete and legacy storage equipment and donates the money generated to provide food, shelter, medicine and other necessities to little ones and their families. In exchange for the older equipment, KOM offers a new Dell Powered KOMpliance Archive with equal capacity and superior performance, a fully compliant enterprise class server and archive solution free-of-charge with a three year maintenance agreement. KOM’s goal is to collect and recycle enough hardware to feed one million children!
FTC Canada has responded by landing this morning at 8 am a medical emergency response team of 3 doctors and 11 paramedics in Port au Prince. They have with them much needed medicines and supplies to continue to save lives right in the heart of the devastation. Over the coming weeks and months FTC will continue to send teams, supplies and food to provide relief to
“We’re proud to include FTC Canada in our recycling for charity program and provide assistance to children in our own backyard,” says Kamel Shaath, CTO at KOM Networks. “The recent images of devastation and chaos are heartfelt and very moving. We feel strongly that we have to do something and help. We are pleased to join the FTC Canada Haiti Relief efforts. We have already collected multiple end-of-life optical jukeboxes and other data storage devices and anticipate many more of our business partners will contribute, knowing that they are helping kids and making a difference.”
For more information about the Junk-A-Juke program and how you can join us to make a big difference for someone small, contact us at 1-800-668-1777, sales@komnetworks.com, or visit our website KOMNetworks.com.
About KOM Networks
KOM Networks is the world leading provider of flexible, secure data archiving and storage management software. Over 10,000 of the world’s leading corporations have recognized KOM Networks as the most logical, unobtrusive and secure way to store, access and protect their data. KOM is enabling enterprises large and small a cost effective way to improve productivity and meet compliance requirements without altering their network infrastructure or daily business routines. The industry pioneer holds vital industry patents for electronic file lifecycle management, virtual file management and eWORM fixed content hard disk archiving. For additional information about KOM Networks, please visit www.komnetworks.com.
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TEAM ARRIVES SAFELY IN HAITI
We had word back from President Ken Dick this morning that the medical team has arrived safely on the ground in Haiti. Please check back to the blog regularly as we will be post more updates.
Team members waiting at Pierre Trudeau Airport in Montreal around 1AM on Jan 20, 2010.
Air Transat the airline that provided the flight to Haiti posted a press release.
CLICK HERE to read the press release
Team members waiting at Pierre Trudeau Airport in Montreal around 1AM on Jan 20, 2010.
Air Transat the airline that provided the flight to Haiti posted a press release.
CLICK HERE to read the press release
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
DOCTORS & PARAMEDICS BOUND FOR HAITI
Updated Jan 20, 2010
In a whirlwind of activity including phone calls to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) FTC Canada has been able to assemble a team of doctors and paramedics and secure a flight to Haiti.
The team will include 11 paramedics, mostly from Halton region and 3 doctors. The lead doctor and FTC Canada Medical Team Advisor is Dr. Tony Brown, a physician and anesthetist from Port Perry ON. Tony has led numerous FTC teams to Central America and participated in others around the globe.
Taking the team to Haiti will be FTC Canada President Ken Dick. A pastor from the Meeting House Oakville site will also work alongside the team.
The team will depart from the FTC Canada Head Office in Guelph and head directly to Montreal at 1:00 p.m. today (Jan 19). A flight that was originally scheduled for 6:30 a.m. Jan 20 but will now depart Pierre Trudeau Airport at 3:00 a.m. in the morning.
Many unexpected things happened as the team prepared to leave including a donation of Starbucks Coffee (Gordon Rd. Guelph) and an upgrade to a full coach from Ayr Coach Lines (Waterloo).
Forestview Church also provided a boost to the Haiti relief effort over the weekend with a generous gift of $10,000. See the CTV news clip below.
The destination for the team will be a base camp set up at the Mission of Hope in Haiti about 30kms from Port-au-Prince.
570 News reported on the departure of the team.
CLICK HERE to see the story
newsdurhamregion@com ran a feature story on Dr. Anthony Brown as he prepared to leave for Haiti.
CLICK HERE to see the story
The Hamilton Spectator featured the Halton paramedics as they prepared for Haiti.
CLICK HERE to read story
CTV Toronto reports on the gift from Forestview Church and preparations by the paramedics from Halton region.
CLICK HERE to see video
In a whirlwind of activity including phone calls to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) FTC Canada has been able to assemble a team of doctors and paramedics and secure a flight to Haiti.
The team will include 11 paramedics, mostly from Halton region and 3 doctors. The lead doctor and FTC Canada Medical Team Advisor is Dr. Tony Brown, a physician and anesthetist from Port Perry ON. Tony has led numerous FTC teams to Central America and participated in others around the globe.Taking the team to Haiti will be FTC Canada President Ken Dick. A pastor from the Meeting House Oakville site will also work alongside the team.
The team will depart from the FTC Canada Head Office in Guelph and head directly to Montreal at 1:00 p.m. today (Jan 19). A flight that was originally scheduled for 6:30 a.m. Jan 20 but will now depart Pierre Trudeau Airport at 3:00 a.m. in the morning.
Many unexpected things happened as the team prepared to leave including a donation of Starbucks Coffee (Gordon Rd. Guelph) and an upgrade to a full coach from Ayr Coach Lines (Waterloo).
Forestview Church also provided a boost to the Haiti relief effort over the weekend with a generous gift of $10,000. See the CTV news clip below.
The destination for the team will be a base camp set up at the Mission of Hope in Haiti about 30kms from Port-au-Prince.
570 News reported on the departure of the team.
CLICK HERE to see the story
newsdurhamregion@com ran a feature story on Dr. Anthony Brown as he prepared to leave for Haiti.
CLICK HERE to see the story
The Hamilton Spectator featured the Halton paramedics as they prepared for Haiti.
CLICK HERE to read story
CTV Toronto reports on the gift from Forestview Church and preparations by the paramedics from Halton region.
CLICK HERE to see video
Monday, January 18, 2010
BURLINGTON FAMILY GLAD TO BE ABLE TO HELP
Updated Jan 20, 2010
The Hamilton Spectator reports again on the Rumford family stationed at FTC Canada's partner NGO, Mission of Hope Haiti (MOH).
The clinic that paramedic Grant Rumford works in had to be closed at one point as the need became overwhelming and staff needed to regroup.
Sandy Rumford reported in an email that there was significant devastation all around them. Both Sandy and Grant have been involved with FTC Canada, Sandy as a part of the administrative team and Grant offering primary care on medical teams to Central America.
FTC Canada supports sponsorships through MOH and is the Canadian partner for the missions ongoing work to the people of Haiti. FTC Canada is sending down a medical team to MOH.
CLICK HERE to read The Spec article.
Canada AM runs a second intervew with paramedic Grant Rumford
CLICK HERE to view video
The Hamilton Spectator reports again on the Rumford family stationed at FTC Canada's partner NGO, Mission of Hope Haiti (MOH).
The clinic that paramedic Grant Rumford works in had to be closed at one point as the need became overwhelming and staff needed to regroup.
Sandy Rumford reported in an email that there was significant devastation all around them. Both Sandy and Grant have been involved with FTC Canada, Sandy as a part of the administrative team and Grant offering primary care on medical teams to Central America.
FTC Canada supports sponsorships through MOH and is the Canadian partner for the missions ongoing work to the people of Haiti. FTC Canada is sending down a medical team to MOH.
CLICK HERE to read The Spec article.
Canada AM runs a second intervew with paramedic Grant Rumford
CLICK HERE to view video
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